Conference Programme

Below you shall find the current version of the programme, including session chairs and room numbers.

SEPTEMBER 4TH
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Address: Room 208
9:15 – 10:30 Keynote Lecture – Aleksandra Derra “Fatherhood as a Feminist Issue. Concepts, Theories and Controversies” Room 208
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK: Room 209
Session 1A 11:00 – 12:20 Room: 207 Chair: Jakub Krogulec		Session 1B 11:00 – 12:20 Room: 208 Chair: Dominika Ferens
Anna Mężyk (University of Wrocław, Poland) Literary Creations of the Father Figure of a Child with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Ewa Kaczmarek (University of Lower Silesia, Poland) Fathers of Children with Autism Facing the Contemporary Model of Fatherhood Łukasz Koperski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) The Father of a Disabled Child. Social Context, Problems, Counteracting		Magdalena Cieślak (University of Łódź, Poland) When Prospero Becomes Prospera: Disappearing Fathers in Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays Zdenka Ðerđ (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Fathers and Children in Miro Gavran’s Plays Mengmeng Jiang (Sichuan International Studies University, China) Troubled “Real Man” in the Mirror of Other: On the Masculine Identity in Sam Shepard’s Family Plays
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH BREAK – Bazylia, Kuźnicza 42
Session 2A 13:40 – 15:20 Room: 207 Chair: Mateusz Świetlicki	Session 2B 13:40 – 15:20 Room: 208 Chair: Wojciech Drąg		Session 2C 13:40 – 15:20 Room: 212 Chair: Jakub Krogulec
Justyna Wierzchowska (Warsaw University, Poland) In the Name of the Father: The Paternal Riddling out of Batman’s Subjectivity Formation Grzegorz Małecki (University of Wrocław, Poland) Different Notions of Fatherhood in Anime Series Naruto and in the First Part of Karl Ove Knausgård’s Autobiographical Novel My Struggle Tomasz Gadzina (Opole University, Poland) Fatherhood in Tim Winton’s Fiction Yumin Zhang (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) Masculinity and Fatherhood in Pushing Hands	Mario Liong (Centennial College, Hongkong) Public Fathers: Representations of Stay-At-Home Fathers in the Intersection of Masculinity and Class in Hongkong Desi Dwi Prianti (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Fatherhood: How Does It Fit With the Contemporary Masculinity? Case Study on Men’s Lifestyle Magazine Available in Indonesia Keiko Kaizuma (Iwate University, Japan) The Lack of Father Role Models in Japanese Lower Middle Class during the First Half of the 20th Century Emilia Kangas, Anna-Maija Lämsä, Suvi Heikkilä (Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Finland) Finnish male leaders fatherhood discourses		Anna Pilińska (University of Wrocław, Poland) The One Who Knocks: The Appeal (and Fatherhood) of Walter White Martina Martausová (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Slovakia) Re-Construction of American Manhood in Contemporary Hollywood Katie Barnett (University of Worcester, UK) “We’re his goddamn kids, too”: The On-Screen Fatherhood of Robin Williams Łukasz Salski (University of Łódź) “My son has reached that age when he wants to do the driving” – on fathers and cars
15:20 – 15:40 COFFEE BREAK: Room 209
Session 3A 15:40 – 17:20 Room: 208 Chair: Anna Pilińska		Session 3B 15:40 – 17:20 Room: 207 Chair: Dominika Ferens
Dominik Borowski (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Not Every Father Is The Same! The Images of Fathers in Literature For Young People Mateusz Świetlicki (University of Wrocław, Poland) Soviet Fathers and Post-Soviet Sons in Serhiy Zhadan’s Prose Agnieszka Jarosz (University of Wrocław, Poland) Portrayal of Homosexual Fathers in American Children’s Literature since 1990’s – an Overview Taraneh Houshyar (Shiraz University, Iran) Displays of Father-Apparition in Contemporary Context of Iranian Young Adult Fiction		Jakub Krogulec (University of Wrocław, Poland) How Gamers Became Fathers. The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, and Banner Saga as Fatherhood-centred Games Adam Flamma (University of Wrocław, Poland) Fatherhood in Video Games – Case of The Witcher: Wild Hunt Murat Göç (Pamukkale University, Turkey) Luke, I Am Your Father: On the Inevitability of Castration of Fathers
Session 4A 17:30 – 19:10 Room: 208 Chair: Aleksandra Hołubowicz		Session 4B 17:30 – 19:10 Room: 207 Chair: Jakub Krogulec
Aleksandra Wójcik and Agata Wężyk (Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź, Poland) Fatherhood From Fathers’ Own Perspective Chris Hickey (Admired Man Leadership Institute, USA) Admired Man Why?: The Making of an Admired Man Lina Sumskaite (Vilnius University, Lithuania) Visions of Fatherhood of Young Homosexual and Bisexual Men in Lithuania Stephen Baskerville (Patrick Henry College/Jagiellonian University, USA/Poland) Images of Fathers in the Political Literature of both the Left and Right		Thomas Cobb (University of Birmingham, UK) American Paternalism and Iraq War Allegory in Boyhood and American Sniper Barbara Butrymowska (University of Szczecin, Poland) From Role Model to Guardian to Failure to Monster – Representations of Fathers in Recent Scottish-Canadian Fiction Reyhan Özer Taniyan (Pamukkale University, Turkey) The Importance of Father Figure in V.S. Naipaul: Constructive or Destructive?

