CANADIAN STUDIES IN POLAND
October 2003—April 2004
REPORT
(CESCCS meeting in Kraków, April 30th 2004)
Ø Sosnowiec (University of Silesia): a Chair in French-Canadian Literature and Translation Studies, headed by Prof. Krzysztof Jarosz, has been established and a specialization in French-Canadian Literature has been made available to students (French Dept.); lecture on the “20th Century Quebec Novel” (French Dept.; Prof. Krzysztof Jarosz); Canadian Culture and Literature Course and Lecture introduced for second year students. This is a new development of Canadian Studies at the University of Silesia. The course is interdisciplinary; it examines discourses of literature, visual art and, cinema (); Pro-seminar in Canadian Literature is offered to 3rd year students; Lecture on Canadian culture (5th year students; Institute of British and American Culture and Literature; dr Eugenia Sojka)
Ø Gliwice: lecture on “Quebec Literature” (Teacher Training College; Prof. Krzysztof Jarosz)
Ø Lublin: Canadian Studies Centre (opened February 20th, 2004; Arts Dept., M. Curie-Skłodowska University)
Ø Bydgoszcz: courses on Canadian literature for Applied Linguistics and English Dept. students (lecture: dr Ewa Wełnic, classes: Katarzyna Juchnowicz); Canadian literature M.A. seminar (dr Ewa Wełnic)
Ø Toruń: Canadian literature seminar focusing on construction and deconstruction of nation (English Dept.; dr Anna Branach-Kallas); postcolonial literature proseminar (1/5 Canadian content; English Dept.; dr Anna Branach-Kallas); course on "Frankofonia" (50% Canadian content; French Dept.; dr Piotr Sadkowski); monographic lecture “L’exil dans la littérature française et francophone en Europe et au Québec depuis le XIXe siecle. Vers une approche comparative (55% of the course content devoted to Quebec “ecrivains migrants"; French Dept.; dr Piotr Sadkowski); “An overview of Alice Munro's short fiction” (English Dept.; prof. Mirosława Buchholtz)
Ø Łódź: "Canada and the U.S. - A Comparative Study" (English Dept.; prof. Krzysztof Andrzejczak)
Ø Warsaw: Seminaire de doctorat (3 participants) sujet: la litterature migrante et l'hybridite des genres au Quebec; second seminaire de maitrise: litteratures francophone des Ameriques (4 participants) (French Dept.; Centre d'etude en civilisation canadienne-francaise et en litterature quebecoise; both courses prof. Józef Kwaterko); course on “Lieux et Memoire dans la litterature migrante au Quebec” (French Dept.; Centre d'etude …; Tina Mouneimne-Wojtas)
Ø Kraków: course on “Canadian Film” (American Studies Dept.; dr Radosław Rybkowski)
Ø Kalisz: MA-level course on North American literature (55% of the Canadian content; The Artistic and Pedagogical Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz; dr Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka)
Ø Gniezno: course on „Contemporary Canadian Fiction” (Foreign Languages College, Kolegium Europejskie; dr Dagmara Drewniak)
Ø Krakow: course on „Multiethnicity of Canadian Society” (American Studies Dept., Krakowska Szkoła Wyższa im. F. Modrzewskiego) and „Mutliethnic Society, on the example of Canada, (Polonia and Ethnic Studies Institute, Jagiellonian University; both courses dr Marta Kijewska-Trembecka)
Ø Krzysztof Jarosz: paper on Monique Proulx; "La condition masculine" Conference (Opole, Poland); Krzysztof Jarosz: “La tribu” de François Barcelo. Entre un roman historique et une histoire romanesque.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Nancy Burke:"Europeans and Canadian Native Peoples as portrayed in texts"; PASE Conference Warsaw, University of Warsaw (April 2003); "Searching for Identity in Short Fiction: an examination of short stories by selected ethnic writers in Canada"; "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Short Fiction Theory and Criticism" University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. (March 2004); “Retrieving Memory, an Examination of Personal Histories as Recorded by Two Canadian Writers of Polish and Ukrainian Descent Respectively.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Anna Reczyńska: “Roman Catholic Church and First Slavonic Immigrants in Southern Canada”; conference of The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (June 2003); „Akadyjczycy – fenomen przetrwania”; „Naród w procesie globalizacji” conference, Kraków, Jagiellonian University (December 2003)
