INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM GENERATION AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN WOMEN'S WRITING - KONFERENCJA

Programme

Friday, May 14th, 2010

VENUE: Campus of the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University,
ul. Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego 1, Building A, The Senate’s Room
10.30—12.00: Registration
12.00—12.15: Welcome
Panel One
Introduction:
12.15—12.45: Dr. Anna Frątczak (The Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow Academy) Polish Women?
Gender Perspective
12.45—14.15: GENERATION, EMIGRATION AND WOMEN’S WRITING – Meeting with the
Polish Writers: Izabela Filipiak and Grażyna Plebanek
Chairing: dr. Ursula Phillips, dr. Urszula Chowaniec and dr. hab. Małgorzata Radkiewicz
14.15—14.45: Discussion
14.45—15.15: Coffee break
Panel Two
15.15—17.00: POLISH AND RUSSIAN WOMEN’S WRITING AND DISTANT/CLOSE
CULTURES (POST-COMMUNIST DISCOURSES)
Chairing: Dr. Beata Kowalska
15.15—15.35: Presentation of the Project “Body, Generation and Transformation in Polish and Russian
Women’s Writing” (aims and results of the project)
15.35—15.50: Dr. Urszula Chowaniec (The Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow Academy/University
of Tampere): Beyond the National Literatures: Presentation of the Project on Polish and Russian
Women’s Writing
15.50—16.10: Dr. Marja Rytkönen (University of Tampere) Contemporary Russian Women’s Writing
16.10—16.30: Kirsi Kurkijärvi (University of Tampere) WWII and Women’s Writing
16.30—17.00: Discussion led by dr. Ursula Phillips (SSEES, UCL, London)
17.00—18:00: Reception
18.15: Women and Kraków: Short Presentation of the Project: The Women of Kraków Route
(Krakowski Szlak Kobiet)

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

VENUE: Campus of Jagiellonian University, ul. prof. S. Łojasiewicza 4, room 2.226
Panel Three
10.00—12.00: POLISH, CZECH AND BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING.
Chairing: dr. hab. Małgorzata Radkiewicz
10.15—10.45: Dr. Elwira Grossman (University of Glasgow) “The Woman who Died of
Robespierre.”Przybyszewska’s Persona as Staged by Different Female Playwrights
10.45—11.10: Prof. Elena Sokol (The College of Wooster) Czech Women’s Writing in the Pots-
Communist Era
11.10—11.30: Prof. Maggie Humm (University of East London) British Women Writers and Post-
Colonialism
11.30—12.00: Discussion
12.00—12.30: Coffee and snacks
Panel Four
12:30—17.00: GENERATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN INDIAN WOMEN’S WRITING.
Chairing: dr. Marzenna Jakubczak
12.45—13.15: Prof. Arindam Chakrabarti (University of Hawaii) Narratives of Love, Death, and Lost
Jewellery: Women's Dreams and Realities in 9th and 19th Century India
13.15—13.45: Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta (University of Calcutta) Ashapurna Devi: Scripting Creative
Transformation
13.45—14.00: Discussion
14.00—15.15: Lunch break
15.15—15.45: Prof. Blanka Knotková-Čapková (Charles University) Writing on Women by Women.
Mahasweta Debi and Mallika Sengupta: Bengali Writers of Different Generations
15.45—16.15: Prasita Mukherjee (University of Calcutta) Altering the Discourse: Sameness and
Difference in the Representation of Women by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Mahasweta Devi
16.15—16.45: Discussion
16.45—17.00: Final remarks and conclusions

Special Events

During Symposium or just before and after everybody is also welcome to take part in the events that
are jointly organized:

May 13th, 16.45
Venue: Campus of Jagiellonian University, KBiDW, ul. Gronostajowa 3, room 1.146.
Special Lecture of Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta, At Home in the World: Rabindranath Tagore’s Universal Vision

May 14th, 17.30
Venue: Campus of Jagiellonian University, WZiKS, ul. prof. S. Łojasiewicza 4, room 2.226.
Special Lecture of Prof. Maggie Humm, Cinema, Modernism and Postmodernism: Potter and Woolf's Orlando

May 14th – May15th
The Night of Museums (most of the Cracow’s museums are open most of that night). The map and the information on the museums will be available in the conference pack.

May 18th, 11.00
Venue: Pedagogical University, Dept. of Philosophy and Sociology, ul. Mazowiecka 43, room 3.
Special Lecture of Prof. Arindam Chakrabarti, Indian Conceptions of Rationality: Is Ego-elimination a Form of Irrationality?

May 18th, 16.00
Venue: Campus of the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, ul. Gustawa Herlinga-
Grudzińskiego 1, building A, The Senate’s Room.
Meeting with Olga Tokarczuk (part of the discussion will be devoted to the latest English translation of her novel Prawiek i inne czasy).

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