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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WEDNESDAY, 3 December 2025

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Online Sessions

 

 

11.20 AM – Conference OPENING

 

11.30 AM – 2.00 PM: Parallel Sessions I (Sections: A, B)

 

 

Session A I:

 

Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)

 

Javier Leñador González-Páez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)

A Characterisation of Nostalgia through its Intentionality

 

Martyna Świątek (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland)

Everybody Lies – Even Your Brain: How Nostalgia and the Mandela Effect Rewrite Reality

 

Maria Irene Aparicio (FILNOVA/ Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Cinema and Eco-Nostalgia: The Case of Winds Across the Everglades (1958) by Nicholas Ray

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Carlo Comanducci (Independent Researcher)

Memories of an Erasure: Fascism in Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden (2019) and Duse (2025)

 

Cemre Aydogan (Yeditepe University, Turkey)

I Long, Therefore I Re-Watch: Nostalgia and Turkish TV Series

 

Session B I:

 

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

 

Bartłomiej Lekan (University of Silesia, Poland)

“Then mighty fate brought change upon it all”: Nostalgia and Melancholy in Select Pre-11th Century Old English Poems

 

Lubomír Šalomoun  (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Reflections on the Events Preceding the Battle of White Mountain in the Works of Mikuláš Dačický of Heslov and Pavel Skála of Zhoř

 

Justine Shu-Ting Kao (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

Grief and Memory in Ivan Bunin’s Exilic Short Fiction

 

Osheen Sharma (Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India)

Inherited Mountains: Nostalgia and Post-Memory in Himachali Folklore

 

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

Writing as Cure, Writing as Disease: Robert Burton and the Paradox of Melancholy

 

2.00 PM – 3.00 PM: BREAK

 

3.00 PM – 5.30 PM: Parallel Sessions II (Sections: A, B)

 

 

Session A II:

 

Chair: Francesco Rossetti (University of Milan, Italy)

 

Flavia Luck (Shanghai University Academy of Art)

Nostalgia as Emotional Infrastructure in Guócháo Cháowán （国潮潮玩): Cultural Memory, Identity, and Symbolic Design

 

Zuzanna Sanecka (Niclaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland)

Amber Skies and Glimpses of Relief: Nostalgia in the Selected Works of Taylor Swift

 

PANEL: Sounds Beyond Longing: Music and Nostalgia in the Diasporas

 

1. Francesco Rossetti  (University of Milan, Italy)

      Nostalgic Sound for Diasporic Youth: Armenian Children’s Songs in Italy

     2. Michael Turabian (Independent Researcher)

       Constellated Communities: Musical Imaginings of the Armenian  Home Abroad        

      3. Christina Banalopoulou (University of Milan, Italy)

      Escaping Algos, Forgetting Nostos: Rum Amnesia as Staying During the Expulsions in 1970s Istanbul

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Session B II:

 

Chair: Oksana Pukhonska  (University of Warsaw, Poland; National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine)

 

Oksana Pukhonska  (University of Warsaw, Poland; National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine)

Memory as the Key to Understanding the Russian-Ukrainian War: Literary Perspectives

 

Monika Martins Mastrantonio (Arden University, UK)

Melancholy, Memory, and the Chronotope: Discursive Time and Past Attachments in Proust and Bakhtin – Reflections on a Recent Study

 

Abigail Weronika Grabowska (University of Silesia, Poland)

How Nostalgia Fuels Yearning for Children's Stories, Based on The Moomins

 

Marie Jensen (Fulbright Austria USTA; University of California Berkeley, USA)

Reflective Nostalgia in East Germany and East Asia: An Analysis of In Times of Fading Light and The Astonishing Color of After

 

Jolanta Wilk  (University of Szczecin, Poland)

Jerusalem: Between Genius Loci and Locus Theologicus

 

5.30 PM – 6.30 PM: BREAK

 

6.30 PM – 9.30 PM: Parallel Sessions II (Sections: A, B)

 

Session A III:

 

Chair: Georgiana Țăranu (Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania)

 

Antonio J. Pinto Tortosa (Universidad de Malaga, Spain)

The Nostalgia of Those Who Did Not Live It: Young Generations and Their Claim for The (Often Totalitarian) Past

 

Jo-Ansie van Wyk (University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa)

Nuclear Nostalgia in South Africa

 

Georgiana Țăranu (Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania)

Selective Memory: Nicolae Iorga and the Afterlives of Romanian Nationalism

 

Aleksandra Lechocka (Academy of Justice in Warsaw, Poland)

Nostalgia and Nationalism

 

Liena Galeja (Latvian Academy of Culture, Latvia) and Ojars Stepens (University of Latvia)

Filtering Nostalgia: Instrumentalizing the Past through Latvia’s Freedom and Victory Monuments

 

Jake Garner (University of Texas,  USA)

Foundations of Forgetting: Monumental Rhetoric and the Idealized American West at the Texas Capitol

 

Session B III:

 

Chair: Colette Morrow (Purdue University Northwest, USA)

 

Ellen Korman Mains (Independent Researcher)

