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.