Program of the Symposium

Location: Split University Library, D5

Thursday, 4th October

14:00 – 14:20 Opening of the Symposium

14:20 – 14:25 Coffee break

14:25 – 15:20 Keynote lecture: Simon John Ryle: Xenoflesh: Zoēpoetics of meat

15:20 – 15:30 Coffee break

Women’s Issues
15:30 – 15:50 Iva Kurtović: What Kind of Man: An exploration of Wyoming's influence on the
protagonists in Annie Proulx's Tits-Up in a Ditch and Brokeback Mountain
15:50 – 16:10 Petra Sršić: Evolution or Devolution: Feminism in Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
and Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas
16:10 – 16:30 Valentina Markasović: A Study in Ginevra: Sports, Snogs and Sexism in Harry Potter
16:30 – 16:50 Mirela Dakić: The Concept of Authorship in the Croatian Reception of Écriture Féminine

16:50 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 17:30 Presentation of the Journal of the International Symposium of Students of English,
Croatian and Italian Studies

18:00 Sightseeing
Friday, 5th October

Minority Voices
10:00 – 10:20 Natalija Iva Stepanović: Slam the Patriarchy: Poetics and Politics of the Slam Poetry
Movement
10:20 – 10:40 William Puckett: The Singular Instability: Action, the Ear, and the Eternal Return in
Americanah and Wax Bandana
10:40 – 11:00 Andrej Labudić: The Exposure of Racial Discrimination in the USA: The Central Park
Five
11:00 – 11:20 Ricardo Barreto: The Reinforcement of Narratives for Social Change: The Power of Art
through the Media

11:20 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Panel-discussion: Debunking Neoliberalism: How Art Can Help Imagine Different Worlds
Panelists: Ivana Perić, editor-in chief of H-Alter, a Croatian non-profit site, Dr. Antonio Šiber, research
scientist, Institute of Physics in Zagreb, and Hrvoje Tutek, assistant on the Department of English of the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

Women’s Issues II
14:00 – 14:20 Karim Ayman Owida: Women Empowerment in United Nations’ Awareness Campaigns
14:20 – 14:40 Lemana Filandra: Intersectional Feminism and Transgender Rights: Sean Baker’s
Tangerine and the Representation of the Repressed and the Oppressed
15:00 – 15:20 Marija Đurđević: Breaking the Spiral of Silence: How a Hashtag Debunked Hollywood

15:20 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:25 Keynote lecture: Assistant Professor Dr. Jurica Pavičić: Another Approach to the Studies
of the Yugoslav Cinema of the Fifties

16:25 – 16:40 Coffee break

The Repressed on Film
16:40 – 17:00 Judith Schneider: Oppressing and Being Oppressed: Gender Transgression in Hitchcock’s
Psycho and Jenkins’s Monster
17:00 – 17:20 Emilia Musap: “Too close to comfort” – the Incest Taboo in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson
Peak (2015)
17:20 – 17:40 Collin Görke: Casual Sex as a Moral Failing in James Bond

Disability Barriers
17:40 - 18:00 Ivica Jeđud & Adna Oković: Restoring Names, Forming Narratives, Giving Voices: A New
Historicist Approach to (Re)Constructing Lives of Institutionalized Women with Mental Disorders
18:00 – 18:20 Monica Melinda Topalović: The Representation of People with Disabilities in American
Cinematography

20:00 Conference social (Circus, Spinčićeva 2B)

Saturday, 6th October

Environmental Issues
10:00 – 10:20 Milica Galić: Sing to Save the Planet – Music and Ecology
10:20 – 10:40 Željka Kordić: Strolling Through the Apocalypse: Space and Identity in Margaret Atwood's
MaddAddam trilogy

10:40 – 10:50 Coffee break

Language and Identity

10:50 – 11:10 Đurđica Gordić:
11:10 – 11:30 Anda-Ileana Duta: Are some national cultures and languages in jeopardy today?

11:30 – 12:00 Closing of the Symposium

12:30 – Conference social
Simon John Ryle: Xenoflesh: Zoēpoetics of meat
The lecture will discuss the concepts of “xenoflesh”, flesh which is violently excluded from discourse, and
“zoēpoetics”, a new aesthetics that presents uncanny fleshiness and explores meat as an example of
silencing xenoflesh, on the example of Joseph D’Lacey’s novel Meat (2008).

Jurica Pavičić: Another Approach to the Studies of the Yugoslav Cinema of the Fifties
The lecture will offer a new perspective on the Yugoslav cinema of the 1950s which breaks away from the
common perception of the period as an awkward, transitory stage succeeded by the glorious phase of
modernist masters. The 50s were, in fact, a period of mature films and masters of classic narrative style
and the period can best be understood analyzed in the light of modernization and industrialization of the
Yugoslav society.

Panel-discussion: Debunking Neoliberalism: How Art Can Help Imagine Different Worlds
The panel-discussion will deal with the issue of neoliberalism and its effects on all human endeavors. We
will explore how neoliberalism has changed science, education and popular culture. Finally, we will look
at the ways in which art can present alternatives to neoliberalism and help imagine more liberated
futures.
Panelists: Ivana Perić, editor-in chief of H-Alter, a Croatian non-profit site, Dr. Antonio Šiber, research
scientist, Institute of Physics in Zagreb, and Hrvoje Tutek, Lecturer in the English Department of the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.