CHRONOTOPE REVISITED CONFERENCE
April 26th-29th, 2017
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Pomeranian University in Słupsk
Emigration Museum in Gdynia
Museum of Central Pomerania in Słupsk
State Art Gallery in Sopot
Day 1 – April 26th (Wednesday), Słupsk
Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego (ul. Dominikańska 5-9)
Pomeranian Princes’ Castle (5-9 Dominikańska St.)
8:45 – 9:15 Registration & Coffee
9:15 – 9:30 Welcoming Remarks: President of the Pomeranian University in Słupsk
9:30 – 10:00 Pianists Joanna Bernagiewicz and Medea Berianidze (BeBe Piano Duet) Inaugural Concert: works of Maurycy Moszkowski, Fryderyk Chopin, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Juliusz Zarębski
10:00 – 10:30 Keynote Address: Sandra L. Bermann, Princeton University “Fureur et Mystère: René Char, Poetry and War”
10:30 -10:45 Discussion
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 1 TOPOI Presiding: Paulina Kewes, University of Oxford
11:00 – 11:20 Adam Lipszyc, Insitute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science – “The Floating Stage and the Pond of Origin: Time-Space in Moby Dick”
11:20 – 11:45 Boris Lanin, Academy of Education of Russia – “The Chronotope of Russian Anti-Utopian Novel”
11:45 – 12:15 Artur Blaim/Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim, The University of Gdańsk – “Two-speed Utopias: A Compound Chronotopos”
12:15 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 13:45 Session 2 INTERSTICES Presiding: Adam Lipszyc, Insitute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science
12:30 – 13:10 Krzysztof Morawski, The Medical University of Warsaw / Magdalena Szpilman, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk - “Perception of Time-Space in Hearing-impaired and Deaf Patients”
13:10 – 13:30 Jacek Sznurkowski, The Medical University of Gdańsk – “Walking Every Two Flagstones”
13:30- 13:45 Discussion
13:45 – 14:45 Lunch at Herbaciarnia w Spichlerzu (next door to the Castle)
14:45 – 16:00 Session 3 PASSAGES Presiding: Samuele Fioravanti, University of Genoa
14:45 - 15:05 Anna Sawicka, Opera Bałtycka/Baltic Opera – “Space-Time in Sonic Icons (compositions) of Sofia Gubaidulina and John Tavener”
15:05 – 15:25 Magdalena Podwojewska, Gdańsk University of Technology – “Landmarks in Time and Space: Railway Water Towers”
15:25 – 15:45 Marzena Grzegorczyk, Reverie Chase Productions –“Portraying Malinowski and Witkacy in the Tropics: on the Chronotopic Energy of Film”
15:45 -16:00 Discussion
16:00 – 17:35 Session 4 INTERPLAYS Presiding: Klaudiusz Bobowski, Pomeranian University in Słupsk
16:00- 16:20 Oksana Lutsyshyna, The University of Texas at Austin – “Time, Space and Cosmos in Bruno Schulz”
16:20 – 16:40 Daniel Kalinowski, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk – “Not-Now: ‘The Hunter Gracchus’ of Franz Kafka”
16:40 – 17:00 Christophe Lagier, The American Business School of Paris – “Fleeting images of Paris in Breton’s Nadja”
17:00 – 17:20 Idalia Smoczyk-Jackowiak, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk – “The Interplay of Time and Space in Walter Map’s Otherworldly Narratives”
17:20 - 17:35 Discussion
17:45 – 18:15 Witkacy Exhibition
20:00 Gala Dinner with Słupsk Mayor, Mr. Robert Biedroń at Anna de Croy Restaurant (Castle)
Day 2 – April 27th (Thursday), Gdynia
Muzeum Emigracji (ul. Polska 1)
Emigration Museum (1 Polska St.)
