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University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn and University of Warsaw are pleased to invite you to a an international conference under the patronage of The Polish Joseph Conrad Society.
Dates: 17-18 November 2017
Venue: Faculty of Humanities, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland
Conference languages: English and Polish
Form of presentation: a 20-minute paper presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion
Conference fee: 400 PLN / 100 EUR / 100 USD (for PhD students 300PLN / 75 EUR / 75 USD). The fee covers registration, coffee breakes, lunches, gala dinner, conference materials.
Submission of paper proposals: by 1 September 2017. Notifications of acceptance will be forwarded within two weeks since the receiving of your submission form.
Conference mail box: conrad2017olsztyn@gmail.com
Additional information (Call for papers)
Public transport from the Main Railway Station
Confirmed plenary speakers:
- Prof. Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
- Dr Hugh Epstein, London, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society, UK
- Prof. Wiesław Krajka, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, PL
- Prof. Laurence Davies, University of Glasgow, UK
- Prof. John G. Peters, University of North Texas, USA
Main theme:
- the coexistence/opposition of land and sea in Joseph Conrad's works
- specific features of 'sea' and 'land' narratives
- the image of land and sea in Joseph Conrad's works
- Conrad's sea years
- Conrad's land years
Other aspects:
- Conrad and Polish Romanticism
- Conrad and European Romanticism
- intertextuality in Conrad's works
- Conradian echoes in contemporary literature
- Conrad's influence on world literature
- reception of Conrad's works
- translations of Conrad's works
Scientific Committee:
- prof. dr hab. Wiesław Rzońca, UW,
- dr hab. Ewa Kujawska-Lis, prof. UWM
Organisers:
- dr Karol Samsel, UW
- dr Anna Kwiatkowska, UWM
- dr Katarzyna Kodeniec, UWM (secretary)
Other members of the organizing committee:
- dr Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, UWM,
- dr Dorota Gładkowska, UWM
- dr Anna Drogosz, UWM
- Student Interest Groups:
- "Anglo-Cooltura Seniors", Department of English Philology, UWM
- "Feerie", Faculty of Polish Philology, UW