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 time in Poland, Warsaw (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, 22 APRIL 2021
11.50 AM – Conference OPENING
11.00 AM – 2.00 PM – Session I
Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Aurelija Daukšaitė-Kolpakovienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
Effect of Occupation in Nora Ikstena’s Soviet Milk
Khushboo Verma (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
Remembrance and Reconciliation of the “Comfort Women” of Second World War
Kim Schoof (Open University in The Netherlands)
A Multidirectional Memory of Sexual Trauma: The Renegotiation of Affective Attachments in Édouard Louis’ Autobiographical Novel Histoire de la violence
Soham Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India)
Memory, Emotion And Affect in Ismail Kadare’s Broken April
Sruthi Ranjani Vinjamuri (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras – Centre for Memory Studies, India)
Food, Memory, and Materiality in East African Asian Women’s Memoirs
Jamie Millen (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
A "Risk that Must be Run:" On Substantive Modes of Emptiness in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
2.00 PM – 3.00 PM – BREAK
3.00 PM – 6.00 PM – Session II
Chair: Polina Golovátina-Mora (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia)
Julia Gerster (Tohoku University, Japan)
Between Debris and Disaster Heritage: The Connection of Memories and Disaster Remains after the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011
Vinko Drača (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Embodied Anxieties: Discourses of Fear, Compassion and Control in History of Psychiatry
Annabel Kay Ruiz (Florida State University, USA)
A Thematic Analysis of Emotion Displays in Autobiographical Narratives on YouTube
Łukasz Grabowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland)
Borderline Personality Disorder: Biochemical Abnormalities and Psychopharmacotherapy
Marietta Kosma (University of Oxford, UK)
Affects, Emotions and Trauma in Gayl Jones's Corregidora
Julia Wesołowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
How is Affect Interpreted in Law? A Study of Emotional Harm in Polish Courts
6.00 PM – 7.00 PM - BREAK
7.00 PM – 10.00 PM – Session III
Chair: Aurelija Daukšaitė-Kolpakovienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
Polina Golovátina-Mora (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia)
Matter as the Memory in Arts
Geraldine Lamadrid Guerrero (Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation [CEDLA], The Netherlands)
“The Relief Zone: Performing the Unutterable”. Bridging Biology of Belief and Political Memory Artistic Practices in Latin America
Rolf J. Goebel (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
Sonic Immediacy: Affect, Experiential Presence, and Media Technologies
Abril Cisneros Ramirez (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Two Species One Voice: Affective Mechanisms in Allora & Calzadilla’s The Great Silence
Christiane Tarantino (Ryerson University, Canada)
The Political Power of Soundscapes in Communicating Trauma in Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues
Vishwaveda Joshi and Ira Famarin (York University, Canada)
Affectiveness of Memories or Memories of Affects?
FRIDAY, 23 APRIL 2021
11.00 AM – 2.00 PM – Session IV
Chair: Purbasha Mondal (Saltora Netaji Centenary College, Bankura University, India)
Adrianna Kaczmarek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Grzegorz Banaszkiewicz’s “Nonmetaphorical Self-Portraits”: In search of Printmakers' Identity
Jeffery Bingyu Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Continuity, Discontinuity and Speed: How Movie Cuts Train the Perception and Memory of Human?
Olivier Harenda (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Godzilla vs. the Nuclear Holocaust: Exploring the Symbolism behind the Japanese Monster
Ismini Kyritsis (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
The Materiality of Memory in Museums
Henrica Langh (University for the Creative Arts, UK)
The Bleeding Dress: How Clothes Become Saturated with Emotions
Kadian Gosler (University of the Arts London, UK)
“More than just being sexy”: The Bras’ Affect and Mature Women
2.00 PM – 3.00 PM - BREAK
3.00 PM – 6.00 PM – Session V
Chair: Henrica Langh (University for the Creative Arts, UK)
Purbasha Mondal (Saltora Netaji Centenary College, Bankura University, India)
Memory, Affect and the Intergenerational Trauma: Marie Munkara’s Every Secret Thing
Abhinaba Chatterjee (Gurukul Kangri deemed to be University, India)
Affect of the Absurd: Action, Language and the Absurd in the Plays of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter
Roshny Jose (Christ deemed to be University, India)
Queerness and Hashtag Cultures in India
Belgin Bağırlar (Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Turkey)
Queer Trauma in Vincent River
Yago Paris (Eötvös Loránd University [ELTE] Budapest, Hungary)
The Neglected Body: Affects in the Era of Liquid Modernity – The Shame (2011) Case
Or Shalev (University of Haifa, Israel)
The Use of Drawing in Processing Veterans' Military Stress Experience in Group Therapy
6.00 PM – 7.00 PM – BREAK
7.00 PM – 10.00 PM – Session VI
Chair: Belgin Bağırlar (Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Turkey)
Sebastian Oreamuno (York University, Canada)
Memory and Affect
Sebastian Urbaniak (University of Szczecin, Poland)
Rememory as a Strategy of Postcolonial Literature and Mode of Resistance
Danuta Sztuba (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland)
Images and Emotions Written in the Frost of Distant Siberia: The Art of Jacek Hugo-Bader`s Reportage Workshop in Kolyma Diaries
Xinyuan Qiu (Binghamton University, UK)
Hand and Heart: Embodied Sentiments under Disciplinary Sentimentality in Evelina
Chelsea Russell (York University, Canada)
Affectual Gynoids: The Agency, Affectual Relations and Fantastical Control of the Player and Cortana
Nastazja Stoch (University of Warsaw, Poland)
From Empathy to Benevolence, from an Individual to a State
10.00 PM – Conference CLOSING