Programme

Day 1: Friday, 22 August 2008
10:00-	Registration (Nobelparken)
14:00-14:30	Official opening with the Dean of Humanities, University of Aarhus, Bodil Due, and ESSE President Fernando Galván (Aula)
14:30-16:00	1st Plenary: Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University), 'Conceptual Blending in Language and Literature' (Aula)
16:00-16:30	Coffee break (Nobelparken)
16:30-18:30	Parallel Seminars / Round tables
	S.02. Censorship across Borders: Reception of English Literature in 20th-century Europe (1/2) (1453-223) S.03. The House of Fiction as the House of Life: 1700-1900 (1/3) (1455-116) S.04. Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe (1453-131) S.10. Research and the Literary Periodical: Theory and Methodology (1463-222) S.15. Methodological Perspectives on Communicative Functions (1453-229) S.22a. Lingua Franca English in Use (1/2) (1451-219) S.23. Modern English Syntax: Historical and Comparative Approaches (1/2) (1453-227) S.30. Film Studies: Fragmentary Forms and Totalizing Narratives (1451-225) S.31. Reading and Trust in Managed Learning Systems (1455-129) S.40. The Intersection of English Education Practices and Workplace Needs (1453-215) RT.04. Britain After Blair (1455-127)
19:30-21:00	Reception (Rådhuset / Town Hall)

Day 2: Saturday, 23 August 2008
09:00-11:30	Parallel Seminars / Round tables
	S.02. Censorship across Borders: Reception of English Literature in 20th-century Europe (2/2) (1451-225) S.03. The House of Fiction as the House of Life: 1700-1900 (2/3) (1455-116) S.05. Translation and Scottish Literature (1463-222) S.07. Corpora in Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching (1/2) (1451-219) S.09. Transnational Identity Politics in British Literature (1455-127) S.12. Ageing Studies: Age, Illness and the Question of Beauty (1453-223) S.14. Mediated Discourse in Native and Non-Native Lingua Franca English (1453-131) S.23. Modern English Syntax: Historical and Comparative Approaches (2/2) (1463-416) S.39. Tourism between Tradition and Innovation (1453-227) RT.03. EL Domains: Losses or Gains? (1453-229)
11:30-12:00	Coffee break (Nobelparken)
12:00-13:00	Parallel Lectures
	L.01. Roberta Maierhofer, 'A New Approach to Literary and Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Anocriticism, and thus to Gender, Age and Identity' (Economics Auditorium 011; 1324-011) L.03. Liliane Louvel, 'Word/Image: Words to be Seen, Images to be Read' (Psychology Auditorium; 1482-105) L.04. Christian Mair, '"Is English we speaking": Re-focussing Standard English in Jamaica' (Theology Auditorium 1; 1441-012) L.10. Giovanni Cianci, 'Open Space vs. Closed Space: The Crisis of Domesticity in Early Literary and Visual Modernism' (Economics Auditorium 025; 1324-025)
13:00-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-16:00	Parallel Seminars / Round tables
	S.03. The House of Fiction as the House of Life: 1700-1900 (3/3) (1451-225) S.07. Corpora in Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching (2/2) (1451-219) S.08. From Hell to Paradise: The Lure of the Occult and Its Cultural Representations (1/3) (1453-229) S.17. British Poetry and Pop (1/2) (1463-222) S.20. Shakespeare and Discourse Stylistics (1/2) (1463-416) S.22a. Lingua Franca English in Use (2/2) (1455-127) S.26. Bodies and Performativity in Multicultural British Fiction (1453-223) S.32. Literary Journalism and the Canon (1455-129) RT.02. What's So Special about Literature? Literariness, Cognition and Ethics Revisited (1455-116) RT.05. History, Sociology and Politics within the Field of British Studies (1453-227) RT.08. Focusing on a Linguistics of Difference: Intercultural and Contrastive Approaches (1453-131)
16:00-16:30	Coffee break (Nobelparken)
16:30-17:30	Parallel Lectures
	L.05. Tabish Khair, 'The Devil and Otherness in Colonial and Postcolonial Gothic Fiction' (Psychology Auditorium; 1482-105) L.06. Olga Vorobyova, 'Sense and Sensibility in Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction: Where Science and Literature Meet' (Economics Auditorium 011; 1324-011) L.08. Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, 'A Map of the Mind: Hills and Valleys in a Polyglot-Savant's Abilities' (Theology Auditorium 1; 1441-012)
17:45-18:15	Performance (choir) (Vandrehallen)
18:15-19:45	2nd Plenary: Jenny Uglow (University of Warwick), 'Words and Pictures: Milton and Bunyan, Epic and Chapbook' (Aula)

