Dear friends and followers, we are very pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2016 SDAŠ conference:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Geopolitical shifts, rapid advances in technology and fluid socio-cultural paradigms are only a few symptoms of our time. However, an old adage has it that the more things change, the more they stay the same. How much does this apply to English Studies? Has English language teaching changed radically in recent years? Are linguistic approaches from the past still valid? What makes a literary canon modern? How does scholarship in English Studies age? What are the implications of the quest for originality? How new is new?
These and other related questions will be addressed at the 4th International Conference of the Slovene Association for the Study of English (SDAŠ), entitled:
M@king It New In English Studies
The conference will take place on 15-17 September 2016 at the University of Maribor, Slovenia.
We are honored to confirm the following plenary speakers:
Professor Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University)
Professor Roberta Maierhofer (University of Graz)
Professor Marianne Nikolov (University of Pécs)
You are welcome to submit a proposal for a 20-minute presentation addressing the above questions with regard to any of the following fields:
English language;
Literatures in English;
English Language Teaching;
Cultural Studies;
Translation Studies;
Or other related (sub)disciplines.
The conference will include two special panels (more information is available on the conference website):
Moments of Being Virginia Woolf
Shakespeare’s European Afterlife
Abstracts of between 200 and 300 words can be submitted here:
http://events.ff.um.si/sdas2016/?page_id=160
The due date for the submission of abstracts is 10 May 2016. Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their proposal by 1 June 2016.
Conference fee:
120 € regular
60 € student (please email a copy of student ID)
100 € regular, ESSE members
50 € student, ESSE members (please email a copy of student ID)
40 € late registration fee (to be added to all registration fees after 15 July 2016)
50 € single day registration (non-participating visitors only)
Please visit the conference website for more information:
http://events.ff.um.si/sdas2016/