Intercultural Exchanges

in the Age of Globalization

2ed Edition
Instances of Power and Cultural Discourse

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

MAY 18-19, 2018

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
 May 18, 2018

0930-1000 Participants Registration (Lucian Blaga Hall, Rectorate Building, 10 Victoriei Bd.)

1000-1115 Conference opening and Keynote Speeches (Lucian Blaga Hall, Rectorate Building, 10 Victoriei Bd.)

- Professor Ioan Bondrea, Sc.D. (Rector of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)
- Professor Marian Țiplic, Ph.D. Habil. (Vice-Rector of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)
- Professor Andrei Terian, Ph.D. Habil. (Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Arts)

- Professor Bogdan Crețu, Ph.D. (Head of the A. Philippide Institute of Romanian Philology):

„READING POWER AND THE POWER OF READING. PATTERNS OF READING ROMANIAN

COMMUNIST WRITING”

Moderator: Dragoș Varga, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Romance Studies)
 Parallel sessions – Faculty of Letters and Arts
PANEL I: POWER INSIDE LITERARY DISCOURSES
1130-1315
ROOM 16
Chair: Andrei Terian
1. Emanuel Modoc (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-
Napoca), From In between to Double Peripherality.
Configurations of Transnationalism in East-Central
European Avant-Gardes
2. Andreea Mironescu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
of Iași), Literary Theory as Soft Power: A Bibliometric
Analysis on Academic Journals within the CEE Space
3. Andrei Terian (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu),
Powerful Genres: A Quantitative Analysis of
Contemporay Book Markets
4. Alex Ciorogar (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-
Napoca), The Power of Authorship: From Text-
Function to Context-Position
5. Dragoș Varga (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu),
Mario Vargas Llosa and the Power of Utopia: Social
Utopias vs. Literary Utopias
Lunch Break – LBUS Restaurant (31 Victoriei Bd.)
1330-1445
PANEL II: POWER INSIDE LITERARY DISCOURSES
ROOM 38
Chair: Alina Bako
1. Ciprian Suciu (Macedonia University of Thessaloniki),
The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) and promoting
Romanian Literature in Greece
2. Anca Pirnoiu (University of Bucharest), Empowering the
Self: The Authority of Identity in Matei Călinescu’s Un
fel de jurnal
3. Daniel Coman (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Power
in the Relationship between Criminal and Victim
4. Carmen Oprișor (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), The
Rhetoric of Power in Romanian Medieval Literature
5. Alina Bako (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), The
Therapeutic Power of Literature: M. Blecher
 PANEL III: POWER FRAMED AS A LANGUAGE EVENT
00 30
15 -16
ROOM 16
Chair: Valerica Sporiș
1. Maria Poponet (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-
Napoca), The Event Structure of Inchoative Verbs
2. Mariana Pascaru (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu),
Text linguistic. A Cognitive Exploration of the
Language
3. Iulia-Elena Gîță (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu),
Ideology and its Impact on Chinese Literary
Translations
4. Anca Simina Martin (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu),
Translation as Power (Not) Exerted over the Bawdy
Shakespearean Puns in Communist Romania
5. Valerica Sporiș (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), The
Metaphor of Power in the Journalistic Discourse
6. Anca-Diana Bibiri, Mihaela Mocanu (Alexandru Ioan
Cuza
University of Iași), Metamorphosis of Cultural
Identity after Migration
PANEL IV: POWER IN PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY and POLITICS
ROOM 17
Chair: Eva-Nicoleta Burdușel
1. Cristina J. Montiel (Ateneo de Manila University),
Psychological Landscape of democratic Transitions
2. Nevena Dobreva (University of Economics, Varna),
Online Content at Arm’s Length – Consumers in Torrent
Platforms in Bulgaria
3. Wang Jiong (Beijing Language and Culture University),
Title to be announced
4. Eva-Nicoleta Burdușel (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu),
Soft Power – The New Dimension of Cultural and Public
Diplomacy
5. Li Xiuyuan ((Beijing Language and Culture University),
Title to be announced
6. Wang Yuqin (Beijing Language and Culture University),
Intercultural Exchange in Foreign Students Learning of
Chinese Language
 PANEL V: THE RHETORIC OF POWER
1500-1630
ROOM 41
Chair: Ovidiu Matiu
1. Iulia Nentu (University of Bucharest), International
Powers and the Power of Literature in Constructing
the Image of a Nation. Images of the Russian in Cold
War American Writing
2. Ovidiu Matiu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu),
Politics and Literature: The Figure of the Dictator in
Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. Rodica Grigore (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), The
Supreme Magistrate or the Power as Reason of State
4. Matthew P. Chernick, (Fulbright English Teaching
Assistant), Through Windows: Mass Culture and
Violence in the Case of the Apaches of Paris
5. Fabian Ivanovici (University of Bucharest), Emplaced,
Encountered: The City as Nexus of Power in Peter
Ackroyd’s The Plato Papers
6. Diana Mincu-Mușat (Lucian Blaga University of
Sibiu), Fluturi – the Agony of the Woman Under the
Power of Man
1630-1645 Coffee break
PANEL VI: POWER IN MEDIA DISCOURSE AND MEDIA
STRUCTURES
ROOM 45
Chair: Radu Drăgulescu
1. Laodamia Dascăl (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-
Napoca), Power Relations in Making a Romanian Glossy
Publications Standard
2. Oana-Maria Bîrlea (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-
Napoca), The Transfer of Power in the Japanese
Advertising Discourse
3. Monica Borș, Anca Tomuș (Lucian Blaga University of
Sibiu), The Language of Social Media in
(Mis)Translation
4. Marius Milcu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Analysis
of Power Relations in Media Discourse: Communication
vs. Manipulation. Individual, Social and Cultural
Implications of Power Relations
5. Rada Nicoară (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca),
Infotainment - from Serious to Non-Serious Press. Case
Study: Starea Naţiei (with Dragoş Pătraru)
 PANEL VII: LANGUAGE AND INTERCULTURALITY PANEL VIII: LANGUAGE AND INTERCULTURALITY
(German Language Panel) (French Language Panel)
1645-1815
ROOM 49 ROOM 17

