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THURSDAY,  22 January 2026

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12.30 PM – 3.30 PM: Conference OPENING and Session I 

 

Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)

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Tarang Taswir and Sara Saeed Alhaj Mohamed Almarar (Higher Colleges of Technology, The United Arab Emirates)

Adornment and Cultural Memory in Emirati Poetic Documentary

 

Neha Srivastava (IIMT University Meerut, India)

Emotional Maturity as a Mediating Factor in Memory Regaining: An Interdisciplinary Study of Self-Reconstruction through Remembrance and Forgetting

 

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

Déjà vu in Business

 

Lisa Camichos  (International School of Trieste, Italy)

Regaining History: Genealogical Discovery as an Act of Mnemonic Creation in The Orlando Plan

 

Gamze Köseoğlu (Independent Researcher) and Esra Enes (Tarsus University, Turkey)

Curated Forgetting: Algorithmic Bias and the Politics of Digital Mnemonic Inequality

 

Nick Treanor (University of Edinburgh, UK)

The Role of Memory in Engineering Disasters

 

3.30 PM – 4.00 PM:  BREAK

 

4.00 PM – 6.30 PM: Session II

 

Chair: Danica Anderson (The Kolo: Women's Cross-Cultural Collaboration)

 

Małgorzata Miłek-Zwardoń (Independent Researcher)

Lynching Photography as Memory: Trauma, Collective Memory, and the Politics of Documentation

 

Marzia Dessi (The European Graduate School [EGS] Saas-Fee, Switzerland)

Dreamer Drama: Documenting and Remembering as Teaching Tool in the Theater of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

 

Danica Anderson (The Kolo: Women's Cross-Cultural Collaboration)
The Circle Remembers: Folk Oral Memory, Embodied Epigenetics, and Cultural Continuity in Healing Transgenerational Trauma

 

Zachary Chen (Hillsdale College, USA)

 “Meministis enim divae:” Memory and Allusive Invocation in the Epics of Vergil, Ovid, and Homer

 

6.30 PM – 7.30 PM:  BREAK

7.30 PM – 10.00 PM: Session III

 

Chair: Monica Garoiu (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)

 

Marios Demosthenous (Safer Internet Centre Cyprus, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth of Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus)

Extended Screen Time and the Erosion of Shared Presence: Stoic Attention and Husserlian Temporality in Parent-Child Relations

 

Marios Demosthenous (Safer Internet Centre Cyprus, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth of Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus)

Age-Appropriate Digital Worlds: Memory, Fiction and the Child’s Right to Online Protection

Eza Qamar (University of Glasgow, UK; Aarhus University, Denmark; University of Wroclaw, Poland)

The Crisis of Representation: Challenging State Indoctrination and the Exclusionary Master Narrative in Pakistani Children's Literature

 

Monica Garoiu (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)

Memory and the Construction of Individual and Collective Identity in Assia Djebar's Fantasia. An Algerian Cavalcade

 

Ariana Micale (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)

Repression of Memory and Trauma in The Remains of the Day and Hotel World

FRIDAY,  23 January 2026

 

12.00 PM – 2.30 PM: Session IV

 

Chair: Antonella Cagnolati (University of Foggia, Italy)

 

Gaetano Rando (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Migration and Memory between Italy and Australia: The Narrative Writing of Giovanni Andreoni

 

Antonella Cagnolati and Carmen Petruzzi (University of Foggia, Italy)

Remembering Darkness: Gemma La Guardia’s Memories of Imprisonment in Ravensbrück (1944-1945)

 

Bushra Juhi Jani (College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq)

From Clinical Detachment to Human Vulnerability: Transformations of Medical Memory in Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air

 

Martin Gabriel (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)

Sound Memories of Genocide. Noises, Voices, and the Mass Violence against Ottoman Armenians in Jakob Künzler’s In the Land of Blood and Tears (1921)

 

Kiyotaka Sueyoshi (University of Szeged, Hungary)

Walt Whitman’s The Prairie-Grass Dividing: A Poem of the Memory of the Revolutionary Origin of the Nation

 

2.30 PM – 3.30 PM:  BREAK

 

3.30 PM – 6.00 PM: Session III

 

Chair: Sarah King (Arts University Plymouth, UK)

 

Agata Sowińska (University of Silesia, Poland)

Gems as Magical Memory Media

 

Brinda Nair (Christ University, Bangalore, India)

Art, Heritage, and Cultural Memory in Southern Peninsular India

 

Afra Willems (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands) 

Apple Pattern: A Collective Reconstruction of an Individual Memory

 

Sarah King (Arts University Plymouth, UK)

Soft Practices: Material Memory, Fragility and Speculative Futures

 

Amy Schwartzott (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA)

The Intrinsic Value of Remembering through the Materiality of War as a Tool for Post Conflict Resolution: Mozambique’s TAE Project

 

6.00 PM – 7.00 PM:  BREAK

 

7.00 PM – 10.00 PM: Session VI

 

Chair: Paula Teodorescu (Pascaru) (University of Bucharest, Romania)

 

Antonina Kizlova (National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”)

The Ukrainian People Republic Independence “For Children of All Ages”: Significant Anniversaries of the 4th Universal in “Veselka” Magazine

 

Daria Banasiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland) 

(Un)Forgetting and Creating a New Identity” About Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku [Kajś: A Story of Upper Silesia] by Zbigniew Rokita

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Paula Teodorescu (Pascaru) (University of Bucharest, Romania)

The Body as a Memory Medium: Trauma, Shame, and Narrative Reconstruction in Yan Geling’s The Flowers of War

 

Malika Hammouche (Oran Graduate School of Economics John F. Kennedy, Algeria)

Fractured Attachments and Haunted Memories in a Literary Narrative

 

Alexandra Comus (Hillsdale College, USA)

Desire and Forgetfulness: Oneness with God as Erotic Participation in The Cloud of Unknowing

 

Katarzyna Szyszkowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Art as Afterlife: Repression, Reconstruction, and the Fragile Boundary of Memory

 

 

10.00 PM: Conference CLOSING

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