The co-sponsors are listed under each event.

February 2-5, 2006

International Conference

IN SEARCH OF (CREATIVE) DIVERSITY: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN POLISH LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES ABROAD

ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE
CARR HALL BUILDING
FATHER MADDEN HALL
100 ST. JOSEPH STR.


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2006

MORNING SESSIONS:

8:30 - 9:00: OPENING REMARKS

1. Pekka Sinervo, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science
2. Christina Kramer, Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
3. Tamara Trojanowska, Polish Language and Literature Program

9:00 - 9:30: INTRODUCTION TO THURSDAY'S PANELS
Halina Stephan - Chair.

1. Michal Pawel Markowski (Jegiellonian University): “The Crisis in Polish Studies.”

9:30 - 11:30: PANEL I: Dead or Alive? - The Future of Polish Studies Abroad
1. Grzegorz Jankowicz (Jagiellonian University): “Polish Studies: Between Scholarship and Worship.”
3. Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto): “Where Do We Go From Here?”
DISCUSSION

11:30 - 11:45: COFFEE BREAK
11:45 - 13:00: PANEL II: Apples or Oranges? Polish Studies and Comparative Contexts
Bill Johnston - Chair

1. Tomasz Bilczewski (Jagiellonian University; Indiana University): “The Scandals of Comparisons and the Fall of the Iron Curtain.”
2. Justyna Beinek (Indiana University): “Comparative Polish-Russian Projects: What, Why, How?”
3. Krystyna Illakowicz (New York University): “Against the Grain: Introducing Polish Topics to American Students.”

13:00 - 14:30: LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSIONS:

14:30 - 16:15: PANEL III: Polish-American Crossroads
Michal Pawel Markowski - Chair

1. Andrzej Karcz (University of Kansas): “Polish Literary Theory Abroad.”
2. Halina Stephan (Ohio State University): “Polish Writers and the US National Security in the Early Fifties.”
3. Mira Rosenthal (Indiana University): “The New York School and Contemporary Polish Poetry.”
4. Hanna Gosk (University of Warsaw): “Hidden in Translation: Representation of America in Polish Prose from the Late 1980s and Early 1990s."

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2006

MORNING SESSIONS:

8:30 - 9:00: INTRODUCTION TO FRIDAY'S PANELS:
Tamara Trojanowska - Chair

Wladyslaw Miodunka (Jagiellonian University): "European Standards in the Certification of the Polish Language and Their Impact on Teaching Polish as a Second Language.”

PANEL IV: Texts in Contexts
9:00 - 10:15: PART I
1. Catherine O'Neil (University of Denver): “Layered Rome and Unchartered Petersburg: The Imperial City in Romantic Thought.”
2. Marci Shore (Indiana University): “'Nagosc wprawiona w trzepot i kolys': The Polish Avant-Garde and East European Modernity.”
3. Lynn Lubamersky (Boise State University), “The Life of Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa: A Feminist Analysis.”


10:15 - 10:30: COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - 11:45: PART II
Grzegorz Jankowicz - Chair

1. Benjamin Paloff (Harvard University): “Denatured Spirits: Shame and Being in Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke and Richard Weiner's Hra doopravdy.”
2. George Gasyna (University of Toronto): “The Nation as Pathology: Representations of Community in Joyce, Nabokov and Gombrowicz.”
3. Joanna Nizynska (Harvard University) and Kristin Kopp (University of Missouri): “Wounds of Gdansk, Wounds of Danzig: Comparative Approaches to Traumatic Representations.”

11:45 - 13:00: LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSIONS:

13:00 - 14:45: PANEL V: Entering Polish Culture: Language Methodology and Internet Resources
Artur Placzkiewicz - Chair

1. Agnieszka Karolczuk (Catholic University in Lublin): “Literature as an Instrument and as a Phenomenon in Language Teaching.”
2. Dorota Holowiak (University of Glasgow): “Mind the Gap! Culture Shock in the Foreign Classroom.”
3. Anna Seretny (Jagiellonian University): “Between Perception and Reception: Literature in the Glottodidactic Perspective.”

14:45 - 15:00: COFFEE BREAK

15:00 - 16:15: PANEL VI: Lost in Translation?
Agnieszka Polakowska - Chair

1. Magdalena Miecznicka (IBL, Warszawa): “Poetics in Translation: Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke in Spanish, French, and English.”
2. Urszula Paleczek (University of British Columbia): "Play with Gendered Language: The Perils of Intercultural Mistranslation.”
3. Michael Mikos (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “From a Canon to an Anthology: Polish Literature from 1945 to 2000.”

