Ties and Knots.
Bridges
Between Lands and Cultures
Conference Programme
Thursday 18 September 2014
9.30 – 10.00
Registration
10.00 – 10.30
Opening statements:
 Prof. Jacek Mydla
Director of Institute of English Cultures and Literatures
University of Silesia
 Prof. Ewa Borkowska
Chair of Department of British Culture and Literature
University of Silesia
10.30-11.45
Keynote lecture:
Prof. Nancy Schultz
Salem State University
11.45 – 12.15
Coffee break
12.15-13.45
PANEL SESSIONS
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12.15-13.45
Room A
Room B
Classics and the Epistolary
Contemporary Lits
Chair:
Prof. Jacek Mydla
Chair:
Prof. Rafał Borysławski
Elizabeth T. Kenney
Monika Kowalczyk-Piaseczna
Salem State University
University of Silesia
The Case of the Jarvis and Hart Family
Papers
Strained Ties, Disentangled Knots: The
Negotiation of Self in the Process of
Resettlement in Kamala Markandaya’s
The Nowhere Man
Andrzej Księżopolski
Patrick Madigan
Heythrop College, London
University of Warsaw
Expressive Individualism, the Cult of the
Artist as Genius, and Milton’s Lucifer
History’s Gaps and Memory’s Bridges:
A History of the World in 10 and ½
Chapters
Agnieszka Podruczna
University of Silesia
Cultural Gaps and Fallen Bridges.
Narratives of Conflict and Transformation
in Carole McDonnell’s Lingua Franca
13.45-14.30
14.30-16.00
Refeshments break
Room A
Room B
Culture Matters
and Enjoyment
East and West:
Mutual Translations
Chair:
Prof. Steven James Joyce
Chair:
Prof. Zbigniew Białas
Bożena Kilian
Anna Spyra
University of Silesia
Butler University
The Tourist in the Global Village:
Globalization and its Influence on the
Condition of Contemporary Tourists
Broken Bridges of Translatability
in Multilingual Literature
Nina Augustynowicz
University of Silesia
Sanjay Kaushal
Jawaharlal Nehry University
Digestive Metaphors: Bridging
Cognitive and Anthropological
Perspectives in Food Studies
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Language and Culture: Ethical Ties Between
Self and the Other
Rafał Madeja
Jakub Gajda
University of Silesia
University of Silesia
“No blue Monday in your Sunday
clothes”: the Politics of Attire in the 20th
century American Culture
“A Loop of String”: Storytelling Across
Language Barriers.
Keynote lecture:
16.00-17.15
Prof. Roger Scruton
Research Professor, Washington and Oxford
17.30
Dinner
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Friday 19 September 2014
10.00 – 11.15
Keynote lecture:
Prof. Steven James Joyce
Ohio State University
11.15 – 11.45
Coffee break
PANEL SESSIONS
11.45-13.15
Room A
Room B
Dystopian Crises and Film
Nabokov and the Novel
Chair:
Prof. Leszek Drong
Chair:
Prof. Nancy Schultz
Bojana Bujwid-Sadowska
Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa we Wrocławiu
(Un)Ethical knots. The Eugenic-Genetic
Alliance Between the Early 20c
Pseudoscience and the 21c Utopia
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Prof. Sławomir Masłoń
University of Silesia
Tying the Knot with America:
Nabokov and the 1950s.
Joanna Skolik
Irena Księżopolska
Opole University
University of Social Sciences
and Humanities, Warsaw
A Journey to the Roots: Heart of
Darkness and Apocalypse Now. The
Crisis or the End of Western
Civilisation?
Nabokov’s Aerial Viaduct: Pale Fire and
the Return to the Forbidden past
Paulina Mirowska
Eric Starnes
University of Łódz
University of Silesia
Irish-American Interplay in
Sam Shepard’s Recent Work
The Ties of Revolution, The Knots of Race:
An Examination of Two. 'Revolutionary'
American Pacific Northwest Novels
13.15–14.15
lunch
14.15-15.45
Room A
Room B
Colonial Residue
and China
Poesis, Myth and Faith
Chair:
Chair:
Prof. Sławomir Masłoń
Dr Tomasz Kalaga
Aleksandra Musiał
Jan Głowacki
University of Silesia
Conservatism or Multicultures,
Post-modernism or Fundamentalism.
Reflection about Present Culture and Religion
Outside the World: Representations of the
Vietnamese Land in American Narratives of
the Vietnam War
Agnieszka Jarosz
Stefano Luconi
Univesity of Naples
The University of Wrocław
The Native American and Chinese Ties
and Knots in Griever: An American
Monkey King in China (1986) by Gerald
Robert Vizenor
Unfastened Knots and Unsteady Bridges
over the Atlantic Waters
Prof. Anthony Barker
Prof. Ewa Borkowska
University of Silesia
University of Aveiro
From the River Kwai to Madison
County: Bridges as Movie Metaphors
“’Ties and Slurs’: Poetry Builds Bridges
Between Countries
15.45
Closing remarks:
 Prof. Jacek Mydla
Director of Institute of English Cultures and Literatures.
University of Silesia
 Prof. Ewa Borkowska
Chair of Department of British Culture and Literature,
University of Silesia
Tea
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