International Conference on Oriental Literatures and Orient in Literary Texts
4th Edition
23-24 March, 2017
Toruń
09.30-18.00
Registration desk open (in front of Kolankowski’s Hall [Room 307], Collegium Maius)
10.00-10.10
CONFERENCE OPENING (Kolankowski’s Hall)
Opening address
The Dean of the Faculty of Languages, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Przemysław NEHRING
Professor of Classical Philology
10.10-11.10
Plenary session
(Kolankowski’s Hall)
Keynote speech (1)
Giulia RAMPOLLA
Professor of Chinese Studies
Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’
Crossing the rural-to-urban border: stories of migrant workers in recent Chinese fiction
Keynote speech (2)
Katarzyna PACHNIAK
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
Arabic Motifs in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa of Jan Potocki (d. 1815)
11.10-11.45
Coffee break
(Room 306)
11.45-13.45
Noon session
PANEL 1 (in English)
PANEL 2 (in Polish)
PANEL 3 (in Polish)
PANEL 4 (in Polish)
Historical limitations –
ethical limitations:
classical Arabic literature
reconsidered
China beyond borders.
Image of China, the Chinese
and Chineseness
in Western literature
Spiritual boundaries —
ethical limitations:
On classical literatures
in the Orient
Crossing borders in travel:
Journey in Oriental
literature and inspired by
Orient
Room
Chair:
(Collegium Maius)
307
Room
Muneerah Badr ALMAHASHEER
11.45-12.15 Magdalena PINKER
University of Warsaw / Poland
The Limits of History —
How the earliest Arabic-Islamic
chronicles described the Past
12.15-12.45 Arzu SADYKHOVA
12.45-13.15
13.15-13.45 Marcin GRODZKI
University of Warsaw / Poland
Limits of studying the past of a
literary text. The quest for the
autographic text-form of the
Qur‘an in the light of modern
scholarly research
13.45-15.00
Lunch break
15.00-16.30
Afternoon session
16.00-16.30
Room 206
Katarzyna PACHNIAK
Tomasz EWERTOWSKI
Antoni LEŚNIAK
Aleksandra KIJEWSKA
Adam Mickiewicz Univ. / Poland
The Great Wall of China in Polish
and Serbian travel writing (since
18th till the mid-20th century)
University of Silesia / Poland
Garden smelling for the rest of
the mind of Sheikh Naftzu as a
literary textbook of Islamic art of
loving
Roman MARCINKOWSKI
University of Warsaw / Poland
From the Border of Belonging to
the Community of Israel in the
light of Selected Issues of Sheelot
Utshuvot
Nina BUDZISZEWSKA
University of Wroclaw / Poland
Subtle experience of yogic
consciousness and linguistic
borders in its descriptions
Jagiellonian Univ. /Poland
If I were someone else in the
Road… — metaphors of road and
journey in modern Palestinian
literature
Magdalena KUBAREK
Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. / Poland
Intricacies of community and
individual fates: Drawing and
crossing boundaries in Yūsuf
Zaydān’s prose
Izabela PAKUŁA
SWPS / Poland
Borders crossing in literature in
the novel of Tiziano Terzani
A Fortune-Teller Told Me:
Earthbound Travels in the Far
East
Magdalena LEWICKA
Nicolaus Copern. Univ./Poland
Ar-Rihla in servise of An-Nahḍa.
