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6th "POSTMEMORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD"
International Interdisciplinary Conference
27-28 February 2025
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POSTMEMORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
27-28 February 2025
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, 27 February 2025
1.00 PM – 4.30 PM: Session I
Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Joanna Nowicka (Angelus Silesius University of Applied Sciences in Walbrzych, Poland)
Postmemory, Myth and Start-Ups: Do Young Companies Need Historical Narratives?
Amir Hossain (Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Female Trauma and Alienation and Doris Lessing
Marina Ragachewskaya (SALT research fellow, University of Gdansk)
Memory That Goes Backwards: M. Amis Dealing with Historical Trauma in Time's Arrow
Yaron Katz (Holon Institute of Technology, Israel)
Postmemory and Trauma Among Israelis after the October 7, 2023, Events
Katarzyna Majca-Lipa (University of the Commission of National Education in Krakow, Poland)
Framework of Memory: Matecznik by Małgorzata Lebda
Anesa Muslimovic Ortega (University of València, Spain)
Unveiling Silenced Legacies through Female Bodies: An Exploration of Postmemory in Literature about Descendants of Systematic Rape Victims during the Bosnia War
Juliette Le Marquer (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France)
Descendants of the Coal Mining Memory: From Tracing to Writing the Past
4.30 PM – 5.30 PM: Break
5.30 PM – 8.30 PM: Session II
Chair: Elliot Shaw (University of Georgia, USA)
Fatima Amellouk (Independent Researcher)
The Multidirectional Construction of Traumatic Postmemory: The Case of Erfat Hakimi’s Looking for a Village
Frederico Dinis (Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture ID+, Barcelos, Portugal; Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave, Design School, Barcelos, Portugal)
Echoes of Memory: Resonance and Resignification in Arts-Based Research through Site-Specific Sound and Visual Performances
Anna Łozowska-Patynowska (Pomeranian University in Slupsk, Poland)
Can Something Be Recovered Despite Loss? Voices of Expatriates and “Heirs to Trauma” in Polish Contemporary Literature (Czystka Written by K. Surmiak-Domańska)
Elliot Shaw (University of Georgia, USA)
Postmemory as Facet of Intersubjective Subjectivity
Jake Garner (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Expanding Horizons of Memory: Intersections of Rhetoric, Politics, and Grassroots Narratives in Contemporary Memory Studies
FRIDAY, 28 February 2025
11.30 AM – 2.00 PM: Session III
Chair: Antonio J. Pinto Tortosa (University of Malaga, Spain)
Shu-Ting Liu (National Taiwan Normal University [NTNU], Taiwan)
Poetic Memory: The Reconstruction of Post-Memory in AI Art
Ankhi Mukherjee (Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India)
The Aesthetics of Absence and Fragmentation: Postmemory and the Affective Archive of Trauma in Contemporary Argentine Cinema through the Lens of Benjamin Naishtat
Maciej Dragan (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Beyond-Memory: Mechanisms of Using Visual Home Archives by Contemporary Polish Artists in Defining Their Identities
Antonio J. Pinto Tortosa (University of Malaga, Spain)
The Loss of Class Consciousness: How Neoliberalism Has Turned the Welfare State into an Illusion, Opening the Door to Far-Right Populism
Robyn Murning (Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
The Shadows of Apartheid: Identity and Memory of South Africa's “Born Free” Generation
2.00 PM – 3.00 PM: Break
3.00 PM – 6.30 PM: Session IV
Chair: Vivienne Tailor (Independent Scholar, USA)
Andrea Fanta (Florida International University, USA)
Postmemory without Witnesses: Digital Archives and the Inheritance of Holocaust Silence
Vivienne Tailor (Independent Scholar, USA)
Visual Media and Living Statues Facilitate Memory and Activism: The Intersectional Journey of WWII Sex Slaves Achieving Justice
Nishant Upadhyay (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Religious Authority and Postmemory: The Case of Babri Mosque in India’s Minority Discourses
Agnes Ciemny (The New School, USA)
Niko Kao Ja [No One Like Me]: Yugoslav Identity in a Post-Yugoslav World
Josalyn Isbell (Independent Scholar, USA)
Every Veteran is Trans: The Role of Culture and Social Memory in Constructing Gender and Military Identities
Marcela Lemos (Utah State University, USA)
Ekphrasis, Representation, and Ethical Expectations in the Literary Postmemory of South American Dictatorships
Suzanne Goldenberg (City University of New York, USA)
Collage, Jump Cuts and Ellipses: Postmemory in Visual Art
6.30 PM: Conference Closing