Nation, nationality, nationhood: What's in a name?

2nd ASSE International Conference on British and American Studies

Organized in collaboration with the Canadian Institute of Technology, Tirana, Albania

2-4 May 2013, Tiran, Albania

Conference Programme

Thursday, 2 May 2013

08:3010:00 10:0010:30 10:3011:30 Registration - (ground floor) Welcome address - Conference Room (ground floor) Plenary session Conference Room (ground floor) Chair: Hyreme Gurra, State University of Tetova, Republic of Macedonia Prof. Gzim Alpion, The University of Birmingham, UK When intellectuals cower, scoundrels reign Albanian intellectuals and the need for a new national consciousness Coffee break Parallel sessions British and Commonwealt h Literature Room A3 Chair: Fiona Tomkinson, Yeditepe University, Turkey Ryszard W. Wolny, University of Opole, Poland Australia: a nation in the making? some remarks on the dangers of nationalism in Patrick Whites fiction Arindam Saha, The University of Illinois at Cultural Studies Linguistics/ Discourse analysis Room B3 Room E3 Chair: Arben Chair: Mark F. Bushgjokaj, Seihamer, Luigj Nanyang Gurakuqi Technological University of University, Shkodra, Singapore Albania Hatice Sitki, Henryk Duda, Independent John Paul II Researcher, Catholic Australia University of Lublin, Poland How to remove What is the national meaning of a myths and Polish word symbols from nard? our memory Monika Shehi, Paul Breen, University of University of South Carolina East Anglia, Upstate, USA England Our fatherland Symbols, and mother Literary theory and criticism Room D3 Chair: Arben Xhemaili, State University of Tetova, Republic of Macedonia Irina Oukhvanova, Kielce University, Poland Slavic Fairy-tales and national identity reconstruction Olimpia Gargano, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France; University of

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Chicago, USA The Home & the World: Tagore as a Nationalist & Modernist Yildiray Cevik, International Balkan University, Republic of Macedonia (Dis)unity of One Nation in the island: Durrells Bitter Lemons

Language and Identity in a divided society Maja Muhi, South East European University, Republic of Macedonia Redefining National Identity and Competing Origin Myths through Spatial Representatio ns

tongue: Language and national identity in the era of fluid borders and racial diversity Raluca Aron, University of Bucharest, Romania A European nation in sight? Ljerka Jefti, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina The United States of America a Nation or a (home)Land?

Naples "L'Orientale", Italy The Image Building of a Nation: from Illyria to Skiperia to Elbonia, Albania as Imaginary Country in American and European Fictional Representations Votim Hanoli, Aleksandr Moisiu University of Durrs, Albania Reconstruction of national identity through Dritro Agollis literary approach

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Reception at CIT (ground floor) Parallel sessions American Literature Room A3 Chair: Jerry Wasserman, University of British Columbia, Canada Sangjun Jeong, Seoul National University, South Korea Empire of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson and the Construction of American Identity British and Commonwealth Literature Room B3 Chair: Nursen Gmceli, Akdeniz University, Antalya,Turkey Dieter Wessels, Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, Germany Destruction and reconstruction in science fiction. The chance of a new beginning? Applied Linguistics/ Psycholingui stics Room E3 Chair: Hatice Sitki, Independent Researcher, Australia Diana Yankova, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria Nor this is not my nose neither, or errors in the speech of Cultural Studies Room D3 Chair: HansGeorg Moeller, University College Cork, Ireland John Braidwood, University of Oulu, Finland Potatoes are not food, Slovaks are not people. An exploration

Armela Panajoti, University of Vlora Ismail Qemali, Albania A nation is only an individual multiplied: Whitmans Song of Myself Arben Bushgjokaj, Luigj Gurakuqi University of Shkodra, Albania This is my letter to the World: Emily Dickinsons Letters as Personal Narrative