Rif‘y aṭ-Ṭahṭāwī’s concept of
crossing geographical and cultural
borders (the case of Kitāb taẖlīṣ
al-ibrīz fī talẖīṣ Bārīz)
University of Opole / Poland
Power and gender in Empress
Dowager Cixi novel by Jung
Chang
Michał KRZYŻANOWSKI
Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univ./Poland
Between fascination and fear —
images of chinatown as depicted
in Thomas Burke’s and Sax
Rohmer’s writings
Anna KOŁOS
Adam Mickiewicz Univ. / Poland
First Old Polish Accounts of
China against a background of
European Perceptions of the Far
East
Kamila KOZIOŁ
University of Warsaw / Poland
Confucian Genre —
The definition of Korean Books
of Moral Conduct
(Gessler Restauracja U Kucharzy, Rynek Staromiejski 21)
(Collegium Maius)
PANEL 6 (in Arabic)
PANEL 7 (in English)
PANEL 8 (in Polish)
PANEL 9 (in English)
On the West-East
Forms and subjects
Historical, religious &
borders: Arabic and
boundaries in
social boundaries in
non-Arabic Literary classical South-East Asia contemporary Arab
interrelations (1)
literature
literatures
Borderland of the
language, tradition
and intermediality in
Japanese literature
Julia SZOŁTYSEK
Marcin GRODZKI
Iwona MILEWSKA
Arzu SADYKHOVA
Marina JOVIĆ DJALOVIĆ
Ahmad Hamad AL-NUAIMI
Al- Balqa’ Applied Uni./ Jordan
Arabs and The Da Vinci
Code: Vision and Opinions
Dawid ROGACZ
Ewa MACHUT-MENDECKA Aleksandra JAROSZ
Adam Mickiewicz Univ./Poland
Historical thinking in the
Five Confucian Classics
Nicolaus Coper. Univ. / Poland
Paremiological study of
Miyakoan ethnolects
Morad MABROOK
Märt LÄÄNEMETS
University of Warsaw / Poland
Postcolonial plots and
new Frankenstein (on
examples of Iraqi prose)
Adrianna MAŚKO
Adam Mickiewicz Univ./ Poland
Crossing the Borders of
Humanity: Frankenstein
in Baghdad by Aḥmad
as-Saʿdawī
Joanna GRUSZEWSKA
Sebastian GADOMSKI
Wojciech J. NOWAK
307
15.00-15.30 Serafina MARTINS
15.30-16.00
203
Crossing
European borders –
Orient in Occidental
narrations
Room
Chair:
Room
Renata GADAMSKA-SERAFIN
Dorota BRZOZOWSKA
Adam Mickiewicz Univ./ Poland
The Formation of Plot Canon in
Arabic Literature: the Case of
Love Stories About Poets of
Bedouins
Zane STEINMANE
University of Latvia / Latvia
Borderlines of Morality: Exploring
the Ethos of the Mu’allaqat
PANEL 5 (in English)
309
Maciej SZATKOWSKI
University of Lisbon / Portugal
Maria Ondina Braga — A
lyrical storytelling of the
Far East
Malgorzta SOKOŁOWICZ
University of Warsaw / Poland
Crossing the Boarders of
Decency. Gustave
Flaubert, Maxime du
Camp and their Oriental
Journey
Room
309
University of Qatar / Qatar
Gypsy personality and
Aspiration for freedom at
Lawrence & Naguib
Mahfouz (Virgin & the
Gypsy — The heart of the
night as model)
Zainab FARGHALI HAFIZ
Diana MISTREANU
Univ. of Luxembourg, Université Minia University / Egypt
Seeing the world from the
Paris-Est/ Luxemborg-France
The Soviet Orient. Literary perspective of aš-šaṭranǧī
Representations of the
in the Arab and Western
Russian Far-East in Andreï novel. Text approaches
Makine’s novels
Room
203
University of Tartu / Estonia
Touching the limits of
written word: Indian
Mahayana sutras as
literary sources in their
time and beyond
Jagiellonian Univ. / Poland
Conversion in the Songs
of the Elder Nuns
(Therīgāthā)
Room
206
Jagiellonian University / Poland
The Boundaries of the
Worlds — Arab Theatre
Towards Migration and
Emigration (2003-2016)
Room
119
Danijela VASIĆ
University of Belgrade / Serbia
Crossing Border Between
This World and the
Otherworld in Japanese
Myth and Tradition
Nicolaus Coper. Univ. / Poland
From frontier to centre:
on development of early
Japanese popular
literature
16.30-17.00
Coffee break
17.00-19.00
Evening session (Collegium Maius)
PANEL 10 (in English)
(Room 306)
PANEL 11 (in Polish)
Crossing literary and
Borderlands of the
geographical boundaries: genres and motifs:
Orient in Western
Orient in Western
literature
literature
Room
Chair:
307
Daniela ZHANG CZIRÁKOVÁ
Room
309
Dorota BRZOZOWSKA
17.00-17.30 Zeinab TORABI PALATKALEH Ewa DRAB
Raheleh AKHAVIZADEGAN University of Silesia / Poland
International University of Imam
Khomeini, Univ. of Tehran/ Iran
The Influence of Persian
Didactic Literature on
French Writers
17.30-18.00 Lin WANG
Zhejiang Normal Univ. / China
The Image of Africa in the
19th-Century French
