The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the birthday of Ewa Lipska - a renowned Krakow poet, author of dozens of acclaimed works translated into several foreign languages, poetry volumes, prose and drama, winner of many prestigious literary awards. Her latest volume, "Love in Emergency Mode" (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2019), as the writer emphasizes, is the culmination of the cybernetic/computer triptych (which also includes the volume "Reader of Fingerprints" and "Operational Memory"), which can be considered a penetrating diagnosis of the present day - its current unrest, ideological diseases and identity crises. Thus, the scholarly session would not only stimulate an in-depth reading of Leipzig's artistic output to date, but would also provide a basis for a discussion of the problems of contemporary reality that the poet takes up in her work, showing them in the light of the over-historical philosophical reflection and a mirror of idiomatic poetic language. It is worth noting that so far - despite excellent works by Jerzy Kwiatkowski, Marta Wyka, Anna Legeżyńska, Ryszard Matuszewski, Wojciech Ligęza and Aneta Piech-Klikowicz, as well as several collective studies - it has been difficult to speak of the creation of a satisfactory monographic picture of Lipska's anthropological Imaginarium. A scientific session on the 75th anniversary of the poet's birthday would therefore be an excellent impulse to fill this gap.

 

The proposed theme of the speeches:

• The role of imagination in the creation of poetry and modelling of one's existence,
• The tension between loneliness (being alone) and loneliness (alienation),
• Carnality, affectivity and intellectual, technical/technological (computer, cybernetic) discourse,
• Constructing and deconstructing an entity as a non-identity design,
• The function of irony and paradox in the context of this deconstruction,
• The status of death and life ("living death") - borders, passages, discontinuities,
• The role of love and the need to communicate with the Other,
• The desire to complement and awareness of the impossibility of full satisfaction (cognitive, existential, aesthetic),
• The dialectic of a sense of security and irreducible anxiety,
• Home and homelessness as modes of existence,
• The inaccessibility of reality - the condition of being lost in the world,
• Position of the outsider/rebellious (against literary traditions, ontological orders, norms and values),
• The distinctiveness of language - hermetic, poetic idiom,
• Civilization "in emergency mode": perspectives, diagnoses, reflections.

 

Organised by: Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University

Place: 18 Gołębia Street, p. 42

Deadline: 30 March 2020

 

The deadline for sending applications to elipska.konferencja@gmail.com is 16 February 2020. The volume of abstract: about 300 words. Information about positive or negative consideration of the conference presentation proposal will be sent to the authors on 29 February 2020.

Speeches should not exceed 20 minutes.

The organizers expect the publication in the form of a peer-reviewed anthology of post-conference articles".