ELLS 2023

English Language & Literature Studies: Modern Perspectives and Beyond

Join us in Belgrade, Serbia

21-22 October 2023


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Extended Early Bird Registration

Second Call for Papers

The English Department at the Faculty of Philology is pleased to announce its 7th international conference on English language, Literature and Culture studies.


Proposals for papers and posters addressing diverse issues within the very broad theme of the conference, English Language, Literature and Culture Studies, will be considered for inclusion in the conference programme in the following fields of study:


  • Theoretical Linguistics
  • Applied Linguistics and ESL/EFL Language Teaching
  • Literature Studies
  • Culture Studies
  • Translation/Interpreting Studies
Abstract Guidelines



Theme: Modern Perspectives and Beyond


We strive to promote an exchange of ideas across different areas and theoretical frameworks of English linguistics and anglophone literary/cultural studies throughout a broad academic community. We invite both traditional and modern methodological approaches to English studies, as well as comparative research paradigms.





ELLS Plenary Speakers

It is our great pleasure to announce our Plenary Speakers:


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István Kecskés

Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, USA


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Alison Mackey

Georgetown University, USA
 


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Elizabeth Archibald

Durham University, UK
 


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Michael McAteer

Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary


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Welcome to Belgrade!


Venue:

Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade

Studentski trg 3, Belgrade


Introducing Belgrade


Belgrade is one of the oldest cities in Europe and, together with Athens, the largest city of the Balkan Peninsula. The oldest archaeological artifacts from the Belgrade area date back to the fifth millennium B.C. The members of a Celtic tribe founded Singidunum in the III century B.C., while the first record of the name Belgrade dates back to 878 A.D. During its long and tumultuous history, Belgrade has been conquered by 40 armies, and rebuilt completely 38 times.


Belgrade is the capital of Serbian culture, education and science. It has the greatest concentration of institutions of national importance in the field of science and art. Some of the prominent institutions are the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the National Library of Serbia, the National Museum, the National Theatre and many more. The city is also the seat of the University of Belgrade, founded in 1808 as the Great School, and the seat of the University of Arts.

Conference Registration


Regular Fee


Early bird: 100€
Regular: 120€


Fee includes the ELLS conference pack and refreshments


PhD Student Fee


Early bird: 50€
Regular: 60€


Fee includes the ELLS conference pack and refreshments



Hotel & Transfer


The Palace Hotel in Belgrade grants a 10% discount for all ELLS: MPAB participants! 


Please contact the Hotel at office@palacehotel.rs and use the code ELLS:MPAB to apply for the special discount. For more information, visit the Hotel’s website.


The Palace Hotel also provides airport transportation for all guests at a fixed price of 25 EUR per vehicle (max 4 people per vehicle). 



For more information, please contact the Hotel’s Head of Reception, Ivan Jovančević, via phone +381 65 321 0708 or office@palacehotel.rs


FAQ


How do I submit an abstract?
All abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbs on LinguistList. Authors will be prompted to create an account, fill in the form and submit the abstract. In case of technical difficulties, abstracts may also be submitted at ells.mpab@gmail.com.
Is this conference a hybrid event?
ELLS is going to be held as an on-site conference, but we encourage all researchers to get in touch!
How can I pay my registration fee?
If your abstract receives a positive review, all payment details will be emailed to you shortly. Please refer to our Conference Registration Section to see which fee applies to you. If your university is paying the fee, please share with us via email (ells.mpab@gmail.com) the relevant information necessary for a proforma invoice to be generated.
What publishing options do you provide?

Submitted papers will be selected for one of the journals published by the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philology (BELLS, Annals of the Faculty of Philology, Philologia).


Anything ELLS to ask? Contact us on ells.mpab@gmail.com

Abstract Guidelines

Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words

All abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbs on LinguistList at the following link: 

https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/ELLS_MPAB 

Authors will be prompted to create an account, fill in the form and submit the abstract. 




In case of technical difficulties, abstracts may also be submitted at ells.mpab@gmail.com.

For all queries please contact the Organizing Team at ells.mpab@gmail.com.

