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Week 39
27/9 (Fö2)
Dr Hiroko Inose, Lecturer in Japanese, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Translation of Japanese onomatopoeia and mimetic words into Spanish and English”
Dr Herbert Jonsson, Lecturer in Japanese, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: ”Haiku poetry and the Japanese commentary tradition”
Week 42
18/10 (Fö1)
Title: “Transcultural Childhoods: On Third Culture and Cross Culture Kids”
Dr Verena Commins, Connect Doctoral Research Fellow, Ionad an Léinn Éireannaigh, Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI, Galway)
Title: “‘Stone mad for music’: The Sites and Sounds of Commemoration of Irish Traditional music”
Week 43
25/10 (Fö2)
BethAnne Yoxsimer Paulsrud, PhD Student, Department of Language Education, Stockholm University
Title: “An Appraisal Analysis of School Marketing Texts”
Dr Jonathan White, Lecturer in English Linguistics, Högskolan DalarnaTitle: “Standardisation of reduced forms”
Week 44
3-4/11 (Fö1; Fö2)
DUCIS Conference: “A New Ireland? Representations of History Past and Present in Literature and Culture”
Plenary Lectures:
Prof Marianne Elliott (Prof of History, Liverpool University)
Prof Margaret Mills Harper (Prof of Contemporary Writing in English, University of Limerick)
Colm Tobín (Writer, Winner of 2011 Irish PEN Award for his contribution to Irish literature)
Week 46
15/11 (Fö2)
Dr Chatarina Edfeldt, Portuguese, Dr Hiroko Inose, Japanese, Dr Anneli Fjordvik, German, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “ Literary Worlds of a New Generation: Fan Culture as Literary Genre on Internet”
Dr Torkel Lindquist, Lecturer in Arabic, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: TBA
Week 47
22/11 (Fö2)
Dr Mats Tegmark, Academy for Education and Humanities, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Studying Fictional Representations of History in the F2 Classroom”
Giulia Messina Dahlberg, Adjunkt i italienska, Doktorand i pedagogik
Title: “Communication in the virtual classroom in higher education: languaging beyond the boundaries of time and space”
Week 49
6/12 (Fö2)
Dr Martin Dvorak, Lecturer in English Linguistics, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Means of Persuasion in Religious Discourse”
Week 22
31/5
(15.30-17.30)
Doctoral Candidate Julie Skogs, English Dept, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Communication in aynschronous discussion forums.”
Doctoral Candidate Christine Cox Eriksson, English Dept, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Parental feedback and vocabulary development in low and average performing children”
Week 21
24/5
Dr Jonathan White, English Dept, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Tenses and Aspect in Vietnamese English”
Fil. dr, Bosse Thorén, Universitetslektor i svenska som andraspråk, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “R-bortfall i svenska; slappt uttal eller förbättrad stavelsestruktur?”
Dr Larisa Gustafsson, English Dept, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Prescriptivism in light of corpus-based studies of Late Modern English”
Week 20
17/5
Dr Tomasz Ciszewski, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, Institute of English, University of Gdańsk, Poland
Title: “Is metrical foot a phonetic object?”
Dr Daniela Francesca Virdis, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, University of Cagliari, SardiniaTitle: Persuasion and Spoken Face-To-Face Interaction in The Romance of Lust (1873-1876)
Week 19
10/5
Dr Al-Rubaye Nejood: Lecturer in Arabic, Hogskolan Dalarna
Title: “The language use of native and non-native speakers in language teaching”
Dr Lovisa Berg, Lecturer in Arabic, Hogskolan Dalarna
Title: “Moving outside cultural boundaries – the portrayal of men in Samar Yazbek’s novels.”
Week 18
3/5
Prof. Anne Goarzin, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, Centre for Irish Studies, University of Rennes, France
Title: “‘His last words / were the story is not / over’: Haunting Voices in Contemporary Irish Poetry.”
Dr Malin Lindström Brock, English Dept, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Telling Feminist Lives”
Week 16
19/4
Dr Stefan Helgesson, Guest Lecturer, Dept of Comparative Literature, Stockholm University
Title: “Inventing World Literature.”
Week 13
29/3
Dr Jason King, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, University of Limerick, Ireland
Title: “Remembering Famine Orphans: Irish Integration in Cultural Practice and Theatre Performance”
Dr Katherina Dodou, English Dept, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Novel Adulthood: Representations of Adult Identity in Recent British Fiction.”
Week 12
22/3
Dr Peter Leese, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: “Poetics of the Strange: Labouring Migrants in Post-War Europe.”
Week 11
15/3
Prof. Christoph Houswitschka, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, Universität Bamberg, GermanyTitle: “Cosmopolitanism and Constructions of Identity in Recent Migration Literature”
Week 10
8/3
Dr John Braidwood, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, Oulu University, FinlandTitle: “Patrick Kavanagh, John McGahern and Ireland’s Dreary Eden.”
