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Conradian Intellectual Feast in Lublin Author: Agnieszka Adamowicz Title: Conradian intellectual feast in Lublin Author: Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech, Dominika Spadło Adamowicz- Citation style: Pośpiech Agnieszka, Spadło Dominika. (2018). Conradian intellectual feast in Lublin. "Joseph Conrad Today" (Vol. 43, no. 1 (2018), s. 2-5). Conrad’s Footprints: Sixth International Joseph Conrad Conference Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland 20-24 June 2016 Conradian Intellectual Feast in Lublin For the shellbacks and landlubbers, for the old hands and freshmen alike it became a tradition to meet every five years in Lublin for a week’s slow rumina­ tion on Joseph Conrad’s fleshy legacy. This year the time has come to meet and celebrate again. The Sixth International Joseph Conrad Conference was held at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, on 20-24 June 2016 under the Honorary Patronage of The European Parliament and its President Mr. Martin Schulz. The previous conferences always had an outstanding pa­ tronage of Polish Prime Ministers (prof. Jerzy Buzek, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz) or the President of the Eu­ ropean Parliament (prof. Jerzy Buzek). This time it was dedicated to East European Monographs, the co­ publisher of volumes I-XXII of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, and Columbia Uni­ versity Press, the distributor of all the volumes of this series published so far (I-XXV). 2 It all started early in the morning on the 20 July versity Botanical Garden among rare plants, blooming with our visit to the Lublin cemetery to light a candle flowers and lily ponds. With a glass of wine Professor on the grave of Karol Zagórski, Conrad’s cousin. It Krajka invited all conference participants to take full was raining heavily and the scholars flocked densely advantage of the multinational get-together as well as around the grave while Professor Wiesław Krajka was the breathtaking landscape. impressively telling the story of the untimely death of On the third day we could listen to the absorb­ doctor Zagórski, the difficult financial situation of the ing presentations on Conrad’s relatives (e.g. Leon Sy- widow and his two daughters Aniela (the would-be roczyński) by Lilia Omelan, on Conrad’s works (“Amy translator of Conrad) and Karola. Then the unusual Foster” by Wiesław Krajka, Maria Paola Guarducci, multinational group moved to the Castel Museum and Joanna Mstowska; “Typhoon” by Jana M. Giles, where in front of the monumental Jan Matejko’s paint­ Nostromo by Agnieszka Setecka; “The Tale” by Kyoko ing Union of Lublin, the official opening took place. Imagawa, among others). Professor dr hab. Stanisław Michałowski, Rector of On the fourth day we could engross ourselves Maria Curie-Skłodowska University greeted all the in the analyses of Monika Majewska on Conrad and Conradian scholars very heartily. The inaugural ple­ Tolsoy, Rafał Szczerbakiewicz on Conrad and nary lecture was delivered by Carl Schaffer who Stanisław Lem, Adam F. Lausch-Hołubowicz on Con­ moved deftly between America and Europe tracing rad and Achebe, Brygida Pudełko on Conrad and May Conrad’s and Flannery O’Connor’s representations of Sinclair, and Yumiko Iwashimizu on Conrad’s misogy­ displaced Poles. ny in Chance, among others. We were also enthralled After the sightseeing (Holy Trinity Chapel, by the visually sumptuous presentations on Conrad and among others) we had some pleasant time in restau­ René Magritte by Kaoru Yamamoto and the power of rants and cafés on the main square of the Old City illustrations by Frank Forster. where we dined and in convivial atmosphere fondly On the last day we could listen, among others, reminisced about previous conferences (Kaoru Ya­ to the gripping essays on supernatural and the spectral mamoto, Yumiko Iwashimizu, Brígida Pudełko, Anna in “The Black Mate” and “The Inn of the Two Szczepan-Wojnarska, Richard Ambrosini and Agniesz­ Witches” by Jacek Mydla and Agata Lukasiewicz, re­ ka Adamowicz-Pośpiech vividly recalled former Con­ spectively, as well as speeches on the maritime tradi­ rad’s symposia and debates in Lublin). Besides we dis­ tion in The Shadow Line by Kenji Tanaka, on the abid­ cussed our teaching experience, differences in recep­ ing virtues in Conrad and the philosophy of the I tion of Conrad in Japan, China, India, Italy and Ching, among others. The conference was closed by Poland, not to mention the recollections of our person­ Claude Maisonnat who once again revealed to us Mar­ al initiation into the fascinating maze of Conrad’s low’s narrative underhand games. works. All in all, there were more than forty scholars The conference proper started on the 21 June at from all over the world (Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia, the University venue in two parallel sections. The Bulgaria, Poland, Great Britain, the USA, India, China, scholarly proceedings were composed of papers on Japan, Iran, among others). various aspects of Joseph Conrad’s life and works Unfortunately some Conradians could not par­ (Conrad’s