DAY ONE (27.05.2013) 9.00 Opening address PANEL I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POSTSOCIALISM 9.15-10.45 Room 208 Moderator prof. Dirk Uffelman 9.15 Monika Baer, Wroclaw University Other Europe, other discipline? Anthropological identities in postsocialist settings 9.30 Hana Cervinkova, Lower Silesian University and the Czech Academy of Science Postsocialism, postcolonialism and educational anthropology of engagement 9.45 Petr Skalnik, Wroclaw University Postcommunism is there forever. An optimistic anthropologist's view 10.00 Marta Songin-Mokrzan Applying the concept of neoliberalization to postsocialist contexts 10.15 Marek Pawlak, Centre for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University The regimes of mobility. Challenging the concept of social class DISCUSSION 10.30-10.45 COFFEE BREAK (15 MIN.) 10.45-11.00 PANEL II: EASTERN-CENTRAL EUROPE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST RECIPROCAL DISCOURSES, POSTCOLONIAL DILEMMAS 11.00-13.00 Room 208 Moderator dr Wojciech Małecki 11.00 Anca Baicoianu, University of Bucharest Is the colonial in postcolonial the Soviet in post-soviet? The boundaries of postcolonial studies 11.20 Dariusz Skórczewski, JP2 Catholic University of Lublin Troublesome postcolonies of Europe 11.40 Bogusław Bakuła, School of Comparative Literaturę and Culture, Adam Mickiewicz University National debates in Central Europe after 1989 [Debaty narodowe w Europie Środkowej po roku 1989] 12.00 Marta Skwara, Polish and Comparative Literature, Szczecin University Can Polish literature be European literature? Moving beyond concepts and (post)dependencies DISCUSSION 12.20-13.00 LUNCH BREAK 13.00-14.30 1
Panel III and IV in PARALEL SESSIONS PANEL III: EMANCIPATORY METHODOLOGIES 14.30-17.15 Sala 208 Moderator dr Agata Lisiak 14.30 Irene Sywenky, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta Theoretical perspectives on border studies in postdependent Central and Eastern Europe 14.50 Jan Sowa, Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University Colonialism postcolonialism self-colonialization. A dependency approach to Eastern and Western Europe 15.10 Dirk Uffelmann, Slavic Languages and Cultures, University of Passau Theory as memory: the divided discourse on Poland's postcoloniality DISCUSSION 15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK (15 MIN.) 16.00-16.15 16.15 Marcin Brocki, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University Postdependence in an anthropological perspective: on the limits of applicability of the scientific framework [Postzależność w optyce antropologicznej. O granicach stosowalności ramy naukowej] 16.35 Wojciech Małecki, Institute of Polish Studies, Wrocław University Toward green postdependence studies, or on uranium in Miedzianka and related matters DISCUSSION 16.55-17.15 PANEL IV: POSTDEPENDENCE ASPECTS OF POLITICAL AND ACADEMIC DISCOURSES 14.30-17.15 Room 207 14.30 Tatiana Kostadinova, Rebecca Salokar, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University The challenge of dealing with the totalitarian past: justice, conflict, and lustration laws in post-communist countries 14.50 Łukasz Ponikiewski, College of Liberal Arts, Warsaw University Imaginary geography of Poland political discourse analysis 15.10 Dorota Gołuch, University College London Polish reviews of postcolonial literature (1970-2010): signals of postdependence solidarities? DISCUSSION 15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK (15 MIN.) 16.00-16.15 16.15 Agata Lisiak, Humboldt University / ECLA of Bard Disposable pasts, usable pasts, and commemoration practices in post-1989 Warsaw and Berlin 2
16.35 Lena Magnone, Faculty of Polish Studies, Warsaw University The first generation of Polish Freudians a study in geopsychoanalysis DISCUSSION 16.55-17.15 PANEL V: COMPARATIVE DISCOURSE 17.15-18.45 Room 207 Moderator dr Hana Cervinkova 17.15 Grant Aubrey Farred, Africana Studies, Cornell University Inestimable translatability 17.35 Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Institute of English Studies, Wroclaw University The world republic of letters or the gaudy supermarket? Peripheral posts and global vending routes in comparative literature today 17.55 Tomasz Bilczewski, Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University Postcolonial comparativism, perishing languages, imagined communities. On a certain locus of the Central European multiculturality [Komparatystyka postkolonialna, ginące języki, wspólnoty wyobrażone. O pewnym locus środkowoeuropejskiej wielokulturowości] DISCUSSION 18.15-18.45 19.00 Conference dinner 3
