The 2nd Re-Examining American Literature Student Symposium devoted to “Narration and Storytelling: the Death of the Narrative” took place on the 21st of March. The event was organized by The American Studies Scholarly Circle Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt) at the Faculty of English. There were five thematically-oriented sessions: Voices and Visions, Storytelling and Identity, Narration and Postcolonial Condition, Narratives and Representation as well as Storytelling and Mythology. Our key speaker was dr hab. Paweł Stachura from Adam Mickiewicz University who gave a magnificent lecture entitled: Screenwriting Gurus and Precession of Simulacra. Our delegates came from Adam Mickiewicz University, University of Silesia, Szczecin University, University of Gdańsk, Zielona Góra University, Nicolaus Copernicus University as well as University of Warsaw.
The programme and more information about this year’s symposium can be found here:
Would like to read about the first REAL symposium?:
The REAL Symposium Organizing Committee:
Chair: Paulina Ambroży, Ph.D., D. Litt.
Chair: Paweł Stachura, Ph.D.
Secretary: Michał Kasperowicz
Małgorzata Olsza, M.A.
Marta Makoś, B.A.
Beata Filipiak
by Marta Makoś
