{"id":127489,"date":"2026-09-07T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/?page_id=127489"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:26:11","slug":"conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/centre-for-popular-culture\/conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Scientific Colloquium \u201cBridge over Troubled Waters: Looking back at the 1970s\u201d (14. svibnja 2026.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OwkyJ2Phe4\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/activities-post\/znanstveni-kolokvij-bridge-over-troubled-waters-looking-back-at-the-1970s-program\/\">Znanstveni kolokvij &#8220;Bridge over Troubled Waters: Looking back at the 1970s&#8221; (program)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe 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https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mediating-Violence-Conference-Programme_page-0002-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mediating-Violence-Conference-Programme_page-0002-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mediating-Violence-Conference-Programme_page-0002-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mediating-Violence-Conference-Programme_page-0002-1087x1536.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Croatian Association for American Studies (CAAS), Centre for Popular Culture, and Center for North American Studies (CNAS)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Program of the 10<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Workshop<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday, 9 September 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Room 39, 1<sup>st<\/sup> floor<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-color: #030000;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">8:30-8:45<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Registration (room 39)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">8:45-9:15<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Opening remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ivan Trojan<\/strong>, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Osijek<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jelena \u0160esni\u0107<\/strong>, President of the Croatian Association for American Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">9:15-10:30<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Sanja Runti\u0107<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tatjana Juki\u0107<\/strong>: John Ford\u2019s <em>Hamlet<\/em>, or the Western as an American Mourning Play<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rajko Petkovi\u0107<\/strong>: Subverting Stereotypes \u2013 The Role of Femme Fatale in Film Noir<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanita Deli\u0107<\/strong>: The Notion of a Decentralised Subject in Thomas Pynchon\u2019s <em>The Crying of Lot 49<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">10:30-10:45<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Coffee Break <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">10:45-11:45<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Jasna Poljak Rehlicki<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aleksandra Vukoti\u0107<\/strong>: Dismantling <em>The Chair<\/em>: Breaking Leadership Stereotypes through Irony and Satire<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lovorka Grui\u0107 Grmu\u0161a<\/strong>: Thomas Pynchon\u2019s Representation of Stereotypical Preconceptions in <em>Against the Day<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jelena Pataki \u0160umiga<\/strong>: <em>Encanto<\/em>: Everyday Hero(in)es and the Power of (Colombian) Community<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">11:45-12:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Coffee Break <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">12:00-13:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Keynote Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kamilla Elliott: Challenging \u201cKaren\u201d Stereotypes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Ljubica Matek<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">13:00-14:45<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Conference lunch (room 42, 1<sup>st<\/sup> floor)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">14:45-16:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Session 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Biljana Oklop\u010di\u0107<\/p>\n<p><strong>Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107<\/strong>: On Clich\u00e9s and Niches: Remarks on the Shaping of Early Rock Music<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomislav Brlek<\/strong>: I Don\u2019t Know, But I\u2019ve Been Told: Stereotypes about Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrea Jovi\u0107<\/strong>: Kendrick Lamar and Woke Racism<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Livingstone<\/strong>: Breaking Blackface: Contemporary African American Country Music<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">16:00-16:15<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">16:15-17:30<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Session 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Ljubica Matek<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ljubica Matek<\/strong>: Re-Inventing the Zombie in George Romero\u2019s <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Filip Medar<\/strong>: The Woman in the Bathtub: Elderly Women and Sexuality as a Horror Trope<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emilia Musap<\/strong>: The \u201cWitch\u2019s Mark\u201d \u2013 Rethinking Monstrous Breasts<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iva Romi\u0107<\/strong>: Subversion of the Female Character(s) in Horror: Wendy Torrance \u2013 the Final Girl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">17:30-17:45<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">17:45-18:45<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Session 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Jelena Pataki \u0160umiga<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zvonimir Prtenja\u010da<\/strong>: Your Friendly Neighborhood(ed) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and the Cultural Politics of the Hoodie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dora Golub<\/strong>: Conquering Femininity: (De)Construction and\/or Subversion of High School Stereotypes in <em>Euphoria<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Valentina Markasovi\u0107<\/strong>: Subversion of Gender Stereotypes in Holly Black\u2019s <em>The Folk of the Air<\/em> Trilogy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">19:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>HUAmS \u2013 Annual Meeting (Election Assembly)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Saturday, 10 September 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Room 39, 1<sup>st<\/sup> floor<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-color: #000000;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">8:30-9:45<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Session 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Valentina Markasovi\u0107<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcel Moser<\/strong>: Breaking Psychosis Stereotypes through Video Games<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucija Peri\u0161<\/strong>: Reconceptualizing the Ill Body: Laurie Brooks\u2019 Jack McCall as the Hero of the Romantic Mode<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matko Kosovec<\/strong>: The Blind Hollywood: A Case Study of Stereotyping of Blindness and Visual Impairment in Films and Video Games<\/p>\n<p><strong>Felix Purat<\/strong>: Philip K. Dick and Prejudice Subversion: Race in <em>Mary &amp; The Giant<\/em>, Insanity in <em>Clans of the Alphane Moon<\/em> and both in <em>Dr. Bloodmoney<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">9:45-10:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Coffee Break <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">10:00-11:15<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Session 