Mosaics of Change, Revisited:
Creating Cultures in the "New Europe" and Central Asia
Final Program
June 18-20, 2015
Jagiellonian University,
Collegium Novum,
ul. Gołębia 24
Room 56
Krakow, Poland
Jointly organized by the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland;Institute of the English Cultures and Literatures, Canadian Studies Centre, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland; and the Department of Sociology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Mosaics of Change, Revisited:
Creating Cultures in the "New Europe" and Central Asia
Final Program
June 18-20, 2015
Jagiellonian University,
Collegium Novum,
ul. Gołębia 24
Room 56
Krakow, Poland
Jointly organized by the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland;Institute of the English Cultures and Literatures, Canadian Studies Centre, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland; and the Department of Sociology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Thursday, June 18
8:30-9:00 AM
Registration and Coffee
9:00-9:30 AM Welcome from Organizers and Jagiellonian University
9:30-10:45 AM Panel: Europe and National Imaginations
Problematics of Multiculturalism in Polish Post-Enlargement National Identity: The Case of the Polish-Lithuanian Borderlands – Janine Holc, Loyola University Maryland, USA
A New Image of Ukraine: Oscillating between “Europeanness” and “Authenticity” – Valeriya Korablyova, Philosophy of Humanities Department, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Work of Slavs and Tatars as the Example of the New Eurocentric Narrative – Monika Łuszpak–Skiba, MA in Cultural Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland
Discussant: Susan C. Pearce
10:45-11:45 AM Panel: Architecture and Expressive Arts
Professional Challenges of Transformation: Architecture and Ideology in Post-Soviet Development – Nelly Bekus, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Ukrainian Art Jewelry and Art Jewelers Since 1989 – Dindy Reich, School of Art and Design, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Discussant: Eugenia Sojka
11:45-12:15 Coffee Break
12:30-1:30 PM Panel: Nations, Identities, and Cultures
Searching for Identity or Exploring New Ways of Creativity? Changes in Prose of Anatoliy Kim after 1991 – Małgorzata Pałach-Rydzy, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Integration of Migrants in Modern Russia Legal and Media Discourses: (Re)Producing Racism? –Ekaterina V. Klimenko, Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Neglected Discourses of the Human Race – the Balkan Case – Magdalena Tendera, Sociology Department, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Discussant: Janine Holc
1:30-3:00 PM Lunch on your own (nearby Kokos restaurant recommended)
3:00-4:00 PM
Keynote Address
Jewish Memory in Poland’s Memoryscapes: From Amnesia to “Lieux de Mémoire”
Sławomir Kapralski, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland
4:00-4:30 PM Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 PM Discussion: Religion and Change: Central Asia and Islam (Facilitators: Susan Pearce and Sławomir Kapralski)
Reviving the Legacy: Variant Trends of Islamic Resurgence in Kazakhstan – Bilal Ahmad Malik, Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India [paper en absentia]
Islamic Perspective of Human Rights with special reference to Central Asian Republics – Ashaq Hussain, Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India [paper en absentia]
5:30 -7:00 PM Reception
Evening Free
Friday, June 19
9:00-10:00 AM
Keynote Address
Culture Shutdown: Bosnian Museums in Crisis
Azra Aksamija, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10:00-11:00 AM Panel: Consumption and Popular Culture
Revolution on the Plate? Transformation of Eating Habits and Americanization of Polish Cuisine over the Last 25 Years – Malgosia Gajda-Łaszewska, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, and Urszula Jarecka, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFIS PAN), Warsaw, Poland
Popular Processes and the Praxis of Cultural Transfer: The Polish Case – Anna Malinowska, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Discussant: Anne Saville
11:00-11:45 Visualizing Cultural Change: Video Presentation
Films: “Bi-Poland”: Captured and Edited by Matty Brown
Selected trailers for documentary films by 1999 conference participant, Balasz Wizner
11:45-12:15 Coffee Break
12:15-1:30 PM Panel: Literary Transformations
The Documentary Prose by Anita Liepa: the Project of Life Writing – Sandra Meškova, Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia
Experimentalism as Literary-Cultural Direction at the End of XX - Early XXI Century – Julia Poczynok, Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Studies, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, and Department of Literary Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Jagiellonian University of Kraków (Poland)
Decolonizing Upper Silesia: Reclaiming and Validating the Hybridity of Silesian Culture in Contemporary Upper Silesian Literature – Eugenia Sojka, Institute of the English Cultures and Literatures, Canadian Studies Centre, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Discussant: Lee Maril
1:30-3:00 PM Lunch break (on your own)
3:00-4:00 PM Workshop: Future Heritage Collection: Azra Aksamija, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4:00-5:15 PM Panel: Cultures of Political Activism: Gender, Sexuality, and Protests
“Together We are Power”: the Rhetoric of Ukrainian Resistance – Nadiya Trach, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy," Department of Ukrainian Kyiv, Ukraine [paper en absentia]
“Woman” in Cultural Reconstruction Since 1989 – Susan C. Pearce, and Anne Saville, Department of Sociology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Queer Politics in Neoliberal Poland – Rafał Majka, Cultural Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland and Tomasz Sikora, Department of English, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland
Discussant: Magdalena Bednorz
5:15-5:45 PM Coffee Break
5:30- 6:15 PM Closing summary and Certificate Ceremony
Evening: On your own.