Ø Marta Gokieli: „Entre l'utopie et la raison tragique: les revolutionnaires europeens dans Prochain episode de Hubert Aquin”; Kongres Europejski « Le Québec au Miroir de l'Europe », Université Paris-IV Sorbonne (October 2003); “Vers une “culture globale“: particularisation et universalité de la condition québécoise dans “Prochain Episode“ de Hubert Aquin.”3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Józef Kwaterko: « Idéologies de l'identité et poétiques du 'détour' dans les littératures francophones du Québec et de la Caraïbe »; VII Kongres Miedzynarodowy Brazylijskiego Towarzystwa Badan Kanadyjskich i I Latynoameryknskiej Konferencji Badan Kanadyjskich, Uniwersytet Federalny Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil; November 2003); « Mémoire nationale et mémoire culturelle : les écrits des légionnaires polonais et la révolution haïtienne (1802-1804) » , International Conference «Mémoire & Culture», Université de Limoges, Faculté des lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Limoges (December 2003).; “Migration discursive dans le roman francophone des Amériques: le cas du Québec et des Caraïbes.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Marcin Gabryś: "The Presence and Influence of the Myth of the Undefeded Border in the Contemporary Canada.” 12th European Seminar For Graduate Work In Canadian Studies, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.; “The Presence and Influence of the Myth of the Undefended Border in the Contemporary Canada.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Anna Czyż: "Marie de l'Incarnation - kobieta miedzy dzikusami"; VI Spotkania Specjalistów Dawnej Literatury Romanskiej, Wrocław, November 2003.
Ø Rafał Prostak: “Community, Language and Ethical Dimension of Cultural Identity. Charles Taylor and Challenges of Post-modernity.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Małgorzata Kuczera: „Territoire et nationalité: Nunavut.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Mirosława Buchholtz: “Cultural Difference in David Bergen's “The Case of Lena S.”” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Krzysztof Majer: „“Canada. What a good idea.” Fixing the World in Thomas King’s “Green Grass, Running Water” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Sylwia Sawicka: “L’américanité vue par la critique et les romanciers québécois.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Tomasz Soroka: “Canadian Orange Movement - Concept of Political and Social Tradition.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Tina Mouneimne-Wojtas: “D’un lieu à l’autre. La circulation mémorielle chez les écrivains migrants au Québec.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Anna Reczyńska: “Louis Riel – Rediscovered Hero.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Agnieszka Rzepa: “Lieux de memoire; Canadian Magic Realism Revisited.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Piotr Sadkowski: “Le dialogue du texte migrant avec les mémoires du Québec.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Dorota Rudnicka-Kassem: “Canada, a Place of Shifting Sands: George F. Walker and His Play “Bagdad Saloon.”” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Katarzyna Juchnowicz: “Basil H. Johnston’s “Indian School Days”: An Autobiographical Account of Author’s Experiences at the Spanish Indian Residential School.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Bartosz Hlebowicz: Wampum” and “Fire”. The Place of “homeland” in the Contemporary Identity Narratives of the Oneida Indians in Canada and the USA.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Katarzyna Spiechlanin. “Fairy-tale Qualities in Nature Poems Written by the Manitoba Poets.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese. „The Narrow Provinces of Memory: Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Moose.”” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Małgorzata Laskowska: “Reinterpretations of Susanna Moodie by Margaret Atwood as an Example of Creative Recycling of the Past.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Joanna Paluszkiewicz-Magner: ““Souvent un peuple entier s’incarne dans un seul homme”: Louis-Joseph Papineau vu par Louis Fréchette ou la construction de la mémoire nationale au Canada français.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Dagmara Drewniak: “Multicultural Poland as Discovered from the Canadian Perspective of a Polish Émigré – Eva Stachniak’s Necessary Lies.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Anna Branach-Kallas: “Exploring the Dark Tunnels of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka: “Confessions of a Dispassionate Witness – Jane Urquhart’s The Underpainter.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Eugenia Sojka: “The Other Story: Canadian Diasporic Artists and and their response to Canadian nationalist ideologies.” Other Language. Otherness in Canadian Culture. First International Conference on Canadian Studies. Yugoslav Association for Canadian Studies. .Belgrade, 18-20 October, 2003; „Two – Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity and Sexuality (third gender constructions in American Indian Societies).” S/he ... Embracing/ Wrestling Genders. Cultural Spaces for a Re-Definition of the Political . Bielsko-Biała, 24-25 October, 2003.; “Canadian Diasporic Artists and Changing Narratives of Homeland.