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Please note that as our conference will be international we took into consideration different time zones but the hours specified in the program refers to the time in Poland, Warsaw (CET). 

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THURSDAY, 5 December 2024

Online Sessions
Parallel Sessions (Sessions: A, B, C)

11.00 AM – 1.30 PM: Conference Opening and Session A I
Chair: Ivana Pemper (Nova International Schools, Skopje, North
Macedonia)

Karma Hoi Pan Kong(Australian National University)
Toward Travelling Nostalgia: Transcultural Remembrance of Kowloon
Walled City

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Silvia Pierosara (University of Macerata, Italy)
Toward an Ethic of Nostalgia: Between Lack, Imagination, and the
Experience of Time

Ivana Pemper (Nova International Schools, Skopje, North Macedonia)
Healing Through Memory: The Dual Role of Nostalgia in Emotional Well-
Being

Yelyzaveta Filippova (University of Economics and Human Sciences in
Warsaw, Poland)
The Role of Childhood Memories in Shaping Adult Identity and Behavior

Joao Alves Maciel Neto (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
The Power of the Past: The Dimensions of Psychic Regression According to
Sándor Ferenczi

1.30 PM – 2.30 PM: BREAK

2.30 PM – 5.30 PM: Session A II

Chair: Alicja Bemben (University of Silesia, Poland)

Liena Galeja (Latvian Academy of Culture, Latvia)
Memory Wars in the Digital Age: The Case of Soviet Nostalgia in Latvia

Alicja Bemben (University of Silesia, Poland)
Nostalgia for Communism and the Question of Post-Truth

Kamil Korona (Independent Researcher, Poland)
The Impact of Nostalgia and Anemoia on Contemporary Polish Cinema

Małgorzata Nieszczerzewska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan,
Poland)
Nostalgia and Imagination: Towards a New Slavic Identity

Zuzanna Nalepa (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland)
Memory, Nostalgia, Local Identity: Memory Landscapes of Former Porcelain
Factory Workers

Nataliia Reva (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná in Curitiba,
Brazil)
Echoes of Trauma: Collective Memory and the Experience of Evil

5.30 PM – 6.30 PM: BREAK
6.30 PM – 9.00 PM: Session A III

Chair: Polina Golovátina-Mora (Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway)

Sabine Frühstück (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Crafting and Experiencing Nostalgia: Emotional Capital and the Randoseru
Victory

Berel Dov Lerner (Western Galilee College, Israel)
Jewish Messianism Nostalgic and Utopian: The Renewal of Sacrifices as a
Test Case

Marzia Dessi (The European Graduate School [EGS] Saas-Fee, Switzerland)
Linguistic Erasure: The Negative Impacts of White Nationalist Nostalgia and
the English-Only Movement on U.S. Education and DACA Students

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Polina Golovátina-Mora (Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway)
Nostalgia of Wooden Residencies in Norway, Finland and Lithuania: Stories
of Restauration (WoodiSH project)

Monika Dybalska (Independent Researcher)

Reprivatisation Gothic: Traces of (Non-)Material Memory In Post-
Communist Warsaw

11.30 AM – 2.00 PM: Session B I
Chair: Vered Shimshi (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Yi-Ching Teng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
“Memories of a beautiful existence”: Autobiography and Nostalgia
in Oscar Wilde’s The Critic as Artist

Vidushi Rai (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India)
Body, Mind, and Emotion Play in A Rose for Emily

Suganya V (Central University of Tamil Nadu, India)
Recollecting The Great Hunger: Personal History, Collective Nostalgia and
Trauma in Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End

Miklós Bálint Tóth (Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Hungary)
Between Past and Present: A Political Theoretical Analysis of Nostalgia in
Sándor Márai’s Szindbád hazamegy (Szindbád Goes Home)

Vered Shimshi (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Nostalgia for an Unknown Past in Youval Shimoni’s The Salt Line

2.00 PM – 3.00 PM: BREAK
3.00 PM – 6.00 PM: Session B II

Chair: Desislava Kuzmanova-Ivanova (South-West University “Neofit
Rilski”, Bulgaria)

Wenchen Liao (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Moon as a Symbol of Nostalgia in Ancient Chinese Poems

Raghavi Rao (Manipal Centre for Humanities, India)
The Disquiet in Quiet: An Exploration of the Relationship between Nostalgia
and Mental Illness through Poetry

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Desislava Kuzmanova-Ivanova (South-West University “Neofit Rilski”,
Bulgaria)
Memory As Longing: Poetic and Prose Silhouettes

Osheen Sharma (Central University of Punjab, India)
“My mother told me”: Nostalgia and Return to Childhood in Zitkala-Sa’s
American Indian Stories

Pooja Shankar (Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India)
Diverse Shades of Childhood Memories in Zitkala Sa’s Select Short Stories

Leonardo Masone (Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy)
Plato, Memory and Nostalgia of Greek World

6.00 PM – 7.00 PM: BREAK
7.00 PM – 9.30 PM: Session B III

Chair: Colette Morrow (Purdue University Northwest, USA)

June-Ann Greeley (Sacred Heart University, USA)
The Danger of Nostalgia? Memory, Melancholia and Spiritual Shortcoming in
The Divine Comedy

Ingrida Eglė Žindžiuvienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
Nostalgia and Post-Memory in Charles Frazier’s Varina: A Novel

Colette Morrow (Purdue University Northwest, USA)
Memory in Latinx Young Adult Transgender Fiction: Reinventing the
Present by Remembering Ancient Cultural Spiritualities

