DAY 1, MAY 18 (Room 144, 1st Floor)
Arrival
15:00-16:00 – Introductory remarks
16:00-17:10 – 1st session
| SECTION 1: Why are we afraid? | Moderator: Naomi Segal | ||
| Marek Zaleski | Institute of Literary Research, PAS | Why are we afraid of migrants? |
| Draginja Nadażdin | Amnesty International | Avoiding the responsibility for refugees |
| Justyna Tabaszewska | Institute of Literary Research, PAS | Are We Not All Migrants? Affective Ambiguity of the Migrant within Polish Cultural Discourse |
| Teodor Ajder | Mămăliga de Varșovia magazine | The Multidimensionality of (Non-)Presence of Poland’s Resident Non-Polish writers. |
COFFEE BREAK (Room 134, 1st Floor)
17:30-18:40 – 2nd session
| SECTION 2: Ethics and Memory | Moderator: Adam Lipszyc | ||
| John Sundholm | University of Stockholm/ISTME | Memory is where we have arrived rather than were we have left. Agency, acts and future, and other key coordinates for studying migrants’ memory practices. |
| Andrzej Leder | Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, PAS | The question of responsibility in the discussion of migration issues |
| Patrycja Sasnal | Polish Institute of International Affairs | Ethical migration policy as a challenge for the EU |
| Madeleine Campbell | CLE | Intersemiotic Translation as Process in Cultural Production |
18:40-19:00 – short summary
19:30 – Dinner (Sardynia, Oboźna 9)
DAY 2, MAY 19 (Room 242, 2nd Floor)
9:00-10:10 – 3rd session
| SECTION 3: Self-representation | Moderator: Heather Bradshaw | ||
| Joanna Kosmalska | University of Łódź | Transnational Dimensions of Polish Migrant Literature |
| Mary Gallagher | University College Dublin | Teaching and Researching so-called “Migrant Writing”‘. |
| Claudia Ciobanu | Mămăliga de Varșovia magazine | The migrant voice: quiet and a little schizophrenic |
COFFEE BREAK (Room 134, 1st Floor)
10:30-11:40 – 4th session
| SECTION 4: Representing migration | Moderator: Anna Barcz | ||
| Robert Crawshaw | University of Lancaster | Text, Inter-semiosis, Affect and Impact: brief reflections on Ariane Mnouchkine’s ‘Le dernier Caravanserai’ as a representation of migration. |
| Agnieszka Dauksza | Jagiellonian University | Affective diffusion between migrants and local communities. Case of Lampedusa Island |
| Dorota Jarecka | Institute of Literary Research, PAS | Representing Migration in Contemporary Art. The Artists’ Dilemma. |
| Paweł Mościcki | Institute of Literary Research, PAS | Fleeing Visibility of the Refugees |
11:40-12:30 – Summary
WORKSHOP ENDS