8:30-9:00 AM
Registration and Coffee
9:00-9:30 AM Welcome from Organizers and Jagiellonian University
9:30-10:45 AM Panel: Europe and National Imaginations
Problematics of Multiculturalism in Polish Post-Enlargement National Identity: The Case of the Polish-Lithuanian Borderlands – Janine Holc, Loyola University Maryland, USA
A New Image of Ukraine: Oscillating between “Europeanness” and “Authenticity” – Valeriya Korablyova, Philosophy of Humanities Department, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Work of Slavs and Tatars as the Example of the New Eurocentric Narrative – Monika Łuszpak–Skiba, MA in Cultural Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland
Discussant: Susan C. Pearce
10:45-11:45 AM Panel: Architecture and Expressive Arts
Professional Challenges of Transformation: Architecture and Ideology in Post-Soviet Development – Nelly Bekus, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Ukrainian Art Jewelry and Art Jewelers Since 1989 – Dindy Reich, School of Art and Design, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Discussant: Eugenia Sojka
11:45-12:15 Coffee Break
12:30-1:30 PM Panel: Nations, Identities, and Cultures
Searching for Identity or Exploring New Ways of Creativity? Changes in Prose of Anatoliy Kim after 1991 – Małgorzata Pałach-Rydzy, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Integration of Migrants in Modern Russia Legal and Media Discourses: (Re)Producing Racism? –Ekaterina V. Klimenko, Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Neglected Discourses of the Human Race – the Balkan Case – Magdalena Tendera, Sociology Department, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Discussant: Janine Holc
1:30-3:00 PM Lunch on your own (nearby Kokos restaurant recommended)
3:00-4:00 PM
Keynote Address
Jewish Memory in Poland’s Memoryscapes: From Amnesia to “Lieux de Mémoire”
Sławomir Kapralski, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland
4:00-4:30 PM Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 PM Discussion: Religion and Change: Central Asia and Islam (Facilitators: Susan Pearce and Sławomir Kapralski)
Reviving the Legacy: Variant Trends of Islamic Resurgence in Kazakhstan – Bilal Ahmad Malik, Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India [paper en absentia]
Islamic Perspective of Human Rights with special reference to Central Asian Republics – Ashaq Hussain, Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India [paper en absentia]
5:30 -7:00 PM Reception
Evening Free
Friday, June 19
9:00-10:00 AM
Keynote Address
Culture Shutdown: Bosnian Museums in Crisis
Azra Aksamija, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10:00-11:00 AM Panel: Consumption and Popular Culture
Revolution on the Plate? Transformation of Eating Habits and Americanization of Polish Cuisine over the Last 25 Years – Malgosia Gajda-Łaszewska, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, and Urszula Jarecka, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFIS PAN), Warsaw, Poland
Popular Processes and the Praxis of Cultural Transfer: The Polish Case – Anna Malinowska, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Discussant: Anne Saville
11:00-11:45 Visualizing Cultural Change: Video Presentation
Films: “Bi-Poland”: Captured and Edited by Matty Brown
Selected trailers for documentary films by 1999 conference participant, Balasz Wizner
11:45-12:15 Coffee Break
12:15-1:30 PM Panel: Literary Transformations
The Documentary Prose by Anita Liepa: the Project of Life Writing – Sandra Meškova, Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia
Experimentalism as Literary-Cultural Direction at the End of XX - Early XXI Century – Julia Poczynok, Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Studies, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, and Department of Literary Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Jagiellonian University of Kraków (Poland)
Decolonizing Upper Silesia: Reclaiming and Validating the Hybridity of Silesian Culture in Contemporary Upper Silesian Literature – Eugenia Sojka, Institute of the English Cultures and Literatures, Canadian Studies Centre, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Discussant: Lee Maril
1:30-3:00 PM Lunch break (on your own)
3:00-4:00 PM Workshop: Future Heritage Collection: Azra Aksamija, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4:00-5:15 PM Panel: Cultures of Political Activism: Gender, Sexuality, and Protests
“Together We are Power”: the Rhetoric of Ukrainian Resistance – Nadiya Trach, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy," Department of Ukrainian Kyiv, Ukraine [paper en absentia]
“Woman” in Cultural Reconstruction Since 1989 – Susan C. Pearce, and Anne Saville, Department of Sociology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Queer Politics in Neoliberal Poland – Rafał Majka, Cultural Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland and Tomasz Sikora, Department of English, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland
Discussant: Magdalena Bednorz
5:15-5:45 PM Coffee Break
5:30- 6:15 PM Closing summary and Certificate Ceremony
Evening: On your own.