English Studies 2024: Discourse and Society
International Graduate Student Conference
This conference aims to provide a platform for graduate students to present and discuss their research in English Studies, focusing on the role of discourse in language, literature, and cultural representation. Objectives include fostering interdisciplinary conversations, bringing together students and scholars from various English Studies disciplines, and encouraging critical analyses of language impact on societal norms, values, and cultural narratives. To actively encourage student participation and engagement, the conference is offered free of charge.
Contributions are invited that align with but are not limited to the following thematic areas: linguistics (pragmatics, discourse analysis, media linguistics), literary studies (narratives and discourse in literature, postcolonial discourse, critical theory and discourse), cultural studies (discourse and culture, discourse and identity, representation in popular culture), cross-disciplinary approaches (intersections of language, literature, and culture; multimodal discourse analysis).
Speakers
Ruth Breeze
University of Navarra, Spain
Kotryna Garanašvili
University of East-Anglia, England
Rita Juknevičienė
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Mark Pass
UK Embassy Vilnius, Lithuania
Ovidiu Ivancu
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Davide Castiglione
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Emily J. Hicks
U.S. Embassy Vilnius, Lithuania
Conference Programme
Davide Castiglione
Vilnius University, Lithuania
About the panellist
↗️ Dr. Davide Castiglione (Alessandria, Italy, 1985) is an Associate Professor of Stylistics at Vilnius University and the former recipient of an EU-funded post-doc fellowship (2020-2022).
↗️ He received his doctorate at the University of Nottingham in 2016 with a dissertation reworked into a book and published with the title Difficulty in Poetry: A Stylistic Model (Palgrave, 2019).
↗️ He has published articles on the style and poetics of poetry in international, peer-reviewed journals, and has recently co-edited a collection of essays on contemporary Italian poet Cristina Annino (1941-2022).
↗️ He is also the author of three poetry collections in Italian, and some of his poems have been translated into Lithuanian.
About the panel discussion Applicability of English Studies
↗️ To engage conference participants and contribute to a meaningful conversation, the panel discussion will explore such key highlights as diverse career paths, interdisciplinary connections, digital discourse and communication, global perspectives, literature and cultural understanding, networking and professional development.