16:15 - 16:30: COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 18:00: ROUNDTABLE I: Issues in Translation
Justyna Beinek - Chair

1. Bill Johnston (Indiana University)
2. Michael Mikos (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
3. Mira Rosenthal (Indiana University)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2006

MORNING SESSIONS:

8:00 - 9:45: PANEL VII: Challenging the Canon
Halina Stephan - Chair

1. Jerzy Jarzebski (Jagiellonian University): “Conflicts Over the Canon.”
2. Ryszard Zajaczkowski (Catholic University in Lublin): “The Famous Stranger: Hidden Meaning and Contexts of Roman Brandstaetter's Writings.”
3. Przemyslaw Czaplinski (A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan): "From Commonality to Diversity: the Experience of Solidarity in Polish Prose 1989-2005."
4. Bill Martin (University of Chicago): “Polish Film Comedy as Vernacular Canon."

9:45 - 10:00: COFFEE BREAK

10:00 - 11:45: PANEL VIII: Texts and Theories
Olga Ponichtera - Chair

1. Ewa Wampuszyc (University of Florida): “The Economy of Omission: Money and Text in 19th Century Poland.”
2. Bozena Shallcross (University of Chicago): “A Poet's Demise as a Holocaust Text.”
3. Dariusz Skórczewski (Catholic University in Lublin): “Modern Polish Literature through a Postcolonial Lens: The Case of Pawel Huelle's Recent Novel.”
4. Artur Placzkiewicz (University of Toronto): “Consequences of Life-Writing Philosophy: The Case of Miron Bialoszewski.”

11:45 - 13:00: LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSIONS:

13:00 - 14:45 PANEL IX: Encasing the Personal
Bill Johnston - Chair

1. Katarzyna Kaczor-Scheitler (Lódz University): “The Language of Faith and Despair: The Religious Contexts in Druga przestrzen by Czeslaw Milosz.”
2. Olga Ponichtera (University of Toronto): “Writer Emeritus Remembers: Z Auszwicu do Belsen by Marian Pankowski.”
3. Bozena Karwowska (University of British Columbia): “The Body in the Concentration Camp: The Experience of Stanislaw Grzesiuk.”
4. Artur Grabowski (Jagiellonian University; University of Illinois): "Polishness as an Existential Situation: The Case of Mrozek."

14:45 - 15:00 COFFEE BREAK

15:00 - 17:00 PANEL X: Tasting the Visual
Michal Pawel Markowski - Chair

1. Kris van Heuckelom (Catholic University of Leuven; University of Chicago): “Iconoclasm and Idolatry: Modes of Visualization in Polish Modernism.”
2. Agnieszka Polakowska (University of Toronto): “Food for Thought, or Why Reading Bruno Schulz is Bad for Your Diet.”
3. Christopher Caes (University of Florida): “Dreaming Beasts: Horror, History, and Emigration in the Cinema of Walerian Borowczyk, Roman Polanski, and Andrzej Zulawski.”
4. Milija Gluhovic (University of Toronto; University of Warwick), "Insides, Outsides: Trauma, Affect, Art."  

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2006

9:00 - 9:30: INTRODUCTION TO ROUNDTABLE II: Synergies: Now and Tomorrow:
1. Andrzej Rabczenko (Polish Embassy in Washington): “What Is Polish Culture?”

9:30 - 10:30: ROUNDTABLE PART I: Synergies: Now and Tomorrow
10:30 - 10:45: COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 12:00: PART II: Synergies: Now and Tomorrow
1. Representative from Polish Embassy in Ottawa
2. Representative from Polish Consulate in Toronto
3. Representative from the Fulbright Program in Warsaw
4. Representative from the Office of International Cooperation at University of Toronto
5. Justyna Beinek (Indiana University)
6. Bill Johnston (Indiana University)
7. Wladyslaw Miodunka (Jagiellonian University);
8. Michal Pawel Markowski (Jagiellonian University)
9. Halina Stephan (Ohio State University)
10. Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto).

12:00 - 12:15: CLOSING REMARKS:

Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto)

SPONSORS:

Artus Polish Bookstore, Toronto; Daria Beer, www.daria.ca, Toronto; Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto; Center for Slavic and East European Studies at Ohio State University; Council of Canadian Polish Congress for the Support of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto; Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto; Katedra Miedzynarodowych Studiów Polonistycznych, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski; Jerzy Kolacz, Toronto; Master Printing, Toronto; Mickiewicz Foundation, Toronto; Office of International Programs, Indiana University; Pegaz For You, Mississauga; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada; Polish Studies Center, Indiana University; punkt.ca, Toronto; Queen Syrena Travel Inc., Mississauga; Reymont Foundation, Toronto; Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University; School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto; Wydzial Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego.

