Seminars will take place either in person or online.
Please note that the designation “online” means that at least one contributor will be participating remotely and, at minimum, their block of the session will be available online. In most cases, the majority of participants will be in Lausanne and only one or two contributors will be participating remotely so we encourage in-person conference attendees to go to the designated room to view the talks.
The current schedule is based on information provided by 29 April 2024. Categories are based on convenors’ preferences.
The most up-to-date information can be found in the full academic programme, available here.
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English Language
| No. | Title | Convenors | Modality |
| 1 | Information structure and cognitive and pragmatic aspects of communication | Jana Chamonikolasová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) & Renáta Gregová (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Slovak Republic) | in-person |
| 2 | English phraseology through the prism of other languages’ phraseology | Ramón Martí Solano (University of Limoges, France), Gisle Andersen (Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway) & Alicja Witalisz (Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland) | in-person |
| 3 | Conceptual Metaphor, Metonymy, and Their Interaction | Robert Kieltyka (University of Rzeszów), Réka Benczes (Corvinus University, Budapest), Mario Brdar (University of Osijek), Goran Milić (University of Osijek) & Marcin Kudła (University of Rzeszów) | in-person |
| 4 | Approaching manipulation in current discourses: A growing interdisciplinary research endeavour | Jacopo Castaldi (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK), Ewa Konieczna (University of Rzeszów, Poland), Bożena Duda (University of Rzeszów, Poland) & Paulina Mormol-Fura (University of Rzeszów, Poland) | in-person |
| 5 | The success of invisible Anglicisms: a global trend? | Henrik Gottlieb (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) & Gisle Andersen (Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway) | in-person |
| 6 | Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ecological Discourse and Ecological Challenges | Daniela Francesca Virdis (University of Cagliari, Italy) & Agata Rozumko (University of Białystok, Poland) | online |
| 7 | Lexicography, Discourse, and Power: Dictionary-Making in History and the Construction of Hegemonic Discourses | Alessandra Vicentini (University of Insubria, Italy) & Ruxandra Visan (University of Bucharest, Romania) | in-person |
| 8 | Teaching Specialized Translation in the Machine Translation Era | Tiffany Jandrain (Université de Mons, Belgium), Charlène Meyers (Université de Mons, Belgium) & Joëlle Popineau (Université de Tours, France) | in-person |
| 9 | Critical Issues in English Language Teacher Education | Lucie Betáková (University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice) & María Luisa Pérez Cañado (University of Jaén, Spain) | in-person |
| 10 | New perspectives on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and interfaces | Patrizia Anesa (University of Bergamo, Italy), Audrey Cartron (Nantes Université, France), Marion Charret-Del Bove (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France) & Mary C. Lavissière (Nantes Université, France) | in-person |
| 11 | English Language and Nationalism Through the Ages | Simon Coffey (King’s College London) & Giovanni Iamartino (Università degli Studi di Milano) | in-person |
English Language, Literatures in English
| No. | Title | Convenors | Modality |
| 12 | Specialised language and specialised texts from medieval England | Monica Ruset Oanca (University of Bucharest, Romania), Annina Seiler (University of Zurich, Switzerland) & Olga Timofeeva (University of Zurich, Switzerland) | in-person |
| 13 | Shakespearean Drama in (Re)Translations, Audiovisual Adaptations and Media Accessibility | Judit Mudriczki (Károli Gáspár University, Hungary) & Irene Ranzato (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) | in-person |
Literatures in English
| No. | Title | Convenors | Modality |
| 14 | Beyond Borders: Contemporary Novels of Migration | Michael C. Frank (University of Zurich, Switzerland) & Pavan Malreddy (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) | in-person |
| 15 | Modernist continuities in contemporary Anglophone fiction | Erika Mihálycsa (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) & Tamás Bényei (University of Debrecen, Hungary) | in-person |
| 16 | Adaptation in the Second Degree: The Eighteenth Century and Beyond | Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland), Ruth Menzies (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université, France) & Mary Newbould (Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland) | in-person |
| 17 | Salman Rushdie and the Historical Novel | Florian Stadtler (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) & Ágnes Györke (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, Hungary) | online |