Literature
18.00-18.30 Ljiljana MARKOVIĆ
Marina JOVIĆ DJALOVIĆ
University of Belgrade / Serbia
Serbian studies and
translations of Japanese
literature
18.30-19.00 Julia SZOŁTYSEK
University of Silesia / Poland
Between ‘the me that
leaves and the me that
returns’: Gertrude Bell’s
Persian Gateways and
Walls
19.30
PANEL 12 (in Polish)
PANEL 13 (in Polish)
PANEL 14 (in Polish)
On the borderland
On the borderland of Borderlands of cultures,
of literatures of West,
history and the
languages and religions:
Middle and South
present in literature
European literature
Asia
of East Asia
with Oriental roots
Room
311
Room
203
Room
206
Nina BUDZISZEWSKA
Aleksandra JAROSZ
Bogusław GRODZKI
Teresa MIĄŻEK
Maciej SZATKOWSKI
Magdalena ŚLĄSKA
University of Wroclaw / Poland
References to Cultures of
A woman from Khasi
Asia as Exoticizing Elements tribe — bordelines of
in Fantasy Literature on the Indian culture in
Example of Stormdancer by Agyeya’s short story
Jay Kristoff and The
Hili-bon’s ducks
Emperor’s Soul by Brandon
Sanderson
Renata GADAMSKA- Danuta CHMIELOWSKA
University of Warsaw / Poland
SERAFIN
Jagiellonian University/ Poland Limits of Pain after Losing
Loved Ones — based on
Norwid and Turkey
the collection of short
stories Hah by the Turkish
writer Birgül Oguz
Bartosz WÓJCIK
Zuzanna BŁAJET
University of Szczecin/ Poland Jagiellonian Univ./ Poland
Katharina Zitelmann’s
The magical function of
Orient
the animal in the Pamiri
folk literature
Nicolaus Coper. Univ./ Poland
The May Fourth Movement
— On Literary Reform
in the Great War
perspective
University of Gdansk / Poland
Life at the junction.
Religious, linguistic,
social and cultural
boundaries in the poetry
of Yahya Hassan
Andrzej ŚWIRKOWSKI
Grzegorz CZERWIŃSKI
Adam Mickiewicz Univ./ Poland
Japanese detective novel
in the 1920s
University of Białystok/Poland
The Rubaiyat of Dmytro
Pavlychko: an Oriental
Literary Genre in the
Ukrainian Literature
Stanisław MEYER
Michał KURAN
Jagiellonian Univ. / Poland
Voice from Okinawa:
Kakuteru pātī (Cocktail
Party) by Ōshiro Tatsuhiro
and its historical context
Dorota KARWACKAPASTOR
Kamila STANEK
Zofia JAKUBÓW
University of Warsaw / Poland
‘Borders’ and
‘separation’ in the
Turkish language and
proverbs
University of Warsaw / Poland
Between Money and
Idealism, on the Border
of Epochs: Work, Objects
and Waste in the Works
of Murong Xuecun and Li
Shijiang
University of Lodz / Poland
The function of plot and
prophecy of Suleiman the
Greatest in The League
with hindrance of the
emissaries’ circle (1596)
of Christopher Damineus
— the oriental stories as
an argument from the
authority in the
anti-Turkish literature
— crossing the borders
Kamil MICHALUK
M. Curie-Skłodowska Univ./ Poland
Orient in a political
dispute of Sejm Wielki
(The Great Sejm). The
case of Rozmowa Solona
z Kadym
University of Gdansk / Poland
The Orient and its
Boundaries in Dino
Buzzati’s prose
Conference welcome reception
(Collegium Maius, Room 306)
08.30-12.00
Registration desk open (in front of Kolankowski’s Hall [Room 307])
09.00-11.00
Morning session (Collegium Maius)
PANEL 15 (in English)
PANEL 16 (in English)
PANEL 17 (in Polish)
PANEL 18 (in Polish)
Spacial & cultural
borderlands in Turkic
literatures
India beyond its borders:
European literature on
India
Borders and boundaries
in old literatures of
East Asia
Multlidimensionality of borders
on Indian Subcontinent in
European literature
Room
Chair:
307
Adam BEDNARCZYK
09.00-09.30 Gözde Begüm UYANIK
Harika KARAVIN
09.30-10.00
Istanbul University / Turkey
Role of Translation in Identity
Formation:
A Case Study
Zbigniew BIAŁAS
University of Silesia / Poland
Kars and the Outpost Stigma
10.00-10.30 Benjamin SUTCLIFFE
Miami University / USA
Trifonov’s Orient: Optimism,
Despair, and Ambivalence in
Turkmenistan
10.30-11.00
Room
309
203
Room
206
Zuzanna TABAČKOVÁ
Katarzyna SONNENBERG
Daniel KALINOWSKI
Tetiana DEREZHYTSKA
Anna PIWOWARSKA
Joanna ANTONIAK
Ivan Franko Nation.Univ. of Lviv/ Ukraine
Dichotomy “East-West”
in the English modernist novel:
imagological perspective
University of Warsaw / Poland
Woman in a man’s world —
about transcending the
limitations in Lady Hong
Hye-gyŏng’s Hanjungnok
Nicolaus Copern. Univ./ Poland
The multidimensionality of
boundaries in Eduard M.
