9.00-10.15: KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Room Shakespeare)
Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina): “Exhaustion 2.0? Culture of the Extreme Present”

10.15-10.30: COFFEE BREAK

10.30-12.30: PANELS 5

1. Room Kisch: Queer(ing) time: Modernism, traumatic histories, WW1 (chair: Ilaria Natali)

1. Sara Ceroni (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA): The Queer Failure of Imperial Time in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out  
2. Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): ‘The boldest jump-cut – the most daring time-shift, the most outrageous deduction – ever’: Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
3. Angelika Reichmann (Eszterházy Károly University, Eger, Hungary): A “panorama of futility and anarchy” reimagined in David Jones’ In Parenthesis
4. Şahin Kiziltaș (Bitlis Eren University, Turkey): The Conceptual Transformation of Racial Time in (Post)Colonial Narrative into Gendered Time in Modernist Narrative

2. Room Lenau: Staged and performed (moving) images: rereading modernist theatre and film  (chair: Rareș Moldovan)

1. Eugen Wohl (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania): Inter-war Romanian Theatre: Steps Towards Modernity
2. Ioan Pop-Curşeu  (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania):  Cinema as a Model for Modern Poetry during the First Half of the 20th Century
3. Aura Poenar (independent researcher): The Abject as Symptom. A Study on the Temporalities, Narratives and Ethics of the Image
4. Thomas Cousineau (Washington College, USA): “The Manole Complex: Staging Movement in Waiting for Godot” 

12.30-14.00: LUNCH BREAK

14.00-16.00: PANELS 6

1. Room Kisch: The Inheritance of Modernism between English and Italian Literature (convenor: Annalisa Volpone, chair: Annalisa Volpone)

1. Ilaria Natali (University of Florence, Italy): “Oftwhile balbulous”: Dante and Joyce
2. Annalisa Volpone (University of Perugia, Italy): Modernist Plath: Joyce, the Wake and the writing conundrum
3. Tiziano Toracca (University of Torino, Italy): The Italian Neo-Modernism in the Framework of the Debate on the Category of Late Modernism
4. Novella Di Nunzio (University of Vilnius, Lithuania): Against Avant-gardism. A proposal to define the tradition of the Italian Fantastic Modernism

2. Room Lenau: Disrupting chronologies, challenging boundaries: from the historical avant-gardes to the 1960s-1970s neo-avant-garde (Chair: Imre József Balázs)

1. Melania Stancu (University of Bucharest, Romania): Simultaneity as time perspective in the Spanish Ultraist movement
2. Maria Rybakova (San Diego State University, USA): Author’s and reader’s temporalities in the first novels by Mircea Eliade and Max Blecher
3. Ioana-Eliza Deac (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania):The Poetry of Historical Circumstance against a Changing Historical Background
4. Călina Părău (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania):Details Knowing the World: From Hierarchy to Continuities

3. Room Bogdan: Time reimagined from Wilde to late Modernism (chair: John Style)

1. Thomas Patrick Wisniewski (Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Firenze, Italy): Comic anti-modern Modernism?  The poetics of Wildean wit and wordplay
2. Yi-Ching Teng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan): Time Reimagined: A Modernist Picture of Dorian Gray
3. Mariwan Nasradeen Hasan (Sulaimani University, Iraq): Dogs, Grasshoppers, Cats, Apes, and Crabs: Animals in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot

16.00-16.30: COFFEE BREAK

16.30-18.30: PANELS 7

1. Room Kisch: Afterlives of Modernism: continuities of Modernism in British contemporary fiction (convenor: Petronia Petrar, chair: Petronia Petrar)

1. Ana-Karina Schneider (Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania): “[O]ur childhood becomes like a foreign land once we have grown”: Temporal Structures in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Treatment of Childhood
2. Alina Preda (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania): Jeanette Winterson’s Literary Writing at the Interface between the Discourses of Modernism and Postmodernism
3. John Style (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain): "A frozen explosion": Regalvanising Modernism to describe modes of production, pathologies and wars in Will Self’s Umbrella

2. Room Lenau: Anglophone fiction between late modernism and postmodernism (chair:  Eve Patten)

1. Alexandra Mitrea (Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania): Saul Bellow and the Subversion of Modernist Aesthetics
2. Gabriela Tucan (West University of Timișoara, Romania): Time as a Forking Path in Ernest Hemingway’s Short Stories
3. Cristina Popescu (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania): Ethical Readings of Iris Murdoch’s Novels
4. Teodora Narcisa Giurgiu (University of Bucharest, Romania): Rupture and Revolution in the Old South Fashion:  Flannery O’Connor’s anti-intellectualism, anti-modernism and anti-disposition

3. Room Bogdan: Shifting Time Frames: Rural to Urban, convenors: Dana Radler, Jillian Curr (III, chair: Kevin King)

1. Dana Radler (University of Bucharest, Romania): Age, Feeling and Experience As Transgressive Frames in Panait Istrati’s Stravro
2. Kevin King (University of Łodz, Poland): The Overnighters and the Narrative of Meritocracy
3. Elena Adriana Stoican (University of Bucharest, Romania): (Post)modern Time-Space Configurations of Transmigrant Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s  The Lowland
4. Olha Bandrovska (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine): The London Text of The Twentieth-century English Literature: Problematizing the City in Ford Madox Ford’s The Soul of London

18.30-19.00: CLOSING PLENARY – THE FUTURE OF CEMS, AVENUES FOR RESEARCH AND COOPERATION
19:30: THEATRE PERFORMANCE (LUCIAN BLAGA NATIONAL THEATRE, 2-4 Ștefan cel Mare Square)
20.30: SNACKS & DRINKS AT N8 (8 Universității St.)