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 7th "MEMORY, FORGETTING AND CREATING"International Interdisciplinary Conference
18-19 January 2024
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                          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

 

Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)

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 Ragaišienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)

Lithuania Towards Agonistic Memory: Kristina Sabaliauskaitė’s The Return of Samuel Vilner (2012)

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

 

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 (Iğdır 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

 

FRIDAY,  19 January 2024

 

11.00 AM – 2.00 PM: Parallel Sessions IV

 

Session IV A

 

Chair:

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 Baranovaitė (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


Our email: conferencememory@gmail.com

 

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