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9:00 – 10:00 Registration
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10:00 – 10:30 Conference opening
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10:30 – 12:00 Refractions of Jewishness
Eugenia Sojka (University of Silesia), Exploring the idea of “Indigenous Shtetl” in Canada: Aboriginal-Jewish writers and artists embracing their complex histories, identities and cultures in the 21st century.
Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka (State Professional School of Higher Education, Konin, Poland), From Dora to the moon – inter/national politics, personal histories and the Jewish Other in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s novel The Way the Crow Flies
Justyna Fruzińska and Monika Kocot (University of Lodz), Approaching the “backward G O D”: Thomas King’s dialogues with the Hebrew Bible.
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12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break
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12:30 – 14:00 Reassessing Mordecai Richler
Alex Ramon (University of Reading), Mordecai and Him - Canadian-Jewish Identity and the “Really Unauthorised Biography:” Joel Yanofsky’s Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind (2003)
Krzysztof Majer (University of Lodz), From Painter to Schlockmeister: the Evolution of the ‘Doubtful Artist’ in Mordecai Richler’s Fiction
Marta Duńko (Independent Researcher, Lodz), Duddy Kravitz's Canadian Dream
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14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
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15:00 – 16:00
Keynote Lecture:
Goldie Morgentaler (University of Lethbridge)
Chava Rosenfarb's Tree of Life:
Recreating Jewish Poland on Canadian Soil
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16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
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16:30 – 18:30 Traces polonaises
Kathleen Gyssels (Universiteit Antwerpen), Deux marranes de Podolie: André Schwarz-Bart (L’Etoile du matin) et Régine Robin (La Mémoire saturée) et l’infusion de la shoalogie.
Joanna Warmuzińska-Rogóż (Université de Silésie), France, Québec, Pologne et histoire juive. Identités multiples face à la traduction : Régine Robin en polonais
Yvonne Völkl (Université de Graz), Le Canada et la Pologne dans l’œuvre de Tecia Werbowski
Annie Ousset-Krief (Université Paris3-Sorbonne Nouvelle), De Po-lin à Outremont. Les Hassidim, Passeurs d’identité
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19:30 Reception at Restauracja Lili (ul. Roosevelta 10) - sponsored by the Embassy of Canada to Poland
Thursday, April 3
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9:00 – 13:30
Visit to The Jewish Cemetery and Radegast Station - the visit sponsored by the Polish Association for Canadian Studies
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13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
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14:30 – 15:30
Keynote Lecture:
Sherry Simon (Concordia University)
Writers of Czernowitz / Les écrivains de Czernowitz:
Rosa Auslander, Aharon Appelfeld
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15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
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16:00 – 17:45 Artistic Journeys
Isa Milman (Writer and Artist, Victoria, British Columbia), Telling History in Poetry: The Story of Prairie Kaddish
Evelyn Tauben (Independent Curator, Producer & Writer), Born in Montreal, I Come From Lodz: Rediscovering Connection Through Creative Expression
Mika Goodfriend (MFA student, Concordia University), Refuge
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17:45 – 18:15 Coffee break
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18:15 – 19:15
Guest Lecture:
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
(Program Director of the Core Exhibition for the
Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw)
A Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust Remembered in Words and Images
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20:15 – 21:45
Reading Themselves and Others / Lecture de soi, lecture de l'autre:
An Evening with / Une soirée avec
Goldie Morgentaler, Régine Robin and Norman Ravvin
Friday, April 4
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9:00 – 10:30 Le littéraire et le social
Józef Kwaterko (Université de Varsovie), Orthodoxie et sexualité dans La célébration de Naïm Kattan
Ewelina Bujnowska (Université de Silésie), L’Amérique hantée par le passé juif. Le ciel de Bay City de Catherine Mavrikakis
Renata Jarzębowska-Sadkowska (Université Nicolas Copernic de Toruń), Lekhaim ! de Malka Zipora : étude sociolinguistique de l’habitus juif adapté, traduit et expliqué dans le paratexte
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10.30 – 11:00 Coffee break
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11:00 – 12:00
Keynote Lecture:
Norman Ravvin (Concordia University),
Leonard Cohen, The Beats and Salinger’s Cigarettes:
Decoding a Novel and its Cultural Moment
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12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break
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12:30 – 14:00 Crossovers and Correspondences
Dagmara Drewniak (Adam Mickiewicz University), Addicted to the Holocaust – Bernice Eisenstein’s ways of coping with troublesome memories in I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
Karolina Krasuska (University of Warsaw), The World of our Grandfathers?: New Yiddishists and New Immigrants in Recent North American Jewish Writing
Weronika Suchacka (University of Szczecin), “To come to terms, to find not answers, but acceptance”: Canada as a place for the Jewish-Ukrainian dialogue?
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14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
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15:00 – 16:00
Keynote Lecture:
Régine Robin
(professeure émérite, Université du Québec à Montréal),
Sidney Sarkin : un destin juif canadian
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18:00 – 21:00 Kabbalat Shabbat at the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation in Lodz, ul. Narutowicza 24
Saturday, April 5
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9:00 – 10:30 Liens francophones / anglophones
Petr Kyloušek (Université Masaryk de Brno), Aaron d’Yves Thériault et Son of a Smaller Hero de Mordecai Richler – deux images identitaires de la recherche de soi
Eva Voldřichová Beránková (Université Charles de Prague), Symbiose ou « solitude à trois » ? Le théâtre yiddish à Montréal face aux communautés francophone et anglophone
Piotr Sadkowski (Université Nicolas Copernic de Toruń), A. M. Klein au Québec français : échos critiques et intertextuels
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10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
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11:00 – 13:00 Negotiating Identities
Jessica Roda (Canada Research Chair on Urban Heritage), The Representation of Jewish Identities in Montreal Public Space
Vivian Felsen (Translator, Visual Artist), Preserving Canada's Yiddish Culture: The Remarkable Legacy of Chaim Leib Fuks
Dominic Williams (Independent Researcher), ‘Let’s change one letter only in Palimpstine’: Writing Israel-Palestine in Adeena Karasick’s Dyssemia Sleaze and Rachel Zolf’s Neighbour Procedure
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13:00 – 13:15 Conference closing
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13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
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