Dorothea Boshoff (University of Mpumalanga, RSA)
Rising From the Ashes: Memory as Gendered Tool in the Rebuilding of Post-
Apocalyptic Societies in Selected Works of Speculative Fiction

Patrycjusz Kisła (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Nostalgia for Utopia in Polish Masonic Poetry

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11.30 AM – 1.30 PM: Session C I

Chair: Christina Banalopoulou (University of Milan, Italy)

PANEL: Colonial Mnemonics, Abject Nostalgias: Performance and the Politics
of Melancholia on the Fringes of the Nation-State

Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay (University of Milan, Italy)
Remembering the Past, Questioning the Future: Decolonial Desires and Utopian
Visions in Turkish Cypriot Dramatic Literature

Christina Banalopoulou (University of Milan, Italy)
Racializing Lethe, Ethnic-Cleansing Melancholy: The Dramaturgies of the
Greco-Turkish Population Exchange

Soykan Karayol (University of Toronto, Canada)
Performing for Devrim: Influences of Turkish Political Theatre and
Performance

Pieter Verstraete (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
Instrumentalizing Opera: Mnemonic Socialization through Kurdish Dengbêj
on the European Stage

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1.30 PM – 2.30 PM: BREAK

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2.30 PM – 5.00 PM: Session C II

Chair: Vivienne Tailor (Independent Researcher, USA)

Furkan Ak (Independent Researcher)
Ghostly Dramaturgy: Exploring Migration and Memory through Immersive
Sound in Rare Sun Performance

Gökçe Duru (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Institutionalized Evil and Corrupted Power in Harold Pinter’s Mountain
Language and The Hothouse

Paul Almonte (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
“What remains of all that misery?”: Nostalgia, Melancholy, and Old Age in
Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape

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Kristina Kwacz (Independent Researcher, USA)
Brother That I Didn't Know, Until I Knew

Vivienne Tailor (Independent Researcher, USA)
Argentina, 1985 (2022) and El Secreto de sus ojos (2009): Presenting
Opposing Views on Memory, Justice, and Necropolitics

5.00 PM – 6.30 PM: BREAK

6.30 PM – 9.00 PM: Session C III

Chair: Katarzyna Zielińska (University of Lodz, Poland)

Penny Grennan (Independent Researcher)
The Place of Things: Mapping the Past in the Present

Paulina Gorlewska (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
The Pharmakon of Nostalgia: Project DAU as an Unwanted Memory

Soultana (Tania) Diamanti (Independent Researcher)
“You can’t even dream a whole dream, can you?”: Navigating Melancholy
and Grief as a Collective and the Healing Power of Sharing in Alexander
Payne’s The Holdovers (2023)

Deirdre C. Byrne (University of South Africa)
Myths of Eternal Return as Signs of Nostalgic Malaise in The Netflix Series
Dark

Katarzyna Zielińska (University of Lodz, Poland)
Social Media Coverage of Memorials as a Function of Commemorating
Historical Events

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FRIDAY, 6 December 2024

Onsite Sessions at Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel, Gdansk

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10.30 AM – 1.00 PM: Plenary Session I
Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)

Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Aesthetic Mediations of Nostalgia

Anna Ishchenko (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Environmental Melancholy and Transmediations of the Ecological Crisis
Temporalities in Narrative Video Games

Immanuel Mifsud (University of Malta)
"We were better off when things were worse": Mourning and Melancholia for
Time Passed in Maltese Literature and Arts

Paul Holmes (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)
A Machine Responds to the Preoccupations of an Ageing Man by Paul Holmes

Fabio Pezzetti Tonion (National Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy)
Memory, Nostalgia and (Re)Invention of the Past in Federico Fellini’s
Amarcord

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1.00 PM – 3.00 PM: BREAK

3.00 PM – 5.00 PM: Plenary Session II

Chair: Joanna Nowicka (Angelus Silesius University of Applied Sciences in
Walbrzych, Poland)

Alex (H. Alexander) Welcome (LaGuardia Community College, City
University of New York, USA)
Relief From Melancholy: Flights from Painful Memories in the Early Fiction of
Zora Neale Hurston

Songayam Zimik (University of Hyderabad, India)
Forgiving and Forgetting: Issues of Nostalgic Depictions in the Literature of
Northeast India

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Payosmi Mishra (Godavaris Mahavidyalaya, India)
Critical Nostalgia: Grief and Memory in Two Memoirs by Black Women

Beatriz Carlsson Pecharromán (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Ambivalent Colonial Nostalgia in Tove Jansson’s Moomin Books

5.00 PM – 5.30 PM: BREAK
5.30 PM – 8.00 PM: Plenary Session III

Chair: Immanuel Mifsud (University of Malta)

Stefano Pavarini (Independent Researcher, Italy)
Memory and Nostalgia of the Great War: D'Annunzio and Jünger (1921-30)

Laurynas Norus (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Lithuania)
Nostalgia and the Question of the Unity of Life in Michel Henry’s
Phenomenology of Life

Radostina Minina (Bulgarian Academy Of Sciences [BAS], Bulgaria)
The Role of the Body in Extended Memory System

Clovis Salgado Gontijo (Jesuit College of Philosophy and Theology [FAJE],
in Belo Horizonte [Minas Gerais], Brazil)
Precious Evanescence: The "Little Angels" by Chichico Alkmim

Joanna Nowicka (Angelus Silesius University of Applied Sciences in
Walbrzych, Poland)
Nostalgia in Economic Theory and Costs and Benefits in Economic Reality

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8.00 PM – 10.00 PM: DINNER AND WINE RECEPTION

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