Student Conference

Environment(s): Literary, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives

Pécs, 8 May 2025

 

Thursday, 8 May 2025

Venue: The Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (7624 Pécs, Nr. 44 Jurisics Miklos St.)

09:15 – 09:30 Conference opening by TBD

09:30 – 11:00 Panel I: Formative Environments. Chair: Gabriella Hartvig

Balázs Bencze (U of Pécs): Vulnerable but Invincible: The Projection of Resilience to Nature in Jane Eyre and Great Expectations

Jelena Nesterjuk (Ca’Foscari U of Venice): Women’s Confinement as a Tool of Oppression in Gothic Literature

Justyna Siwierska (Jagiellonian U Kraków): “Even in my Travels in India I Feel the Exact Same Feeling...”: A Spatial and Emotional Journey through the Clash of Languages, Religions, and Ethnicities in Search for Environmental and Social Justice in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Panel II: 2 sessions

Session A: Environments of Disruption and Integration Chair: Kerstin Anja Münderlein

Karolina Drabik (Jagiellonian U Kraków): Living the Diseased Mind: Environments in Lisa Genova’s Still Alice

Julia Podlejska (Jagiellonian U Kraków): The Portrait of the Decadent Sin

Margherita Lanza (Ca’Foscari University Venice): Creating Environments of Belonging: Langston Hughes and the Poetics of Identity

Session B: Environmental Challenges and Possibilities Chair: Maria Cristina Pividori Gurgo
Laura Carlino (Ca’Foscari University Venice): Environmental Challenges in Alasdair Gray’s Novels
Seyma Yonar (Karl Franzenz U Graz): Ecological Possibilities in Canadian Short Fiction / Online

Ivana Silverstri (Ca’Foscari U of Venice): Language, Power, and Climate Change: A Discourse Analysis of US Political Speeches / Online

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00 PLENARY LECTURE Chair: László Sári

Prof. Michael Lackey (University of Minnesota, Morris) “Moses Biofictions as Critiques of Nazism: Zora Neale Hurston and Thomas Mann”
15:00 – 16:30 Panel III: Environments of Growth and Belonging Chair: Elisa Bordin

Celina Hofstadt (Ca’Foscari U of Venice): Coming of Age on the Beach: Navigating Space, Adolescence and Gender in Outer Banks and The Summer I Turned Pretty

Ege A. Özbek (Karl Franzenz U Graz): Eco-Documentary as a Space of Resistance: Environmental Activism in Powerlands (2022) and Wrenched (2014) / Online

Katalin Domján (U of Pécs): Power Dynamics in the Family: Mother Figures in Angela Carter’s Subversive Fairy Tales

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30 Panel IV: Environments, Languages, Perspectives Chair: Jennifer Schumm Fauster

Svetlana Savekina (Karl Franzenz U Graz): Through the Camera Hole: Carrollian Elements in the Hitchcockian Cinematic Landscape

Thi Ngoc Quyen Pham (U Paris Cité): A Corpus-Based Study on Movement Metaphor Usage for Environmentalism in English Broadsheet Newspapers / Online

Kata Bognár (U of Pécs): The Role of Isolation and Captivity in The Collector

18:30 – 19:00 Conference closing