THE `POST`-MARKED WORLD

Faculty of International and Political Studies
University of Lodz
Department of British
and Commonwealth Studies
THE ‘POST’-MARKED WORLD
Theory and Practice
in the 21st Century
22-23 November 2010, Łódź
MONDAY 22nd NOVEMBER
09.30 – 10.15
Conference opening
Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Domański,
Dean of the International and Political Studies Faculty
Prof. dr hab. Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney,
Associate Dean of the International and Political Studies Faculty
in charge of Research and International Affairs
Dr. Sumit Chakrabarti, Conference Chair
10.15 – 11.00
Keynote Lecture: Prof. dr hab. Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk
(Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
Negotiating with the Post-world: Gains, Losses,
Prospects
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.50
‘Post’ and the Theoretical: Critical Perspectives
Chair: Dr. Sumit Chakrabarti
Late Postmodernism - Are We Entering a New Era of Postmodernism?
Dr. Metin Colak (Cyprus International University)
Post-Theory and New Aestheticism
Dr. Anthony Mellors (Birmingham City University)
History and the Theory of Being
Dr. Wojciech Majka (Pedagogical University of Cracow)
12.50 – 13.10
Coffee break
Financial Supporters
The City of Lodz
Office
Faculty of International
and Political Studies
The ‘Post’-Marked World: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century
13.10 – 14.30
22-23 Nov. 2010, Łódź
The ‘Post’ in Performance: Theatre and Cinema
Chair: Prof. dr hab. Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney
Post-communist Shakespeare in Eastern Europe
Dr. Agnieszka Szwach (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce)
The Pre- and Post-Holocaust Reading of The Tempest by Leon
Schiller, or the Polish-Jewish Relations
Dr. Agata Dąbrowska (University of Lodz)
Post-movies in Retro-cinema, or the (Re)vision of a Movie Culture
After an IMAX Technology
Tomasz Żaglewski, M.A. (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
14.30 – 15.50
Lunch
15.50 – 17.10
The ‘Post’ as Practice: Political Implications
Chair: Dr. Agata Dąbrowska
Silvio Berlusconi and the Second Italian Republic:
a Model Post-Democracy?
Dr. Piotr Podemski (University of Warsaw)
Post-communism in Post-Cold War Central and Eastern Europe –
– 20 Years of Experience
Dr. Ryszard Machnikowski (University of Lodz)
Local Internet Media and the Post-Industrial City:
Possibilities and Problems
Jakub Parnes, M.A. (University of Lodz)
17.10 – 17.30
Coffee break
17.30 – 19.10
Literature and the ‘Post’: Interfaces and Dialogues
Chair: Dr. Agnieszka Szwach
Post-modern Reading of Milan Kundera’s Major Works of Fiction
Dr. Omid Varzande (Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch)
The Circular Existence of Life and Death in Beckett's Endgame
Seyed Reza Ebrahimi, M.A. (Islamic Azad University, Bijar Branch)
The Postmodernist’s Use of the Modern. Intertextual Allusions
to James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Reworking of the Rebirth
Archetype in Will Self’s How the Dead Live
Zofia Janowska, M.A. (University of Warsaw)
Post-hermeneutic Reading or a Technocentric Writing? Charles Mee
and the (Re)making Project
Dr. Katarzyna Williams (University of Lodz)
20.00
Banquet
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The ‘Post’-Marked World: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century
22-23 Nov. 2010, Łódź
TUESDAY 23rd NOVEMBER
09.30 – 10.50
Feminisms and the ‘Post’: Problems of Representation
Chair: Prof. dr hab. Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney
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Postfeminism: A Concept of Consilience
Caitlin Lewis, M.A. (University College Dublin)
Art and Feminism from a Poststructuralist Perspective
Márcia Oliveira, M.A. (University of Minho)
Irigaray’s Critique of the Ocularcentric Paradigm: A Postmodern
Feminist Perspective
Monika Sosnowska, M.A. (University of Lodz)
10.50 – 11.10
Coffee break
11.10 – 12.30
The ‘Post’ and the Subcontinent: Matters Indian
Chair: Dr. Sumit Chakrabarti
Re-territorializing the “Post”: Investigating its Relevance
in the Modernist Discourse of Progress in Contemporary India
Oeendrila Lahiri, M.A. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Postmodern Fireworks or Post-colonial Vengeance – the Strange
Case of Salman R.
Dr. Joanna Dyła-Urbańska (Lodz Academy of International Studies)
Has Postmodernism Really Reached the National? Appropriation
and Interpretation in Sita Sings the Blues
Justyna Fruzińska, M.A. (University of Lodz)
12.30 – 13.50
Lunch
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The ‘Post’-Marked World: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century
13.50 – 16.10
22-23 Nov. 2010, Łódź
Ethnic Ruptures: The ‘Post’ across Cultures
Chair: Dr. Maria Łukowska, Dr. Ryszard Machnikowski
Caribbean Postscripts: Reading the Nineteenth Century English Novel
from the ‘Other’ Side
Dr. Andrew H. Armstrong (University of the West Indies)
Towards the Post-ethnic American Studies? Postcolonial
Interventions in the US Black and Minority Studies
Dr. Izabella Penier (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź)
Post-Indian Warriors of Simulation – Sherman Alexie’s Flight
as a “Story of Survivance”
Monika Kocot, M.A. (University of Lodz)
The Polish Colonial Dream Against Postcolonialism
Dr. Maria Łukowska (University of Lodz)
Post-Mabo Australia: Re-writing Australian History and Culture
Evan Williams, M.A. (University of Lodz)
Announcement: British Studies Research Group
16.10 – 16.20
Conference closing
16.40
Coffee
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