Timişoara, ROMANIA, May 21‑23, 2009

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Professor Liliane Louvel, University of Poitiers

Professor Allan James, University of Klagenfurt

Presentations (20 min) and workshops (60 min) are invited in the following sections:

· Language Studies

· Translation Studies

· Semiotics

· British and Commonwealth Literature

· American Literature

· Cultural Studies

· Gender Studies

· English Language Teaching

Please submit 60‑word abstracts, which will be included in the conference programme, to our website: www.litere.uvt.ro/formular_bas.php or to dr. Reghina Dascăl reghina_dascal@yahoo.co.uk

Deadline: 15 FEBRUARY 2009

Abstracts longer than 60 words are not accepted.

The general conference registration fee is EUR 75. For RSEAS members it is the lei equivalent of EUR 30, to be paid upon arrival.

Hotel reservations will be made by the conference organizers or can be made directly by participants by accessing http://www.timisoara-tourism.com/index.php?page=hotels

Prices per night vary between 40 and 100 EUR. Accommodation details will be available on the website by January 2009.

For additional information, please contact Reghina Dascăl,e‑mail reghina_dascal@yahoo.co.uk,

Str. Ion Barac nr. 34, 300152 Timişoara, Romania (tel. and fax + 40 256 452224), Luminiţa Frenţiu, frentiuluminita@yahoo.com Str Turgheniev 4, Timişoara 300230, Romania, tel + 40 256 492338, or Hortensia Pârlog, hparlog@mail.dnttm.ro, abaparlog@gmail.com; Str. Narciselor 6, Timişoara 300024, Romania, tel + 40 256 498277.