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Pan(K)opticum - Exploring the Writings of Marian Pankowski
Marian Pankowski was born on November 9, 1919, in Sanok, a small Carpathian town inhabited by Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians. His philological education at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. Having joined the Polish army, Pankowski was arrested in 1942 for his involvement in the local resistance movement. He was first sent to Auschwitz and afterwards to several other concentration camps. At the end of the war, he was liberated from the Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen and transferred to Belgium, where he continued his education and obtained a PhD in Slavic Philology (with a dissertation on Boleslaw Lesmian). After his nomination as Professor at the ULB he started teaching Polish language and literature and began making a name as the author of short stories, novels, poems, and theatrical plays.
At the occasion of Pankowski’s 90th birthday, we invite scholars to reflect on the complexity, richness, and diversity of Pankowski’s writings. For the purpose of the conference, Pankowski’s oeuvre is symbolically dismantled into the following set of research themes:
Marian Pankowski between languages
Marian Pankowski beyond norms
Marian Pankowski above genres
The first field of research entails considerations of Pankowski’s sumptuous language, the translations he authored as well as editions of his writings in other languages and related issues of translingual interpretation and literary translation.
The second research theme links up with Pankowski’s extraordinary biography and the fact that his writings tend to escape established norms, codifications, and classifications. Issues that may arise here include: the position Pankowski’s works take up in Poland and abroad, his status of being both a Polish and a Belgian writer / a domestic and an émigré writer, and Pankowski’s peculiar way of writing about delicate issues such as Polishness, homosexuality, camp life, …
The third thematic cluster deals with the generic diversity of Pankowski’s writings (poetry, prose, theater), the mixture of literary forms (essay, story, novel) as well as the usage of stylistic tricks (innovation, concetto, stylization, pastiche).
Proposals (together with a 250-word abstract) are expected by March 15, 2009. Presentations are supposed to be in Polish or French.
Contact:
Dieter De Bruyn (UGent) : dieter.debruyn[at]ugent.be
Kris Van Heuckelom (KULeuven) : kris.vanheuckelom[at]arts.kuleuven.be
Dorota Walczak (ULB) : dwalczak[at]ulb.ac.be
Jeremy Lambert (ULB, Lille 3) : jeremy.lambert[at]ulb.ac.be
Katia Vandenborre (ULB) : katia.vandenborre[at]ulb.ac.be
More information at: http://www.ulb.ac.be/philo/slavistique/pankopticum.html.
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