DAY TWO (28.05.2013) PANEL VI: THE COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL POLAND SELF-REFLECTION IN PUBLIC AND ARTISTIC DISCOURSE 9.00-12.35 Room 208 Moderator dr Dariusz Skórczewski 9.00 Krzysztof Zajas, Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University Lithuania, my Fatherland! Colonial perspectives in Polish literature 9.20 Hanna Gosk, Faculty of Polish Studies, Warsaw University Postdependent features of the time of postdependence: the case of contemporary Polish prose [Postzależnościowe cechy czasu postzależności. Przypadek współczesnej prozy polskiej] 9.40 Bożena Karwowska, Polish and Slavic Studies Department, University of British Columbia A Short dictionary of words misunderstood. Contemporary Polish literature read in a transcultural context. [Mały słowniczek niezrozumiałych słów współczesnej literatury polskiej czytanej w transkulturowym kontekście] 10.00 Wojciech Browarny, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Uniwersytet Wrocławski Going West. Tadeusz Różewicz s reportage on regained territories [Na Zachód. Tadeusza Różewicza reportaże z ziem odzyskanych ] DISCUSSION 10.20-10.50 COFFEE BREAK (15.MIN) 10.50-11.05 11.05 Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook University Melodramatic Postcoloniality: Polish Cinema After 1990 11.25 Tomasz Rawski, Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University On marginalization of memory. biography of Polish People s Army colonel [O marginalizacji pamięci. Narracja pułkownika Ludowego Wojska Polskiego] 11.45 Magdalena Szcześniak, Faculty of Polish Studies, Warsaw University From Uma to Puma: The counterfeit as a visual figure of the Polish transformation DISCUSSION 12.05-12.35 COFFEE BREAK (15 MIN.) 12.35-12.50 Panel VII and VIII in PARALEL SESSIONS with PANEL IX PANEL VII: ON THE SUBALTERN 12.50-14.20 Room 207 Moderator prof. Bogusław Bakuła 12.50 Helena Duć Fajfer, Institute of East-Slavic Languages, Jagiellonian University I belong here : textual opposition to the symbolic uprooting in minority literatures in Poland [ Jestem u siebie tekstualna opozycja przeciw symbolicznemu wykorzenianiu w literaturach mniejszościowych w Polsce] 4
13.10 Emilia Kledzik, Faculty of Polish Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University In praise of imagology: considering the relations between literature and stereotypes on the basis of the representation of the Roma community in the Polish literature of the twentieth century [Pochwała imagologii. Rozważania o powinowactwach między literaturą i stereotypami na przykładzie obrazu Romów w literaturze polskiej XX wieku] 13.30 Huseyin Oylupinar, Department of History and Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta Cossack collective memory in contemporary Southern Ukraine: an Analysis of Cossacks as a factor in Ukrainian-Russian relations (1991-2012) DISCUSSION 13.50-14.20 LUNCH BREAK 14.20-15.45 PANEL VIII: TRAVEL WRITING - DISCOURSES OF RECIPROCAL REFLECTION 15.45-17.15 Room 207 Moderator prof. Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood 15.45 Małgorzata Zduniak-Wiktorowicz, Polish-German Research Institute, Adam Mickiewicz University How does it feel when an old German woman seeks her long-lost brother in the German east? Polish dependencies and circum-colonial discourse in German fiction [Co czuć, kiedy stara Niemka szuka zaginionego na niemieckim wschodzie brata? Polskie zależności a lektura prozy zachodnich sąsiadów i ich okołokolonialnego dyskursu] 16.05 Agnieszka Sadecka, Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Programme University of Bergamo A socialist reporter in the decolonized world Polish travel writing and colonial discourse 16.25 Dorota Wojda, Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University Others about us: accounts of travels to Poland in the period of transformation [Inni o nas. Relacje z podróży do Polski w dobie transformacji] DISCUSSION 16.45-17.15 PANEL IX: SPACE AND MEMORY 12.50-17.15 Room 208 Moderator dr Dorota Wojda 12.50 Andrzej Zieniewicz, Faculty of Polish Studies, Warsaw University A topographical biography: local myths in Artur Sandauer, Adolf Rudnicki and Adam Ważyk (and others) as a means of (not) coping with the past [Topograficzna orientacja biografii. Mity terenowe jako sposoby radzenia sobie (i nie radzenia sobie) z przeszłością: Artur Sandauer, Adolf Rudnicki, Adam Ważyk (i inni)] 13.10 Joanna Gubała, Institute of Sociology, Łódź University Spatial frames of remembrance transformation of Jewish community memory sites in Lódź as an example of collective memory expression in public space [Przestrzenne ramy pamięci przeobrażenia łódzkich miejsc pamięci o społeczności żydowskiej jako przykład ekspresji pamięci zbiorowej w przestrzeni publicznej] 13.30 Jagoda Wierzejska, Faculty of Polish Studies, Warsaw University 5
Toward a hermeneutics of post-soviet space: an attempt at an outline [Hermeneutyka przestrzeni postsowieckiej próba zarysu] DISCUSSION 13.50-14.20 LUNCH BREAK 14.20-15.45 15.45 Tatiana Czerska, Institute of Polish and Cultural Studies, Szczecin University The boundaries in memory. women s autobiographical writing as a form of neocolonial discourse [Granice w pamięci. Pisarstwo autobiograficzne kobiet jako forma dyskursu neokolonialnego] 16.05 Cristina Şandru, Cardiff Metropolitan University The past and its (dis)contents: cultural memory and political amnesia(s) in post-cold War East Central Europe 16.25 Bogdan Ștefănescu, University of Bucharest The stylistics of postcommunist memory: a tropological approach to memoirs of communist incarceration DISCUSSION 16.45-17.15 17.15 Closing address 6
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