Andrey Andreev, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria Exporting British criminality: Foreign film adaptations of Ruth Rendells non-series works Natalia BadiyanSiekierzycka, University of Gdansk, Poland Albanian Nationhood by Edith Durham

native speakers Edmond Cane, Centre for Albanological Studies, Albania Whats in a name?: A linguistic approach to try the national profile Anita Muho, Aleksandr Moisiu University of Durrs, Albania Teachers feedback as a motivating tool in learning English as a second language

of the use of the stigmatic Hungarian expression tt for Slovaks Tunde Adeleke, Iowa State University, USA The Problematic Nature of PanAfrican Nationalism in the TwentyFirst Century Zoltan ZAKOTA, Partium Christian University, Romania Avatars, eGroups, and Virtual Nations

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Coffee break Parallel sessions American Literature Room A3 Chair: Marija Knezevic Krivokapic, University of Montenegro Faruk Kalay, Mu Alparslan University, Turkey Social constraints and British and Commonwealth Literature Room B3 Chair: Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia, Canada Wojciech Klepuszewski, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland Cultural Studies/Medi a Studies Room E3 Chair: Tunde Adeleke, Iowa State University, USA Katarzyna Jarosz, Warsaw University, Poland Ideology and Translation Studies Room D3 Chair: Esmeralda Sherko, Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania Amelia Mareva, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria Whats in a

identity problems in Philip Roth's Zuckerman Bound Granit Zela, Academy of Armed Forces, Albania Concept of identity in Barthelmes short-stories Marsela Turku, Aleksandr Moisiu University of Durrs, Albania Whats in a play?! Moral, social and political influences in Millers play All my Sons

I like it here National identity in Kingsley Amiss Novels Stankomir Nicieja, University of Opole, Poland Reappraising the Nation: Repression and Nostalgia in Martin Amiss Lionel Asbo and Ian McEwans Saturday and Solar Fiona Tomkinson, Yeditepe University, Turkey Tragic Existential Nationalism in the Novels of Iris Murdoch

archaeology did communist power use archaeology? Artur Hadaj, University of Tirana, Albania Christina Standerfer, University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, USA The Effects of Different Kinds of Televised Political Messages on Voter Behaviour and Turnout: What Can the American Experience Teach Albanians?

translation? On explicitation of culture-specific words in BulgarianEnglish literary translation Jana Ilievska, Faculty of Philology Blaze Koneski, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Interpreters and Ethics

Friday, 3 May 2013

10:0011:00 Plenary session - Conference Room (ground floor) Chair: Armela Panajoti, University of Vlora Ismail Qemali Prof. Jos Igor Prieto-Arranz, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain History, language, identity. Britain and Spain on the brink of break-up? Coffee break Parallel sessions British and Commonweal th Literature Room A3 Cultural Studies Room B3 Social Philosophy Room E3 Linguistics

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Room D3

Chair: Ryszard W. Wolny, University of Opole, Poland Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia, Canada The Creation of English Literature Ayse Nur Demiralp, Yeditepe University, Turkey English Nationalism and Discourses of AntiCatholicism in Elizabethan England Sutapa Dutta, University of Delhi, India Construction of a National Identity in 18thcentury British Novels

Chair: Sutapa Dutta, University of Delhi, India Marija Krivokapic Knezevic, University of Montenegro From the Chameleons Back: John Trudell on the Civilization of Name Callers Arben Xhemaili, State University of Tetova, Republic of Macedonia Nation, Culture and Religion: The Three Conversions of Leopold Weiss Elena Yakovleva, Moscow State University, Russian Federation Ruben Agadzhanyan, Moscow State Teachers Training University, Russian Federation National, ethnic and social axes of suggestive impact in suspense fiction

Chair: Monika Shehi, University of South Carolina Upstate, USA Klaus-Jrgen Nagel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia, Spain Flirting with a Europe of the Regions Marc Woons, University of Leuven, Belgium The Relationships Between Power, Justice, and Nationalism in an Expanding European Union: A Dilemma for Future Member States? Shawn M. Clankie, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan The Nation as Brand

Chair: Dieter Wessels, RuhrUniversitt Bochum, Germany Olsa Xhina, Aleksandr Moisiu University of Durrs, Albania The potential to create new words by means of derivation in English and Albanian Esmeralda Sherko, Arjan Shumeli, Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania Semantic Transparency in English and Albanian Arjan Shumeli, Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania Artur Jaupaj, Canadian Institute of Technology, Tirana, Albania Esmeralda Sherko, Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania Languages in Contact: Tracing Words of Slavic Origin in the Agricultural Terminology

