ASEEES 2013: Polish-Belarusian Literary Encounters - replacement panelist needed

[Curt Woolhiser]

Dear SEELANGers,

Due to a last-minute change of plans, we now need a third panelist for
the following panel on Polish-Belarusian
literary and cultural relations for ASEEES 2013 in Boston (please see
the list of participants and panel description from the original Call
for Papers below). If you are interested in joining the panel, please
notify the panel organizer, Curt Woolhiser (cwoolhis at brandeis.edu) by
9:00PM EST Tuesday, Jan. 15. Many thanks!

Panel: "The Intimate Other: Polish-Belarusian Literary Encounters"

Chair: Dorota Michaluk (University of Torun, Poland)

Papers:

1. Simon Lewis (Cambridge University, UK) "Internal Colonization in
Polish-Belarusian Literary Encounters: Czeczot, Barszczewski,
Orzeszkowa"

2. Maryna Zapartyka (Belarusian State University and Maksim
Bahdanovich Literary Museum, Minsk): "The Trilingual Poetry of Adam
Hurynowicz: Questions of Artistic Self-Identification"

3. ?

Discussants:

1. Iaroslava Strikha (Harvard U)
2. Pavel Tereshkovich (European Humanities University, Vilnius)

>Call for Papers: "The Intimate Other: Polish-Belarusian Literary Encounters"
>
> The prominent Polish émigré writer, editor and political activist
> Jerzy Giedroyc, himself a native of Minsk, once described his place of
> birth as part of a region where “questions of identity are better
> answered by three-volume novels than a passport.” The theme of complex
> and fluid identities in the region is also addressed by the writer and
> director Tadeusz Konwicki, a native of the Belarusian-Lithuanian
> borderland, who wrote: “What language did I speak as a child? Did I
> speak the ‘simple language’? Did I hear more words, fairy tales and
> songs in Belarusian or in Polish? How many times and when did I cross
> that imperceptible boundary between Belarusianness and Polishness?”
>         For this panel we invite papers examining representations of
> Belarusians and “Belarusianness” and their relationship to Poles and
> “Polishness” in the works of Polish-language writers from the
> territory of today’s Belarus and the Belarusian-Lithuanian borderlands
> (Adam Mickiewicz, Wladyslaw Syrokomla, Jan Barszczewski, Eliza
> Orzeszkowa, Czeslaw Milosz, Tadeusz Konwicki, etc.), as well as the
> works of Belarusian-language writers who emerged from a Polish
> cultural milieu (Wincenty Dunin-Marcinkiewicz, Franciszek
> Bohuszewicz, etc.), and more recently, Belarusian-language writers in
> post-WWII Poland (Sokrat Janowicz, etc.).

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