| 18 | Literary representations of sport(s) in Anglophone fiction | Armela Panajoti (University of Vlora “Ismail Qemali”, Albania) & Angelika Reichmann (Eszterházy Károly University, Hungary) | in-person |
| 19 | Food and Eating in Anglophone Literature and Travel Writing from the Nineteenth Century to the Present | Ludmilla Kostova (University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) & Oana Cogeanu-Haraga (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) | online |
| 20 | What’s the Point of Modern Editions? | Teresa Grant (University of Warwick, UK) & Carlo Bajetta (Università della Valle d’Aosta, Italy) | in-person |
| 21 | The Challenges of Auto/ Biography: Old and New Trends | Irena Grubica (University of Rijeka, Croatia) & Aoife Leahy (N.A.E.S., Ireland) | in-person |
| 22 | Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality? | Salhia Ben-Messahel (University of Toulon, France) & Marilena Parlati (University of Padova, Italy) | in-person |
| 23 | Poetic Form in Historical Context | Jessica Bundschuh (Universität Stuttgart, Germany), Eoin Flannery (University of Limerick, Ireland), Irmtraud Huber (Universität Konstanz, Germany) & Eugene O’Brien (University of Limerick, Ireland) | in-person |
| 24 | Anxiety, Fear, and Dis-ease in Contemporary Anglo-American Drama and Performance | Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier (University of Hildesheim, Germany) & Patrick Duggan (Northumbria University, U.K.) | in-person |
| 25 | Transnational Perspectives on Women and the Nineteenth-century Ghost Story | Rosario Arias (University of Málaga, Spain) & Patricia Pulham (University of Surrey, UK) | in-person |
| 26 | Collaboration, networks, and supporting new work in medieval English studies | Hannah Piercy (University of Bern, Switzerland) & Jane Bonsall (University of St Andrews, UK) | in-person |
| 27 | Conceptualising the Novella | Zsuzsanna Csikai (University of Pécs, Hungary), Patrick Gill (University of Mainz, Germany), Roslyn Irving (University of Mainz, Germany) & Jordan Kistler (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) | in-person |
| 28 | Transnational Narratives: European Women’s Fiction in the Early Modern Period | Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU, Germany) & Sonia Villegas-López (University of Huelva, Spain) | online |
| 29 | Heights, Depths and Other Extremes in Dickens | Michael Hollington (Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, UK) & Magdalena Pypeć (University of Warsaw, Poland) | in-person |
| 30 | British Radical and Revolutionary Women Writers (1770s–1830s) | Eva Antal (Eszterhazy Karoly Catholic University, Eger, Hungary) & Antonella Braida (Université de Lorraine, IDEA, France) | in-person |
| 31 | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Aesthetics, Politics and Ethics in Woolf’s Oeuvre | Petronia Popa-Petrar (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) & Nóra Séllei (University of Debrecen, Hungary) | in-person |
| 32 | Literature and Mental Health: Diagnosis, Syndromes and Symptoms | Patricia Waugh (Durham University, UK) & Nicolas P. Boileau (Aix-Marseille University, France) | in-person |
| 33 | Liminality and Border-Crossing in Contemporary English-Speaking Theatre | Sibel Izmir (Atilim University, Turkey) & Claus Peter Neumann (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) | online |
| 34 | The Development of Narrative from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century | Monika Fludernik (University of Freiburg, Germany) & Rahel Orgis (University of Bern, Switzerland) | in-person |
| 35 | Sound and Mysticism in Medieval English Literature | Denis Renevey (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) & Tamás Karáth (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest and Comenius University, Bratislava) | online |
| 36 | The End of Traditional Fixed Forms in Poetry | David Malcolm (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland) & Wolfgang Görtschacher (University of Salzburg, Austria) | in-person |
| 37 | Contemporary Crises in the Anglosphere: Fragmentation and Relationality in 21st- century Narratives | Chiara Battisti (University of Verona, Italy), Julia Kuznetski (Tallinn University Estonia) & Silvia Pellicer-Ortín (University of Zaragoza, Spain) | in-person |
| 38 | Class and Conflict in Anglophone Literatures: The Historical Dimension | Martina Domines Veliki (University of Zagreb, Croatia) & Alberto Lázaro (University of Alcalá, Spain) | in-person |
| 39 | Transformations of the Environment in Victorian, Edwardian and Modernist Essays | Dominika Buchowska-Greaves (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland), Bénédicte Coste (Université de Bourgogne, France) & Christine Reynier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3, France) | in-person |
| 40 | Fictional Criminality and Humour | Zsofia Anna Toth (University of Szeged, Hungary) & Kerstin-Anja Munderlein (Bamberg University, Germany) | in-person |
