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7th "MEMORY, FORGETTING AND CREATING"International Interdisciplinary Conference
18-19 January 2024
online
Conference Programme
Please note that the hours specified in the program refers to the time in Poland, Warsaw (CET).
We kindly ask you to convert the time to your place.
THURSDAY, 18 January 2024
11.00 AM – 2.00 PM: Conference OPENING and Plenary Session I
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Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)
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Yi-Ching Teng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Imagination, Mystic Recollections and Re-Creations in Romantic
Writings
Samuel Webster (University of New England, Australia)
Archontic Literature and Theatre Adaptation: A New Perspective on Italy's National Archive of Diaries
Charlotte Beyer (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
“Imagination or Memory?” The Search for Self in Rachel Hawkins’ Crime Novel The Girl on the Train
Irena RagaišienÄ— (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
Lithuania Towards Agonistic Memory: Kristina SabaliauskaitÄ—’s The Return of Samuel Vilner (2012)
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Ingrida Eglė Žindžiuvienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
The On-Going Wound in the Baltics: A Trauma Narrative for Children
Artemis Papailia (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
Echoes of History: The Interplay of Personal and Collective Memory in Alki Zei's Novels
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2.00 PM – 3.00 PM: BREAK
3.00 PM – 6.00 PM: Parallel Sessions II
Session II A
Chair: to be confirmed
Susan Lobo (St. Andrew’s College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Mumbai, India)
To Remember or to Forget? That is the Question: A Postcolonial Inquiry of John Steinbeck’s The Pearl
Madhumita Chakrabarti (ICFAI University Tripura, India)
Titas Akti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titas) : A Study of Fragmentary Life of Malo Community, Memory and Identity
Satavisha Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)
Negotiating the Remembrance of Writers: Anne Boyer’s Project of Revising Women Writers
Martina Domines (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Patriarchy and the Terror of Memory in Miriam Toews’s Women Talking
Carmen Gloria Cernadas-Lema (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
“I pushed for something to stay with me while he did not”: Living on Memories in A. L. Kennedy’s Indelible Acts (2002)
Asya Sakine Uçar (IÄŸdır University, Turkey)
The Monstrosity of Memory : Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
Session II B
Chair: to be confirmed
Subarna Mondal (The Sanskrit College and University, India)
“No pain felt she … she felt no pain”: Curated Bodies and Nostalgia in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Psycho
Kamil Korona (Independent Researcher, Poland)
Nostalgia as One of the Main Components of Modern Pop Culture
Joanna Nowicka (Angelus Silesius University of Applied Sciences in Walbrzych, Poland)
The Business Dimension of Nostalgia and Memories: State, Trends and Prospects of the Market
Annie Goliath (University of Sussex, UK)
Memories Explored through a Sound Walk Project
Józef Legierski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Technologies of Memory and Their Artistic Reproduction
Michał Tomczak (Independent Researcher, Poland)
Cinema as a Tool for Memory Preservation and Fabrication. Identity Formation in Youth Subcultures through Film: A Case Study of the Polish Jazz Scene and the Hippie Counterculture
6.00 PM – 7.00 PM: BREAK
7.00 PM – 10.00 PM: Plenary Session III
Chair: to be confirmed
Alina Legieyda (Newcastle University, UK; VN Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)
Memory Echoing in Holocaust Survivors' Testimony: From Genocide of the Third Reich to Retraumatisation through Hamas Attack
Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed (Harvard University, USA)
Contested Memory: Russia’s Denial and Social Forgetting of Ukraine
Krzysztof Kasiński (Jan Kochanowski University, Poland)
Montana Hotels in Green Book and Other Travel Guides for African-Americans in the Age of Racial Inequality
