The final version of our conference programme can be downloaded here.
Wednesday, 20.09.2017
17.00 Shuttle Bus departure (Katowice, Bankowa 12, University of Silesia in Katowice – Main Building) | |||
18.30-19.30 Registration | |||
19.30 Opening dinner |
Thursday, 21.09.2017
09.00-10.00 Registration | |||
10.00-10.10 Opening address (Room ABC) | |||
10.10-11.10 Plenary Session One (Room ABC)
Sarah LeFanu The Art of Rambling: Journeys Through Space and Time with Mary Kingsley, Rose Macaulay, Naomi Mitchison and Octavia Butler chair: Julia Szołtysek |
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11.10-11.40 Coffee break | |||
11.40-13.20 Panel 1 (Room A): Traversing the Middle East
chair: Zbigniew Białas Julia Szołtysek (University of Silesia, Poland), Between “the me that leaves and the me that returns”: Gertrude Bell’s Persian Gateways and Walls Serena Vianello (Ca’ Foscari University, Italy), Travel Writing and the Self: Inner and Outer Space in Female Accounts about Persia Joanna Antoniak (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland), Writing from Her Own Experience: Images of Female Travellers in Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death, Murder in Mesopotamia, Death on the Nile, and They Came to Baghdad Olcay Akyıldız (Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Fictitious or Real? Zeynep Hanım’s Travel to Europe |
11.40-13.20 Panel 2 (Room BC): Cinematic Transgressions
chair: Ali Güven Karen Heald (School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, United Kingdom), The FRIDA Series: Frida Travels to Ibiza Digital Film, Karen Heald & Sally Turner, 2017 Sonia Front (University of Silesia, Poland), Travelling Sideways in Time (Without a Suitcase) – The Curious Case of Olivia Dunham on Fringe Baysar Taniyan (Pamukkale University, Turkey), Gravity: Ryan Stone’s Outer Space Quest Mustafa Büyükgebiz (Pamukkale University, Turkey), Following the Tracks of Female Self |
11.40-13.20 Panel 3 (Room F): Writing Female Europe
chair: Lizelle Smit Rose Simpson (Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom), Packing up the Past: Vicki Baum’s Quest for Heimat Anita Chmielewska (University of Warsaw, Poland), The Journeys of British-Jewish Women: In Between Conservative Past and Liberal Future Michele Strong (University of South Alabama, USA), “Places Women Should Love”: Travel, Memory and the Feminine Lore of Italy |
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13.20-15.00 Lunch | |||
15.00-16.40 Panel 4 (Room A): Games and Popular Culture
chair: Agnieszka Podruczna Eliene Mąka-Poulain (Independent Scholar, Poland), Woman in the TARDIS: A Journey Through the Whoniverse and Beyond Tomasz Gnat (University of Silesia, Poland), Body Movin’. Ecocritical and Postcolonial Reading of the Travelling Body in Interactive Entertainment on the Basis of the Tomb Raider Series Magdalena Bednorz (University of Katowice, Poland) Venture Forth: Chivalric Quest in Female-Oriented Romantic Subplots in cRPGs |
15.00-16.40 Panel 5 (Room BC): Quests for Femininities
chair: Anne Keithline Anna Kisiel (University of Silesia, Poland), “We Have an Origin like Water”: The Path towards Femininity in Eavan Boland’s “The Journey” Reyhan Özer Taniyan (Ömer Halisdemir University, Turkey), A Quest of Lust and Liberty Lizelle Smit (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), A Journey of Love: The Creation of a Nineteenth Century Lesbian Discourse Michał Kisiel (University of Silesia, Poland), Utterly Foreign Territories: The (Un)accomplished Quest for Femininity in Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska |
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16.40-17.00 Coffee break | |||
17.00-18.40 Panel 6 (Room A): Poland Abroad
chair: Julia Szołtysek Zbigniew Białas (University of Silesia, Poland), In Grajewo: Vita Sackville-West Reporting on a Polish Revolution Grzegorz Moroz (University of Białystok, Poland), American Mid-West as Represented by Polish Fulbright Scholars: Teresa Hołówka and Zbigniew Białas Sonia Caputa (University of Silesia, Poland), Californian Flanerie in Karolina Waclawiak’s How to Get into the Twin Palms |
17.00-18.40 Panel 7 (Room BC): Femininity on the Run
chair: Baysar Taniyan Mete Çal (Ömer Halisdemir University, Turkey), Finding Inner Self: Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation Seçil Çırak (Pamukkale University, Turkey), “‘Taming’ of the ‘Mustangs’”: The Problem of Female Travel in Mustang Alicja Bemben, (University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland), Travelling Psyche of an Interrupted Girl Ali Güven (Pamukkale University, Turkey), Backpacking to the Self: Wild |
17.00-18.40 Panel 8 (Room F): Domesticity and Displacement
chair: Rafał Borysławski Nina Augustynowicz (University of Silesia, Poland), “The Blessings of Other Climates”: Globalisation of the English Diet in the 19th Century Nadia Butt (University of Giessen, Germany), Journey as a Quest: The Transcultural Predicament of Female Travellers in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) Agnieszka Podruczna (University of Silesia, Poland), A Journey to the City of Hope. Immigration, Diaspora and Identity in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl |
