SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL JOSEPH CONRAD CONFERENCE
INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
MARIA CURIE-SKŁODOWSKA UNIVERSITY
Lublin: 20-23 June 2022
Organising Committee
Anne Mydla
Jacek Mydla
Małgorzata Stanek
Dominika Śledziona
Honorary Committee
Prof. dr hab. Radosław Dobrowolski, The Rector Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (chairman)
Prof. dr hab.Wiesław Gruszecki, The Vice-Rector for Research and International Co-operation
Dr hab. Renata Bizek-Tatara, professor of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, The Director of Institute of Modern Languages and Literatures
Prof. dr hab. Barbara Hlibowicka-Węglarz, The Dean of Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Dr hab. Małgorzata Rutkowska, The Chair of Department of British and American Studies
Sponsors
Ministry of Education and Science, Warsaw
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
The Organising Committee is honoured to invite
to
CONRAD’S FOOTPRINTS
Seventh International Joseph Conrad Conference
The conference is organised in honour of Wiesław Krajka, professor emeritus of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and the editor of Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, to commemorate publication of 30 volumes of this series and 50 years of his academic work.
The opening session of the conference is held on Monday, the 20th of June, at 10.00 a.m. in the Royal Tribunal, located in the main square of the old town of Lublin.
The other sessions are held on Monday the 20th through Thursday the 23rd of June in the new building of Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Plac Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4a.
The study tour of Conrad’s footprints in the environs of Lublin starts from the hotels “Mercure” and “Logos” on Tuesday, the 21st of June, at 1.30 p.m.
Participants in the conference dinner will be picked up on Tuesday, the 21st of June, at 5.40 p.m. in front of the building of the Main Library of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.
The Royal Tribunal, the main square of the old town of Lublin
10.00
The official opening of the conference
1. Opening addresses
- The President of the European Parliament
- The Director of Columbia University Press
- The Rector of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
2. Opening plenary lecture
JOHN G. PETERS (University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA)
Russia and Nothingness in Conrad’s Writings
Monday, 20 June 2022Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Plac Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4a
15.00-16.30
CHANDRAKANT A. LANGARE (Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India)
Beyond the World of Chaos: Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Humanism in His Life-Narratives
JAMES MELLOR (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Schiffs & Spectators: Europe’s Borders & the Sea in Joseph Conrad & John Auerbach
16.45-18.15
SYLWIA WOJCIECHOWSKA (Jesuit University Ignatianum, Kraków, Poland)
The Form and Content of Reflection in the Autobiographical (Non)Fiction of Joseph Conrad and Henry James
HUNT HAWKINS (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA)
What Horrors Did Conrad Actually See in the Congo?
15.00-16.30
MAŁGORZATA STANEK (Independent Scholar, Lublin, Poland)
Imagination and Inertness: Escapes in Conrad’s Fiction
MONIKA MAJEWSKA (Independent Scholar, Lublin, Poland)
Conrad and the Karenins
16.45-18.15
GRAŻYNA BRANNY (Jesuit University Ignatianum, Kraków, Poland)
Intertextuality and Dramatized Denegation in Conrad’s Short Story “The Black Mate”
DAVID SCHAUFFLER (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
Yanko Goorall and Espen Arnakke: Similarities and Differences between “Amy Foster” and Two Novels by Axel Sandemose
Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Plac Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4a
9.00-12.00
LILIA OMELAN (State High Vocational School, Legnica, Poland)
Conrad’s Life in Lwów/Lemberg
LILIA OMELAN (State High Vocational School, Legnica, Poland)
Stefan Bobrowski: A Faithful Fighter For Poland’s Freedom
BRYGIDA PUDEŁKO (University of Opole, Opole, Poland)
The Satirical Portrait of Conrad in H. G. Wells’s Tono Bungay
JOANNA SKOLIK (University of Opole, Opole, Poland)
Conrad and Poland: Reading Tadeusz Bobrowski’s Letters to His Nephew
9.00-12.00
RAFAŁ SZCZERBAKIEWICZ (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)
A Cruise on the Trail of Conrad? Jan Józef Szczepański’s Travel Reportage
DANIEL VOGEL (State University of Applied Sciences, Racibórz, Poland)
Conradian “Heart of Darkness” in Selected Science Fiction Works by Stanisław Lem: Return from the Stars, Solaris and Fiasco
SUSAN BHATT (Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India)
Monks at Sea
AN NING (Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China)
“Listening to the thunder of the waves”: A Daoist Reading of Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the “Narcissus”
Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Plac Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4a
9.00-10.30
ANNE MYDLA (Independent Scholar, Chorzów, Poland)
“The one country with whom we should be in alliance”: British Pro-Russia Materials Published Side by Side with Conrad’s Fiction and Reviews from 1895 to 1917