Niels Eichhorn (Independent Researcher, Austria)
Civil War Remembrance in New Mexico: The Clash of Hispanic, Native American, Lost Cause, and Emancipation Memory
Barbara Gabriella Renzi (Macromedia University, Germany)
The Orchard of Recollections
Sandra Paczkowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Witches, Vampires and Demons: Atypical Burials as an Archeological Example of Exclusion
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FRIDAY, 19 January 2024
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11.00 AM – 2.00 PM: Parallel Sessions IV
Session IV A
Chair:
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Andrew Howe (La Sierra University, USA)
War is Glory, War is Hell: Hollywood and its European-Pacific Dichotomy
Natalia Tomashpolskaia (University of Malaga, Spain)
Late Wittgenstein’s Reflections on Memory
Kristina BaranovaitÄ— (Independent Researcher)
Epiphanic Memory in Dreams
Karolina Czerkiewicz (University of Rzeszow, Poland)
Dreamy Labyrinth of Memory: Analyzing the Impact of Sleep Disorders on Memory Consolidation Processes and Forgetting
Kinga Dyndał (University of Rzeszow, Poland)
„I act, therefore I think": The Mirror Neuron System Theory in the Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients
Yossef Ben-Meir (University of Virginia, USA)
Creating and Codifying the Right to Be Remembered
Session IV B
Chair: to be confirmed
Jiaqi Mo (Northeast Normal University, China)
Memory Preservation and Urban Redevelopment in Boston’s West End (1958-1960)
Joanna Nawrotkiewicz (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Mao’s First Success: Unveiling Anyuan’s Miners' Movement
Jolanta Kuznecoviene (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania)
Enacting Ethnic Roots Among Lithuanians in Kazakhstan: Case of Patrimonial Memory
María Piqueras-Pérez (University of Murcia, Spain)
The Return of Forgotten History and the Power of Collective Memory: Black Britain and the New Cross Fire of 1981
Maciej Adam Baczyński (University of Lodz Doctoral School of Social Sciences, Poland)
Can a Federal State Pursue a Politics of Memory? Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Marina Bantiou (University of Thessaly, Greece)
The Restoration of the Memory of the Souliot Women and Their Ideological Use in “Ladies' Journal” for the Assertion of Political and Social Rights of Modern Greek Women (1887-1917)
2.00 PM – 3.00 PM: BREAK
3.00 PM – 6.00 PM: Plenary Session V
Chair: to be confirmed
Veronica Tais Yáñez Reyes (Independent Researcher, UK)
Global Collective Neuro-Feedback. Agents of Historical Amnesia in a Still Colonial and Proto-Fascist System
Yelyzaveta Filippova (University of Economics and Human Sciences, Poland)
Media and Genocide Denial: The Role of Propaganda
Brikena Smajli (University College, Bedër, Albania)
The Photographed and the Photographer in the Trials of the Albanian Dictatorship 1944-1961: A Semiotic Approach of the Face
Daniel Velasco Leão (PPGLIT/UFSC, Brazil)
Public Memories, Private Memories: Memory, Forgetting and Creating in The Edge of Democracy by Petra Costa
Lilly Ramin (University of North Texas, USA)
Nostalgia without Direct Memories: Exploring Social Themes with Classic Cinema Programming
Bahar Momeni (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Preservation of Memory through Graphic Novels
6.00 PM – 7.00 PM: BREAK
7.00 PM – 9.30 PM: Plenary Session VI
David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University, USA)
The Multiplicitous Animal Self: State-Specific Memory in Nonhuman Animals
Helene Demers (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
Stitching Stories of Journeys, Transitions, Landscape, and Migrations
Kristen Deiter (Tennessee Tech University, USA)
Reconstructing Historical Memory: Conceptual Blends of Richard III and the Tower of London in The True Tragedy of Richard the Third
Lisa Lampert-Weissig (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Memory as Vengeance, Memory as Tradition: The Wandering Jew in Sholem Asch’s The Nazarene
Noah Gallego (California State Polytechnic University, USA)
The Ghost of You: Charting the Spectral Landscape of Austerlitz
9.30 PM: Conference CLOSING
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