10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature
Totality and fragmentation in literature, linguistics, philosophy and culture
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 13st November 2025
9.50-10.00 OFFICIAL OPENING
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10.00-10.45 |
Plenary Lecture Chair: Edward Colerick
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Dr. Aled Llion Jones Bangor University Death and return, and repeat: traditions of prophecy in Welsh literature |
10.45-11.00 DISCUSSION
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Literature session Chair: Katarzyna Kozak |
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11.00-11.30 |
Paula Martínez Vega Universitat de València Exploring Virginia Woolf: Fragmented Realities in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours |
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11.30-12.00 |
Alexander Lee Independent Scholar, South Korea The Canonization of Resistance: Dialectics of Center and Margin in Federico García Lorca and Juan Goytisolo |
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12.00-12.30 |
Jorge Antonio Berndt University of Vigo Transmodern Historiographic Metafiction in Latin America: Decolonial Perspectives for Literary Education |
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12.30 - 13.00 |
Magdalena Sawa John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Towards literary metamodernism |
13.00-14.00 BREAK
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Literature session Chair: Katarzyna Mroczyńska |
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14.00-14.30 |
Müge Kesiktaş Gençoğlan Izmir University of Economics Fitzgerald’s Offshore (1979) and the Postmodern Paradoxical Self |
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14.30-15.00 |
Dilek Menteşe-Kıryaman Çankırı Karatekin University Fragmented and Collective Identities in Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists |
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15.00-15.30 |
Richard Gramanich Štromajer Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider: Toward a Vision of Wholeness Through Fragmented Identities |
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Literature session Chair: Edward Colerick |
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15.30- 16.00 |
Midhat Tasneem Vellore Institute of Technology Posthuman Proximity: The Intersection of Science and Emotion in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go |
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16.00-16.30 |
Mark Tardi University of Łódź “Molecularization of the self”: Elizabeth Willis’s fragmentary poetic subjectivity |
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16.30-17.00 |
Sarah Mann-O'Donnell Northwestern University “nothing but ash”: In Search of Artaud’s Lost Book |
Friday, 14th November 2025
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9.00-9.45 |
Plenary Lecture Chair: Katarzyna Mroczyńska
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Prof. Przemysław Łozowski Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin Totality and Fragmentation in Linguistics: “top-down”, or “bottom-up” in dictionary definitions? |
9.45-10.00 DISCUSSION
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Linguistic session Chair: Magdalena Wieczorek |
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10.00-10.30 |
Swati Arora Yokohama National University Integrating AI Tools and Multicultural Pedagogy in English Language Classrooms in Japan: Reflections from Practice |
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10.30-11.00 |
Agnieszka Rzepkowska University of Siedlce Totality and fragmentation in lexicography – the case of Polish legal dictionaries, lexicons and encyclopaedias |
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11.00-11.30 |
Katarzyna Mroczyńska University of Siedlce The Words of Equality: A Corpus Journey Through Legal and Common Discourse |
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11.30-12.00 |
Anna Stwora University of Silesia in Katowice Memes in Social Media Advertising: Fragmented Discourse, Unified Persuasion |
12.00-13.00 BREAK
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Literature session Chair: Ludmiła Mnich |
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13.00-13.30 |
Barbora Vinczeová Matej Bel University Fragments of Comedy in Wuthering Heights’s Violent Scenes: The Translation Point of View |
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13.30-14.00 |
Vijolė Višomirskytė Vytautas Magnus University From Totalising Metaphor towards Metonymies and Back Again: the trajectories of movement in literary history. A case study of “Man Travels through the World” (1937) and “White Shroud” (1958) by Lithuanian émigré writers. |
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14.00-14.30 |
Indrė Žakevičienė Vytautas Magnus University Fragmentation in Poetry and Prose: The Cases of Jolita Skablauskaitė and Rasa Aškinytė |
14.30 – 14.45 break
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Session in Philosophy Chair: Andres Luis Jaume |
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14.45- 15.15 |
Ivo Pospíšil Masaryk University Bakhtin’s Chronotope as the Expression of His Philosophy between Totality and Fragmentation |
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15.15 –15.45 |
Pablo Vera Vega University of La Laguna Iterativity of the Sign: An Approach to the Problem of Infinite Reference |
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15.45-16.15 |
Vicente Raga-Rosaleny University of Valencia Curiosity and Systematicity in the Works of Descartes: The Unexpected Cartesian Critique of Admiration |
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16.15-16.45 |
Sergio Garcia-Rodriguez University of the Balearic Islands From the Self to the Reader: The Constitution of the Subject in Montaigne |
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16.45-17.15 |
Andres Luis Jaume University of the Balearic Islands Systematic and Unsystematic Approaches in Philosophy: Kant, Hegel and Ortega y Gasset |
Closing of the Conference