Plenary Speakers 2007-2025

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, FUTURE 2025

Arijana Luburić Cvijanović, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad: FROM NOSTALGIA AND DESPAIR TO ACTION: THE HARD LESSONS OF ECO-FICTION 

Milena Kaličanin, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš: FUTURE PROSPECTS OF TEACHING DIGITAL LITERATURE: SOME THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS 

Dušan Stamenković, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden: BACK TO THE FUTURE AND MOVING MEETINGS FORWARD: HOW CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES?


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, INTERSECTIONALITY 2024

Tanja Petrović, Institute of Culture and Memory Studies ZRC SAZU: ON NATURAL AND UNNATURAL IN LANGUAGE (AND BEYOND)

Martina Topić, University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences: SOCIAL CLASS, MARKET ECONOMY AND HARMONY WITH THE ENVIRONMENT: AN ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVE  

Ana Kocić Stanković, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš: INTERSECTIONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN IMMIGRANT NARRATIVE


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, PROCESS 2023

Boban Arsenijević, University of Graz: EVENTS AT THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE IN TERMS OF INTERVAL MAPPING

Jasmina Đorđević, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš: THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIOCOGNITIVE ELEMENTS IN THE PROCESS OF MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE LOCALIZATION IN THE DIGITAL MEDIA 

Jelena Jovanović, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš: SRPSKA KNJIŽEVNOST 20. I 21. VEKA „UHVAĆENA“ U PROCESU KOMUNIKACIJE 

Tatjana Jukić, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb: PROCESS AS NARRATIVE EXCESS AND THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, POWER 2022

Viorica Patea, Full Professor, Universidad de Salamanca, Departamento de Filología  Inglesa: "THE INTOLERABLE WRESTLE WITH WORDS": THE POWER OF POETRY IN TIMES OF NEED

Nadežda Silaški, Professor of English for Economists at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade: MOĆ I FUNKCIJE METAFORA U PANDEMIJSKOM DISKURSU


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, ALTERNATIVE 2021

Zoran Paunović,  Dopisni član SANU, Filozofski fakultet / Univerzitet u Novom Sadu  i Filološki fakultet / Univerzitet u Beogradu: UTICAJ HIPI POKRETA NA POPULARNU KULTURU U JUGOSLAVIJI

Orin Percus, CNRS / University of Nantes, France: TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS IN LOGICAL SPACE; OR, SOME BENEFITS OF PRIVACY 


(The 2020 Conference was postponed due to COVID-19 lockdown)


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, CONTEXT 2019

Jan Chovanec, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: SТYLE IN CONTEXT: PERFORMING POPULISM IN THE MEDIA

Bojan Jović, Institut za književnost i umetnost, Beograd: „FILMOVI OD PAPIRA“ U SRPSKOJ KNJIŽEVNOSTI – OSNOVNE OSOBINE I MOGUĆE KONTEKSTUALIZACIJE


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, THEORY 2018

Roberta Piazza, University of Sussex, United Kingdom: EXPLORING THE PLACE-IDENTITY OF INDIVIDUALS IN LIMINALITY: A CASE STUDY OF A LONDON SQUATTER

Rajna Dragićević, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Filološki fakultet: KORPUSNA LEKSIKOLOGIJA KAO NOVI PRAVAC SAVREMENE SEMANTIKE


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, SPACE 2017

Soňa Šnircová, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice: GIRL: HOOD IN POSTFEMINIST SPACES: NEOLIBERALISM, GIRL POWER AND THE POSTFEMINIST SUBJECT IN COMING-OF-AGE NARRATIVES

Mihajlo Antović, Univerzitet u Nišu, Filozofski fakultet: SEMANTIKA, PROSTOR I KOGNICIJA: DA LI SPACIJANI ODNOSI LEŽE U OSNOVI IZGRADNJE POJMOVA?


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, TIME 2016, 10-YEAR-ANNIVERSARY 

Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navara, Spain (Video Presentation): The Poetics of Time: Cognition, Culture, Communication

Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld, Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland: Is English a lingua franca of modern scientific discourse?

Sofija Miloradović, Institut za srpski jezik SANU, Beograd / Univerzitet u Nišu, Filozofski fakultet, Departman za srpski jezik: ИМЕНОВАЊЕ ВРЕМЕНА У ПРИЗРЕНСКО-ТИМОЧКИМ НАРОДНИМ ГОВОРИМА КОЈ У КАКЬВ СЕ АМИН РОДИ, ТЕКА ПРОЖИВИ

Snežana Milosavljević Milić, Department of Serbian and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš: Vremensko iskustvo priče – Ka reviziji atemporalnih aspekata teksta


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, MEANING 2015

Slávka Tomaščíková, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice: Culture, Food and Heritage: Meanings of Media Narratives

Predrag Novakov, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Filozofski fakultet: Granice značenja: glagolska semantika i glagolski vid


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, DISCOURSE 2014

Vladislava Gordić Petković, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad: Ljubavni diskurs u književnosti

Slavica Perović: Diskurs kao odgovor na Jakobsonovo „sramno zaostajanje“


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, MARGINALIZATION 2013 

Andreas Jucker, English Department, University of Zurich: Marginal Language: pragmatic noise in the history of English

Goran Maksimović, Filozofski fakultet u Nišu: Marginalizovani i zaboravljeni pisci nove srpske književnosti

Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University, USA: What You Can Say With Marginal Syntax: A Hierarchy of Grammatical Complexity (Video Presentation)


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, VALUES 2012

Bianca Lakoseljac: The role of the author in fostering and disseminating cultural and ethical values through the contextual and textual dialogicality (Ca)

Todd Oakley, Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University: Uses of Must and the Phenomenon of Layered Modality (USA)


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, COMMUNICATION 2011

Goran Maksimović, Filozofski fakultet u Nišu: Komično, književnost i komunikacija

Fraser Sutherland, free-lance journalist, Toronto, Canada: What is the Story and How We Tell It? The Shaping of Journalistic Narrative

Todd Oakley, Case Western University, Ohio: Layered Modality in US Supreme Court Opinions: A Cognitive Rhetorical Perspective (Video Presentation)


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, CHANGES 2010

Dale Townshend: Improvement and Repair: Gothic and the Politics of Architectural Change, 1790-1817


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, IDENTITY 2009

Miloš Kovačević, Filološko-umetnički fakultet, Kragujevac: Jezički kao osnov nacionalnog identiteta u novostvorenim balkanskim državama 

Đorđe Vidanović, Filozofski fakultet, Niš: Wittgenstein on Ostension


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, GLOBALIZATION 2008

Đorđe Vidanović, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš: GLOBALIZACIJA: REFERENCIJALNI OBJEKAT, ILI NE?


LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, POLITICS 2007

Miloš Kovačević, FILUM Kragujevac: Politički kao lingvistički kriterijumi identiteta jezika