here - Re-imagining the First World War
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here - Re-imagining the First World War
25-26 September 2014 Toruń, Poland Re-Imagining the First World War: (Hi)stories, Myths, and Propaganda in Anglophone Literature and Culture Conference Venue: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Languages, Collegium Maius, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3 Thursday, 25 September 2014 8:30-9.10 Registration: Collegium Maius, 3rd floor 9.15- 11.00 Room 307 Conference Opening: Welcome Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Languages, Przemysław Nehring and Canadian Forces Attaché, Col. Daniel Geleyn, Canadian Embassy in Warsaw Keynote I – Sherrill Grace, OC (University of British Columbia), ”The Great War and Contemporary Memory: Canadian Literature and the Arts” Keynote II – Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż (University of Warsaw), “Reimagining the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme in Contemporary British Writing” 11.00-11.30 Coffee and Tea 11.30-13.00: Session A 1. Room 307: Great War Poetry – Chair: Zbigniew Białas Agnieszka Kranich (University of Gdańsk), “Irony as a Way of Expressing the Unspeakable in Selected Poems of Wilfred Owen” Alicja Piechucka (University of Łódź), “Men and Machines: Hart Crane’s and Jean Cocteau’s Poetic Visions of Aviation and the Great War” 2. Room 311: Canadian Literature – Chair: Anna Branach-Kallas Dagmara Drewniak (Adam Mickiewicz University), “The Great War as a Trigger for Growing up and Gaining Maturity in Rilla of Ingleside” Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź), “’How did she feel?’ WW1 From the Perspective of Female Characters in the Novels of Margaret Laurence and Jane Urquhart” Martin Löschnigg (University of Graz), “The War on Stage: English-Canadian Drama on the First World War” 3.Room 206: Polish-English Perspectives – Chair: Stankomir Nicieja Brygida Gasztold (Koszalin University of Technology), “Post-World War I Poland Through the Eyes of a Jewish Soldier: Israel Rabon’s The Street” Agnieszka Pantuchowicz (University of Social Sciences and Humanities), “Records of Female Experience: Comparative Readings of Polish and British Poetry” Marta Jaskulska (Biuro Rozwoju Gdańska), “The Monuments of Great War. How Art Serves the Collective Memory” 13.00-14.30 lunch break 14:30-16.00 Session B 1. Room 307: (Irish) Poetry and Drama – Chair: David Malcolm Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University), “Observe the Sons of Ireland in the Whirlwind of the First World War” Krzysztof Kosecki (University of Łódź), “The Great War from Irish Perspective: The Case of William Butler Yeats” Edyta Lorek-Jezińska (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “The Legacy of Oh, What a Lovely War!: Memory and Revision” 2. Room 311: Canadian Literature and Culture – Chair: Dagmara Drewniak Mateusz Fórmanek (Adam Mickiewicz Uniwersity), “Native Warriors or Global Soldiers? The Representation of Native Masculinities Fashioned by World War in Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden” Mateusz Bogdanowicz (University of Warmia and Mazury),”‘The White Man War’? Aboriginal and Black Canadians’ Contribution to the War Effort” Marcin Gabryś (Jagiellonian University), “Canada’s Politics of Memory During Stephen Harper’s Terms in Office” 3. Room 206: On Screen – Chair: Tadeusz Rachwał Eusebio Ciccotti (Università di Foggia e Università di Roma Tre), “The Great War between Literature and Film: Four Cases. Rebreaunu-Ciulei; Johannsen-Pabst; Remarque-Milestone; Lussu-Rosi” Monika Sarul (University of Łódź), “The Myth and Reality of War in Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo” Nelly Strehlau (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “’Why Is It Different from Before the War?’: The Portrayal of the Great War and Its Aftermath on Downton Abbey” 16.00-16:30: Coffee and Tea 16:30-18.00 Session C 1. Room 307: (American) Masculinities – Chair: Dorota Filipczak Tadeusz Rachwał (University of Social Sciences and Humanities), “Stand-to-Arms. On Immobility in the Trenches” Joanna Stolarek (Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities), “Post-war Trauma and the Crisis of Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and The Hollow Men” Jakub Gajda (University of Silesia), “From Light to Shadow: The Great War in William Faulkner’s Soldier’s Pay and Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day” 2. Room 311: (Canadian) Life-writing – Chair: Marcin Gabryś Anna Słonina (University of Casimir the Great), ”Mary Borden’s The Forbidden Zone” Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek (Jagiellonian University),”WWI in the Eyes of Canadian Military Nurses” Paweł Zając (Adam Mickiewicz University), "Lost Brothers, Lost Beliefs. Tragedy of the War from the Oblate Missionary Perspective" 3. Room 206: Sebastian Barry’s Fiction – Chair: Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż Maria Fengler (University of Gdańsk), “No Way Back to Tipperary: Depiction of the Great War in Sebastian Barry’s Long, Long Way” Adam Aleksandrowicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University), “The Mythology of Anti-heroism in Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way” Anna Olkiewicz-Mantilla (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “’History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake’. The Fate of the Dunne Family in the Context of the Irish Culture of Remembrance in Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way and On Canaan’s Side” 19.15 Conference dinner at the 1231 Hotel, ul. Przedzamcze 6 Friday, 26 September 2014 9:30- 11.00 Session D 1. Room 307: Thinking about War – Chair: Stephen Guy-Bray David Malcolm (University of Gdańsk), “Ends of the Old World: Pre-writing the Great War” Ross Aldridge (University of Gdańsk), ”The Great War and the Historical Imagination: Catastrophe and Progress in the Thought of Charles Sims and Bertrand Russell” Katarzyna Więckowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “The Great War, Heroic Manhood and Rudyard Kipling’s Works” 2. Room 311: Myth-making: Australia and Canada – Chair: Martin Löschnigg Ryszard Wolny (University of Opole), “The War: An Australian Foundational Myth or Antithesis of Civilisation? Some Notes on the Images of the Great War in Australian Literature” Tomasz Gadzina (University of Opole), “The Anzac Legend and Australian National Identity One Hundred Years after the Great War” Tomasz Soroka (Jagiellonian University), “Canada’s Great War: The Rise of Independent Canada” 3. Room 206: Contemporary British Novel – Chair: Edyta Lorek-Jezińska Marta Lisiecka (University of Gdańsk), “Reimagining in Order to Understand – Pat Barker's Regeneration” Natalia Sabiniarz (University of Casimir the Great), “Intertextual Relations Between Siegfried Sassoon’s and Wilfred Owen’s Poems and Pat Barker’s Novel Regeneration” Anna Mądry (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “Living on Borrowed Time: Brotherhood in Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo” 11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee 11.30-13.00 Session E 1. Room 206: Poetry, Music and Teaching – Chair: Katarzyna Więckowska Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia), ”Anthems” John Seriot (Sogn og Fjordane University College), “Approaching the Great War in the English Class Through Poetry” Marek Jeziński (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “Rocking the Centenary” 2. Room 311: (Post)-Colonial Perspectives – Chair: Ryszard Wolny Zbigniew Białas (University of Silesia), “T. E. Lawrence’s Body and the Great War” Stankomir Nicieja (University of Opole), “East Asian Echoes of the Great War” Anna Branach-Kallas (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “Colonial Wars” 13.00-14.30 Buffet lunch sponsored by the Polish Association for Canadian Studies (Collegium Maius) The Conference Organizers would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Embassy of Canada to Poland and the Polish Association for Canadian Studies in making this conference happen.