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Krzysztof Andrzejczak: “Dividing Life into Manageable Parts”; the Fiction of Diane Schoemperlen.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Renata Jarzębowska-Sadkowska: “De la mémoire collective dans les textes des chroniqueurs de langue française au Québec contemporain.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Tomasz Żyro: “A Nation against Universalistic Claims. George P. Grant on Time, History and Technology.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Radosław Rybkowski: “Globalizing University – the Case of Canada.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).\
Ø Wojciech Michnik: “The British North America Act and the Origins of the Confederation.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Małgorzata Krywult: “The Role and Importance of the Church in the Life of the Polish Ethnic Group in Mississauga.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Marta Kijewska-Trembecka: “We Love this Place. Montrealers of Polish Origin and Their Relations to Quebec.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Ewa Figas: “Entre la mémoire et l’oubli. “Les Têtes à Papineau” de Jacques Godbout.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Wojciech Kallas: “The Cost of Civilisation: Constructing the City in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek: “From Strength to Weakness – Women and Their Place in Society in New France and British North America.” 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Kraków, Poland (April/May 2004).
Ø Nancy Burke: "Native Peoples' Voice: expressing identity in Canadian literature" in Problems of National Identity and Principles of Intercultural Communication, ed. Maria Popova, Voronezh Uni P. Voronezh, Russia. ( 2003); "Cityscapes - Urban Canadian Space as portrayed in selected fiction and non- fiction" in Place and Location, eds.Virve Sarapik and Kadri Tuur, Estonian Academy of Arts Press., Tallinn, Estonia ( Dec. 2003); "Post Colonial Identity as portrayed in English Canadian Literature" in PASE Papers on Literature and Culture, ed. by Joanna Burzynska and Danuta Stanulewicz, Wydawnictwo Universytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk, Poland (2004); “The Storyteller and the Community.” In Individual and Community: Canada in the 20th Century. Bucharest 2004.
Ø Krzysztof Jarosz: review of Józef Kwaterko’s book Dialogi z Ameryką in Romanica Wratislaviensis and in the literary periodical Literatura na świecie; a note on Obraz Kanady (ed. Mirosława Buchholtz) in the ICCS-CIEC newsletter
Ø Dorota Filipczak: Choćbym nawet szedl ciemna dolina... Inspiracje biblijne w twórczosci Malcolma Lowry'ego. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego 2003; „Autonomy and female spirituality in a Polish context: divining a self” in: Feminist Philosophy of Religion Critical Readings, ed. Pamela Sue Anderson and Beverley Clack, London: Routledge, 2004.; “Wielka Encyklopedia PWN”: entries on Canadian Literature in English, Canadian drama in English, Jones Douglas, Klein Moses Abraham, Confederation poets, Kroetsch Robert, Lane Patrick, Laurence Margaret, Layton Irving Peter, Leacock Stephen, Livesay Dorothy, MacEwen Gwendolyn, MacLennan Hugh, Mandel Eli, Marlatt Daphne, Mitchell William Ormond, Montgomery Lucy Maud, Moore Brian, Mowat Farley, Munro Alice, Newlove John.
Ø Anna Branach-Kallas: In the Whirlpool of the Past: Memory, Intertextuality and History in the Fiction of Jane Urquhart. Toruń: Nicholas Copernicus University Press, 2003.; ”Kanada w oczach polskiego śodowiska akademickiego”. Obraz Kanady w Polsce. Ed. Mirosława Buchholtz. Toruń: Adam Marszałek Publishers, 2003, 291-300.; “Invasion of Land, Erasure of Self: American Colonisation in Some Canadian Novels”. Journal of American Studies ‘Ad Americam’. Vol. 4: United We Stand, Divided We Fall: US – Canadian Relations. Kraków, 2003: 42-47.; “Excavating the Present: Truth and History in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost”. The Legacy of History: English and American Studies and the Significance of the Past. Vol. 1: Literature. Ed. Teresa Bela and Zygmunt Mazur. Kraków: Jagellonian University Press, 2003: 507-516.; Review of Necessary Lies by Eva Stachniak. Przegląd Polonijny 1 (2003): 135-6.; “Individual versus Community: Rewriting National Myths in Jane Urquhart’s The Underpainter.” In Individual and Community: Canada in the 20th Century. Bucharest 2004.
