ExRe(y) 2016: Conference program

Thursday, April 7th

TimeEvent
9.00–9.30Registration
9.30–9.45Conference opening
9.45–11.15Keynote lecture
Prof. Julia Leyda (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam / John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie
Universitat, Berlin, Germany): “Negative Mobilities”
Chair: Jerzy Durczak
11.15–11.30Coffee break
11.30–13.00Session 1: (re)Reading 9/11
Chair: Paulina Ambroży
Plenary room
Aurelija Daukšaitė
(Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas,
Lithuania): “Trauma, (Un)speakability and
Creativity in Don DeLillo’s Novel Falling
Man”
Sławomir Studniarz
(University of Warmia and Mazury,
Olsztyn, Poland): “A New Take on ‘The
Mournful and Never Ending
Remembrance’: The Personal Loss and the
National Trauma in E. L. Doctorow’s
Andrew’s Brain”
Hubert Kowalewski
(Maria Curie-Skłodowska University,
Lublin, Poland): “Undwelled Spaces: Visual
Representation of 9/11 Trauma in Art
Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers”		Session 2: The sex talk
Chair: Patrycja Antoszek
Room 18
Tomasz Basiuk
(American Studies Center, University of
Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland): “Sexual Testifying
as a Strategy of Queer Cultural Production”
Petra Filipová
(P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia):
“Representation of Asexuality in
Contemporary American Sitcoms”
Elli Kyrmanidou
(Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich,
Germany): “A Space in-between Genders:
Rethinking the American Coming of Age Novel
from an Intersex Perspective”		Session 3: (what) Do you remember?
Chair: Krzysztof Majer
Room 19
Aleksandra Kamińska
(University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland):
“Expressing the Uncertainty: Role of
Memorabilia in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home”
Zofia Kolbuszewska
(The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin,
Lublin, Poland): “Media Representations of
Memory Visualization: Forensic TV Shows and
Memory Palace”
Anna Karczewska
(University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland):
“Against dechoukaj: the trauma of Haiti in
Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker”
13.00–14.00Lunch break
14.00–15.30Session 4: 9/11 – And now what?
Chair: Adam Głaz
Plenary room
Marta Twardowska
(Technical University of Dortmund,
Dortmund, Germany): “’I Am Not as
Worried About Bullets’: Post-9/11 Gender
Frames Captured by the Cameras of
American Women Photojournalists”
Aleksandra Różalska
(University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland):
“Post-9/11 Television Urban Landscapes:
The War on Terror, Surveillance, and the
Muslim Other”
Ewa Macura-Nnamdi
(University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland):
“Knowing Khadr”		Session 5: Rack and ruin
Chair: Tomasz Basiuk
Room 18
Kamil Rusiłowicz
(The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin,
Lublin, Poland): “In the Ruined Land with No
Sovereign: Baroque Melancholy in Philip
Meyer’s American Rust”
Tomasz Sikora
(The Pedagogical University of Cracow,
Cracow, Poland): “A Queer Look at North
American Post-Apocalyptic Imaginaries”
Katarzyna Jasiewicz
(The State School of Higher Education, Nowy
Sącz, Poland): “The Post-Apocalyptic
Wasteland of True Detective as a Reflection of
William Faulkner’s Fiction”		Session 6: Getting pulses rac(e)ing
Chair: Ewelina Bańka
Room 19
Patrycja Antoszek
(The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin,
Lublin, Poland): “The Ghosting of Race in
Philip Roth’s The Human Stain”
Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
(The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin,
Lublin, Poland): “Double Consciousness and
“Otherness” Expressed through Lexical-
Gustatory Synesthesia in Monique Truong’s
Bitter in the Mouth (2010)”
Emma Oki
(University of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Warsaw, Poland): “Expressing Asian
Americanness in Comics”
15.30–15.45Coffee break
15.45–17.15Session 7: Spacing the change
Chair: Zbigniew Mazur
Plenary room
Ewelina Bańka
(The John Paul II Catholic University of
Lublin,
Lublin, Poland): “La Tapiz Fronteriza:
Celebrating Life on the US-Mexico Border”
Grzegorz Welizarowicz
(University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland):
“Camino Real Roadside Markers:
Articulations of White Spatial Imaginary”
Andrew Ploeg
(Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey): “The
Paradoxical Space of Divinity and
Subjectivity in Mark Z. Danielewski’s
House of Leaves”		Session 8: We, the Repressed
Chair: Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska
Room 18
Julia Nikiel
(Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin,
Poland): “’I don’t Like the Way It Feels to Me’:
Instability and the Terror of Contemporaneity
in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy”
Anna Gilarek
(The State School of Higher Education,
Sandomierz, Poland): “Repression and Control
in a Panoptic Anti-Utopian State: The Radch
Empire in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch Trilogy”
Agnieszka Smoręda
(University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland):
“Visions of Repressive Future in Science
Fiction Television”		Session 9: Questions unanswered
Chair: Jerzy Kutnik
Room 19
Edyta Frelik
(Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin,
Poland): “From Values and Standards to
‘Anything Goes’: A (Modernist) Look at Art in
the New Millennium”
Alesia Kuzminava
(Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus):
“’America’s Next Top Model’ VS ‘Russia’s Next
Top Model’ in Russian-speaking World: The
Fail of Adaptation or Amazing Quality of
American Visual Product?”
Robert Sikora
(independent scholar): “Fake and Famous:
(Un)Popular Expression and Political Power in
The Daily Show and Spin-offs”
18.00Wine reception – Insomnia Restaurant, 12 Skołdowskiej Street

