Thursday, April 17, 2008

Welcoming Remarks: Vice President Patrick O’Meara

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 1980’s

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 European Soul

Bryce Lease, University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom:
Seeking Someone Else’s History: Gardzienice’s Postmodern
Mythology

Panel 3: 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:
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 18, 2008

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

Hanna Gosk, Warsaw University, Poland: Anthropological Aspects
of an Encounter with the Other/Inferior 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

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: 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)

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

“Found in Translation” Award Ceremony:
Grzegorz Gauden, Director, Instytut Książki, Kraków, Poland
Monika Fabijańska, Director, Polish Cultural Institute,New York

Reading: Polish Literature in Translation

Bill Johnston
Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Mira Rosenthal

Saturday, April 19, 2008

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: Queering Białoszewski

Panel 8: Modernism Redux
Chair: Ursula Phillips, 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

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

Sunday, April 20, 2008