REAL Symposium - Program

American Studies Scholarly Circle at the Faculty of English, UAM, Poznań
Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt)
Re-Examining American Literature Student Symposium
HISTORICITY AND MEMORY:
POSTMODERN STRUGGLES WITH THE PAST
Saturday, March 29, 2014, Faculty of English UAM, Poznań
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
TIME
10:00-10:15
SESSION
Symposium Opening
Dr hab. Paulina Ambroży
10:15-11:35
Session 1: Historicity and the
Visual Arts (C1)
Session 2: Postmodern Visions of
History (Room 2B)
Chair: dr hab. Paulina Ambroży
Chair: dr Paweł Stachura
Speaker 1: Aleksandra Musiał (UŚ)
The changing face of war: Representing
America’s conflicts in photography
(WWII, Korea, Vietnam)
Speaker 2: Karolina Rosiejka (UAM)
Women's art as result of sexist art
critique? The case of Georgia O'Keeffe
Speaker 3: Magdalena Górniak (UAM)
Tripping history: An analysis of
postmodern dialogue with the past in
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds,
Django Unchained and Kill Bill
Speaker 1: Marta Makoś (UAM)
The representation of memory in
Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory,
Ada, or Ardor and Lolita – the
interaction between the past and art
Speaker 2: Martyna Grodzka (UŚ)
Kurt Vonnegut’s struggle with the past.:
Postmodern Literary Strategies of
Historical Representation in
Slaughterhouse-Five
Speaker 3: Maciej Kownacki (UW)
The Shocking Truth
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11:35-12:45
12:45-13:35
Lunch Break
dr Jacek Partyka, University of Białystok
Toward ‘Archival’ Poetics: Records of Extreme Experience in Charles Reznikoff’s
Testimony. The United States 1885-1890. Recitative (1965) and Holocaust (1975)
13:35-13:50
13:50-15:10
15:10-15:25
15:25-16:25
Coffee Break
Session 3: The Classics and
Session 4: Personal Histories/
history (C1)
Family Dramas (Room 2B)
Chair: dr Katarzyna Macedulska
Chair: dr hab. Paulina Ambroży
Speaker 1: Paweł Ufnal (UMK)
The Canon controversy: The battle over
the literary canon in the American
academia
Speaker 2: Jakub Gajda (UŚ)
William Faulkner: A postmodern writer
by accident
Speaker 3: Krzysztof Śliwa (UAM)
“I wish for a change of place”:
Crevecoeur's Letters from an American
farmer as a trailblazer for American
restlessness
Speaker 1: Natalia Glinka (UG)
Discontinuity in family relations and the
demythologization of the American
Dream in Sam Shepard’s Buried Child
Speaker 2: Karolina Adamska (UAM)
The thread that can never be cut – fairy
tale narrative in creating the alternative
version of the past in Judy Budnitz’s
novel If I told you once
Speaker 3: Ewa Olszewska (UAM)
Sylvia Plath – The girl interrupted –
Perspectives on Her Story of Madness
Coffee Break
Session 5: Afro-American History (C1)
Chair: dr Jacek Partyka
Speaker 1: Sylwia Chlebowska (UAM)
Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun
Speaker 2: Grzegorz Kotecki (UWr)
Re-Examining the Past: Elements of Postmodern Memory in Toni Morrison’s Love
16:25-16:40
Symposium Closing
Dr hab. Paulina Ambroży
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