8:30 – 10:30 Transfer from Słupsk to Gdynia (by coach) – Departure from Hotel Zamkowy
10:45 - 11:00 Welcoming Remarks by the Director of the Museum of Emigration
11:00 – 11:45– Keynote address: Paulina Kewes, University of Oxford “Artificial Eternity: Hamlets and the Jacobean Succession”
11:45 – 12:00 Break (Coffee and Snacks) Temporary Art Exhibits Accompanying the Conference at the Emigration Museum: Bob Haft’s Côte à Côte photographs and Janusz Zigmański’s Ameryka paintings
12:00 – 13:15 Session 1 DEPARTURES Presiding: Boris Lanin, Academy of Education of Russia
12:00 – 12:20 Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Osaka University – “Synchronicity across Historical and Geographical Boundaries in Hideo Levi’s Summer Travel Diary of Henry Takeshi Lewitsky”
12:20 – 12:40 Joanna Flinik, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk – “Chronotope of Migration in Contemporary Germanlanguage Literature: Restaurant Dalmatia (2016) by Jagoda Marinić”
12:40 – 13:00 Tadeusz Sucharski, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk – “The Chronotope of Russia as a ‘World Apart’ in the Accounts of Polish Prisoners of the Soviet Forced Labor Camps”
13:00 – 13:15 Discussion
13:15 – 13:45 Film: Desertopia (USA, 2000) Directed by Meri Pritchett, Cinematography: Marzena Grzegorczyk
13:45 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Special Address: Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College Chronotope, Exile, Translingualism “A Genius in the Attic: Secrets of a Cape Cod Dacha”
15:30 – 16:45 Session 2 CHANGES Presiding : Diego Varini, University of Parma
15:30 – 15:50 Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California – “Stasiuk and the Chronotope of Decay”
15:50 – 16:10 Jadwiga Węgrodzka, The University of Gdańsk - “Multitemporal Spaces in Crime Fiction”
16:10 – 16:30 Donald Brown, Yale University – “The Times They Are A-Changin’: Bob Dylan and the Chronotope of Change”
16:30 – 16:45 Discussion
16:45 – 17:00 Break (Coffee and Snacks)
17:00 – 18:15 Session 3 RETURNS Presiding: Katarzyna Jerzak, Pomeranian University in Słupsk
17:00 – 17:15 Jonathan Ornstein, Jewish Community Centre of Kraków – “The Rebirth of Jewish Life in Krakow: Why it Matters for the Jewish World”
17:15 – 17:30 Edyta Gawron, Jagiellonian University – “Time, Location and Identity. The Concept of Chronotope and the Jews in Krakow after the Holocaust”
17:30 – 17:45 Jora Vaso, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk – “Chronotope of Return: The Attempt to Regain Time through Space”
17:45 – 18:00 Rafał Raczyński, The Museum of Emigration/ The Pomeranian University in Słupsk– “The Politics of Return: National Belonging in Diaspora through Symbolic Actions by the State”
18:00 – 18:15 Discussion
18:15 – 19:00 Museum Visit
19:00 Coach to Sopot
20:30 Dinner at the Meridian (Sopot Pier)
Day 3 – April 28th (Friday), Sopot
Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Plac Zdrojowy 2
State Art Gallery (2 Zdrojowy Square)
8:30- 9:00 Coffee and pastries
9:00 – 9:30 Keynote Address: Maria Kalinowska, University of Warsaw “Memory in Polish Romanticism”
9:30 - 9:45 Discussion
9:45 – 11:00 Session 1 CATASTROPHES Presiding: Jörg Schulte, University of Köln
9:45 – 10:10 Geoffrey Clark, SUNY Potsdam (New York) – “Social Mathematics in the Creation of a Modern Historical Chronotope”
10:10 – 10:30 Katarzyna Jerzak, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk – “A Short Shrift Before Catastrophe: Baudelaire, Benjamin, Brodsky”
10:30 – 10:45 Martyna Mikuła, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk, “The Chronotope of Anxiety in Gogol, Rilke, and Gombrowicz”
