Day 1 – Thursday (26.03.2015) 13:15 – 14:15 14:15 14:30 14:30 – 15:30 16:00 – 17:30 Registration in the foyer (Edifício da Biblioteca da UTAD/ Library building of UTAD) Auditório Opening session Plenary session Chair Isabel Ermida Matthew Campbell Helicopters, sonograms and interference: the nature of surveillance in contemporary British and Irish poetry Coffee break Auditório Sala Exposições Sala CEL Chair Teresa Alves Chair Ana Rocha Roundtable Ana Raquel Fernandes Tradition Retold Claúdia Coimbra “Never such innocence again”: The War Poets and the Reconfiguration of the Literary Canon 18:00 - Elisabete Mendes Silva Enlightenment versus CounterEnlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account on the sciences and the humanities Ana Cristina Mendes Salman Rushdie across the fourth wall Ways of reading, ways of knowing: On Narrative Medicine and its practice/s Cecilia Beecher Martins Teresa Casal Isabel Fernandes Zuzanna Sanches Rui Rato “Probable Developments of Moral Carol Guesse Ideas as Civilization Progresses”: Post-Humanities: the Future of An Ethical Reading of H. G. Mankind as the Latest Academic Wells’s The War of the Worlds Obsession General Assembly APEAA board members Day 2 – Friday (27.03.2015) 09:00 – 10:30 Auditório Chair Ana Mendes Sala Exposições Chair Fátima Vieira Sala CEL Project panel – CEAUL Ana Gomes Rocha Mapping the Body, Exploring Exile. Diaspora and Migrant Bodies in Measures of Distance by Mona Hatoum. Miguel Ramalhete Gomes Carbon-dated: Historical difference in Troilus and Cressida and Pericles Teresa Malafaia Digital Humanities, Libraries, Schools, Social Commitment Maria José Pires Turismos Inter-literários/culturais em Inglês e Português Alexandra Assis Rosa Intercultural Literature in Portugal, 1930-2000: A Critical Bibliography Margarida Vale de Gato / Rita Queiróz de Barros PEnPAL in Translation Zuzanna Sanches Contar um Conto / Storytelling (CC/ST) Edgardo M. Silva / Teresa Botelho Anachronism and Alternate History Cláudia Ferreira O círculo (im)perfeito das representações da identidade (pessoal e nacional): a redenção ou a "tragédia poética" em Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Rogério Puga Poetizar Paula Rego, ou o Caminho Inverso de Owen Lowery em Rego Retold: Poems in Response to Works by Paula Rego (2015) Rogério Bianchi de Araújo As Ciências Sociais em defesa de uma epistemologia utópica na Universidade José Eduardo Reis Digressões comparatistas no Curso de Literatura Inglesa de Jorge Luis Borges Coffee break 10:30 – 12:00 Auditório Chair Teresa Botelho Richard Zimler The importance of storytelling 14:00 – 15:30 Auditório Chair Isabel Botto Ludumila Aragão Miserável Mundo Novo, ou uma Utopia às Avessas Ana Isabel Costa “This aspect of mine” – Bodily Alienation and Death in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Mark Wakefield Dystopian vibrations in Irish Society: The Case of McGahern’s The Leavetakin Paula Rama da Silva The Public and the Private in Hogarth’s Art 16:00 – 17:30 Auditório Roundtable Utopia e Poder Fátima Vieira Isabel Donas Botto José Eduardo Reis Maria Teresa Castilho Teresa Botelho LUNCH Sala Exposições Chair Miguel Ramalhete Daniela Côrtes Maduro Shapeshifting texts: no encalço da narrativa em obras de ficção digital Paulo Sousa Uma apologia da violência? Reflexões sobre espaços de heterotopia, violência e utopia em Fight Club de Chuck Palahniuk Sala CEL Roundtable O Conceito do Novo nos EUA Teresa Alves Teresa Cid Edgardo Medeiros Isabel Alves João Fernando de Castro Gonçalves dos Santos “Wand of Elder, never prosper”: Imagination and reality in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Coffee break Sala Exposições Chair Amélia Carvalho Sala CEL Chair Teresa da Silva Alexandra Rosa Tracking the Hegemony of English in Portugal Susana Valdez A conceção de significado em textos multimodais: um estudo de caso de tiras de banda desenhada Başak Ağın Dönmez, Fatma Aykanat, Zümre Gizem Yılmaz (panel) Re-presenting the Body as the Posthuman: Technologically Reshaped Sexualities in Literary and Visual Media Isabel Oliveira Martins; Margarida Vale de Gato; Susana Valdez PEnPal – A Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Project (poster) Ana Raquel Fernandes The Reception of British and Irish Short Fiction in Portugal and Portuguese Short Fiction in the United Kingdom and Ireland (1980-2010) (poster) 18:00- Auditório Plenary Session Chair: José Eduardo Reis Vincent Geoghegan Althusser Machiavelli and the “theoretical utopia” CONFERENCE DINNER Day 3 – Saturday (28.03.2015) 09:00 – 10:30 Auditório Chair Alexandra Assis Rosa Sala Exposições Chair Teresa Casal Rita Queiroz de Barros Fernanda Luísa Feneja On the potentialities of the OED online: Decomposing the Anglocentrism of The Oxford English Dictionary’s first edition Nicolas Hurst “Take it as read. What reading was, is and should be in the ELT classroom” Autobiography as a social weapon: Maya Angelou’s «Names» and human rights Filipa Basílio Valente da Silva A Clockwork Orange and Funny Games: Representing violence to question violence Teresa da Silva Extensive Reading in Higher Education: (re)shaping the “imaginary” lifelong project 10:30 – 12:00 Auditório Chair Anthony Sis Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas; Sandra Gonçalves Tuna The discourse of international perfume advertising: forms of representing and reading body image Coffee break Sala Exposições Chair Rogério Puga Mary Fowke The Transformation of the Everyday into Art Edgardo Medeiros da Silva U.S. Empire-Building and the Independence of Cuba Gabriela-Alexandra Banica The Transformative Power of the Arts in Don DeLillo’s Terrorist Novels Andriesa van der Klis A Double Vision of the Future: Moving Beyond Multiculturalism in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Joana Caetano Memories are Forever Transhumanism and Cultural Memory in V for Vendetta, Oblivion and The Giver Maria Filomena Louro Irish Studies and the re-shaping of academic scholarship: analysis of two academic bibliographies and their developments 12:00 – 13:00 13:00 - Auditório Plenary session Chair. Isabel Alves Teresa Cid Go West, ever-young Humanities Auditório Closing remarks