Friday, April 8th

TimeEvent
9.00–9.30Registration
9.30–11.00Keynote lecture
Prof. Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland): “Eye(s) in the Sky: Icons of War and Techno-Gaze in Contemporary Audiovisual Culture”
Chair: Joanna Durczak
11.00–11.15Coffee break
11.15–13.15Session 10: The only game in town
Chair: Paweł Frelik
Plenary room
Veronika Rychlá
(Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech
Republic): “The Representation of Female
Characters in Video Games”
Matthew McGrady
(Cardiff University, Cardiff, United
Kingdom): “‘This is how the game is meant
to be played!’: Utopian Models of Player
Agency in Fallout 3 and Deus Ex: Human
Revolution”
Paweł Kołtuniak
(Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin,
Poland): “Player as a Victim of Repression
and a Tool of Oppression in Papers Please
(2013)”		Session 11: Cross(ing)-media dialogues
Chair: Zofia Kolbuszewska
Room 18
Paulina Ambroży
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań,
Poland): “Portraits Painterly and Poetic: John
Ashbery and Gerhard Richter”
Oana Ursulesku
(University of Graz, Graz, Austria):
“Liminality in Brooklyn: Paul Auster’s Use of
Photography”
Krzysztof Majer
(University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland): “Songs
From Under the Floorboards: The
Musicalized Fictions of M. A. Jarman”
Iryna Nakashydze
(Dnipropetrovsk National University of
Railway Transport, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine):
“Visual Poetry of Ukrainian Diaspora in
North America”		Session 12: Love-hate
Chair: Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
Room 19
Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk
(University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland):
“Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in
Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County”
Silvie Jeřábková
(Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic):
“Traumatic Relationships in Louise Erdrich’s
21st Century Novels”
Małgorzata Rutkowska
(Maria Curie-Skłodowska University,
Lublin, Poland): “Human Self-expression and
Animal Oppression in T.C. Boyle’s Pet Stories”
Alex Wilkinson
(Lancaster University, Lancaster, United
Kingdom): “Finding Touch: Politics, Sexuality
and Feeling in the Work of Jonathan Franzen”
13.15–14.15Lunch break
14.15–15.45Session 13: 2008 – And now what?
Chair: Julia Leyda
Plenary room
Olga Szmidt
(Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland):
“We, the Real People: Global Financial
Crisis and Revival of Authenticity in
American 21st Century Culture”
Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska
(University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn,
Poland): “Revolting, Repressed, Reciprocal:
Mr. Robot and the Limits of Televisual
Anarchy”

Session 14: One’s own woman
Chair: Izabella Kimak
Room 18
Joanna Stolarek
(The Siedlce University of Natural Sciences
and Humanities, Siedlce, Poland): “Self-
expression and Sexual Repression in Joyce
Carol Oates’s Selected Works”
Barbara Stolarz
(University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland):
“Punk Zines with Girly Themes: Adolescent
Girls’ Intimate Cultural Production”

Session 15: Walking on(the)line
Chair: Irmina Wawrzyczek
Room 19
Olga Korytowska
(The Graduate School for Social Research, The
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland):
“#effyourbeautystandards: Body Positivity
Movement as an Expression of Feminist Identity”
Anna Bendrat
(Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin,
Poland): “New Kids on the Blog:
Cybernarratives of Identity Formation”
Anna Oleszczuk
(independent scholar): “Sad and Rabid
Puppies: Expression Against Repression in
21st-century Science Fiction Communities”
15.45–16.00Coffee break
16.00–16.15Conference closing
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