The conference will begin on October 15th with the keynote presentation given by Professor Madeline G. Levine (University of North Carolina):
Polish Literature Comes to America: A Translator’s Perspective.
(6:00PM-7:00PM)
The presentation will be followed by a welcoming reception at 7:00PM.
To conclude the following two days of presentations (see attached program), on the evening of October 17th,
we would like to invite all the participants and guests to enjoy a play presented by the House Theatre of Chicago: Iron Stag King.
(8:00PM)
“An epic, highly entertaining affair! …an expansive and arresting new production …an ambitious and ebullient piece of original theater” – Chicago Tribune
All the presentations and the festivities will take place at:
Chopin Theatre
1543 West Division Street Chicago, IL 60642
(773) 278-1500
Sincerely,
Keely Stauter- Halsted
Michał Paweł Markowski
Transmission and Transgression: 4th International Polish Studies Conference
Date(s): Tuesday, 10/16 8:30 AM to Tuesday, 10/16 6:30 PM
Street Address: 1543 W. Division
Location: Chicago
Phone: (773) 278-1500
DAY ONE 10/16/12
8:30-9 a.m. Coffee and pastries
9-11 a.m. Plenary Session
I. Main Transactions:
Chair: Bożena Shallcross (University of Chicago)
1. Michał Paweł Markowski (UIC), Polish Studies and the Contemporary Humanities.
2. Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto), Delectatio furiosa: or the modes of cultural transgression.
3. Joanna Nizynska (Harvard), Delectatio morosa: or the modes of cultural compensation
11:15 a.m. -1:15 p.m.
II. Genderization of (Polish) Literature
Chair: Halina Filipowicz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
1. Blazej Warkocki (Poznan University), Normative Transgression and Male Homosocial Desire: Zygmunt Kaczkowski’s “Wedded Brothers.”
2. Renata Ingbrant (Stockholm University), 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)
II. The Meanings of Polishness
Chair: Keely Stauter- Halsted (UIC)
1. Dynes Ofer (Harvard), 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 Re-making of the Image of the Most Famous Female Scientist in History Who Also Happened to be Polish.
1:15-2:15 p.m. Lunch
2:15-4:15 p.m.
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.
III. Transmission and Representation of Interwar Political Culture
Chair: Marek Suszko (Loyola University)
1. Paul Brykczynski (University of Michigan), From ‘Lunatic’ to ‘Tragic Hero:’ The Trial of Eligiusz Niewiadomski and Its Significance for Interwar Polish Politics.
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.
4:30-6:30 p.m.
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.
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 Historiography.
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.