THE ROUGH AND THE POLISHED, PART II: A SYMPOSIUM ON POLISH CULTURE AND SOCIETY

organized by the faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate students of the Polish Language and Literature Program.

All Events take place at St. Michael’s College
Carr Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street, room 103

APRIL 15-18, 2005

April 15, 6:30PM

Key-note speaker: Prof. Ewa Thompson

(Rice University)

Ways of Remembering: the Case of Poland

April 16

9:30 – 11:00

I. Theatre and music

Milija Gluhovic (University of Toronto), The Mnemonics of Kantor's “Wielopole, Wielopole”.
Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto), New Discourses in Polish Drama.
Magdalena Adamek (University of Alberta), Feliks Nowowiejski - the Hidden Treasure of Polish Piano Music.

11:15 – 12:30

II. Literature and language

Agnieszka Polakowska (University of Toronto), On the Stroke of Midnight: Re-cycled Time in Adam Mickiewicz’s “Do Przyjaciól” and “To Lubie”.
Olga Ponichtera (University of Toronto), Juz Aleshkovsky's “Nicolai Nicolaevich” and Andrzej Stasiuk's “Mury Hebronu” - Threatening the Reader with Abject Physiology or a Case of a 'Second Life' in Language.
Agnieszka Karolczuk (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski), Wspolczesny jezyk polski.

12:30 – 1:30 – lunch break

III. Gombrowicz

1:45 – 2:45

Justyna Beinek (University ofToronto), The Idea of the West in Witold Gombrowicz's “Diary (1953-66)”.
George Gasyna (University of Toronto), Black Mass in the Interhuman Church – Reading of "Cosmos".

III. History and politics

3:00 - 4:45

Gabriela Kasprzak (University of Toronto), The Forgotten Canadians: Historiography of Poles in Canada.
Michal Kasprzak (University of Toronto), Consuming Consumerism: The Assimilation of Polish-Americans in the Interwar Years.
Michal Stickiw (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski), How Poland's Accession to the EU Affected Canada - Poland Relations.
Justyna Sempruch (York University), The Impact of Women's Studies Training on Women's Employment in Poland. A Cultural Perspective.

April 18, 2:00PM

Prof. Artur Grabowski

(Jagiellonian University)

Everyman Possessed by Himself: Kierkegaard Reads Gombrowicz

Lectures are co-sponsored by the Council of the Canadian-Polish Congress for the Supoport of Polish Studies at UofT.

THE ROUGH AND THE POLISHED: A SYMPOSIUM ON POLISH CULTURE AND SOCIETY

organized by the graduate students, visiting scholars, and faculty of the Polish Language and Literature Program (Justyna Beinek, Artur Placzkiewicz, Agnieszka Polakowska, Olga Ponichtera, Jolanta Tambor, and Tamara Trojanowska), coordinated by Dr. Justyna Beinek.

APRIL 14, 2004

All sessions take place at 107 Alumni Hall, 121 St. Joseph Street.

10-11:20 a.m. POETRY: From “Trampled Angels” to “Vertical Ducks”

Agnieszka Polakowska: Between Individual Salvation and Collective Responsibility: Searching for the Vanished Angel in the Poetry of Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski
Artur Placzkiewicz: Miron Bialoszewski: Truth, Participation, and Vertical Ducks
Olga Ponichtera: The “I” in a Tight Line: The Grey Zone of Tadeusz Rózewicz’s Authorial Voice

11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m. PERFORMANCE: Performing the Body, Silence, Memory

Justyna Beinek: On Machines, Meat, and Misogyny: The Female Body in the Avant-Garde Poetry of the 1920s
Tamara Trojanowska: Performing Otherness and Silence: Witold Gombrowicz’s Iwona, Princess of Burgundia
Milija Gluhovic: Tadeusz Kantor and Memory

12:50-1:40 p.m. Lunch break

1:40 p.m.-3 p.m. FILM: Cult Films, Cult Filmmakers

Fabian Grieco: Marek Piwowski’s The Cruise: Rational Ideology Beyond Reason
Thomas Jankowski: Ad memoriam: The Supremacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Methodology in Post-1989 Polish Cinema
Patrick Sullivan: What Makes Kieslowski’s Three Colors Polish?

