Monday, October 15th

6pm - Keynote Presentation - "Polish Literature comes to America: A Translator's Perspective", Madeline G. Levine, University of North Carolina

7pm - Welcoming Reception

Tuesday, October 16th

8:30am - Coffee and pastries

9:00am - I. Main Transactions: Plenary Session, Chair- Bozena Shalcross, University of Chicago
1. Michał Paweł Markowski, UIC, Polish Studies and the Contemporary Humanities 
2. Tamara Trojanowskia, University of Toronto, Delectatio fructuosa: or the modes of cultural pleasure 
3. Joanna Nizynska, Harvard, Delectatio morosa: or the modes of cultural compensation

 

11:15am - II. Genderization of (Polish) Literature, Chair - Halina Filipowicz, University Wisconsin-Madison
1. Blazej Warkocki, Poznan University, Normative Transgression and Male Homosocial Desire: Zygmunt Kaczkowski’s “Wedded Brothers.”
2. Renata Ingbrant, Transformation of Masculinity in Polish Prose at the Turn of the 19th Century.
3. Monika Rogowska-Stangret, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Between Transmission and Transgression: Strategies of Women’s Writing in the Work of Jolanta Brach-Czaina.
4. Urszula Chowaniec, University College, London, Transgressive value of Melancholy of displacement in Polish Women´s Writing (Reading Wioletta Grzegorzewska)

11:15am - II. The Meanings of Polishness , Chair - Keely Stater-Halsted, UIC
1. Dynes Ofer, Harvard University, “Krakow Wasn't Built in a Day - on Y.L. Peretz not becoming a Polish Writer
2. Tony H. Lin, UC Berkeley, “Mythmaking and the Construction of a Polish Chopin”
3. Lynn Lubamersky, Boise State University, "The Mythic Marie Curie: The Making and the Re-making of the Image of the Most Famous Female Scientist in History Who Also Happened to be Polish"

1:15pm - Catered Lunch

2:15pm - III. Me and Other Me, Chair - Joanna Trzeciak, Kent State University
1. Benjamin Paloff, University of Michigan, Rethinking “Me search” and the Objectives of Subjectivity
2. Tul’si Kamila Bhambry, University College London, Reading Gombrowicz in the Context of Authorship Studies.
3. Victoria Kononova, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Performing Your Polish-American Self: Theatricality and Performance in Danuta Mostwin’s Oeuvre.
4. Iaroslava Strikha, Harvard, Escaping the Panopticon: Body of Knowledge in "Bieguni" by Olga Tokarczuk.
    
2:15pm - III. Transmission and Representation of Interwar Political Culture Chair - Marek Suszko, Loyola University
1. Paul Brykczynski, University of Michigan, From "Lunatic" to "tragic Hereo": The Trial of Eligiusz Niewiadomski

2. Michał Wilczewski, UIC, “’For the moral, spiritual, and physical resurgence of the village:’ Youth Culture and Generational Tensions in the Interwar Polish Countryside 
3. Przemyslaw Strozek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, “Your hands will be America”: The Imagery of the Roaring Twenties and the Polish Avant-Garde.

4:30pm - IV. On Translation, Chair - Madeline Levine, University of North Carolina
1. Joanna Trzeciak, Kent State University, Pollinating Polysemy: Trusting the Reader in Translation.
2. Ursula Phillips, University College London, A Translator’s Contribution to Broadening and Contextualizing Polish Studies
3. Tomasz Bilczewski, Jagiellonian University Kraków, Translation, Transmission, and Post-Memory.
4. Inez Okulska, Poznan University, Andrzej Sosnowski Comes “Back” to America: Translation as a Tool for Reading. 
 

4:30pm  - IV. Multi-Media History and Gender Studies, Chair - Lynn Lubamersky, Boise State University
1. Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein, University of Michigan, “The Peasant Issue in Jan Matejko's Painted Hisotiography”
2. Helen Myers, Ohio State University, “Typology of Female Characters in Polish Digital Film”
3. Andrea Bohlman, University of Pennsylvania, "Reconstructing Solidarity's Sounds and Songs"
4. Izabella Kalinowska-Blackwood, Stony Brook University, How we love the Russians: Transgressing National Taboos in Cinema"

Wednesday, October 17th 

8:30am - Coffee and pastries

9:00am - V. The Same and The Other, Chair - Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto
1. Halina Filipowicz, Wisconsin-Madison, “Am I that Name?: Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Women’s/Gender Studies.
2. Jessie Labov, Ohio State University, Where Multiculturalism Has Failed: recuperating the Other in Polish Studies.
3. Hanna Gosk, Warsaw University, The History of Polish Literature within the Post-Dependence Studies Perspective
4. Karen Underhill, UIC, Judaizing the Polish (Studies) Landscape: The “Doikeyt” Model


11:15am - VI. Strange Territories, Chair - Colleen McQuillen, UIC
1. Filip Mazurkiewicz, Silesia University Katowice, "The Field of Misplacement".
2. Bozena Karwowska, University of British Columbia, "(Polish) Immigrants in the (Non-Polish) City: Space, Memory, Gender".
3. Natalie Lozinski-Veach, Brown University, "Krag Ofiarowania: The Entanglement of Humanand Animal Bodies in Jolanta Brach-Czaina's Szczeliny Istnienia".

11:15am - VI. Narrating the Holocaust, Chair - Karen Underhill (UIC)

1. Joanna Michlic, Hadassah-Brandeis University,“Symbolic Categorization of Dedicated Christian Polish Rescuers as Outcasts, and its Everyday Practices in Polish Society During and After the Second World War”
2. Rachel Brenner, University of Wisconsin, “ The Ethics of Witnessing: Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw 1939-1945”
3. Olga Permitina, University of Wisconsin, “Narrating the Holocaust Experience: Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions”

1:15pm - Catered Lunch

2:15pm - VII. Confrontations and Comparisons, Chair - Michal Pawel Markowski, UIC
1. Michal Oklot, Brown University, "Polish Studies and Russian Studies: Symbiosis, Subordination, or separation?"
2. Roma Sendyka, Jagiellonian University Krakow, "Literature and Visual Studies: Friends with Benefits".
3. Colleen McQuillen UIC, "The Tyranny of Academic Disciplinarity in the Age of Postnationalism"

2:15pm - VII. Holocaust Memory, Chair - Richard Levy UIC
1 .Anna Topolska, University of Michigan, “Konzetrazionslager Posen Fort VII. Memory – Commemoration – Politics in Post-War Poland”
2. Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Arizona State University, “A Case for a Comparative Approach to the Postwar History of Jews in Poland”
3. Stephen Naumann, Transylvanian University Kentucky, “Zamek cesarski as a Site of Local Memory in Post-communist Poznan”

4:30pm - VIII. Fictions and Poems, Chair - Joanna Nizynska, Harvard
1. Lukasz Sicinski, University of Toronto, "Rubbish, Junk, and Humanism: The Case of Miron Bialoszewski".
2. Lukasz Wodzynski, University of Toronto, "Modernism, Romance, and Popular Fiction in Stefan Zeromski's 'A Story of Sin'".
3. Philip Redko, Harvard, "Białoszewski’s 'Wiersze o ścianę' and the poetry of Old Age".    

7:00pm - Light Reception

8:00pm - "Iron Stag King", performance presented by House Theatre of Chicago