Elemental Nostalgia as a Door to Timelessness

 

Colette Morrow (Purdue University Northwest, USA)

Nostalgia and Revolution in Savushun and Persepolis I: The Story of a Childhood

 

June-Ann Greeley (Sacred Heart University Fairfield CT USA)

The Spiritual Danger of Nostalgia: Memory and Melancholia in The Divine Comedy

 

Agnieszka Kliś (Bielsko-Biała University, Poland)

Weaving Trauma and Healing: Indigenous Worldviews in Linda Hogan’s The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir

 

Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware, USA)

The Nostalgic Complexity of Post-Mysteries

 

 

THURSDAY, 4 December 2025

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Online Sessions

 

11.30 AM – 2.00 PM: Parallel Sessions IV (Sections: A, B)

 

Session A IV:

 

Chair: Eleni Kontogianni (University of Strasbourg, France)

 

Silvia Pierosara (University of Macerata, Italy)

Nostalgia for The Future: Assessing The Ethical Implication of a Pervasive Affective Tonality

 

Marielle Antoinette Zosa (University of the Philippines, Diliman)

On Tense and Emotions: A Moving Spotlight Theory of Nostalgia

 

Eleni Kontogianni (University of Strasbourg, France)

Melancholy: Evanescent Impressions, Memory, Thought

 

Dylan Trigg (Central European University, Vienna)

After Forever: On Nostalgia, Grief, and Death

 

Justyna Jezierska  (University of Silesia, Poland)

Judging and Remembering: On the Responsibility of Judges and Historians in the Work of Memory

 

Session B IV:

 

Chair: Lena Ahlin (Kristianstad University, Sweden)

 

Agnieszka Miksza (PANS in Wloclawek, Poland)

From Linear Healing to Fragmented Grief: The Evolution of Narrative Form in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Memoirs

 

Eyesha Elahi (Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, Germany)

“The past called us back to a time and place we still leaned toward”: Nostalgia in Ling Ma’s Severance

 

Eir-Anne Edgar (NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Nostalgia as Contagion: Feminist Memory and Possibility in Ling Ma’s Severance

 

Lena Ahlin (Kristianstad University, Sweden)

On Imaginary Homelands and Transgressive Nostalgia: The Transnational Option Memoir

 

Anja Mrak (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia)

Inherited Silence: Unwanted Memory in Anna Janko’s A Little Annihilation

 

 

2.00 PM – 3.00 PM: BREAK

 

3.00 PM – 5.30 PM: Parallel Sessions II (Sections: A, B)

 

 

Session A V:

 

Chair: Ruth Ronen (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

 

Dorota Miller (Hestia Charity/North London NHS Trust)

Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia in Widowhood: Learning from Loss in Later Life

 

Ruth Ronen (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Melancholy, Nostalgia and the Sublime in Times of War

 

Dylan Mendez (University of Central Florida, USA)

Nostalgic for Nostalgia: On the Pathology of Memory in Postmodernity

 

Nathalia De Avila (University of Köln, Germany)

Might Nostalgia Once Again Be Understood as a Form of Psychopathology?

 

Helene Demers (Vancouver Island University, Canada)

Knowing Ourselves: Remembering through Home Artifacts and Their Stories

 

Session B V:

 

Chair: Furkan Gökalp (Independent Scholar)

 

Shpresa Rama Kajtazi (Independent Researcher, Kosovo)

Carrying the City Everywhere: Nostalgia for 1990s Houses in Kosovo as Transmedial Architecture of Memory

 

Mentor Hasani (University of Prishtina, Kosovo) and Sanije Hasani (Independent Researcher)

The Past That Does Not Rest: The Historical Memory of the Missing Persons During the Kosovo War (1998–1999)

 

Supongsangla  Walling (Jubilee Memorial College Mokokchung, Nagaland University, India)

Unwanted Memories and Collective Trauma: Human Rights Violations in Mokokchung District of Nagaland, India

 

Furkan Gökalp (Independent Scholar)

Reclaiming the Past, Redefining the Present and the Future: An Ethnographic Exploration of Nostalgia in České Budějovice

 

Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska (SGH Warsaw, Poland)

Sustainable Development in Geopolitically Unstable Times: The Case of EU Sustainable Finance

 

5.30 PM – 6.30 PM: BREAK

 

6.30 PM – 9.00 PM: Parallel Sessions II (Sections: A, B)

 

Session A VI:

 

Chair: Kayungu Ramazani Feza (Clark University, USA)

 

Peggy Bloomer (Central Connecticut State University, USA)

Nostalgia as Political Instrument: Memory, Monuments, and the Melancholy of Community

 

Siting Wang (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

ReMnesia: Co-Authoring Urban Memory beyond Loss

 

Kayungu Ramazani Feza (Clark University, USA)

Life Was Good Before

 

Sally Henschel (Midwestern State University, USA)

Jean-Francois Laguionie’s Louise by the Shore: Transcending the Boundaries of Memory, Nostalgia, and Dementia

 

Jenna Johnston (McGill University, Canada)

