The Institute of English, University of Silesia in Katowice the only university department in Poland offering translation study programs with
Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and the languages of India,
is pleased to announce
The Oriental Meetings In Sosnowiec
(Sosnowieckie Spotkania Orientalistyczne)
Sosnowiec, 2-3.12.2015
An interdisciplinary academic conference promoting intercultural dialogue, addressed to young scholars, including postgraduate and graduate students, whose research interests focus on the languages, literatures and cultures of Oriental countries, especially Arabic-speaking countries, China, Japan and India. The conference will explore a wide spectrum of topics ranging from the ancient civilisations to the present-day cultures and languages of these regions in all their richness and diversity.
We are planning a peer-reviewed publication of conference papers.
Venue: Modern Languages Centre, ul. Grota Roweckiego 5, 41-205 Sosnowiec, Poland
Conference languages: English and Polish
Paper presentations: 20 minutes for the presentation plus 10 minutes for the discussion
Webpage: http://uranos.cto.us.edu.pl/~icfsla/omis/
Abstract submission: Abstracts (not longer than 250 words, Times New Roman, 12 pts) should be submitted in the PDF or Word format to omis2015us@gmail.com by 10.10.2015. The body of the email should contain the author’s first name and surname, affiliation and the title of the presentation.
Paper acceptance notification: by 20.10.2015
Registration: by 03.11.2015 (Registration form to be downloaded from the webpage)
Conference fee: 300 PLN/75 EUR (180 PLN/45 EUR for postgraduate and graduate students) to cover the cost of conference materials, coffee breaks, two lunches, the conference dinner and the subsequent publication of selected articles in a reviewed volume
Travel and accommodation: The costs to be covered by the participants (for details see our webpage)
Organizing Committee:
Andrzej Łyda, Prof.
Kamila Junik-Łuniewska, PhD
Agnieszka Solska, PhD
Krzysztof Olszewski, PhD
Beata Abdallah-Krzepkowska, PhD
Elżbieta Proń, PhD
Katarzyna Bańka, MA
Maria Spiechowicz, MA
Contact: Kamila Junik-Łuniewska omis2015us@gmail.com
nstytut Języka Angielskiego +48 32 3640 892, +48 32 3640 814
Programme of the conference:
| 09:00-10:00 | REGISTRATION main hall by the entrance | |
| 09:45-10:00 | OPENING A welcoming speech by prof. dr hab. Andrzej Łyda (rm 1.46) | |
| 10:00-11:30 | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (rm 1.48 chair: Sabina Sweta Sen) | CULTURE (rm 1.46 chair: Maria Spiechowicz) |
| Jakub Gajda: Polityka kulturowa Islamskiej Republiki Iranu Magdalena Zawrotna: Przełączanie kodów językowych w Egipcie: Struktura i funkcje społeczne Karolina Jaworska: Lexical chains in Arabic short texts – characteristics and distribution | Marcelina Mrowiec: Trywializacja kultury japońskiej w mediach masowych Julian Marcinów: Współcześni samurajowie? Ewolucja modelu społecznego salarymana w Japonii XX i pierwszych lat XXI wieku Zuzanna Fluder: Czy istnieje filozofia japońska? | |
| 11:30-12:00 | COFFEE BREAK (rm 4.63) | |
| 12:00-13:00 | LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (rm 1.48 chair: Elżbieta Proń) | CULTURE AND HISTORY (rm 1.46 chair: Julian Marcinów) |
| Katarzyna Bańka: Chinese characters acquisition by means of visual collocations Katarzyna Knoll: Dùzi bǎole or tùzǐ pǎole? The perception of Mandarin word-initial stops by Poles | Wojciech Jerzy Nowak: Kibyōshi, książki więcej niż ilustrowane – intermedialność w japońskiej literaturze popularnej okresu Edo (1603 – 1868) Agnieszka Batko: The museums’ discourse: a comparative analysis of history museums in Japan and South Korea | |
| 13:00-14:00 | LUNCH (rm 4.63) | |
| 14:00-15:00 | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (rm 1.48 chair: Rafał Kwieciński) | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (rm 1.46 chair: Karolina Jaworska) |
| Hanna Kupś: Źródła wiedzy o muzyce starożytnych Chin Agnieszka Solska: Shuanguan vs. puns: a contrastive analysis of ambiguity-based wordplay in Chinese and English | Sabina Sweta Sen: Living the abhinaya: sensory-somatic approaches to rasa-bhāva in Odissi dance Dagmara Wasilewska: Paradoks (acintyatva) w filozofii Dźiwy Goswamina | |
| 15:00-15:30 | COFFEE BREAK (rm 4.63) | |
| 15:30-16:00 | CULTURE [Video presentation] Andrew Woollock: Transposing e-ma as arts-based practice for community engagement: a critical enquiry (rm 1.46 chair: Agnieszka Solska) | |
| 16:00-17:00 | SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES FACING (rm 1.48 chair: Hanna Kupś) | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (rm 1.46 chair: Zuzanna Fluder |
| Rafał Kwieciński: Dylematy rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczego współczesnych Chin Elżbieta Proń: China and international organizations – lessons from 20 years in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization | Krzysztof Olszewski: „Słownik online gramatyki języka japońskiego” – założenia metodologiczne projektu Maria Spiechowicz: Yoroshiku onegaishimasu – koncepcja „twarzy” czy „stanowiska”? Rodzaj grzeczności w formule grzecznościowej | |
| 17:00-17:15 | CLOSING (rm 1.46) | |
| 17:45- | CONFERENCE DINNER (Manufaktura restaurant) | |