Day 3: Sunday, 24 August 2008
09:00-11:00	Parallel Seminars / Round tables
	S.01. Cross-linguistic and Cross-Cultural Approaches to Phraseology (1/3) (1455-127) S.08. From Hell to Paradise: The Lure of the Occult and Its Cultural Representations (2/3) (1453-229) S.11. Politeness and Interaction (1453-223) S.16. Wholeness, Healing, and Spirituality: African American Women's Revisions (1/2) (1455-129) S.17. British Poetry and Pop (2/2) (1463-222) S.19. Literary and Cultural Representations of the Child (1/2) (1451-225) S.20. Shakespeare and Discourse Stylistics (2/2)(1453-215) S.24. Ethics and Trauma in British Fiction Since the 1960s (1/2) (1455-116) S.27. Representing 'New' Britain (1/2) (1453-227) S.28. Changing Narratives in British Media (1/2) (1453-131) S.33. Models of Authorship at the Turn of the Millennium (1463-226) RT.10. English Studies in Doctoral Programmes: a European Perspective (1451-219)
11:00-11:30	Coffee break (Nobelparken) / ProQuest presentation: 'African Writers'
11:30-12:30	Parallel Lectures
	L.02. Libuse Dusková, 'Czech Approaches to Information Structure: Theory and Applications' (Theology Auditorium 1; 1441-012) L.07. Mihaela Irimia, '"... purchase the commodity you want", or Quixote goes English in the Public Sphere' (Economics Auditorium 011; 1324-011) L.09. João Ferreira Duarte, 'Trust in Translation' (Psychology Auditorium; 1482-105)
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-15:00	3rd Plenary: Nigel Fabb (University of Strathclyde), 'What Is a Line of Verse?' (Aula)
15:00-18:00	'Hamlet' tour
15:00-18:00	'Grauballe Man' tour
15:00-16:30	Tour of 'Den Gamle By'
21:00-22:30	Visit to Aarhus art museum (ARoS)

Day 4: Monday, 25 August 2008
09:00-11:00	Parallel Seminars / Round tables
	S.01. Cross-linguistic and Cross-Cultural Approaches to Phraseology (2/3) (1455-127) S.08. From Hell to Paradise: The Lure of the Occult and Its Cultural Representations (3/3) (1453-229) S.13. Metaphors and Economic Thinking (1453-215) S.16. Wholeness, Healing, and Spirituality: African American Women's Revisions (2/2) (1463-226) S.19. Literary and Cultural Representations of the Child (2/2) (1451-225) S.21. Meaning Construction: Functionalist, Cognitivist and Constructionist (1/2) (1453-223) S.24. Ethics and Trauma in British Fiction Since the 1960s (2/2) (1455-116) S.27. Representing 'New' Britain (2/2) (1453-227) S.28. Changing Narratives in British Media (2/2) (1453-131) S.29. A Full-Bodied Society? (1455-129) S.41. Wartime Shakespeares: A European Perspective (1/3) (1463-222) RT.06. Ideology and Metaphor (1451-219)
11:00-11:30	Coffee break (Lake Auditorium)
11:30-13:00	4th Plenary: Steven Connor (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Thinking Things' (Lake Auditorium)
13:00-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:00	Poster sessions (Nobelparken)
15:00-17:00	Parallel Seminars / Round tables
	S.01. Cross-linguistic and Cross-Cultural Approaches to Phraseology (3/3) (1453-131) S.21. Meaning Construction: Functionalist, Cognitivist and Constructionist (2/2) (1451-225) S.22b. The Impact of Lingua Franca English (1455-127) S.34. Continuation or Change? Literature in English in the New Millennium (1/2) (1453-223) S.35. Life Writing: Writing Lives (1/2) (1455-116) S.36. American Little Magazines and Innovative Voices on Language and the Self (1455-129) S.38. Bakhtin and Shakespeare: Critical Perspectives (1453-215) S.41. Wartime Shakespeares: A European Perspective (2/3) (1453-227) S.42. Intertextuality (1/2) (1451-219) S.44. Towards the Bicentenary: New Bearings in European Dickens Criticism (1/2) (1463-222) S.47. Emergent Minds: Thinking with Feeling (1/2) (1453-229) RT.07. The Punitive Turn (1463-226)
17:00-17:30	Coffee break (Nobelparken)
19:00-20:00	Performance: Linton Kwesi Johnson (Aula)
20:00-01:00	Conference Dinner (Stakladen)

Day 5: Tuesday, 26 August 2008
09:00-11:00	Parallel Seminars/Round tables
	S.34. Continuation or Change? Literature in English in the New Millennium (2/2) (1453-131) S.35. Life Writing: Writing Lives (2/2) (1455-127) S.41. Wartime Shakespeares: A European Perspective (3/3) (1453-229) S.42. Intertextuality (2/2) (1451-219) S.43. All Manners of Silence: Non-Verbal Communication in the Long 18th Century (1463-222) S.44. Towards the Bicentenary: New Bearings in European Dickens Criticism (2/2) (1453-215) S.45. Writing-Machines and Literature (1453-227) S.46. Teaching English as a Language of Translation (1453-223) S.47. Emergent Minds: Thinking with Feeling (2/2) (1451-225) RT.01. Making Use of Electronic Collections: Problems of Selection and Description (1455-116)
11:00-11:30	Coffee break (Vandrehallen) / ProQuest presentation: 'The Virtual'
11:30-13:00	5th Plenary: Toril Moi (Duke University), 'Early Modernism? Reflections on British Literary History 1870-1914' (Aula)
13:00-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-16:00	ESSE General Assembly (Aula)
16:00	Conference Ends

Programme

Day 1: Friday, 22 August 2008

Day 2: Saturday, 23 August 2008

Day 3: Sunday, 24 August 2008

Day 4: Monday, 25 August 2008

Day 5: Tuesday, 26 August 2008