We would like to extend a cordial invitation to you to participate in the Polish Association for American Studies Conference (PAAS 2023), organized by the Department of American Studies and the Department of Studies in Culture. The conference will take place from October 25th to 27th at the Collegium Heliodori within the Faculty of English.
The conference theme revolves around "America and Deep Time: Alternate Geographies, Histories, and Temporalities." The papers and keynote lectures will explore American topics from perspectives that portray the U.S.A. as a "planetary entity" (as articulated by Spivak), interwoven into a vast and intricate network of events and processes, often surpassing America's influence, imaginative scope, or comprehension.
The conference program can be found at: paas2023.amu.edu.pl/program/
We would like to draw your attention to the three keynote lectures and two accompanying events during the conference:
Keynotes:
Wednesday:
15:30 - 17:00 1: Prof. Wai Chee Dimock (Harvard Center for the Environment, Harvard University, USA): "A Long History of Pandemics" (AULA, hybrid format)
Thursday:
11:00-12:30 2: Prof. Julia Fiedorczuk (University of Warsaw, Poland): "That Depopulated Silence: Geological Imagination in Recent North American Poetry" (Aula)
Friday:
9:00-10:00 3: Prof. Wiesław Kuhn (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland): “Mrs Shortley’s New Planet: Alternate Geographies and Deep Time in Southern Modernism” (Aula)
Accompanying events:
Thursday:
17:45-19:15 Special guest (Academic Poznań): Prof. Forrest Gander - Pulitzer-winning American poet, the author of "Be With" and "Twice Alive.": "An Ecology of Intimacies: On Lichens & Eros" (Aula) open to the public. His visit is jointly sponsored by the Academic Poznań program and the Faculty of English.
Wednesday: The Fulbright Program
17:30 - 18:30 The Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission – Presentation of the Fulbright program (Aula)