3:10-5:40 p.m. HISTORY: Nation, Community, Language

Michal Kasprzak: Joseph Pilsudski: A Socialist Romantic or a Romantic Socialist?
Serhij Bilenky: Debates on Romanticism in Contemporary Polish Discourses
Gabriela Pawlus Kasprzak: Reviving the Nation: Polish Cultural and Historical Reawakening under the Great Novena

(4:30-4:40 p.m. Break)

Robin Ostov: Remusealizing Jewish History in Warsaw: The Privatization and Externalization of Nation Building
Jolanta Tambor: Jezyk a tozsamosc etniczna (na przykladzie Górnego Slaska)

Seminarium doktoranckie oraz wyklad publiczny: Dr. Katarzyna Kasztenna, Nowe metody interpretacji syntez historyczno-literackich.

September:

Adam Czerniawski, The Art of Translation. Promotion of the newly published translations of C.K. Norwid poetry.

October:

Joanna Wiszniewicz, Writing as an Encounter: the Benefits of Interviewing. Promotion of her book, "And Yet I Still Have Dreams. A Story of a Certain Loneliness," recently translated into English by Regina Grol and published by Northwestern University Press.

2003
March:

Bohdan Zadura, Polish Poetry in Post-communist Era.

Public Promotion of AKCENT, a literary quarterly in Poland; W centrum literatury, na pograniczu kultur (Waldemar Michalski, Boguslaw Wróblewski, Bohdan Zadura).

Co-sponsored by the Polish Publishing Fund.

October:

Professor Norman Davies, (Oxford University), Rising ’44.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Center for Russian and East European Studies, and School of Graduate Studies.

November:

Professor Adam Busza (University of British Columbia), Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” and Conrad’s “Lord Jim” – contrastive axiologies.

Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Center for Comparative Literature.

December:

Professor Anna Frajlich (Columbia University), Adam Mickiewicz – A Romantic Portrait of a Poet.

Co-sponsored by the Turzanski Foundation.

Professor Marian Kisiel (Silesian University, Katowice), Polska poezja mlodego pokolenia.

Organized by Dr. Jolanta Tambor, a lecturer in the Polish Language and Literature program in 2003-04.

Professor Marian Kisiel, Polish Avant-garde (doctoral seminar).

2002
January:

Screening of the film, The Forgotten Odyssey. Meeting with the film’s director and producer, Jagna Wright and Aneta Naszynska.

Co-sponsored by the Council for the Support of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto.

April:

Professor Michal Pawel Markowski (Jagiellonian University, Krakow), Przybos and Metaphysical Poetry.

Co-sponsored by the Council for the Support of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto.

Professor Michal Pawel Markowski, Reading as Conversion.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative Literature at UofT.

Professor Krzysztof Koehler, Polish literature of the 1990s.

Co-sponsored by the Council for the Support of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto.

Professor Krzysztof Koehler, poetry reading and screening of his film on Mikolaj Sep-Szarzynski.

Co-sponsored by the Council for the Support of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto.

Professor Andrzej Kulakowski (Radium Institute, Warsaw), The Seventieth Anniversary of the Radium Institute in Warsaw.

Co-sponsored by the Society in Tribute to Maria Curie-Sklodowska.

September:

Professor Jan Miodek (University of Wroclaw), Ojczyzna-Polszczyzna.

Co-sponsored by the Polish-Canadian Congress, the bookstore "Husarz," and the Council for the Support of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto.

October:

Professor Wojciech Tomasik (Wyzsza Szkola w Bydgoszczy), Post-communist iconoclasm.

Professor Wojciech Tomasik, Leopold Tyrmand.

Both events co-sponsored by the Council for the Support of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto.

2001
December:

Professor Wojciech Ligeza (Jagiellonian University, Krakow), lecture on Polish poetry.

Co-sponsored by the Turzanski Foundation.

2000
November:

Professor Adam Walaszek (Jagiellonian University, Krakow), Polish and Italian Diasporas Worldwide.

Co-sponsored by the Reynert Chair of Polish History.

Professor Barbara Koc (Warsaw University), Reymont - a New Perspective.

Co-sponsored by the Reymont Foundation.

December:

Adam Czerniawski, Perils of self-translation (doctoral seminar).

Adam Czerniawski, poetry reading.

1999
March:

Professor Bogdan Czaykowski (University of British Columbia), Witold Gombrowicz and Czeslaw Milosz: the Two Polarities of 20th century Polish Literature?

Co-sponsored by the Mickiewicz Foundation.

Professor Bogdan Czaykowski, An Exilic Poet - poetry reading.

December:

Professor Alina Witkowska (Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk), Exilic Community of Men.

Irena Tomaszewska (journalist), I’m First a Human Being (promotion of her book).

Both events co-sponsored by the Turzanski Foundation.