Haunted Cultures / Haunting Cultures:
Spectres and Spectrality in Cultural Practices
Department of English
Faculty of Languages
Nicolaus Copernicus University
22-23 September 2016
Collegium Maius
Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń
Organizing committee
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska
Katarzyna Więckowska
Katarzyna Marak
Nelly Strehlau
Organizational support
Andrzej Beszczyński
Olivier Harenda
Katarzyna Lotterhoff
Joanna Miziołek
Jacek Wyżlic
Aleksandra Zwolicka
Department of English
Nicolaus Copernicus University
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87-100 Toruń, Poland
Haunted Cultures / Haunting Cultures:
Spectres and Spectrality in Cultural Practices
Department of English
Nicolaus Copernicus University
22-23 September 2016
Collegium Maius
Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń
Thursday, 22 September 2016
9:00-12:00 Registration (3rd floor)
9:30-10:00 Conference opening (room 307)
10:00-11:00 Plenary lecture (room 307)
Chair: Arthur Redding
Tadeusz Rachwał (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw),
Spectres of Paper: Writing, Bureaucracy, and the End(s) of the Book
11:00-11:30 Coffee break (room 307)
11:30-13:00 Trauma 11:30-13:00 Adaptations
Chair: Tomasz Dobrogoszcz Chair: Barbara Klonowska
Collegium Maius, room 311 Collegium Maius, room 307
Aleksandra Kędzierska (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Mirosława Buchholtz (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń),
Lublin), Ghosts of Henry James: Portrait of a Lady at Teatr Wybrzeże,
Ghosting the War Gdańsk, Poland (2015)
Anna Branach-Kallas (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń), Alicja Chmiołek (University of Gdańsk),
Crypts, Melancholia, Cultural Trauma: A Hauntological Approach to “Nor lie in death forever”: Female Spirits Haunting Male Characters
Recent First World War Fiction in Roger Corman’s Poe Film Cycle
Olivier Harenda (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń), Magdalena Cieślak (University of Łódź),
The Partition of India as the Unprocessed Cultural Trauma "If we shadows have offended …": Political Correctness of the BBC
ShakespeaRe-Told Series
13:00-14:30 Lunch (room 14)
14:30-16:00 Ghostly legacies 14:30-16:00 Spectrality in British fiction
Chair: Arthur Redding Chair: Mirosława Buchholtz
Collegium Maius, room 311 Collegium Maius, room 307
Juan Evaristo Valls Boix (University of Barcelona), Jacek Mydla (University of Silesia, Katowice),
“The Art of Writing Posthumous Papers”: Kierkegaard and the Gazing Spectrally, Gazing Anxiously - from Page to Screen:
Spectral Auditorium Haunting/Haunted Visions in M. R. James’s Ghost Stories and Their
Film Adaptations
Tymon Adamczewski (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz), Tomasz Dobrogoszcz (University of Łódź),
Hauntology of Responsibility: Tom Stoppard's Darkside The Spectral Confrontation with the Uncanny in Ian McEwan’s The
Child in Time
Emilia Leszczyńska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń), Barbara Klonowska (Catholic University of Lublin),
The Phantom(s) of the Opera Haunting across the Class Divide: Sarah Waters’s Affinity and The
Little Stranger
16:00-16:30 Coffee break (room 307)
16:30-18:00 Postcolonial hauntings 16:30-18:00 Narratives of haunting
Chair: Anna Branach-Kallas Chair: Aleksandra Kędzierska
Collegium Maius, room 311 Collegium Maius, room 307
Anna Maria Tomczak (University of Białystok), Grzegorz Koneczniak (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń),
On the Narrative Voice of a Ghost/Spirit/Duppy in Marlon James’s Spectrality in Dermot Bolger’s The Townlands of Brazil and Owen
Haunting Novel A Brief History of Seven Killings McCafferty’s Quietly: A Comparative Approach
Agnieszka Podruczna (University of Silesia, Katowice), Zuzanna Szatanik (University of Silesia, Katowice),