Early Bird Registration


Deadline: August 31st

Regular Fee: 100 Eur

PhD Student Fee: 50 Eur


After September 1st;

Regular Fee: 120 Eur

PhD Student Fee: 60 Eur

The same amount can be paid in RSD at the exchange rate on the day of payment.


Instructions for the payment in EUR:

Account number: 840-0000000057790-97


Account with institution:

Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 3, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia IBAN: RS35840000000005779097


Beneficiary:

840-0000000057790-97 Filološki fakultet, Studentski trg 3


Instruction for payment in RSD:

Account for payment in RSD:
840-1615666-26
Primalac: Filološki fakultet u Beogradu


If your university is paying the fee, please share with us via email (ells.mpab@gmail.com) the relevant information necessary for a proforma invoice to be generated.


Please note that the fees charged by the sending bank must be covered by the sender.




Contact

The Organizing Team may be contacted at: ells.mpab@gmail.com.

István Kecskés

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István Kecskés is a Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York,USA. He teaches graduate courses in pragmatics, second language acquisition and bilingualism at SUNY, Albany. Professor Kecskés is the President of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA) and the CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research) Association. He is also the founder and co-director of the Barcelona Summer School on Bi- and Multilingualism (until 2016), and the founder and co-director of Sorbonne, Paris – SUNY, Albany Graduate Student Symposium (present).

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Language variation and temporary norms in English as a Lingua Franca interactions

Istvan Kecskes

Distinguished Professor

New York State at Albany

The talk argues that interlocutors in intercultural interactions rely mainly on co-constructed temporary norms rather than on codified norms of the target language. There is a complex interplay of codified and emergent norms that drives interaction. Temporary norms emerge through temporary communicative extension of the system (TCE) that are expressions, chunks and utterances that violate the existing relatively definable norms and conventions of target language use, but still make sense in actual situational contexts and can be considered possible outputs of the English language system. TCEs function as building blocks for temporary norms, and they can also be building blocks in common ground development. The talk  demonstrates these functions through examples in intercultural interactions.

Alison Mackey

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Alison Mackey is a full Professor at Georgetown University in the U.S., where she is also Chair of the Department of Linguistics. In the summers, she is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University in the UK. She researches how second languages are learned and how they can best be taught. She has published 100+ journal articles and book chapters, as well as 19 books, all on various topics of language learning and teaching. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge University Press’s the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, a top ranked journal. She is currently the most highly cited female scholar worldwide in Applied Linguistics on Google Scholar (#8 overall) with over 29,400+ citations (h-index=63, i10=105). She is also the #1 most highly cited female faculty member at both Georgetown University and Lancaster University outside the sciences and has won a number of major prizes and honors, including, most recently, the International Association of TBLT’s Distinguished Achievement Award (2023) and the American Association of Applied Linguistics Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award (2022). She has received research grants from most of the major funders in the UK and the US. She is a co-founder of the IRIS database, a first-of-its-kind open digital repository of materials for research. She has taught linguistics and trained language teachers in the U.K., Japan, Spain, Australia, and the U.S. Her graduate training was at Cambridge University in the UK and Sydney University in Australia.

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Applied linguistics research methodology: New practices, approaches, and “hot takes”

Alison Mackey

Georgetown University.

October 21–22, 2023

Methodological approaches and practices in applied linguistics have developed and shifted dramatically over the last two decades. This talk begins with a brief review of the some of the more established methods we use in applied linguistics before turning to novel methodological developments that can further our understanding of L2 learning processes.

Established methods I will cover include include psychology-based measures like working memory tests, eye-tracking, together with education and sociology-derived approaches like verbal introspections and think-alouds. Newer neurolinguistic techniques, including measures like EEGs, MEGs and fMRIs, together with the new forms of imaging like the use of (portable) ultrasounds will also be discussed. Turning to emergent constructs, I will focus on one under-studied but promising area: how individual differences in cognitive creativity may be related to L2 learning processes. I consider how creativity has been measured in varied fields, and provide a brief overview of findings from recent studies of creativity and language learning, highlighting how future research in language learning might benefit from considering creativity as an individual difference factor.

I conclude by arguing that with the new tools and constructs that are emerging, together with important open science initiatives, an even more informative and productive time in applied linguistics research lies ahead.