EWA KUJAWSKA-LIS (University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland)
“Janko Góral”: The First Polish Version of “Amy Foster” – Between Translation, Appropriation and Refraction
10.45 – 13.00
KAROL SAMSEL (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland)
The Echoes of Polish Romanticism in Nostromo
BENJAMIN BANDOSZ (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada))
Placelessness, Multiplicity, and Problems of Fidelity: Polish Romanticism and the Konradian Spy
JACEK MYDLA (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
Narrative Progression in “Heart of Darkness” and The Turn of the Screw and the Idea of the Gothic
15.00-16.30
MACIEJ GLOGER (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Conrad: Anti-Utopist
SUBHADEEP RAY (Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, India)
“Why not tell me a tale?”: Dislocating the Genre in Joseph Conrad’s “The Tale” and Premendra Mitra’s “The Discovery of Telenāpotā”
16.45—18.15
JAROSŁAW GIZA (State Higher Vocational School, Nowy Sącz, Poland)
Evil Female Characters in Joseph Conrad’s Literary Output
BRIAN RICHARDSON (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)
Sense Perception and Synesthesia in Conrad’s Fiction
Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Plac Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4a
9.00-10.30
ANDRZEJ WICHER (University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland)
The Echoes of the Rituals of Initiation and Blood Sacrifice in Lord Jim and “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
OLHA BANDROVSKA (Ivan Franko National University, Lviv, Ukraine)
Patterns of Human Vulnerability as “the secret spring of responsive emotions” in Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster”
10.45-13.00
WIESŁAW KRAJKA (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)
The Social Archetypes of Identity in Joseph Conrad’s “To-morrow,” One Day More, and Jutro by Baird, Hussakowski and Sito
JAN GORDON (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan)
“The Parrots of Casa Gould”: Speculative Voices in Nostromo
AGNIESZKA SETECKA (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
The Sociology of Information in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent
15.00-16.30
MICHEL AROUIMI (Université du Littoral, Dunkirk, France)
Poetical Expressions of Contradiction in The Secret Agent
NERGIS UNAL (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)
A Bakhtinian Analysis of the Protagonist’s Ethical Dilemmas in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes
16.45-18.15
MARILENA SARACINO (Università degli Studi “Gabriele D’Annunzio,” Pescara, Italy)
Joseph Conrad’s Chance: An Attempt to “Novelize” Life
CHRISTIE GRAMM (South Seattle College, Seattle, WA, USA)
The Enemy Ship in The Rover
Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Plac Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4a
9.00-10.30
ANNA SZCZEPAN-WOJNARSKA (Cardinal Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland)
Conrad’s Malay Trilogy and Opera Poetics
PETER VERNON (Université de Tours, Tours, France)
“The Illustration of Life”: The Function of Art in Conrad’s Novels
10.45-12.15
PETER VILLIERS (Exeter University, Exeter, Devon, UK)
Conrad’s Humour
ADAM LAUSCH-HOŁUBOWICZ (Independent Scholar, London, UK)
A Tangled Web or a Many-Splendored Thing? Reflections on Conrad, Literature, and Literary Criticism
15.00-17.15
FARNAZ SEPEHRI (Independent Scholar, Tabriz, Iran)
Double Agent or Transcultured?
GEORGE GASYNA (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA)
The Dangerous Subject is the Exilic Subject: Conrad’s Short Fictions
MARIA PAOLA GUARDUCCI (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy)
A Restless Geography: Europe in Tales of Unrest
17.30
LAURENCE DAVIES (King’s College London, London, UK)
“Those Carlists make a great consumption of cartridges”: Conrad’s Gun Runners
Closing of the conference
Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Plac Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4a
9.00-10.30
AGNIESZKA ADAMOWICZ-POŚPIECH (University of Silesia, Poland)
Visual Adaptations of “Heart of Darkness”
MIROSŁAWA BUCHHOLTZ (Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń, Poland)
Digital Footprints: The Reception of “Jądro ciemności” (“Heart of Darkness”) on YouTube
10.45-12.15
BALÁZS CSIZMADIA (Independent Scholar, Budapest, Hungary)
Narrated Drama: János Gosztonyi’s Bűvölet as an Adaptation of Conrad’s Victory
CHRISTOPHER CAIRNEY (Middle Georgia State University, Macon, USA)
Conrad in an Age of Social Justice
15.00-17.15
OLGA BINCZYK (Jan Długosz University, Częstochowa, Poland)
First Encounters: Joseph Conrad on Reading Lists among Teachers and Students
FRANK FÖRSTER (Federal Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources Library, Hannover, Germany)
The Reception of Joseph Conrad in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
WIESŁAW KRAJKA (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)
Methodology of Studying Joseph Conrad Globally in XXI Century. Reflections on the Publishing Strategy of the Series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives
17.30
LAURENCE DAVIES (King’s College London, London, UK):“Those Carlists make a great consumption of cartridges”: Conrad’s Gun Runners