Week 8
22/2
Dr Nessa Cronin, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI, Galway
Title: “Ireland after Tara: National Legacies and the Changing Landscape of Celtic Tiger Ireland”
Doctoral Candidate, Mario Semiao, Adjunkt in Portuguese, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Beckett and Josipovici: Two Cases of Postmodernist Musicalized Fiction.”
Loretta Qwarnström, English Dept, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “The Transnational Subject: Crossing-Overs in Kamila Shamsie’s Fiction”
Dr Julie Hansen, Senior Lecturer in English, Högskolan Dalarna: “The Depiction of Yuri Gagarin and the Soviet Space Program in Lotta Lotass’ Novel Tredje flykthasigheten.” and Dr Katherina Dodou, Lecturer in English, Högskolan Dalarna: “Novel Adulthood: Representations of Adult Identity in Recent British Fiction.”
Christine Cox Eriksson, Doctoral Candidate, Junior Lecturer in English, Högskolan Dalarna: work in progress; BethAnne Yoxsimer Paulsrud, Doctoral Candidate, Junior Lecturer in English, Högskolan Dalarna: “Teaching in English? What do you expect?” and Solveig Malmsten, Adjunkt svenska språket, Högskolan Dalarna: ”Färöiskans dativ - kan kasusbruket säga något om språkets utveckling?”
Giulia Messina Dahlberg, Doctoral Candidate, Junior Lecturer in Italian, Högskolan Dalarna: “The Virtual Classroom: Language Learning and Construction of Meaning in Online Synchronous Environment”, and Olga Viberg, Doctoral Candidate, Junior Lecturer in Russian, Högskolan Dalarna: “Mobile Learning and Netbased Language Teaching: Work in Progress.”
Dr Man Gao, Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Högskolan Dalarna: Mandarin Tones; Arantxa Santos Muñoz, Doctoral Candidate and Junior Lecturer in Spanish, Högskolan Dalarna: “Conversation Analysis”; Isabel Gibert, Erasmus Guest, Università Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona): Development of the Social and Intercultural competences using the Digital Environment
Dr Jonathan White, Assistant Professor in English, Högskolan Dalarna: “Reduced Forms in Chat Language”, and Konstantin Andreev, Junior Lecturer in English, Högskolan Dalarna: “Translating Hitchens.”
Dr Kristy Beers Fägersten, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Södertörns Högskolan: “The Use of English in Swedish-Language Comic Strips.”
Rita O'Donoghue, Erasmus Guest, Centre for Irish Studies, University College Galway: “‘Washers and Watchers of the Profane’: Aspects of Women’s Role in the Death and Burial Customs in the Irish Folklore Collection.”
Associate Prof. Michael Böss, Erasmus Guest, Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark: “The Fall of the Celtic Tiger and Irish Identity.”
Dr Mattias Aronsson, Lektor i Franska, Högskolan Dalarna: ”Några ord om två kvinnliga franska författarskap: Marguerite Duras och Faïza Guène.”
Dr Carmen Kuhling, Erasmus Guest, Dept of Sociology, University of Limerick: “‘What Rough Beast?' The Political, Domestic and Moral Economy of Post- Celtic Tiger Ireland.”
Dr Nela Bureu Ramos, Erasmus Guest, Dept of English, Universitat de Lleida: “The New Canadian Canon: Re-Negotiating Cultural Hybridity.”
Dr Ashleigh Harris, Dept of English, Uppsala University: “Nordic Exceptionalism and Whiteness in the South African Literary Imagination.”
Dr Bartosz Golabek, University of Krosno, Poland: “Cultural Elite and Institutions of Postsoviet Russia.”
Dr Una Cunningham and Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin, English Dept, Högskolan Dalarna, present their research papers from the conference “Mapping Africa in the English Speaking World,” University of Botswana, 2-4 June, 2009. Una Cunningham: “Using African Englishes in an International Academic Setting” Irene Gilsenan Nordin: “Celebrating Human Life and Endeavour: Self, Gender and Community in Alexander McCall Smith’s The No 1 Ladies Detective Series.”
Dr Eoin Flannery, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford: “Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse.”
Dr Christine Matzke, Humboldt University, Berlin: “Of Outer Space? Inner Landscapes in Beyene Haile’s Play Weg'i Lebi” and Doktorand Juliet Munden, Hedmark University College, Norway: “Representing Eritrea to an English–Reading Audience.”
Dr Nessa Cronin, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway: “The Irish ‘Case’: Postcolonialism, Bilingualism, and Pascale Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters” and Prof Sigma Ankrava, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, University of Latvia, Riga: “Common roots of Irish Morrigan and Latvian Mara.”
Thurs morning sessions 29/10: mms://media.du.se/2009ht/Engelska_ENA/091029_DUCIS_fo1.wmv
Thurs afternoon sessions: mms://media.du.se/2009ht/Engelska_ENA/091029_DUCIS_em_fo1.wmv
Fri morning sessions 30/10: mms://media.du.se/2009ht/Engelska_ENA/091030_DUCIS_del1_fo1.wmv
Fri afternoon sessions: mms://media.du.se/2009ht/Engelska_ENA/091030_DUCIS_del2_fo1.wmv
