Evenimente FLLS

The Annual International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest

20-22 November 2025

The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bucharest will organize its annual conference during 20-22 November 2025. The conference will be held onsite (and exceptionally online) and may be of interest to researchers, PhD students and teaching staff.

Sections:

The conference features two main sections: one comprising papers in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and another gathering papers on various topics pertaining to the domains of Literature and Cultural studies, such as (but not limited to): language acquisition, language learning, theoretical linguistics, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, socio-linguistics, translation studies, lexicology, terminology, discourse analysis, literary and cultural analysis, the theory and history of literature, comparative literature, cultural studies, hermeneutics, text criticism and editing, feminist criticism, postmodernism etc.

Besides its main sections, the conference may also host various thematic workshops proposed and coordinated by colleagues affiliated to the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bucharest (see section on workshops).

Invited speakers

Conf. Eugenia Alexaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) 

Conf. dr. Elena Butoescu (Universitatea din Craiova) 

Prof. Sabine Koesters Gensini (Università degli Studi di Roma „La Sapienza”)

Dr. Hector Álvarez Mella (Universität Heidelberg) 

Prof. Dr. Carolina Sánchez-Palencia Carazo (Universidad de Sevilla)

Important administrative aspects:

• To register for the main sections of the conference or for any of its workshops, please send your abstract by October 10 to cercetare@lls.unibuc.ro. The abstract should be written in Times New Roman, 12, justified and should not exceed 2 pages, including the bibliography. The abstract should specify the section or workshop that the proposal is intended for.

• Important deadlines:

• The selected papers may be presented in Romanian or another international language
• A selection of papers will be published in Analele UB – Limbi și Literaturi Străine (The Annals of UB – Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures) (http://lls.unibuc.ro/publicatii/analele-ub-limbi-si-literaturi-straine/).
• The conference fee is 250 lei (teaching staff, researchers)/ 125 lei Phd students and is to be paid into the account of the Alumni FLLS Association. Payment details will be sent to presenters in due time. All members of the Alumni FLLS Association benefit from a 50% reduction of the conference fee.

The abstracts of the participants’ papers can be found HERE.

The abstracts of the invited speakers’ papers can be read HERE.

Main sections HERE

Workshops HERE

1. Sobre la identidad
(coordonator: Lect. dr. Carmen Burcea)

2. New perspectives on long distance dependencies
(coordonator: Lect. dr. Irina Stoica)

3. Raconter l’irracontable
(coordonators: Prof. dr. Lidia Cotea, Lect. dr. Mihaela Stănică)

4. Literature & Medicine
(coordonators: Lect. dr. Lorena Mihăeș, Lect. dr. Monica Manolachi, conf. dr. Roxana Doncu)

5. On Light elements across languages
(coordonator: Prof. dr. Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru)

6. Visibility in translation, terminology and lexicology
(coordonators: Prof. dr. Nadina Vișan, Conf. dr. Daria Protopopescu, Conf. dr. Mihaela Zamfirescu, Lect. dr. Eliana Ionoaia)

7. Reforme și reformatori. Standardizarea limbilor slave moderne
(coordonators: Lect. dr. Ruxandra Lambru, Lect. dr. Anca Bercaru, Lect. dr.  Andreea Dunaeva, Lect. dr. Florentina Marin)

8. Fonologie și Semantică Lexicală. Tradiție și Inovație
(coordonators: Prof. emerit Alexandra Cornilescu, Prof. dr. Ileana Baciu)

9.Animals as Spiritual Companions in arts
(coordonator: Lect. dr. Monica Ruset Oancă)

10.Slavic Visual Culture: Revisiting Tradition
(coordonators: Lect. dr. Ruxandra Lambru, Lect. dr. Ramona Zăvoianu-Petrovici)

Prof. dr. habil. Sonia Berbinski

Prof. dr. habil. Lidia Cotea

Prof. dr. habil. Mihaela Tănase Dogaru

Prof. dr. habil. Alina Tigău

Prof. dr. Nadina Vișan

Conf. dr. Camelia Crăciun

Conf. dr. Anamaria Gebăilă

Conf. dr. Ioana Hermine Fierbințeanu

Conf. dr. Alexandra Marina Gheorghe

Conf. dr. Mihai Iacob

Conf. dr. Dragoș Ivana

Conf. dr. Ruxandra Raianu

Conf. dr. Ileana Maria Ratcu

Lect. dr. Raluca Andreescu

Lect. dr. Miruna Bulumete

Lect. dr. Paul Buzilă

Lect. dr. Delia Grigore

Lect. dr. Lorena Mihaes

Lect. dr. Réka Pupp

Lect. dr. Iuliana Timofte

Lect. dr. Alis Zaharia

Asist. dr. Gabriela Myers

Organizing Committee:

Prof. dr. Alina Tigău
Lect. dr. Dușița Ristin