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19.30 Grill |
Friday, 22.09.2017
10.00 Opening of the second conference day | ||
10.00-11.00 Plenary Session Two (Room ABC)
Linda Cracknell Walking in Circles: Making Stories out of Landscapes chair: Agnieszka Podruczna |
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11.00-11.30 Coffee break | ||
11.30-13.00 Panel 9 (Room A): Africa in Contexts
chair: Sarah LeFanu Anna Pochmara (University of Warsaw, Poland), Homecomings: Black Women’s Forced Travel and Mobility in Three African American Novels Annie Gagiano (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Women Writers in Search of a Knowledgeable and Acknowledgeable Africanity |
11.30-13.00 Panel 10 (Room BC): Gender in Flux
chair: Gillian Beattie-Smith Rafał Borysławski (University of Silesia, Poland), Ongin mere secan…, “first seek the sea…”: The Politics of Feminine Travel in the Old English Frauenlieder and the Encomium Emmae Reginae Murat Göç (Pamukkale University, Turkey), One is Born and Becomes a Woman: A Journey into the Transgender Self in Transamerica Sławomir Kuźnicki (University of Opole, Poland), A Diary of a Journey: PJ Harvey’s Photographic Poetry |
11.30-13.00 Panel 11 (Room F): Traveling Narratives
chair: Lou Ann Granger Anne Keithline (Independent Scholar, United States), Walking for Peace, Walking for Power: Peace Pilgrim and the Narrative of the Female Long-Distance Walker Agnieszka Kaczmarek (University of Applied Sciences in Nysa, Poland), Backpacks of Their Own: Maurice Herzog’s and Arlene Blum’s Accounts of the Ascent of Annapurna Diana Mistreanu (University of Luxembourg), One Thousand and One Lives from Moscow to Vladivostok. Contemporary French Women on the Trans-Siberian Railway |
13.00-14.30 Lunch | ||
14.30-16.00 Panel 12 (Room A): Down Under
chair: Eugenia Sojka Jillian Adams (Central Queensland University, Australia), The Post War Travel Writing of Two Australian Women: Gwen Hughes and Helen Seager Graeme H Williams (Federation University, Australia), Three Australian Women Artists in Paris Donna Coates (University of Calgary, Canada), “Freedom: Just One Costume Change Away”: Cross-Dressing Soldiers in Second World War Australian Fictions by Mandy Sayer and Sara Knox |
14.30-16.00 Panel 13 (Room BC): Journeys in Colour
chair: Karen Heald Yeşim Mersin Çal (Hakkari University, Turkey), Le Tableau: Lola’s “Painted Journey” Salamis Aysegul Sentug (University of Kent, United Kingdom), Could she really escape? Exploration of boredom in 19th century European paintings depicting a woman traveller Ewa Wylężek (University of Silesia, Poland), Excursion and Exclusion – Modernist Women in Edward Hopper’s Painting |
14.30-16.00 Panel 14 (Room F): Testimonials
chair: Linda Cracknell Tracy Mackenna (University of Dundee, Scotland), Language, Lips and Love: Writing on the Hoof Fatin Shabbar (University of Southern Australia), “Are you allowed to travel?!” Lou Ann Granger (UCLA, USA), The Power of Keeping a Visual Travel Journal in the Quest for Mindful Travel |
16.00-16.30 Coffee break | ||
16.30-18.10 Panel 15 (Room A): America on the Road
chair: Marta Mamet-Michalkiewicz David Schauffler (University of Silesia, Poland), Sentiment on the Move: Evangeline Considered Justyna Fruzińska (University of Łódź, Poland), Frances Wright’s America: 19th-Century Utopia Małgorzata Rutkowska (Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Poland), “Americans Abroad Should Honorably Represent Their Country.” Responses to Anti-American Sentiments in 19th Century Women’s Travel Writing Katarzyna Jasiewicz (University of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz, Poland), Woman’s Inner Journey vs. Physical Escape: Female Travellers in Kate Chopin’s and William Faulkner’s Works |
16.30-18.10 Panel 16 (Room BC): Perceptions of Self
chair: Nina Augustynowicz Maria Camelia Dicu (Constantin Brâncuși University of Târgu Jiu, Romania), To Room Nineteen – A Woman’s Travel to Find Her Self Eugenia Sojka (University of Silesia, Poland), Indigenous Women from Canada Travelling to Europe: Decolonizing Perceptions of the Female Aboriginal Other Raihan Rosman (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom), Quest for Identity in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005) |
16.30-18.10 Panel 17 (Room F): Finding the Self: Non-Fiction Accounts
chair: Annie Gagiano Gillian Beattie-Smith (Open University, United Kingdom), Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journeys to Scotland Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević (University of Montenegro, Montenegro), Mutations of Poetic Reflections, Mutations of Nostalgic Impulses: Elizabeth Bishop’s Letter/Travel Writing Becky Ardrey (University of South Alabama, USA), A Historiography of Women and Travel |
19.00 Conference dinner |
Saturday, 23.09.2017
11.00 Shuttle Bus departure |
The final version of our conference programme can be downloaded here.