2nd REAL Student Symposium 2015

The 2^nd Re-Examining American Literature Student Symposium devoted to “Narration and Storytelling: the Death of the Narrative” took place on the 21^st 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:

http://bookloversamongstudents.webs.com/program

http://bookloversamongstudents.webs.com/real-symposium 

Would like to read about the first REAL symposium?: 

http://realconference.webs.com/      

    

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

REAL Student Symposium 2015

“I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning, a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.”

― Gertrude Stein, Narration: Four Lectures (1935)

For more information visit: http://bookloversamongstudents.webs.com/real-symposium

REAL 2015

We are happy to announce that on the 21st of March 2015 

the 2nd REAL Student Symposium 

will take place. 

As the organizing team we are proud to present the topic of the symposium: 

Narration and storytelling: the death of the narrative? 

“I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning, a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.”

― Gertrude Stein, Narration: Four Lectures (1935)

Check the REAL Student Symposium site to keep up to date with all relevant announcements http://bookloversamongstudents.webs.com/real-symposium

Catch a glimpse of what the 1st REAL Student Symposium looked like on http://realconference.webs.com/

Contact us if you’re interested real.conference@gmail.com

REAL Symposium 2014

It is the loss of memory not the cult of memory that will make us prisoners of the past.

- Paolo Portoghesi, After modern architecture, 1982

On the 29th of March, the 1st REAL (Re-Examining American Literature) Student Symposium devoted to “Historicity and Memory: Postmodern struggles with the past” took place. This event was organized by The American Studies Scholarly Circle Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt) and the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. There were five thematically-oriented sessions: Historicity and the Visual Arts, Postmodern Visions of History, The Classics and History, Personal Histories/Family Dramas as well as the Afro-American History. Our key speaker was dr Jacek Partyka from the University of Białystok who gave a magnificent lecture entitled: “Toward ‘Archival’ Poetics: Records of Extreme Experience in Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony. The United States 1885-1890. Recitative (1965) and Holocaust (1975).” Our delegates from Toruń, Gdańsk, Katowice, Warsaw, Wrocław and Poznań set a very high standard and we sincerely hope that this symposium will give rise to an annual conference dedicated to American literature.

by Marta Makoś

You can take a look at photos, which, nevertheless, do not do justice to the brilliant atmosphere of this event:

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