FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Department of English Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

has the pleasure of announcing

The First International Conference on English Studies English Language and Anglophone Literatures Today (ELALT)

to be held on Saturday, 19 March 2011,

at the Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Dr Zorana Đinñića 2.

Plenary speakers: Professor Ranko Bugarski, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade Professor Svetozar Koljević, Fellow of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Novi Sad

Abstracts by university staff and doctoral students for 20-minute presentations in English on one of the following general topics are invited:

English Language: • Phonetics, Phonology • Morphology, Syntax • Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis • Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics • Contrastive Linguistics, Contact Linguistics • Corpus Linguistics • Language Teaching, Language Acquisition • Translation Studies • Cultural Studies • Lexicography

Anglophone Literatures: • Literary History and Theory • Literary Genres • Approaches to Literature • Literary Theory across Cultures and Disciplines • Postmodernism and Postcolonialism • Women’s Voices • Contemporary Writing • Literature and the Media • Literature and the Film • Poetry Today

Abstract submission guidelines: Abstracts should include the following elements: (1) the name and surname of the author(s), (2) the affiliation of the

author(s), (3) the email address(es) of the author(s), (4) the title of the presentation, and (5) within 100-150 words: the aims, methodology and expected results of the project to be reported in the presentation.

Abstracts should be sent electronically, as email attachments in Microsoft Word .doc format, to the Conference’s email address: elalt.novisad@gmail.com, with the word ‘abstract’ as the subject.

Abstracts will be evaluated according to the originality of the theme, approach and scholarly contribution of the proposal. Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 31 October 2010. Deadline for the notification of acceptance: 31 December 2010.

Other important information: Registration fee: 25 euros, in Serbian dinars, payable at the reception desk. Up-to-date information will be available from 31 January 2011 on the Faculty’s website: http://www.ff.uns.ac.rs/. After the Conference, a refereed selection of papers will be published as an ISBN-numbered e-book of proceedings.

Programme Committee: Professor Predrag Novakov, Professor Zoran Paunović, Professor Tvrtko Prćić, Dr Zorica Đergović-Joksimović, Dr Aleksandra Izgarjan, Dr Maja Marković, Dr Gordana Petričić

Organizing Committee: Professor Vladislava Gordić-Petković (chair), Dr Ivana Đurić-Paunović (coordinator), Dr Sabina Halupka-Rešetar (coordinator), Biljana Radić-Bojanić (secretary), Borislava Eraković, Nataša Karanfilović, Aleksandar Kavgić, Arijana Luburić-Cvijanović, Nataša Milivojević, Bojana Vujin

We look forward to welcoming you in Novi Sad, at ELALT1!