Forster’s A Passage to India
Sudhir KUMAR
Małgorzata SOBCZYK
Ewa GÓRECKA
Gov. P.G. Nehru Coll., Maharshi
Dayanand Univ.Rohtak / India
Otherness of other in the eyes of
another: An orientalist study of
E. M. Forester’s A passageto India
Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. / Poland
The image of a foreigner
as seen in early-modern Japanese
anti-Catholic literature
Iwona MILEWSKA
Anna ZALEWSKA
Jagiellonian University / Poland
Śakuntalā — different versions
of the ancient Indian love story
and their reception in the
European cultural tradition
University of Warsaw / Poland
Borders, borderlands, barriers —
places of meetings and farewells
in Japanese classical poetry
(sakimori no uta, azuma uta and
others)
Agnieszka PATERSKA-KUBACKA
Adam Mickiewicz Univ. / Poland
On the borderline between life
and death — Myths about
resurrection and transformation
into immortal, and measures to
secure immortality
Kazimierz Wielki Univ./ Poland
Crossing Cultural Boundaries as
a Form of Self-Discovery. About
Wyspa łza (Island tear) by Joanna
Bator
Katarzyna KRASOŃ
University of Szczecin / Poland
Oriental myth in prose of
Hermann Hesse
Olivier HARENDA
Nicolaus Copernicus University/ Poland
The Boundaries of Historical
Accuracy: Contemporary
Re-reading of Salman Rushdie’s
Midnight’s Children
11.00-11.30
Coffee break
(Room 306)
11.30-13.00
Noon session
(Collegium Maius)
Karolina MARZEC
University of Lodz / Poland
Bringing the Orient to the Empire
— an analysis of Frances Hodgson
Burnett’s A Little Princess and
The Secret Garden
PANEL 19 (in Arabic)
PANEL 20 (in English)
PANEL 21 (in English)
PANEL 22 (in English)
Crossing borders of form
and expression in
contemporary Arabic
literature
Gender and boundaries:
Woman in Oriental
literature
Here and outside:
Border(land)s in contemporary
Japanese literature
Limitations and
borderlands
in Oriental poetry
(1)
Room
Chair:
Room
307
Sebastian GADOMSKI
11.30-12.00 Mahmoud AL-ASHIRI
Georgetown University / Qatar
Post-Modernism and heritage.
An approach to models of Arabic
prose-poem
12.00-12.30 Lyamine BENTOUMI
University of Setif / Algeria
Indigents Narrations.
