Closure of Conference project. Post-Conference Plans

Many many thanks to everyone who participated in the conference, to all those who presented papers, read their poetry or translations, contributed to discussions or just came to listen.

This blog will remain open as a record of the conference proceedings and will continue to include the programme, the abstracts of the presentations and the short biographies of the participants.

We have removed the conference papers from this site because we intend to include revised versions in a post-conference book. This book will not be a representation of the conference proceedings as such, however, but a volume of articles roughly reflecting the structure of the conference. The book will be edited by Ursula Philips, supported by a team of advisers (Urszula Chowaniec, Knut Andreas Grimstad, Kris Van Heuckelom and Elwira Grossman). It is expected that the volume will appear in 2013.

Should anyone wish to contact the authors of papers or read the original papers, please contact the conference organizer.

Sunday, July 03, 2011

Kris Van Heuckelom

Kris Van Heuckelom is an assistant professor of Polish Language and Literature at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. His main research interests include contemporary Polish literature, visual culture, translation studies, and Polish-Jewish relations. His most recent book is (Un)masking Bruno Schulz:  New Combinations, Further Fragmentations, Ultimate Reintegrations. (Rodopi 2009, co-edited with Dieter De Bruyn). Other books include Perspectives on Slavic Literatures (Pegasus 2005, co-edited with David Danaher) and Looking at Light Reflected by the Earth: Visuality in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz (Polish Academy of Sciences 2004, in Polish). He is currently preparing a conference and a book project on the image of Central and East European migrants in post-1989 European cinema (www.transnationalsubjects.eu).