10:45- 11:00 Discussion
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Session 2 CITIES Presiding: Sandra L. Bermann, Princeton University
11:15 – 11:35 Jörg Schulte, University of Köln – “Athens – Jerusalem – Byzantium - Rome: Interpretations of the Centres of the Classical World in Slavonic Culture”
11:35 – 11: 55 Diego Varini, University of Parma – “«In a Ruthless Light of Normality». Rome as Chronotope in Alberto Moravia’s Works
11: 55 – 12:10 Kleitia Vaso, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk – “The Chronotope of Love Explored through Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence”
12:10 – 12:30 Samuele Fioravanti, University of Genoa– “Poetry Mapping the City: Florence, Jerusalem, Genoa”
12:30- 12:45 Discussion
12:45 – 14:00 Session 3 HETEROTOPIAS Presiding: Donald Brown, Yale University
12:45 – 13:00 Bob Haft, The Evergreen State College, “Côte à Côte: Images from a Visual Diary”
13:00 – 13:15 Anna Porczyk, University of Warsaw – “Naples in the Works of Erri De Luca and Elena Ferrante: Chronotope of the Bumeràn City”
13:15 – 13:30 Klaudiusz Bobowski, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk – “George Bidwell: Defector from the British Council”
13:30 – 13:45 Pawel Kozłowski, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk – “The World-Creating Poetics of Heterotopia in James Joyce’s Ulysses”
13:45 – 14:00 Discussion
14:00 – 14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 16:00 Session 4 CONFIGURATIONS Presiding: Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California
14:45 – 15:00 Mirosława Modrzewska, University of Gdańsk– “Gdańsk and Kashubia by Paweł Huelle”
15:00 – 15:15 Adela Kuik-Kalinowska, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk – “Existential and Mythical Time in Kashubian Poetry”
15:15 – 15:30 Bernadetta Żynis, The Pomeranian University in Słupsk - “Time and Space in a Trance: The ‘I’ in Warsaw by Night”
15:30 – 15:45 Małgorzata Rzepczyńska, University of Gdańsk – “The Eternal ‘Now’ or Time and Space Overcome: William Blake”
15:45 – 16:00 Discussion
16:00 – 17:15 Session 5, MEDIA Presiding: Marzena Grzegorczyk, Reverie Chase Productions
16:00 – 16:20 Daniel Passent, Polityka – “The Politics of POLITYKA Polish Weekly”
16:20 – 16:40 Jane Okpala, Facebook “Chronotopes in the Age of Social Media”
16:40–16:55 Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska, The University of Gdansk – “Chronotopic Identities in Organizational Settings”
16:55-17:10 Agnieszka Czarnecka, University of Gdańsk/Alicja Krawczun-Rygmaczewska, King’s College – “Presence and Trust as Elements of Online Network Continuum”
17:10 – 17:25 Discussion
17:25 – 17:40 Coffee Break
17:40 – 18:40 Children’s Session Presiding: Alexander Jerzak Larsen
17:40 – 17:55 Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, Driscoll School, Brookline, Mass., USA: “Time, Space, and Jewish Identity in Strange Danya Rayev by David Shrayer-Petrov”
17:55 – 18:10 Sara Isabella Gładczenko, Elementary School Nr 8, Sopot: “A Circular Chronotope in Black Beauty and The Little Prince”
18:10 – 18:25 David E. Jerzak, Elementary School Nr 7, Sopot: “The Moomin Chronotope in Tove Jansson’s Saga”
18:25 – 18:40 Alexander Grajewski, Elementary School Nr 8, Sopot: “The Chronotope in Pierdomenico Baccalario’s Viaggio nei porti oscuri”
19: 00 Special Event: Author Katarzyna Marciniak – Reading from Mitologia at Bookstore Ambelucja (3 Maja Street, Sopot)
DAY 4 - April 29th (Saturday), Sopot
10:00 – 11:30 Networking Session – Current and Future Projects
11:30 A Literary Walk through Sopot
* Optional: A walking tour of historic Gdansk with Ewa Rucinska-Mikusek (in English).