| 41 | Latest Developments in Reception Studies | David M. Clark (Universidade da Coruña, Spain) & Gabriella Hartvig (University of Pécs, Hungary) | in-person |
| 42 | Multifaceted India in Travel Literature | Daniela Rogobete (University of Craiova, Romania) & Elisabetta Marino (University of Rome, “Tor Vergata”, Italy) | online |
Literatures in English, Cultural and Area Studies
| No. | Title | Convenors | Modality |
| 43 | Word and Image in Process: Adaptation, Repurposing and Re/Transmediation | Ewa Keblowska-lawniczak (Wroclaw University, Poland), György Szönyi (Szeged University, Hungary) & Liliane Louvel (University of Poitiers, France) | in-person |
| 44 | Facing Trauma in Contemporary American Literary Discourse | Laura Castor (Arctic University of Tromsø, Norway), Michaela Marková (Technical University of Liberec, Czechia) & Anna Světlíková (Technical University of Liberec, Czechia) | in-person |
| 45 | Petrofiction | Sophie Kriegel (Free University Berlin, Germany) & Johannes Riquet (Tampere University, Finland) | in person |
| 46 | Boundaries of American identity | Alena Smiešková (Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava, Slovakia) & Michaela Marková (Technical University of Liberec, Czechia) | in-person |
| 47 | Neo-Victorian Biofiction | Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz (University of Málaga, Spain) & Helen Davies (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom) | part 1 online; part 2 in-person |
| 48 | Imagining the Railway in the 20th Century | Frederik van Dam (Modern Languages and Cultures, Radboud University, Netherlands), Jason Finch (English Language and Literature, Åbo Akademi University, Finland) & Adam Borch (English Language and Literature, Åbo Akademi University, Finland) | in-person |
| 49 | Exploring the Scandalous | Sandra Mayer (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria),Sylvia Mieszkowski (University of Vienna, Austria) & Barbara Straumann (University of Zurich, Switzerland) | in-person |
| 50 | Travel Writing Poetics | Claudia Capancioni (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK), Mariaconcetta Costantini (G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy) & Julia Kuehn (The University of Hong Kong/Aix-Marseille University; from January 2024: The University of Groningen, Netherlands) | in-person |
| 51 | Victorian Heterotopias: Alternative Spaces and Places in Nineteenth-Century Britain | Anna Kérchy (University of Szeged, Hungary), Béatrice Laurent (Bordeaux Montaigne University, France) & Sidia Fiorato (University of Verona, Italy) | online |
| 52 | Representing Gender-based and Sexualized Violence in Literature | Işil Baş (Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey) & Anne Schwan (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland) | in-person |
| 53 | Energy Ecologies | Julia Ditter (University of Konstanz, Germany), Ursula Kluwick (University of Bern, Switzerland) & Paul Hamann-Rose (University of Passau, Germany) | in-person |
| 54 | Waters and Environmental Crisis in the nineteenth century | Emma Sdegno (Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia, Italia) & Mark Frost (University of Portsmouth, UK) | in-person |
| 55 | Fictional Representations of Journalistic Practices in Literature, Film and Television | Barbara Korte (University of Freiburg, Germany) & Beatriz Valverde (University of Jaén, Spain) | online |
Cultural and Area Studies
| No. | Title | Convenors | Modality |
| 56 | What do the Humanities have to say to Law? | Greta Olson (University of Giessen, Germany), Armelle Sabatier (Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, France) & Claire Wrobel (Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, France) | in-person |
Cultural and Area Studies, English Language
| No. | Title | Convenors | Modality |
| 57 | Exploring epistemic and effective stance in discourse on racism, immigration and refugees | Elena Domínguez Romero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) & Anna Ruskan (Vilnius University, Lithuania) | online |
| 58 | Professional and disciplinary cultures in English for specific purposes (ESP) | Evgueniya Lyu (University Grenoble Alpes, France), Nadežda Stojković (University of Niš, Serbia) & Caroline Peynaud (University Grenoble Alpes, France) | in-person |
Cultural and Area Studies, English Language, Literatures in English
| No. | Title | Convenors | Modality |
| 59 | Gendered discourses of nation- and community-building in the English-speaking world | Polina Shvanyukova (University of Udine, Italy), Mariana Sargsyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia) & Célia Atzeni (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France) | in-person |
| 60 | The Complexities of the Contemporary Concept of Motherhood | Işil Baş (Istanbul Kültür University, Turkey), Florence Binard (Université Paris Cité, France), Renate Haas (University of Kiel, Germany) & María Socorro Suárez Lafuente (University of Oviedo, Spain) | online |