The Haunted City: Spectres of Colonial Past in Vandana Singh’s On the Threshold: Haunting Transgressions in Gaétan Soucy’s The
“Delhi” Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
Ewa Macura-Nnamdi (University of Silesia, Katowice), Bożena Kucała (Jagiellonian University, Kraków),
Mouthwork John Banville’s Ghosts: “a different way of being alive”
19:00-21:30 CONFERENCE DINNER
HOTEL SOLARIS
ul. Panny Marii 9
Haunted Cultures/ Haunting Cultures:
Spectres and Spectrality in Cultural Practices
Friday 23 September 2016
8:30-10:30 Registration (3rd floor)
9:00-10:00 Plenary lecture (room 307)
Chair: Tadeusz Rachwał
Arthur Redding (York University, Toronto):
Burial Grounds: Places of Interment in American Writing
10:00-11:30 Haunting and text 10:00-11:30 Derrida’s ghosts
Chair: Anna Maria Tomczak Chair: Tadeusz Rachwał
Collegium Maius, room 311 Collegium Maius, room 307
Anna Warso (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Michał Krzykawski (University of Silesia, Katowice),
Warsaw), J’accepte: A Cryptic Love by Unsealed Writing
Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted: A Novel of Stories and the Underbellies
of American Culture
Jarosław Hetman (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń), Michał Kisiel (University of Silesia, Katowice),
Don DeLillo and the Ghost of Language Apostrophe and Apocalypse: Notes on Theatricality in Jacques
Derrida’s “Envois”
Karolina Kolenda (Pedagogical University of Cracow), Aleksander Kopka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków),
The Present Pasts: Image and Text in the Fiction of W.G. Sebald The Erring Ghost Cards of Jacques Derrida: A Synecdoche
11:30-12:00 Coffee break (room 307)
12:00-13:30 Haunting and time 12:00-13:30 Ghosting the popular
Chair: Katarzyna Więckowska Chair: Magdalena Cieślak
Collegium Maius, room 311 Collegium Maius, room 307
Paulina Mirowska (University of Łódź), Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska (University of Warmia and
Ghosts, Demons and Shamans: Sam Shepard’s Haunted Territories Mazury, Olsztyn),
Between Nostalgia and Hostility: The X-Files revival, or Exorcising
the Spectres of the 1990’s
Marlena Hetman (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń), Miłosz Markocki (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń),
Eugene O’Neill and His Ghosts of the Past, the Present and the The Haunting of the Present by the Past and the Future in
Future Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń), Mateusz Maleszka, Anna Marynowska (Nicolaus Copernicus
Hauntology, Performance and the Archive University, Toruń),
Supernatural or Material - Horror in Haunted Places in H.P.
Lovecraft's, M.R. James's, A. Machen's and A. Blackwood's Literary
Works and Concepts
13:30 -14:30 Lunch (room 14)
14:30-16:00 Spectral selves 14:30-16:00 Gender and haunting
Chair: Edyta Lorek-Jezińska Chair: Ewa Macura-Nnamdi
Collegium Maius, room 311 Collegium Maius, room 307
Anna Maraś (University of Silesia, Katowice), Agnieszka Pantuchowicz (University of Social Sciences and
Spectral – Fragile – (Un)homely: Haunting Presence of Francesca Humanities, Warsaw),
Woodman in House and Space2 Series The Haunting Presence of the (Feminine) Gender
Katarzyna Marak (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń), Nelly Strehlau (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń),
The Haunting Past in Story-oriented Walking Simulators: The case Postfeminist Spectres: What’s Haunting Television Heroines?
of Layers of Fear
Małgorzata Hołda (Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków), Katarzyna Więckowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń),
The Other, the Irrevocability of Death and the Aporia of Mourning Women, Spectres and Writing
16:00-16:30 Coffee break and conference closing (room 307)
16:30-18:00 Guided tour of the Old Town
