CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
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 Polish time (CET). We kindly ask you to convert the time to your place.
The conference will be held virtually through a video conferencing platform Zoom.
THURSDAY, 9 December 2021
11.45 AM: Conference OPENING and a very short introduction:
Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Are nostalgic dreams helpful?
12.00 PM – 2.30 PM: Plenary Session I
Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Polina Golovátina-Mora (NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Why the 90s? Postbard Nostalgic Sarcasm for the Postpunk Times
Natalie Wall (University of Liverpool, UK)
Traumatic Nostalgia: Gendered Violence and Brexit Britain in Sarah Moss’ Ghost Wall
Ffion Davies (City University of Hong Kong)
The Glass Detective: Marlowe, Memory and Fragile Masculinity
Purbasha Mondal (Saltora Netaji Centenary College, Bankura University, West Bengal, India)
“You can’t change the past”: Intergenerational Transmission of Memory and Contemporary Australian Indigenous Narratives
Viktoriia Vovk (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Literary Tourism as a Commemorative Practice of Memory Formation in Modern Conditions: On the Example of Literary Tourism in Kuzbass (Russia)
2.30 PM – 3.30 PM: BREAK
3.30 PM – 6.30 PM: Parallel Sessions II
Session II A:
Chair: Marika Strano (Swansea University of Wales, UK)
Anuparna Mukherjee (IISER Bhopal, India)
Empire, Nostalgia and the Poetics of Urban Space
Stéphanie Melyon-Reinetten (independent researcher, Guadeloupe)
Gawoulé Melancholia Analysis of the Strategies of the Unionist- Nationalist Collective Actions in Guadeloupe
Clorrie Yeomans (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford)
The Legacy of Dictatorship-Era Activism in Argentina’s Recent Abortion Campaigns
Matt Howard (University of Westminster, UK)
The Mobilisation of War Memory in Expectation Setting, Policy Implementation, and Senses of Obligation
Goranka Stanić (School of Art and Design, Osijek, Croatia)
Pink Glasses
Meng Liu (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
Migratory Memory and Identity of the Diaspora: Chinese Migration to Hungary
Session II B:
Chair: Natalie Wall (University of Liverpool, UK)
Twinkle Kumar (Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India)
The Bittersweet Reminiscence of Childhood by an Individual
Agnieszka Jagła (University of Lodz, Poland)
Traumatic Memory and the Healing Process in Disgrace by John Maxwell Coetzee
Amira Farhani (University of Buckingham, UK)
Nostalgia, Memory, and Postcolonial Nationalism in Contemporary Arabic Fiction
Rosy–Triantafyllia Angelaki (Helenic Open University, University Of Nicosia, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Cyprus)
Memory and Nostalgia in Illustrated Informational Books for Children: Cultivating Historical Memory and Engraving National and Collective Identity in Young Readers
Joanna Łapińska (Universität Wien, Austria)
Lice Check and Classroom Tingles, or Return to Childhood in ASMR Videos
Miriam Kobierski (University of Lodz, Poland)
How Does Language and Cinema Convey and Express the Theme of Melancholy and Other Emotions
6.30 PM – 7.30 PM: BREAK
7.30 PM – 10.00 PM: Plenary Session III
Chair: Joanna Łapińska (Universität Wien, Austria)
Couri Johnson (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
“With Sweet-Brier, and Bon-Fire:” Myth and Ritual as a Cure for “Life-Sickeness” in Modernist Literature
Marika Strano (Swansea University of Wales, UK)
Nostalgic Leopardi and Joyce? The Past and the Criticism of Romantic Intellectuals in Giacomo Leopardi and in James Joyce’s Works
Suzanne Escaig (Paris-Nanterre University, France)
Nostalgia in the Works of Evelyn Waugh: Restorative or Reflective ?
