DAY ONEPRINCE ALWALEED BIN TALAL BIN ABDULAZIZ ALSAUD HALL, ROOM P071, AUC NEW CAIRO

10:00 – 10:30 amOpening CeremonySpeakers:Amira AgameyaChair and Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics Mr. Michał MurkocińskiAmbassador of the Republic of Poland to EgyptMrs. Joanna Murkocińska

10:30 am – 1:30 pmFirst SessionSociolinguistics: Arabic and Media (followed by open discussion)Session Chair: Amira Agameya, Department of Applied Linguistics, AUC

“Stance and Metalinguistic Discourse of Southern Performers in Egypt”Reem Bassiouney, Department of Applied Linguistics, AUC

“Towards a Stylistic Description of the So-Called ‘Media Arabic’”Viktor Bielicky, Institute of Formal and Applied Lingusitics, Charles University

“Gender Representation in Egyptian Commercials”Ola Hafez, Department of English Language and Literature, Cairo University

12:00 – 12:30 pm Coffee Break

"Variation in Media Arabic: The Case of Pseudo-Titles”Zeinab Taha, Department of Applied Linguistics, AUC

“Arabic Language Broadcast Media and Their Use of Modern Standard Arabic Contrasted with Arabic Dialects”Przemysław Turek, Institute of Middle and Far East Studies, Jagiellonian University

1:30 – 2:30 pm Lunch Break

2:30 – 5:30 pmSecond Session Discourse Analysis: Arabic and Education (followed by open discussion)Session Chair: Zeinab Taha, Department of Applied Linguistics, AUC

“Voices of Resistance and Youth Identity in Popular Culture: A Multimodal Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis”Mona Fouad, Department of English, Helwan University

“Teaching Arabic Between Books and Practice or Which Arabic to Teach”Mária Lacináková, Department of Classical and Semitic Philology, Comenius University in Bratislava

“Teaching Arabic Language at the University Level: Principles, Perspectives and New Challenges”Agnieszka Pałka-Lasek, Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University

4:00 – 4:30 pm Coffee Break

“Semiotics of Arabic in the Linguistic Landscape of Cairo”Marilyn Plumlee, Department of Applied Linguistics, AUC

“Positioning in the Oral Narrative of Displaced Syrian Women in Cairo”Nadia Shalaby, Department of Media and Communication Sciences, Ain Shams University

DAY TWOORIENTAL HALL, AUC TAHRIR SQUARE

11:00 am – 1:00 pmThird SessionComputational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Arabic and Culture (followed by open discussion) Session Chair: Reem Bassiouney, Department of Applied Linguistics, AUC

“Opposing Ideologies in a Polarized Society: The Role of Power in Shaping Linguistic Expression”Amira Agameya, Department of Applied Linguistics, AUC

“Automatic Identification of Mental-State Verbs and Their Arguments in Arabic Social Media Texts”Rania Al-Sabbagh, Department of English, Ain Shams University

“Greek Notions in Arabic: Philosophical Terms in Medieval Texts”István Lánczky, School of Linguistics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University

1:00 pm Press Conference and Closing Ceremony