Chair: Doris Sava Chair: Dumitru Chioar

1. Maria Trappen (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu),
Evolutionism “made in Germany” at the University of
Iași
2. Ovio Olaru (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca),
Power plays in contemporary Scandinavian
Literature
3. Doris Sava (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Make
Teleorman great again. Auch für
Nichtwähler: Politische Memes
4. Rebecca Clara Răulea (Lucian Blaga University of
Sibiu), An Intersection between economic Growth,
Globalisation and Education overseas
1. Maria Rodica Mihulecea (Lucian Blaga University of
Sibiu), L'affirmation de l'autorité du locuteur par
l'impératif (exemples empruntés aux fables de Jean de
la Fontaine)
2. Amany Ghander (University of Alexandria, Egypt), Amin
Maalouf ou la diversité salvatrice
3. Marilena Milcu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Le
transfert culturel dans la traduction du language du
pouvoir
4. Dumitru Chioar (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Un
poète bilingue, roumain-francais: Miron Kiropol
5. Rodica Brad (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Mircea
Eliade. The terror of the Romanian history. Confessions
from the exile

19.00 Dinner – Park Restaurant (1-3, Școala de Înot Street)

 May 19, 2018
Keynote Speaker: Cornel BAN (City University of London)

930-1030 INFINITE ACCUMULATION IN THE FINITE WORLD: CAPITALISM, ANTHROPOCENE AND POSSIBLE FUTURES
ROOM 41 – Faculty of Letters and Arts

PANEL IX: ROMANIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE PANEL X: ROMANIAN LANGUAGE IN GLOBAL/ EUROPEAN
00 15
10 -11 CONTEXT
ROOM 16 ROOM 17
Chair: Simina Terian Chair: Iulia Câmpeanu
1. Irina Dincă (West University of Timișoara), The 1. Iulia Câmpeanu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu),
Definite Article in Romanian and in Modern Standard Teaching the Romanian Reflexive Pronoun to Foreign
Arabic – A Contrastive Approach Students
2. Radu Drăgulescu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), 2. Miranda Ntoratsi (Macedonia University of
Considerations regarding some Difficulties of Thessaloniki), Socio-cultural and linguistic
teaching and learning Romanian as a foreign Imperatives in teaching the Balkan Languages and
Language Russian in Greek Universities
3. Simina Terian (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), 3. Ioana Jieanu (University of Ljubljana), Romanian
Mediation as Deformation in thep Process of learning Language as Spoken in Romanian Communities in
Romanian as a foreign Language Europe

SPECIAL PANEL: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

1. Alime Yilmaz (Çankırı Karatekin University), Changing the classroom atmosphere (ELT)

2. Sibel Sert (Çankırı Karatekin University), New Challenges in ELT in the Century of Knowledge

3. Daniel Vogell (State University of Applied Sciences in Raciborz), Joseph Conrad and his Meetings with the Other

Closing of the Conference

„This conference was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation, CCCDI – UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P1-1.2-
PCCDI-2017-0821, within PNCDI III”.

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