Institute of English and American Studies
University of Gdańsk
and
Polish Society for the Study of
European Romanticism
The City as Palimpsest
20-22 September 2018
PROGRAM
Thursday, September 20
9.00 - 9.45 – Registration (Institute of English and American Studies)
9.45 - 10.00 – Welcome & Opening (Room 382)
10.00 - 11.15 – Plenary I (Room 382). Keynote Address.
Mihaela Irimia (Director, Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural
Identity, Bucharest): London Pleasures in Classic Modernity
Chair: Mirosława Modrzewska
11.15 - 11.30 – Coffee break
11.30 - 13.00 - Parallelsessions1&2
13.00 - 14.00 – Break and trip to downtown Gdańsk
14.15-16.15 - ``Strolling lecture`` and discussion. Jerzy Limon: Theatre as a Model of City (The Gdansk Shakespeare Theater https://teatrszekspirowski.pl/en/ )
Session 1 (Room 382)
Chair: Miłosz Wojtyna
Marcin Sarnek (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland): Reformation. Surveillance, progress and city building in The Wire
Lucrezia Stella (University of Warsaw, Poland): Memory and identity in the ‘alien’ ghetto of Channel 4’s The Aliens (2016)
Grzegorz Welizarowicz (University of Gdańsk, Poland): Fugitive / In the jungles of Surinam / and the hills above South Central’: Roger Guenveur Smith’s Creolizations in Los Angeles
Session 2 (Room 356)
Chair: Ross Aldridge
Przemysław Uściński (University of Warsaw, Poland): Disenchantment and Dullness: Urban Satire and the Eighteenth-Century London
Nina Augustynowicz (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland): Urban Foodscapes in Victorian Britain
Artur Piskorz (Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland): Patrick Keiller and ‘the problem of London’
Friday, September 21
10.00 - 11.15 – Plenary II (Room 382). Keynote Lecture.
Joshua Parker (Associate Professor, University of Salzburg,
Department of English and American Studies):
The Berlin Palimpsest
Chair: Marta Koval
11.15 - 11.45 – Coffee break
11.45 - 13.15 – Parallel sessions 3 & 4
Session 3 (Room 382)
Chair: Przemysław Uściński
Maria Fengler (University of Gdańsk, Poland): From Place to No-place: Dublin in Dermot Bolger’s Fiction
Christoph Ehland (University of Paderborn, Germany): The Creation of a Second City: Edinburgh’s Literary Topography
Ross Aldridge (University of Gdańsk, Poland): Violence, Crowds and Commemoration in the urban landscape: London and the First World War, 1914-2016
Session 4 (Room 356)
Chair: Florentina Rosca
William Tate (Umbau / James Madison University, Virginia, USA): MAMA LOWNDES FREEDOM MEMORIAL. Black panthers, rhinos, + cotton
Miłosz Wojtyna (University of Gdańsk, Poland): The Metropolis in Contemporary Photography
Kseniia Hurzhy (Vasyl Stus ’ Donetsk National University, Ukraine): The idea of the city and the myth of the city: case of Ukrainian cities
13.15 - 14.30 – Lunch break
14.30 - 16.00 – Urban Palimpsest of Literary Gdańsk (Room 382)
Chair: Jean Ward
Mirosława Modrzewska (University of Gdańsk, Poland): Gdańsk by Paweł Huelle
Katarzyna Szalewska (University of Gdańsk, Poland): From Re-Remembering to Re-Rooting. Gdansk Narratives in the Contemporary Novel
Marek Wilczyński (University of Gdańsk, Poland): Gdanzig: Narrative Palimpsests
16.00 - 16.20 – Coffee break
Session 5 (Room 382) – 16.20 - 18.20
Chair: Arkadiusz Misztal
Raluca Andreescu (University of Bucharest): No Community Standards: The Rise and Fall and Rise of New York’s Sex Economy in The Deuce
Irina Antonenko (University of Gdańsk, Poland): The Urban Space In the Novels of Paul Auster, Tom Wolfe, and Bret Easton Ellis
Florian Groß (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany): The Park as Post-Industrial Palimpsest: New York City’s High Line and the Politics of Historicist Aestheticization
Florentina Rosca (Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait): Reading and Writing the City of Exile
18. 30 – Conference dinner (U Józefa, 4 Bażyńskiego St. )
Saturday, September 22
10.00 - 11.30 – Parallel sessions 6 & 7
Session 6 (Room 382)
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Mónika Dánél (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary): In Transition – Budapest as Contact Zone of Foreigners’ Imagined Places
Alicja Chmiołek (University of Gdańsk, Poland): The Problem of German American Identity in the Occupied Berlin in Thomas Berger’s novel Crazy in Berlin
Marta Koval (University of Gdańsk, Poland): Magic Sarajevo: Genius Loci in the Émigré Fiction by Aleksandar Hemon
Session 7 (Room 356)
Chair: Raluca Andreescu
Mathias Foit (University of Wrocław, Poland): Queer Breslau: The Utility of Studying the Queer Histories of Formerly German Polish Cities
Julia Kula (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland): “Mother London herself was splitting into segments”: A journey through the postmodern city in Iain Sinclair’s Downriver
Arkadiusz Misztal (University of Gdańsk, Poland): Reading Temporal Palimpsests in Richard McGuire’s “Here” and Here
11.30 – 11.45 – Coffee break
11.45 – 12.15 – Closing remarks (Room 382)
