Schedule

October 25 (room 317)

8.30 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 9.30 Workshop Opening (room 317)

9.30 – 11.30 Session One: “Killing the White Man’s Indian:” Indigenous Methodologies and Native American Literature – dr. Joanna Ziarkowska (American Literature Department, UW)

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break (room 313)

12.00 – 14.00 Session Two: Materialism and Immigrants in the US – dr. Mirosław Miernik (American Culture Department, UW)

14.00 – 15.00 Lunch (room 313)

15.00 – 17.00 Session Three: The Making of Perfect Americans: Eugenics, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, and Charlie Chaplin – Prof. Ewa Łuczak (American Literature Department, UW)

17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break (room 313)

17.30 – 19.30 Session Four: Urban Mobility: Gentrification and Communitarianism in the City – dr Aneta Dybska (American Culture Department, UW)

October 26 (room 317)

9.00 – 11.00 Session One: Whatever Happened to the Second Wave? Feminism, Postmodernism and the Ironies of History – prof. Agnieszka Graff (American Studies Center, UW)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break (room 313)

11.30 – 13.30 Session Two: Genre Migration and Politics: The Case of Climate Fiction – prof. Paweł Frelik (UMCS Lublin, American Studies Center, UW)

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch (room 313)

14.30 – 16.30 Session Three: Narratives of Embodiment: Race, Illness and Disability – prof. James Kyung-Jin Lee (University of California, Irvine)

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break (room 313)

17.00 – 19.00 Session Four: Whatever Happened to Nineteenth-Century American Literature Studies over the Last Twenty Years– prof. Marek Wilczyński (University of Gdańsk, American Studies Center UW)

19.00 – Closing Remarks