CONFERENCE PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008

OPENING PLENARY
Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern University: Czesław Miłosz and the Mystery of the Missing Second World

PANEL 1: New Perspectives on Cultural Studies
Chair: Padraic Kenney, Indiana University

Marek Zaleski , Institute for Literary Studies (IBL), Poland: Literature and Culture Wars in Poland after 1989
Magdalena Marszałek, Humboldt University, Germany: Transforming the Past into a Phantasm: “Achtung Zelig”by Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz and Krystian Rosenberg
Raymond Patton, University of Michigan: The Struggle over Rock in the Polish Press in the 1980s

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PANEL 2: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Polish Literature and Culture
Chair: Roman Koropeckyj, University of California-Los Angeles

Artur Grabowski, Jagiellonian University, Poland and University of Washington, Seattle: Hermes as Psychoanalyst: Zbigniew Herbert and Sigmund Freud – Debate on the European Soul
Bryce Lease, University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom: Seeking Someone Else’s History: Gardzienice’s Postmodern Mythology

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PANEL 3: The Twentieth-Century Non/Fiction
Chair: Jerzy Jarzębski, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Benjamin Paloff, University of Michigan: Truth and Violence: Miłosz, Herling-Grudziński and the Counterfactual
Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova, University of Kansas, USA: The Crisis of Fatherhood in Polish Post-Communist Childhood Accounts
Bożena Karwowska, University of British Columbia, Canada: Polish Immigrant Women Writers about Themselves and “Other” (Generations)
Todd Armstrong, Grinnell College: Hanna Krall’s Short Fiction: Polish/Jewish Identity and the Trauma of Genealogy in Post-Holocaust Polish Narratives

FRIDAY, APRIL 18TH

PANEL 4: Reading Contemporary Prose
Chair: Bill Johnston, Indiana University

Hanna Gosk, Warsaw University, Poland: Anthropological Aspects of an Encounter with the Other/Interior: Polish Prose of the Turn of the Century in the Perspective of Postcolonial Discourse and the Philosophy of Dialogue
Ewa Wampuszyc, University of Florida: On Magical Historicism and Post-Colonial Discourse in the Writing of Olga Tokarczuk
Hikaru Ogura, Waseda University, Japan: The “Eastern” Side of Olga Tokarczuk
Kinga Maciejewska, University of Chicago:“Charles de Gaulle Roundabout”: Raw Facts and the Danger of Finalizing Narratives

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PANEL 5: Revisioning Twentieth-Century Poetry
Chair: Benjamin Paloff, University of Michigan

Bethany Braley, Indiana University: Bolesław Leśmian and the “Romantic” Nightscape
Mira Rosenthal, Indiana University, USA: Revising Anna: Translation and Its Double Vision
Olga Ponichtera, University of Toronto, Canada: Trains of Memory and Commemoration : Archiving of the Past in Tadeusz Różewicz’s The Professor’s Knife (2001)

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PANEL 6: The Nineteenth Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Chair: Brian Porter-Szucs, University of Michigan

Justyna Beinek and Halina Goldberg, Indiana University: Literary and Musical Albums: Conventions and Contexts
Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein, University of Michigan: Matka Polka i Kobieta-Bohater: Constructing Gender and Nationness in Nineteenth-Century Polish Popular Culture
Catherine O’Neil, United States Naval Academy: Agamemnon’s Tomb: A Polish Oresteia
Ursula Phillips, University College, London, United Kingdom: Feminism and Christian Ecumenism: New Readings of Narcyza Żmichowska

SATURDAY, APRIL 19TH

PANEL 7: Queering Polish Literature and Culture
Chair: Joanna Niżyńska, Harvard University

Przemysław Czapliński, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland: Our “Queer Types”. Common Identities in Polish Contemporary Culture
Joanna Niżyńska, Harvard University, USA: Queering Białoszewski

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PANEL 8: Modernism Redux
Chair: Ursula Philips, University College London, United Kingdom

Karen Underhill, University of Chicago: Authenticity in Exile: Bruno Schulz and Walter Benjamin on the Relocation of the Original
Bora Chung, Indiana University: Death and the Apocalyptic Vision in Bruno Jasieński’s Palę Paryż
Jennifer Croft, Northwestern University: The Aggravated and Recidivist Self-Imposed Exile of Witold Gombrowicz
Alex Spektor, Harvard University: The Tyranny of Form: Narrative Ethics in Gombrowicz’s Cosmos

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PANEL 9: New Directions in Theatre and Drama
Chair: Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto

Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto, Canada: Performing Urban Spaces in Polish Contemporary Drama
Milija Gluhović, University of Warwick, United Kingdom: Artur Żmijewski’s Art of Repetition: Contexts, Politics, Ethics
Michael D. Johnson, University of Kansas: On the Paths of the Soul: St. Przybyszewski’s Na drogach duszy (1900) as a New Direction in Russian Dramatic Art

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PANEL 10: Cinematic Inquiry
Chair: Justyna Beinek, Indiana University

Bill Martin, University of Chicago: Miś and Carnival
Zofia Kolbuszewska, John Paul II Catholic University, Poland: Wojciech Jerzy Has (1925-2000) and His Surrealist Junkyard of Looping Time: Reconceptualizing (Popular) History of Polish Film

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We would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support:
Indiana University, Bloomington:
~ College Arts and Humanities Institute
~ Office of the Vice Provost for Research: New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program
~ Office of the Vice President for International Affairs
~ Polish Studies Center