Conference program

Friday, 26^th March 2021

8.45-9.10 Conference registration

9.10-9.30 Conference opening

9.30-10.30

Keynote lecture

Professor Martin Butler

(Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg)

Between (Local) Identity Politics and (Global) Commodity Culture: On the Mobility and Hybridity of US-American Tattooing

Chair: Edyta Lorek-Jezińska

10.30-12.00 Session 1 – Spectres and manifestations

Chair: Julia Siepak
1. Barbara Pawlak (University of Łódź): “Nuclear power and the Sublime in Chernobyl (2019)”
2. Patrycja Kozieł (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences): “Local voices, global aim. The feminist commentary on the End SARS Movement in Nigeria”
3. Joanna Antoniak (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń): “Glocal spectre haunting Europe – entanglement of public and private in Deborah Levy’s The Man Who Saw Everything (2019)”

12.15-14.00 Session 2 – English as a global language

Chair: Bernadetta Jankowska
1. Ana Carolina Andres (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin): “Social aspects related to language acquisition among Brazilians”
2. Anna Skałba (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): “The organization of grammatical tenses in a bilingual mind: predictions based on existing experimental and observational data”
3. Dorota Watkowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń): “Redundancy in contract languages: focus on ELF”
4. Ewelina Gdaniec (University of Economy in Bydgoszcz): “British Council’s initiatives for the local Polish community in the stagnation time of the Cold War (1949-1952)”

14.00-14.45 Lunch break

14.45-16.15 Session 3 – Minority experiences in glocal contexts

Chair: Joanna Antoniak
1. Melissa Cicchetti (University of Oviedo): “Gypsy women’s experiences: an intersectional and gender approach to the pandemic crisis”
2. Izabela Poręba (University of Wrocław): “Nativism (Un)productivity: the intersection of local and global in Man of the People by Chinua Achebe”
3. Hafsa Alkhudairi (independent scholar): “Arabs International: taking the American narrative and making it local”

16.15-17.45 Session 4 – Expressing identity

Chair: Dorota Watkowska
1. Hanna Twardowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): “Expressing Hispanic-American identity – the question of language choice”
2. Lucia La Causa (University of Catania): “‘Egyptian English’ as an emerging glocal language”
3. Wiktor Eźlakowski (Jagellonian University, Cracow): “International, national and village sign languages”

18.00-19.30 Session 5 – Critical analyses of current issues

Chair: Joanna Antoniak
1. Albert Guziak (University of Warsaw): “Discourse on Brexit in the British tabloid press – analysis of selected headings in The Sun and Daily Mail between 2016 and 2019”
2. Svetlana Kucheriavaia (University of Łódź): “Public diplomacy in the time of pandemic: ‘unified’ message the EU prepared in response to the COVID-19 outbreak”
3. Lidia Shahbazyan (University of Economy in Bydgoszcz): “The image of the local conflict in America between Armenians and Azeris in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times”

19.30

Meeting with

MARK TARDI, MFA

(University of Łódź)

Scorpions are good mothers: On developing English-language theatre in central Oman

Chair: Julia Siepak

Saturday, 27^th March 2021

9.30-10.30

Keynote lecture

Dr Katarzyna Piątkowska

(Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)

Global and Local Interpretations of Culture, Competence and Intercultural Competence in Intercultural Discourse

Chair: Nelly Strehlau

10.30-12.00 Session 6 – Linguistic intersectionality

Chair: Aleksandra Sieradzka
1. Natalia Rzonsowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): “Multiple negations in  Mariana Starke’s letters”
2. Dominika Zawadzka (University of Rzeszów): “Raven-linguistics and cultural picture in Polish and Anglophone literature”
3. Magdalena Księcikowska (University of Rzeszów): “The role of translation in international advertising campaigns – globalization, localization and glocalization in the marketing strategies of famous Italian brands”

12.15-13.45 Session 7 – From the Anthropocene to the Ecocene

Chair: Joanna Antoniak
1. Julia Siepak (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń): “Unruly timescapes: Reciprocal ecologies in Darcie Little Badger’s Elatsoe”
2. Magdalena Krzosek-Hołody (University of Warsaw): “Tree planting as art, social practice and local/global environmental strategy. Eco-critical perspective”
3. Katarzyna Szyszka (University of Warsaw): “Engaging story versus valuable message. The vision of Anthropocene in Anne Bishop’s Others”

13.45-14.30 Lunch break

14.30-16.15 Session 8 – Gender in global and local perspectives

Chair: Joanna Antoniak
1. Robert Cnotalski (University of Łódź): “Skeletons in the closet – Afrikaans queer community in modern war movies”
2. Katarzyna Stępień (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń): “The future’s (not) ours to see – anticipation of the forthcoming humanity in Solarpunk”
3. Magdalena Dziurzyńska (University of Wrocław): “Queering the history – alternate timelines and the effect of queer divergence”
4. Agata Rupińska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń): “According to tradition and against the grain: masculinities in Raymond Carver’s fiction”

16.30-18.15 Session 9 – The changing world

Chair: Julia Siepak
1. Aleksandra Sieradzka (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń): “From global dystopia to local utopia – the emergence of Solarpunk”
2. Sergio Schargel (São Paulo University) & Brenda Rocha (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro): “Blood on the leaves, blood on the root: revisiting Light in August in the light of dehumanization and double consciousness”
3. Paweł Oleksak (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń): “Never Let Me Go – utopia or dystopia?”
4. Ángela López Pereira (independent scholar): “Search of identity in the era of globalisation in Anne Carson’s “The Anthropology of Water” and other contemporary fiction on the pilgrimage to Santiago”

18.15-18.30 Conference closing