Fatma Kilani (University of Sousse, France)
Kate Tempest’s Hold Your Own as a Nostalgic Metamodernist Poem
Monica Garoiu (University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, USA)
Patrick Modiano: Postmemory and the Legacy of the Holocaust
FRIDAY, 10 December 2021
11.30 AM – 2.30 PM: Parallel Session IV
Chair: to be confirmed
Andrew Dearman (Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia)
Bodies that Remember: A Speculative Use of Re-photography as Method of Recall in Epigenetically Inherited Memories of Place
C.Siddharth (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Recollecting Memory and Trauma through Generations: Analyzing Fragmented Identity in Julia Álvarez’s How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Zornitsa Lachezarova (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria)
Rural Landscapes and the Nostalgic Self: A Poetic Restructuring of Memory and Loss
Sylwia Chutnik (SWPS University, Poland)
Holo-Polo, the "Sweet" Story about the Holocaust
Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Food Nostalgia in the Climate Crisis
Nayantara Nayar (Independent Researcher, UK)
Forgetting, Nostalgia, and Autobiographical Performance
2.30 PM – 3.30 PM: BREAK
3.30 PM – 6.30 PM: Parallel Sessions V
Session V A:
Chair: Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Jane CoomberSewell (independent researcher, UK)
“I wouldn’t go back”, Versus “Bring back the Silence”: The Contradiction of the Falsity of Nostalgia Against the Speed of Modern Life in Joyce Grenfell’s Work
Bridget Shaffrey (Durham University, UK)
Rosaries on the Rocks: Parapractic Portrayals of National Trauma and the Irish Catholic Abuse Scandal
Egzona Demaj (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Water and Light: Nostalgia as Emotion and Experience in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Water Is Wide
Elliott Berggren (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
"Does he feel like home to you?": Navigating Mourning and Nostalgia Through Horror in Ari Aster's Midsommar
Abbey Austin Whitley (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
What’s in a Trope? A Nostalgic Analysis of US Conservative Imagery
Anna Ishchenko (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
“Fragments dim of lovely forms”: Media Representation and Nostalgia in Kentucky Route Zero
Session V B:
Chair: Polina Golovátina-Mora (NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Mrigakshi Parashar (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India)
Immersive Theatre and Melancholy: A Yearning for the Lost Time
Pooja Yadav (University of Delhi, India)
Memories, Melancholia, and Migration(s): Reading the Partition of British India through an Analysis of Qurratulin Hyder’s Sita Betrayed
Gökhan Albayrak (Ankara University, Turkey)
Disjecti Membra Poetae: Keats’s Bacchic Apollo in Hyperion as the God of the Kristevan Black Sun of Melancholy
Suphi Neset Keskin (Ulster University, Ireland)
Watching Mom through the Nostalgic and Magnetic Mirror: A Lacanian Analysis of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) and Mirror (1975)
Martyna Paśnik (Doctoral School in the Humanities, University of Lodz, Poland)
Longing for Better Days in Heritage Films: Nostalgia as Emotional Journey to the Past
Luís Raimundo (CESEM - Research Center for the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, Portugal)
The Strange Case of Dr. Krzysztof Penderecki: Crossing Paths between Modernism and Tradition
6.30 PM – 7.30 PM: BREAK
7.30 PM – 10.00 PM: Plenary Session VI
Chair: Bridget Shaffrey (Durham University, UK)
Smriti Mehra (University of the Arts London, UK)
Like Dadima Like Smriti
Xinyue Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
For Wanting to Find Home Is a Perennial Thing
Sarah A. Burgos (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Exhibiting Wartime American Nostalgia: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Wartime Guide Book of 1942
Jake Garner (California Polytechnic State University, USA)
The Archive and the Song: The Dialectic Ontology of NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
Sarah Jamshidy Boroujerdi (State Center Community College District, USA)
Media Post-coloniality and the Ethereal Persian “Empress”: How Hollywood Weaponized the Nostalgia of Exile
10.00 PM: Conference CLOSING