“Sunrise, Parabellum:” An Analysis of Disco Elysium and its Exploration of Memory

 

Session B VI:

 

Chair: Kathryn L. Donati (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

 

Ignat-Coman Luminita (Lucian Blaga Central University Library,  Cluj-Napoca, Romenia)

The Memory of Authenticity: Perceptions and Identity of Transylvanian Romanians after the Union with the Old Kingdom

 

Tuba Rashid (Lovely Professional University, India)

Title to be confirmed

 

Bessem Chaouachi (University of Manouba, Tunisia)

Poe’s The Raven: Torn Between “thy memories of Lenore” and “that melancholy burden bore”

 

Kamila Wojtunik (University of Warsaw, Poland)

The Labyrinth of Melancholy: Crisis of Language in Bruno Schulz’s Prose

 

Kathryn L. Donati (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

Tradwives and Transcendence: Learning How to Navigate the Age of Post-Nostalgia

 

 

FRIDAY, 5 December 2025

 

Onsite Sessions at Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel, Gdansk

 

 

10.30 AM – 12.30 PM: Opening and Plenary Session I

 

Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)

 

Maxim Pensky (Binghamton University, USA)

Melancholia as Epistemic Stance in Benjamin and Adorno

 

Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

The Stimmungs of Nostalgia

 

Marina Ragachewskaya (University of Gdansk, Poland)

Rewriting Melancholy Futures: Memory and Nostalgia in G. Orwell’s 1984 and S. Newman’s Julia

 

Katarzyna Rukojć (WSB Merito University in Gdansk, Poland)

Anchoring the Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Experience in Auster’s Report from the Interior and Beyond

 

12.30 PM – 2.30 PM: BREAK

 

 

2.30 PM – 5.00 PM: Parallel Sessions II (Sections: A, B,)

 

 

Section A

 

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

 

Konstantina Kliagkona  (University of Portsmouth, UK)

"In Memory of the Tulsa Race Massacre:" Remembering, Reclaiming and Respecting a Forgotten History

 

Sophie Gregoire Weill (University of Strasbourg, France)

Schirrhoffen, Alsace, France: Traces and Nostalgic Memory of a Gone Jewish Past

 

Defne Karaosmanoğlu (Kadir Has University, Turkey)

Brewing Nostalgia: Neolocalism in Turkey’s Craft Beer Movement

 

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

Digital Nostalgia among Poles

 

Clovis Salgado Gontijo (Jesuit College of Philosophy and Theology [FAJE] in Belo Horizonte [Minas Gerais], Brazil)

To the Memory of an Angel: Ontological Notes on the Death of an Infant and Its Representation

 

 

Section B

 

Chair: Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

 

Beatriz Carlsson Pecharromán (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

Beyond Tropes: Exploring the Literary Aesthetics of Nostalgia in the Twenty-First Century

 

Irakli Khvedelidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia)

Depicting Consciousness and Nostalgia in Georgian Life Writing (19th-Early 20th Century)

 

Raluca-Andreea Petruș (West University of Timișoara, Romania)

Nostalgia, Memory, and Post-Memory: The Semiotics of Japanese American Incarceration Literature

 

Immanuel Mifsud  (University of Malta)

Remembering What Wasn't; Remembering the Present

 

Jyoti Jakhar Dahiya (University of Delhi, India)

Memory, Melancholy and Dalit Feminism: A Case Study of Select Autobiographies by Dalit Women Writers

 

5.00 PM – 5.30 PM: BREAK

 

5.30 PM – 8.00 PM: Parallel Sessions II (Sections: A, B,)

 

Section A

 

Chair: Marina Ragachewskaya (University of Gdansk, Poland)

 

Em Walsh (University of Central Florida, USA)

Delusions of Nostalgia: The Mythical Return to a Time That Never Was

 

 

Dorota Babilas (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Nostalgia for the Victorian Era in BBC Reconstruction Shows

 

Whitney White (University of Vienna, Austria)

“Betwixt and Between”: The Liminality of Statue Parks Post-Communist East Central Europe

 

Lucy Jeffery and Anna Varadi (Cardiff University, UK)

Post-Communist Trauma or Post-Communist Nostalgia? The Trauma/Nostalgia Paradigm in Central and Eastern European Cultural Production

 

 

Section B

 

Chair: Konstantina Kliagkona  (University of Portsmouth, UK)

 

Jody Kelly White (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

We’re Safer Being Scared in the Past: Nostalgia or Technophobia?

 

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

Creative Nostalgia: Is the Concept of Nostalgia Still Relevant in the Damaged World?

 

Scott Gordon (Binghamton University, USA)

Making Dreams out of Monsters and Monsters out of Dreams: What Ray Harryhausen Can Teach Us about the Wonder and Horror of Mythic Imagination

 

Jeremy Turner (University of Chester, UK)

Sculpture as Mediator of Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia: A Blessing and a Curse

 

Valeska Mangel (University of the Arts London [UAL], UK)

Can a Romantic Anti-Capitalist Nostalgia Emancipate Design?

 

8.30 PM – 10.30 PM: DINNER

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