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Lunch Parallel sessions

American Literature Room A3 Chair: Andrey Andreev, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria Silvia Ammary, John Cabot University, Italy Hemingways Adopted Nationalities and his Internationali sm Elonora Hodaj, University of Vlora Ismail Qemali The Jewish character and the claim for identity in post-war American fiction

Cultural Studies Room B3 Chair: Nina Gjoi, European University of Tirana, Albania

Discourse Analysis Room D3 Chair: Diana Yankova, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria Katarzyna Kropiak, Jagiellonian University, Poland Utopian visions of Enver Hoxha: Comparative analysis of Enver Hoxhas speeches and selected classical utopias Nahla Nadeem, Cairo University, Egypt Together we are strong! Identity, Face Attacks and Solidarity in Online News Commentaries on Al-Jazeera Bledar Toska, University of Vlora Ismail Qemali The representation of nation in parliamentary discourse

Social Philosophy Room E3 Chair: Marc Woons, University of Leuven, Belgium sa Erba, European University, Tirana, Albania Pros and Cons of Nationalism Zbeyde Karada, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey Nation - State, Globalization, and Turkey Ram Madhav Varanasi, India Foundation, New Delhi, India Raashtram SpiritualEmotional Concept of Nationhood

Arta Toi, South East European University, Republic of Macedonia 'The Borders that Created Myths' Nina Gjoi, European University of Tirana, Albania Nationality and the power of naming; the intercultural communication dynamics of EU integration perspective Liljana Siljanovska, Vlera Ejupi, South East European University, Republic of Macedonia Only me and my culture exist ethnocentrism as an overcome cultural and political concept in intercultural communication Coffee break

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Parallel sessions Literary theory Social Cultural Studies

h Literature Room A3 Chair: Stankomir Nicieja, University of Opole, Poland

and criticism Room B3 Chair: Olimpia Gargano, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France; University of Naples "L'Orientale", Italy Viktoria Ptzl, University of Vienna, Austria Gendered concepts of Identity and Nation on Yael Dayans prose Chin-Chu Chang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Identity and Violence in Saadat Hasan Mantos Siyah Hashye

Philosophy Room E3 Chair: Shawn Clankie, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan Room D3 Chair: Irina Oukhvanova, Kielce University, Poland

Jerry Wasserman, University of British Columbia, Canada Constructing Canadian Nationhood: Three Plays about the War of 1812 Nursen Gmceli, Akdeniz University, Antalya,Turkey Allan James, Alpen Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria Writing the nation, enacting the nation: page and stage in J.M. Synges The Playboy of the Western World znur Cengiz, anakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey Misfits of

Mark F. Seihamer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore What Constitutes a Singaporean National Identity? Muhamet Hamiti, University Prishtina, Kosovo

Artur Jaupaj, Canadian Institute of Technology, Tirana, Albania The Creation of the Modern Cowboy Myth: An Emphasis on The Virginian and Shane Hyreme Gurra, State University of Tetova, Republic of Macedonia of The origin, educational training, academic and literary activity as a playwright, prose writer and essayist of Gzim (Ismail) Alpioni (1962) Zamira Gjeleshi, European University of Tirana, Albania Revisiting the nation: some Albanian myths and legends Adrian Lesenciuc, Cosmina-Oana Drghici, Henri CoandAir Force Academy, Braov, Romania

Kosovo: The Emergence of a Nation, Politically that Is Hans-Georg Moeller, University College Cork, Ireland Inverted Nationalism: The Case of Contemporary Germany Andrea Borghini, College of the

Unhybridized Society in Lessings The Grass Is Singing

Holy Cross, USA Escape From Gastroland: Imagining New Landscapes for the Italian Culinary Culture Romanian cultures closeness and openness: the closeness that opens. Communicational tendency of Romanian culture

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Conference conclusions Gala dinner at Restaurant Floga

Saturday, 4 May 2013

09:00 Excursion to Kruja