Ø Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka: “‘A Stranger in the World’ – The Quest for Identity in Carol Shields’ The Stone Diaries”. Ad Americam. Journal of American Studies. Focus on: US-Canadian Relations. Vol. 4 2003. Ed. Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel. Jagiellonian University Press.; “I Suffer Therefore I Change” – The Echoes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Aritha van Herk’s No fixed address: an amorous journey”. Aspects of Suffering. Classical Themes in Literature in English, Ed. Liliana Sikorska Peter Lang Frankfurt am Mein 2004.
Ø Marta Kijewska-Trembecka: “Multicultural or Multiethnic? Historical Conditions and the Present Day of the Canadian Cultural Pluralism" In International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2003/1.; “Quebec i Quebecois w oczach montrealczyków polskiego pochodzenia" In Przeglad Polonijny, 2003/3.; “The Solidarity Emigration – The Last Wave of Polish Immigrants to Canada.” In Individual and Community: Canada in the 20th Century. Bucharest 2004.
Ø Anna Reczyńska: „Historia Kanady” in: Encyklopedia historyczna świata,volt.XIII, Kraków: Agencja Publicystyczno-Wydawnicza Opres 2003..39-66.; 16 entries on Canadian topics to Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN.; “The Analysis of Polish Publications Concerning History of Canada.” In Individual and Community: Canada in the 20th Century. Bucharest 2004.
Ø Józef Kwaterko: Dialogi z Ameryka. O frankofonskiej literaturze w Québecu i na Karaibach, Kraków, Universitas, 2003.; « Miron i Gombrowicz : wspóluczestniczenie w dialogu » in Obraz Kanady w Polsce (ed. Mirosława Buchholtz), Toruń, Adam Marszalek, 2003.157-167 (translated by Piotr Sadkowski).; « Belgia w ralacjach Polaków. Antologia (XVI-XX w)/ La Belgique dans les relations des Polonais. Anthologie (XVI-XX siècles), in Textyles, Revue des lettres beleges de langue française, n° 23, 2003, p.122-123.; « Américanité : voies du concept et voix de la fiction au Québec et dans la Caraïbe », International Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue Internationale d'Études Canadiennes, vol. 27, Spring/Printemps 2003, pp. 44-60 (Special Issue :Tranculturalisms / transfers culturels).
Ø Piotr Sadkowski: "Obraz Quebecu w polskiej prasie w latach 1990-2002" in: M. Buchholtz (ed.), Obraz Kanady w Polsce, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, Torun, 2003, pp.98-153.
Ø Agnieszka Rzepa: 2003. "Kanada Arkadego Fiedlera" [Arkady Fiedler’s Canada]. In: Obraz Kanady w Polsce. Ed. Mirosława Buchholtz., Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 34-57.; “Cultural and Personal Haunting in Fall on Your Knees and Fugitive Pieces.” In Individual and Community: Canada in the 20th Century. Bucharest 2004.
Ø Marcin Gabryś: “American Key to Canada,” Ad Americam, Vol. 4, 2003.; “Wiesław Dobrzycki, System międzyamerykański [The Inter-American System], Warszawa: Scholar, 2002, (review),” Central European Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol.3, 2003.
Ø Mirosława Buchholtz: (ed.) Postcolonial Subjects: Canadian and Australian Perspectives. Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK, 2004.; “Images of Ethnic Discrimination in Canadian Children's Literature: Shizuye Takashima, Joy Kogawa, and Paul Yee.” In: Postcolonial Subjects: Canadian and Australian Perspectives. Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK, 2004. 99-111.; “Pseudo-Longinus and the Affective Theory in Alice Munro's Stories about Childhood.” In: Open Letter. No 1 Fall-Winter 2003-2004. 89-102.
Ø William Couch: “Strategic resolution of policy, environmentaland socio-economic impacts in Canadian Arctic diamond mining” in BHP's NWT diamond project,Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal December 2002 pp.265-278.