Elizabeth Archibald

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Elizabeth Archibald is Emeritus Professor of English Studies at Durham University, where she taught from 2012 to 2021. She studied Classics and then Medieval Studies at Cambridge and Yale Universities. Before Durham she taught at King's College Cambridge, the University of Victoria (Canada), and Bristol. Her main research areas are medieval romance and the classical tradition in the Middle Ages, but she is currently working on attitudes to bathing in medieval literature and society. Her publications include Apollonius of Tyre: Medieval and Renaissance Themes and Variations (1991), A Companion to Malory, co-edited with A. S. G. Edwards (1996), Incest and the Medieval Imagination (2001), and The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend , co-edited with Ad Putter (2009).

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It is often claimed that no one had baths in the Middle Ages, but this is far from true. There is a remarkable amount of evidence for the popularity of both public and private bathing in a range of western European sources, literary, historical, legal, medical, and theological, as well as in the visual arts. Roman-style baths were rare; instead wooden tubs of varying sizes were used not only by aristocrats but also the bourgeoisie, and most towns (on the continent, at least) had public bathhouses (sometimes doubling as brothels). Where natural hot springs existed, spas were developed and were very popular. The Church might have been expected to be against group bathing, as an incentive to immorality, but this was not always the case, and theologians used bathing metaphors to discuss spiritual practices, not least baptism. In this lecture I shall discuss allusions to bathing from a variety of Latin, French and English sources, with illustrations, and will speculate about the reasons for the rapid decline of interest in bathing in the sixteenth century; both fear of disease and outrage at immoral behaviour were factors. I shall also consider the logistics of medieval bathing: heating and carrying water, indoors and out, must have been very laborious. Bathhouses were often associated with amorous activities, but bathing was recommended by many medical treatises, following the lead of Arab medical writers. Cleanliness was not a key feature of medieval attitudes to bathing; health and pleasure were more significant.

Michael McAteer

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Dr. (habil.) Michael McAteer is Associate Professor of English at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. He specializes in Irish Literature in English, publishing widely on W. Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival. His most recent book is Excess in Modern Irish Writing (Palgrave, 2020) and he is currently editing the Special Collection, Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture, for the Open Library of Humanities Journal (Birkbeck College, London). He is preparing a new book-length comparative study of Ireland and Hungary from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

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Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a cultural revival began in Ireland that developed progressively during the first three decades of the twentieth. The poetry of William Butler Yeats and the foundation of Ireland’s national theatre in Dublin grew out of this movement. The scholar and translator Douglas Hyde was central to the cultural revival. John Millington Synge was easily the most successful dramatist of the Irish Revival before Sean O’Casey appeared on the scene with his working-class Dublin plays of the 1920s. Synge achieved his greatest fame in the English-speaking world for his masterpiece, The Playboy of the Western World, a work that provoked disturbances at Ireland’s national theatre, the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1907.

This paper considers one aspect of Synge’s first two plays with regard to an old Irish-language story that Douglas Hyde collected and translated, ‘Teigue O’Kane and the Corpse.’ B. Yeats included this bizarre folk story, of a man forced to carry a human corpse on his back at night in a remote part of the west of Ireland, in his edited volume of 1888, Fairy and Folktales of Ireland. Emerging from rural Irish culture, this story is illuminating when examining Synge’s treatment of dead bodies in his Aran Island tragic play, Riders to the Sea, and his rural County Wicklow satirical comedy, In the Shadow of the Glen. I consider what relations to ‘Teigue O’Kane and the Corpse’ are evident in the appearance of a dead human body on stage at the end of Riders to the Sea and a human body pretending to be dead at the beginning of In the Shadow of the Glen. My interest in this neglected aspect of Synge’s early plays concerns the tensions between reverence and mockery of the human corpse, particularly in light of the folk story that Hyde translated. How far was Synge faithful to native Irish traditions that produced such a story as ‘Teigue O’Kane and the Corpse’? How far did he travel in the direction of ‘morbid modernism’: a fascination with human corpses for its own sake that is unsettling, particularly for the pressure that it places upon ontological distinction between life and death as modes of being.