Category Archives: Calls for Papers (Conferences)

Topic of the Current Edition: Digital Culture, Communication and Translation

Short Description: Virtual conference. Given the success of the previous conferences, the 12^th edition of the conference aims to continue the exchange of ideas on the impact of new technologies on communication, to highlight the evolution of humanities and social sciences in conjunction with technological innovation, and to identify new trends in the language industry in the post web 2.0 era.

Organiser: The Department of Communication and Foreign Languages, Politehnica University of Timisoara

Date: 26-27 March 2021

Venue: PCTS12 will be hosted online on Zoom

Deadline for Proposals: 1 March 2021

Conference website: https://sc.upt.ro/ro/pcts12

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Topic of the Conference:  Discourses of Solitude and Commonality

Short Description: 19^th Edition of the conference Language, Literature and Cultural Policies

Organiser: Department of British, American and German Studies; Faculty of Letters; University of Craiova

Date: 10-11 December 2020

Venue: Online, Google Meet Platform

Deadline for Proposals: 05 December 2020

Conference website: https://litere.ucv.ro/

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The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, University of Timişoara, is pleased to announce its 30th international conference on British and American Studies, which will be held in May 14-16, 2020.

Confirmed plenary speakers:

• Professor Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven
• Professor Ștefan Oltean, University of Cluj-Napoca
• Professor Aline Ferreira, University of Aveiro
• Professor Vesna Goldsworthy, University of Exeter and East Anglia

Organiser: West University of Timișoara

Date: 14-16 May 2020

Venue:  West University of Timișoara

Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2020

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The conference is intended as a cultural forum for imparting knowledge and research on the textuality and representation of recent, lived history, from different yet interrelated angles:

• History and Memory Studies 
• Political Sciences 
• Cultural Studies
• Film Studies 
• Literary criticism 
• Philosophy
• Sociology 
• Cultural Anthropology, etc.

Without any claims to historical truth(s), we hereby invite individual contributions to an academic debate within the framework of an event that will hopefully shed some light on the way in which communism was culturally represented before and after 1989 in the former communist states and in the West.       

Organiser: Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Letters, the Cross-border Faculty – Dunarea de Jos University of Galati   

Date: November 21-22, 2019          

Venue: Dunărea de Jos University Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Letters,  Galati, STR. Domneasca nr. 111, building AS       

Deadline for proposals: July 28, 2019 

Conference website: http://fift.ugal.ro/30years/

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Choices and Common Sense 

This conference aims at the exchange of ideas and experiences across the fields of English and German language, literary studies and cultural policies, also taking into consideration cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary issues raised in the fields of literature, linguistics, culture, translation studies and applied linguistics.      

Organiser: The Department of British, American, and German Studies in collaboration with Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade and with Romanian Society of English and American Studies       

Date: October 17 – 19, 2019

Venue: University of Craiova, Romania        

Deadline for proposals: July 31, 2019 

Conference website: https://litere.ucv.ro/litere/ro/content/llcp-home

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Exploring Language Variation, Diversity and Change

Organiser: Department of Theoretical and Applied Languages, Transilvania University of Brașov

Date: 10-11 May 2019

Venue: Brașov (Romania)

Deadline for proposals: 25 April 2019

Conference website: https://anglistica.unitbv.ro/

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Irony and Humour: Imaginary and Representation

Organiser: FACULTY OF THEOLOGY, LETTERS, HISTORY AND ARTS
THE RESEARCH CENTRE ON THE IMAGINARY. TEXT, DISCOURSE, COMMUNICATION. IMAGINES
LE CENTRE DE RÉUSSITE UNIVERSITAIRE UNIVERSITY OF PITEŞTI

Date: June 14-16, 2019

Venue: Pitești, Romania

Deadline for proposals: 3 April 2019

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History, Memory and Accomplishment

Organizer: Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj

Dates: 24-26 October 2019

Venue: Faculty of Letters, Str. Horea 31, Cluj-Napoca

Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2019

Conference website: https://constructions10.wordpress.com/

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Organizer: The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, University of Timişoara

Venue: Timisoara (Romania)

Date: 16-18 May 2019

Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2019

Conference website: https://bas.events.uvt.ro/

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Date and place: Craiova (Romania) between 11-13 October 2018.
Organiser: The Department of British, American, and German Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Craiova

Submission instructions
Proposals (maximum 200 words) for 20-minute papers along with a short autobiographical note (maximum 100 words) can be sent to the organizers, Dr Sorin Cazacu, Dr Titela Vilceanu, Dr Daniela Rogobete, Dr Madalina Cerban, at craiovaconference2018@gmail.com by 1 September 2018. The languages of the conference are English and German.

Conference fees
– participants presenting papers: 250 RON / 60 EUR
– attendance without presentation: 70 RON/ 15 EUR
The fee will be paid upon arrival. A selection of papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The conference fee includes the publication of the volume, the conference folder and badge, certificate of participation, refreshments during the scheduled breaks, lunches, and cocktail reception. The fee does not include travel expenses, accommodation and the social programme (to be announced).

Conference email: craiovaconference2018@gmail.com

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