Ø Anna Czyż: "Dépasser le tabou - actes de cannibalisme en Nouvelle-France", in : Romanica Wratislaviensia, vol.L, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego,Wroclaw 2003.; "Przekroczyc tabu. Przypadki kanibalizmu w Nowej Francji", in : Tawacin, 2 [62], summer 2003 .; "Kateri Tekakwitha - milczaca swieta Mohawków", in : Tawacin, 4 [64], winter 2003.
Ø Eugenia Sojka: "Czy Kanada Nadal “Pachnie Żywicą”? Literacki Obraz Kanady w Polsce (1911-2003).” In Obraz Kanady w Polsce. Red. Mirosława Buholtz. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2003. 201-250.
Ø Prof. Sam Solecki (U of Toronto): lectured in Lublin, Bydgoszcz, Kraków and Toruń
Ø Ralph Lyshyshyn,Ambassador of Canada in Poland: lecture on “Canada Today” (M. Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Ø Prof. Don Sparling (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic): lecture on "Canadian- American relations" (Canadian Studies Centre, Warsaw)
Ø Prof. Norman Ravvin (Concordia University, Montreal): lecture on "Jewish Canadian Writers" (Canadian Studies Centre, Warsaw)
Ø Prof. Józef Kwaterko gave a lecture on « Tożsamosc problematyczna: o społeczenstwie i literaturze frankofonskiej w Amerykach (Québec i Karaiby) » ( Toruń; Studenckie Kolo Kulturalno-Naukowe Romanistó); « Identité, utopie, exotopie : sur quelques stratégies textuelles du roman québécois contemporain », Stockholm University, Instytutinen för franska och itelienska, 15 September 2003.; « Sociocritique du roman francophone des Amériques : le cas du Québec et des Antilles », Stockholm University, Instytutinen för franska och itelienska, 22 September 2003.
Ø Canadian Studies Centre at M. Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin: book grant of the Canadian Embassy in Poland.
Ø Tina Mouneimne-Wojtas: grant from the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw to buy books for her course on “Lieux et Memoire …” (from Canadian Studies Discretionary Budget).
Ø Marcin Gabryś: John F. Kennedy Institute grant, Free University, Berlin, Germany (2003); ICCS Graduate Students Scholarship (U of Ottawa; 2004); 1 week research stay at Centre for Canadian Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (2004).
Ø Subvention de 2.500 $ can a l'informatisation de la recherche au Centre d'etudes en civilisation canadienne-francaise et en litterature quebecoise du Vice-Premier Ministre du Quebec, Ministre des Relations Internationales et de la Francophonie du Gouvernement du Quebec, Mme Monique Gagnon-Tremblay.
Ø Agnieszka Rzepa: FRP (2004)
Ø Krzysztof Jarosz: FEP (2004)
Ø Joanna Warmuzińska-Rogoz: FEP (2004)
B.A. students:
Ø Kalisz: 3 B.A. theses in progress (supervisor: dr Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka)
M.A. students:
Ø Warsaw: 4 M.A. theses completed; 3 in progress (supervisor: Prof. Nancy Burke); 6 theses in progress (supervisor: prof. Józef Kwaterko).
Ø Kraków: 21 theses in progress (supervisor: prof. Anna Reczyńska); 2 students defended their MA in 2003 (supervisor: prof. Anna Reczyńska).
Ø Toruń: 5 M.A. theses in progress (supervisor: prof. Mirosława Buchholtz).
Ø Łódź: 8 M.A. theses completed, 8 in progress (supervisor: prof. Krzysztof Andrzejczak).
Ø Sosnowiec: 6 M.A. theses in progress (supervisor: dr Eugenia Sojka); recently defended theses (all supervised by dr Eugenia Sojka): Dobromiła Malinowska – „The Concept of the Self on the Basis of Jungian Theory of Archetypes and its Feminist Reinterpretation: An Analysis of the Novels by Margaret Atwood (2003); Katarzyna Bochenek – „Bakhtinian Concept of Carnivalization in the Prose of Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers and The Favourite Game" (2003); Hanna Berger – „Nostalgia for Native Languages in the Process of Recreation of the Indigenous Self „ (2003).