Polish and East-Central European aspects ticipate but their papers were read out. Thus we had a and contexts were one of the focuses of the good opportunity to listen to the papers of Joanna Sko- symposium). On the first day there were delivered, lik, Stephen Brodsky, Peter Vernon, Anna Brzozowska- among others, most engrossing papers on the fact and Krajka, Evelyn Chan, Merry M. Pawlowski, and Susan fiction in the lives of two Poles, Captain Joseph Con­ Bhatt. rad and Admiral Juliusz Ripper (who both faced ty­ However, this was only the first part of the phoons), by Majda Śavle; on the contemporary Bulgar­ conference held in Lublin. It was followed by the sec­ ian reception of Conrad, by Margareta Grigorova and ond part—the study tour to Ukraine (24-29 June) with Petza Tsoneva; on the intertextual aspects of A Person­ two outgoing sessions: in Lviv and in Zhytomyr. Simi­ al Record and Almayer s Folly, by Richard Ambrosini; larly to the long tradition of Conrad symposia in on contemporary recycling of the figure of Conrad in Lublin (the first conference took place in 1991) there the fictions of Vargas Llosa, Vasquez, Sebald and is a tradition of a post-conference study tour. They Salman Rushdie, by Nathalie Martiniére; and on Polish have been organized either to Ukraine or Poland—this and English translations by/of Conrad, by Agnieszka year the participants had a chance to follow Joseph Adamowicz-Pośpiech and Anna Szczepan-Wojnarska. Conrad’s footprints in Ukraine: they visited Lviv/Lvov, In the evening we were invited to the historic Berdychiv/Berdychev, Zhytomyr and Terekhova. Their Kosciuszko’s Manor, originally dating from the eigh­ sojourn was accompanied by two academic sessions teenth century, for a luscious informal banquet. The connected with the author of “Prince Roman.” ancient mansion is picturesquely situated in the Uni­ 3 On 25 June, the scholars from Poland, Italy, second stay in Lviv (the residential house was estab­ Germany, France, Turkey, and the United States took lished for boys orphaned by the 1863 Insurrection by part in the academic session co-organized by the Ivan his relative, Antoni Syroczyński). The final destination Franko National University, Department of World Lit­ of the tour was Lviv City Hall where the future writer erature of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Lviv had attended lectures delivered by university profes­ and the University and Maria Curie-Skłodowska Uni­ sors. versity in Lublin. It was opened by Professor Yaroslav The next day, the participants left Lviv and set Harasym, Vice-Rector of Lviv University, who not off on a journey to Zhytomyr—a city in the north of only highlighted Joseph Conrad’s uniqueness as a the western part of Ukraine and the place where Ko­ writer, but also he acknowledged the great impact that rzeniowski spent his early childhood. On 27 June we Conrad has had on English as well as world literature. took part in yet another academic session co-organized The second speaker was Mr. Włodzimierz Sulgostows- by Zhytomyr Ivan Franco State University and Maria ki, the Consul of General Consulate of Poland in Lviv, Curie-Skłodowska University. Professor Petro Saukh, who, on the other hand, noticed that the session devot­ Rector of Zhytomyr University, opened the session— ed to the writer with Polish and Ukrainian roots is a he expressed his joy that the works of the famous great chance to make the dialogue between Poland and British writer of Polish origin, Joseph Conrad, brought Ukraine possible. Then the Deputy Dean for In­ together researchers and literary critics from all around ternational Cooperation of the Faculty of Foreign Lan­ the world in the academic dialogue. Then the partici­ guages, Professor Olha Ivashchyshyn, welcomed the pants were welcomed by the representative of Con­ participants on behalf of the Faculty, and Professor sulate of Poland in Vinnytsia. The panel discussion Wiesław Krajka read out the letter from Mr. Martin covered issues connected with Joseph Conrad’s family Schulz (President Schulz acknowledged Conrad con­ as well as his relations with Zhytomyr region. The dis­ ference as great cultural initiative and granted the cussion was opened by Professor Volodymyr Yershov event the Honorary Patronage of the European Parlia­ who presented Apollo Korzeniowski—a Polish poet, ment). playwright, political activist. He spoke in detail about The main part of the meeting was the panel ses­ Apollo’s stay in Zhytomyr in the second half of the sion covering life and works of Joseph Conrad. The nineteenth century. There were two more speakers: following speakers delivered their papers: Professor Doctor Olesia Bandarchuk gave a presentation on Olha Bandrovska spoke about the figure of other civi­ Tadeusz Bobrowski, the guardian and mentor of lization in Conrad’s prose; Doctor Iryna Senchuk dis­ Joseph Conrad, and his impressions about the inhabi­ cussed the image dimensions of the writer’s short sto­ tants of Volyn; while Doctor Anastasia Tserkovna- ries “The Lagoon” and “Karain: A Memory”; and Doc­ Soloveichyk dealt with the literary image of Volyn.
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