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Jadranka Zlomisli\u0107<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aleksandra \u017de\u017eelj Koci\u0107<\/strong>: Combatting the Popular Hemingway Stereotype<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aleksandra Izgarjan<\/strong>: A Possibility of Transformation: (Un)stereotypical Images of African American Female Characters in Alice Walker\u2019s <em>The Color Purple<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nadira Pu\u0161kar Mustafi\u0107<\/strong>: Empowering Voices of Others, Breaking Racial Stereotypes Through Celeste Ng\u2019s <em>Little Fires Everywhere<\/em> (2017) and Britt Bennett\u2019s <em>The Vanishing Half<\/em> (2020)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">11:15-11:30<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Coffee Break <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">11:30-12:45<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Session 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Biljana Oklop\u010di\u0107<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jelena \u0160esni\u0107<\/strong>: How to Nurture (Little) Men and (Little) Women: New Educational Directions in Louisa May Alcott\u2019s Books for Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marinela Boras<\/strong>: Teaching about Stereotypes on Examples of American Popculture<\/p>\n<p><strong>L\u00edvia Kl\u00e1ra Sz\u00e9lp\u00e1l <\/strong>and <strong>Jadranka Zlomisli\u0107<\/strong>: Breaking Stereotypes across Cultures: The Croatian and Hungarian Stereotypical Representations of American Culture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vedran Domjanovi\u0107 <\/strong>and<strong> Biljana Oklop\u010di\u0107<\/strong>: High School Stereotypes in <em>Thirteen Reasons Why<\/em>: Victims, Bullies, and Parents<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\">12:45<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\"><strong>Good-bye until we meet again! \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Croatian Association for American Studies (CAAS), Centre for Popular Culture, and Center for North American Studies (CNAS) announce a Call for Papers for the 10th annual workshop<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2022 workshop will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Osijek, in Osijek, Croatia, 9-10 September 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Key-note speaker: <strong>Kamilla Elliott<\/strong>, Professor of Literature and Media, Lancaster University<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talk title: <strong>TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The topic of this year\u2019s workshop is \u201cBreaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture.\u201d Recognizing the tendency to patronize and marginalize communities or groups that are seen as minorities within the larger society, we are proposing the topic of \u201cBreaking Stereotypes\u201d to promote fairness in the treatment of individuals and explore how stereotypical preconceptions in artefacts of popular culture affect society\u2019s perceptions on diversity and inclusion. Both current research and practice illustrate the growing need for greater awareness of stereotyping, discrimination, and bias in the continued evolution of society\u2019s perception of and reaction to these issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During these divisive times, both in the US and worldwide, building or rebuilding of communities based on reconciliation, respect, and trust is frequently being hampered by the way groups of people have been portrayed by the media, popular culture, and public officials.\u00a0 The resulting biases, often unconscious, lead to discrimination toward people in marginalized groups, particularly women, people of color, immigrants\/migrants in general, individuals with disabilities, and others. As we move forward in this changing environment, we deem it helpful to share our experiences and make efforts to combat stereotyping by increasing understanding of our own cultural perspectives and those of others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The workshop encourages participants to tackle the challenging issue of social categorization and perception of individual differences. We invite papers that will focus on the US popular culture and its representations of stereotypes in general (such as stereotypes pertaining to race, sex or gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ethnicity, origin, political belief, religion, langue, culture, and others) that shape how people perceive, interact with, and make decisions about others as well as papers that point to ways in which popular culture subverts stereotyping and stigmatization. The topics we propose include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>stereotyping in popular culture (literature, film, TV, talk shows, comics, music, gaming industry\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>breaking stereotypical notions of gender, class, race\u2026<\/li>\n<li>representation of marginalized groups in popular culture<\/li>\n<li>bias in social psychology<\/li>\n<li>science and social stereotypes<\/li>\n<li>stereotypes and social categorization<\/li>\n<li>social media and divisiveness<\/li>\n<li>political correctness<\/li>\n<li>using gender-fair language<\/li>\n<li>\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deadline to submit titles and abstracts of no longer than 250 words for <strong>15-minute presentations,<\/strong> accompanied by one-paragraph CV, is <strong>1 June 2022<\/strong>. Please send your abstract to the following e-mail addresses: Valentina Markasovi\u0107, <a href=\"mailto:tina.markasovic@gmail.com\">tina.markasovic@gmail.com<\/a> and Jelena Pataki, <a href=\"mailto:jpataki@ffos.hr\">jpataki@ffos.hr<\/a> . Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 15 June 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conference organizers plan for an <strong>on-site conference<\/strong>. Only in the event of (re)introduction of stricter safety measures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizational board may reconsider and plan for a hybrid or a fully on-line workshop. The final decision will be announced as the workshop date approaches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The workshop fee is <strong>150 HRK (20 Euros)<\/strong>. The fee is waived for the members in good standing of CAAS and of the AASSEE founding associations. Payment should be made to: <strong>Filozofski fakultet Osijek<\/strong>, J\u00e4gerova 9, 31000 Osijek, <strong>IBAN HR8423600001102484368<\/strong>, model <strong>00<\/strong>, poziv na broj\/reference number: OIB uplatitelja\/payer PIN, payment purpose: CAAS workshop fee. If the invoice should be addressed to an institution rather than the workshop participant, please let us know beforehand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Selected papers will be published in a peer-reviewed, open access publication. The details about the publication process will be given in due course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We look forward to seeing you in Osijek at the Croatian Association for American Studies\u2019 10th annual workshop, co-organized by the Centre for Popular Culture in Osijek and Center for North American Studies in Osijek.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Organizational Board<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Valentina Markasovi\u0107<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Ljubica Matek<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Biljana Oklop\u010di\u0107<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jelena Pataki<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jasna Poljak Rehlicki<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Zvonimir Prtenja\u010da<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Sanja Runti\u0107<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jadranka Zlomisli\u0107<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Colloquium \u201cBridge over Troubled Waters: Looking back at the 1970s\u201d (14. svibnja 2026.) 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