Ø Poznań: 7 M.A. theses completed (supervisor: dr Agnieszka Rzepa): Izabela Błaszyk „The Issue of Femininity in Contemporary Canadian Prose by Women Writers,„ Izabela Karólewska „The Role of Artistic Creativity in Women's Lives as Presented in Selected Novels by Carol Shields and Margaret Atwood,“ Bogdan Kubica „William Gibson and the Voivod: Different Visions of the Postmodern World,“ Barbara Mamos „The Role of Parody in Canadian Historiographic Metafiction,“ Karolina Staśkiewicz „The Image of Native Canadians in Contemporary Canadian Prose,“ Katarzyna Szkudelska „Timothy Findley’s Historiographic Metafiction,“ Barbara Zenkteller „Sexuality and Female Body in Contemporary Canadian Prose .“
Ph.D. students:
Ø Warsaw: 3 theses in progress (supervisor: prof. Józef Kwaterko)
Ø Sosnowiec: Ewa Figas, Karolina Kapolka (surpervisor: Prof. Krzysztof Jarosz)
Ø Kraków: Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczak „Awans społeczny i zawodowy kobiet w Kanadzie na przełomie XIX i XX w.” (completed and defended in March 2004; supervisor: prof. Anna Reczyńska); 2 theses in progress (supervisor: prof. Anna Reczyńska)
Ø Toruń: 1 Ph.D. in progress (supervisor: prof. Mirosława Buchholtz)
Ø Sosnowiec: 1 Ph.D. in progress (supervisor: dr Eugenia Sojka)
Ø Concert of Leonard Cohens songs and ballads: Canadian Studies Centre at M. Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin.
Ø Promotion of the new book of poetry by Nancy Burke Scorched Earth (Wypalona ziemia); the poems were read by the renowned Polish actress Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska.
Ø A visit of Tecia Werbowski, Canadian writer from Montreal (born in Lvov, formerly in Poland) at the French Dept., Warsaw University.
Ø Day of Canadian Culture organized by Canadian Studies Centre of the Silesian University (Sosnowiec; project organizer: dr Eugenia Sojka).
Ø Rau Badami, Anita. Prawdziwy bohater. DIALOG Wydawnictwo Akademickie, 2004.
Ø Prof. Nancy Burke: published a new book of poetry Scorched Earth (Wypalona ziemia), Wydawnictwo Algo, Toruń, 2003; was awarded Medal Komisji Edukacji Narodowej presented in Nov. 2003 on behalf of the Republic of Poland; has been asked to join the Advisory Board of the "International Journal of Canadian Studies."
Ø Prof. Anna Reczyńska and dr Marta Kijewska-Trembecka participated in the “Days of Canadian Culture” organized by the elementary school no. 114 in Warsaw
Ø Chair for Canadian Studies, Jagiellonian University has bought and received new books and video cassettes on Canada; it now has a collection of 1200 books and 40 video cassettes
Ø Prof. Kwaterko: lecture tour in Brazil (November 2003) à 1. « Le roman québécois : vers de nouveaux enjeux interculturels »,Universidade de Estado da Bahia, Salavador, Nucle de estudos canadenses i la Maison Française de Salavador. 2. « Récits des immigrés et réits 'migrants' au Québec », Universidade de Estado da Bahia, Salavador, Nucle de estudos canadenses i la Maison Française de Salavador. 3. « Fictions identitaires et imaginaire diasporique chez les romanciers haïtiens du Québec », Universidade de Estado da Bahia, Salavador, Nucle de estudos canadenses i la Maison Française de Salavador. 4. « La sociocritique du roman francophones des Amériques : le cas du Québec et de la Caraïbe », Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Pro-reitoria de Pesquisa et Pósgraduaçao, Nucleo de Estudos Canadenses, Centro de Estudo Francófonos.5. « Fictions identitaires et l'imaginaire diasporique chez les écrivains haïtines du Québec », Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Pro-reitoria de Pesquisa et Pósgraduaçao, Nucleo de Estudos Canadenses, Centro de Estudo Francófonos.
Ø Prof. Józef Kwaterko: offered an MA-level course on "La litterature du Quebec: Vers de nouveaux enjeux interculturels" at Institut for Franska och Italienska, Universitat Stockholm (September 2003); lectured on "Tozsamosc problematyczna. Spoleczenstwo i literatura w Quebecu i na frankofonskich Karaibach" for the Polish-French Centre Cotes d'Armor ----Warmia i Mazury (Olsztyn, April 2004).