Reading the Colonial Narration
12.30-13.00 Mahrous BORYYEK
Qatar University / Qatar
The impact of English poetry in
the renewal of The rhythm of
modern Arabic poetry
Room
309
Room
203
Room
206
Zane STEINMANE
Anna ZALEWSKA
Mohammad Amin MOZAHEB
Zuzanna TABAČKOVÁ
Aleksandra SZCZECHLA
Mostafa SHAHIDITABAR
Constantine the Philos. Univ./ Slovakia
Necessities of an Unnecessary
Woman: On Literary and Translational Intertextual Borderland
of Rabih Alameddine’s An
Unnecessary Woman
Muneerah BadrALMAHASHEER
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Univ. /
Saudi Arabia
Adaptations and Evocations
of Orientalism in Nazik
al-Mala’ika’s Poetry
Olga NOWICKA
Jagiellonian University / Poland
Crossing the Boundaries: From
Private to Public Space. Memoirs
of Antharjanam
Jagiellonian University / Poland
The borders of ethnicity and the
borders of imagination. The role
of Ainu motives in Tsushima
Yūko’s works
Imam Sadiq (A) University/ Iran
Literary, Linguistic, Cultural as
well as Religious Significance of
Azerbaijani Turkish Poetry of
Mirza Sadiq of Oryad of Manshan
Milica OBRENOVIĆ
Bohdan HORVAT
Independent Researcher / Serbia
World of Haruki Murakami —
Hidden World of Ourselves
T.Shevchenko Nat. Univ.of Kyiv/ Ukraine
Bordering the Great Sea: an
introduction to contemporary
Arabic poetry of Alexandria and
Port Said
Şafak ALTUNSOY
Middle East Tech. University/ Turkey
Borders of the Nomadic:
Comparative Analysis of Orlando
Furioso and The Book of Dede
Korkut
Katarzyna SONNENBERG
Jagiellonian University / Poland
Forming a Voice of an Outsider
in a Foreign Land: Nagai Kafū’s
American Stories (Amerika
Monogatari, 1908)
13.00-14.30
Lunch break
14.30-16.00
Afternoon session
PANEL 23 (in Arabic)
On the West-East borders
– Arabic and non-Arabic
Literary interrelations
(2)
Room
307
Chair: Bogdan HORVAT
14.30-15.00 Abdelhak BELABED
University of Qatar / Qatar
Alexandria between two novels:
a comparative approach of
occidental and oriental
narration
15.00-15.30 Laid DJELLOULI
15.30-16.00
University of Ouargla / Algeria
Thousand and one Nights trip.
Reading in the influence of Arab
literature in the Western
literature through the alienation
of Eastern Scheherazade Nights
Besma AROUS
King Saud University / Saudi Arabia
Cross boundaries a study of the
Būḏā fī al-‘ālam as-suflī , the
Arabic translation of The Buddha
in the Attic of July Otsuka
(Gessler Restauracja U Kucharzy, Rynek Staromiejski 21)
(Collegium Maius)
PANEL 24 (in English)
PANEL 25 (in Polish)
PANEL 26 (in Polish)
Limitations and borderlands
Orient in contemporary
Limitations of translation
in Oriental poetry
women literature: forms and
and reception of the
(2)
subjects boundaries
Orient in Polish literature
Room
309
Maciej SZATKOWSKI
Room
203
Katarzyna KRASOŃ
Mohammad Amin MOZAHEB Magdalena MALINOWSKA
KhojastehHOSSEINZADEHPILEVAR University of Silesia / Poland
Imam Sadiq (A) University / Iran
The Study of Shahriar’s Heydar
Babaye Salam Using Islamic and
Qur’anic Frameworks
Daniela ZHANG CZIRÁKOVÁ
Slovak Academy of Sciences / Slovakia
Crossing borders in opposite
direction. An influence of Western
elements in contemporary Chinese
poetry
Room
206
Ewa GÓRECKA
Bogusław GRODZKI
M. Curie-Skłodowska Univ./ Poland
Crossing Taboo Boundaries.
Oriental topics in poetry and
Examples of Transgression in
fairytales of Bolesław Leśmian
Women’s Francophone Literature
of Maghreb
Małgorzata AL-SHAHARI
Anna MOCHALSKA
Omar KHALIFAH
Daniel KALINOWSKI
Agata BICE
Georgetown University / Qatar
Anthologizing Arabic Literature:
The Longman Anthology and the
Problems of World Literature
Pomeranian Univ. / Poland
A tourist from abroad. Manuela
Gretkowska’s description of East
University of Warsaw / Poland
Lost or found in translation?
On the topic of indirect
translation of Japanese
literature
Independent Researcher / Poland
A description of overstepping
the borders of social and moral
norms in Raja Alem’s book Ṭauq
al-ḥamām
16.05-16.15
CONFERENCE CLOSING (Kolankowski’s Hall)
17.00-18.10
Integration event:
Visit to The Living Museum of Gingerbreads (Rabiańska Street 9)
Kazimierz Wielki University / Poland
Polish haiku’s borders and its
variability in time