Monday, April 7

8:30a        Registration and Breakfast (Downstairs Lounge)

9:00a       Welcome - Keynote: Kate Lebow (Main Stage Theatre)

                “The Polish Scholar in Europe and America: Znaniecki, Chicago, and the Invention of Polish 

                Society in the 1920s”

10:15a     Panel 1, New Stagings of Witkacy - Moderator: Karen Underhill (Main Stage Theatre)
                Presenters: George Gasyna,“The Culture Industry of Iconoclasm: Witkacy’s Portrait-Painting Firm”

                (UIUC);  Jacob Juntunen,“’How Can We Tell a Human from a Brute?’ Tumor Brainiowicz as Witkacy’s

                Post-Colonial Nightmare” (Southern Illinois University);  Michał Paweł Markowski, “Idle Talk:

                Witkacy, Heidegger, and the Void of Existence” (UIC)

10:15a     Panel 2, Poland’s Youth - Moderator: Keely Stauter-Halsted (Downstairs Studio Theatre)
                Presenters:  Melissa Hibbard, “Nurturing Newborn Poland:  Infant Health and Maternal Authority in  the

                Early Second Republic” (UIC);   Magdalena Kozłowska, “’Arayn in Tsukunft!’ Building the Future of Jewish

                Youth in Interwar Poland” (Jagiellonian University, Kraków);  Sean Martin, “The Modernization of Jewish

                Child Welfare in Poland” (Western Reserve Historical Society)

12:00       Lunch (Downstairs Lounge)

1:00p      Panel 3, Senses of the Avant-Garde - Moderator: Michał Paweł Markowski (Main Stage)
               Presenters:  Agnieszka Jeżyk, “The King and His Vassal. The Paradox of Tadeusz Peiper’s Erotic Poetry”

               (UIC);  Aleksandra Kremer, “Materiality of Polish Avant-Garde Verse” (University of Warsaw);             

               Karen Underhill “The Devil in Warsaw: Interwar Roots of Aleksander Wat’s Aesthetics of Empathy”(UIC)

1:00p     Panel 4, Gender - Moderator:  Małgorzata Fidelis (Downstairs Studio Theatre)
              Presenters: David Petruccelli, “The Polish Women’s Police and the International Fight against the Traffic

              in Women” (Yale);  Meghann Pytka, “Poland’s Prohibition: Teetotaler, Antisemites, and Rightwing

              Feminists in their War on Liquor in the 1920s” (Southern Illinois University); Błażej Warkocki, “Roaring

              from the closet?  Crisis of homo/heterosexual definition in Polish literature at the beginning of XX century” 

             (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

3:00p    Stefan and Lucy Hejna Annual Lecture - Keynote: Beth Holmgren (Main stage)
             “From the Legs Up: The Fall and Rise of the Chorus Girl in Warsaw’s Roaring ‘20s”

4:15p    Panel 5, Places, Homes, Institutions - Moderator: Nathaniel Wood (Downstairs Studio Theatre)
             Presenters:  Winson Chu “’They are now sitting in their own homes’: Newly Independent Poland through the

             Works of Joseph Roth and Alfred Doblin” (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Tony Lin, “The Institution of

             the International Chopin Piano Competition and Its Social and Political Implications” (University of California,

             Berkley); Adrian Smith, “Navel of the World:  Zakopane as a microcosm of Poland’s blossoming national life in

             the 1920s”

4:30p    Film Screening 1: - Cud nad Wisłą (1921), Dir. Ryszard Bolesławski (Main Stage)

6:00p    Film Screening 2: - Mogiła nieznanego żołnierza (1927), Dir. Ryszard Ordyński (Main Stage)

7:30p    Dinner Reception (Downstairs Lounge)


Tuesday, April 8

8:30a     Breakfast (Downstairs Lounge)

9:00a     Keynote: Marcin Giżycki - "‘The Tenth Muse’: Polish Cinema of the 1920s” (Main stage)

10:15a   Panel 6, Nation in the Making - Moderator: Winson Chu (Main stage)
              Presenters:  Paul Brykczynski, “Reconsidering Polsudskiite Nationalism at the Dawn of the Second 

              Republic” (University of Michigan); Kyrill Kunakhovich, “Staging the Nation: Krakow’s Slowacki Theater

              under the Second Republic” (Harvard);  Agnieszka Pasiek, “Making an ethnic group. The case of Rusyns

              in Interwar Poland” (Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw)

10:15a  Panel 7, Economies of Movement, Movements of Economy - Moderator: TBA (Downstairs Studio)
             Presenters: Michał Kłosiński,“’The sphere of money’ or the Problem of Economy in Polish Poetry of the 1920s”

             (University of Silesia, Katowice);  Przemysław Strożek, “America – the Mill of Life.  The Roaring Twenties 

             and the Polish Leftist Avant-garde” (Institute of Art Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa);  Nathaniel

             Wood, “From ‘Love of Machines’ to ‘Automobile Orgies’: Motoring in Interwar Poland” (Univ of Kansas)

12:00    Lunch (Downstairs Lounge)

1:00p   Panel 8, Boundaries of Polishness: Incorporating the Other  - Moderator: Karen Underhill (Main Stage)
             Presenters:  Rachel Brenner, “Stansilaw Rembek’s Interwar Fiction: The Role of the Jew in the Romantic Ethos

             of Polish Heroism and Messianism” (University of Wisconsin-Madison);  Kathryn Ciancia, “Poland as a

             Civilizing Power?  Polish Encounters in the 1920s Eastern Borderlands” (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


1:00p   Panel 9, Here and There - Moderator: Katherine Lebow (Downstairs Studio Theatre)
            Presenters:Andrzej Michałczyk, “Governing Upper Silesia in the 1920s” (Ruhr-University Bochum)

            Petro Nungovitch “Wawel in the Twenties:  The National Pantheon in the First Decade of National

            Independence” (New York University);  John Radzilowski, “Orphans of the ‘New Poland’ Polish Americans,

             the Second Republic, and the Creation of a Diasporic Identity, 1919-1929” (University of Alaska Southeast)

3:00p   Keynote: Piotr Rypson - “Tadeusz Peiper - from Madrid to Kraków: the Making of the Pope of the 

            Avant-garde” (Main stage)

4:15p  History Roundtable - Topic: New Directions in Historical Research on Poland’s 1920s. (Studio Theatre)
           Chair: Keely Stauter-Halsted
            Discussants: Winson Chu, Kate Lebow, Sean Martin, Nathaniel Wood

6:00p  Literature Roundtable - Topic: Why the 1920s?  The Beginnings of Independent Culture in Poland.  

           (Studio Theatre)
           Chair: Michał Paweł Markowski
           Discussants: Marcin Giżycki, Beth Holmgren, Piotr Rypson

7:30p Closing Reception (Downstairs Lounge)