SEPTEMBER 5TH
9:00 – 10:15 Keynote Lecture – Svend Aage Madsen “Contemporary Fatherhood Between Attachment and Autonomy – Fatherhood and Childbirth Through History and Dilemmas in Modern Men’s Parenthood” Room 208
10:15 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK: Room 209
Session 5A 10:30 – 11:50 Room: 207 Chair: Anna Pilińska	Session 5B 10:30 – 11:50 Room: 208 Chair: Julia Szołtysek
Tomasz Piasecki (University of Wrocław, Poland) Horned, Emperor, Pope. Fathers and Fatherhood in Divination and Tarot Handbooks Aleksandra Hołubowicz (University of Gdańsk, Poland) Fathers of Nation: US Latina and Polish Experience Andrzej Postawa (Wrocław University of Technology, Poland) Parental Identity in Italian Culture	Özlem Özgur (Anadolu University, Turkey) Representations of Fatherhood in Turkish Cinema Mehmet Ali Çelikel (Pamukkale University, Turkey) Fathers in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Films Eithan Orkibi (Ariel University, Israel) “Missing Dad”: Fatherhood and Cultural Orphanhood in Israeli Mizrahi Cinema
11:50 – 12:10 COFFEE BREAK: Room 209
Session 6A 12:10 – 13:30 Room: 207 Chair: Agata Zarzycka	Session 6B 12:10 – 13:30 Room: 208 Chair: Jakub Krogulec
Karina Sembe (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine) Fatherhood and the Rite of Passage: Ouroboros of the Man’s World in Mario Vargas Llosa Beata Piątek (Jagiellonian University, Poland) “The Weak Son and the Big Pop,” or the Relationship Between Sons and Fathers in the Work of Graham Swift Baysar Taniyan (Pamukkale University, Turkey) Fatherhood in Graham Swift’s Last Orders	Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak (University of Wrocław, Poland) Absent Father and Abusive Stepfather: Representation of Paternal Incest in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina Zbigniew Głowala (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Biological, Absent, Reluctant: Fathers and Father Figures in Nick Hornby’s Novels Marcin Kłosowski (UKSW, Poland) Presence and Absence – Psychological Reflection on Fatherhood Against the Backdrop of Zwiagincew’s Films
13:45 – 14:45 LUNCH BREAK – Bazylia, Kuźnicza 42
15:00 – 16:15 Keynote Lecture – Iva Smidova “Nurturing Fathers and Gender Relations in the Family: Anxiety, Equality and Hegemony” Room 208
16:15 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK: Room 209
Session 7A 16:30 – 18:10 Room: 208 Chair: Jakub Krogulec	Session 7B 16:30 – 18:10 Room: 207 Chair: Agnieszka Jarosz
Derman Kizilay (Istanbul Arel University, Turkey) The Curious Downfall of Father: The Inner Workings of Normative Fatherhood and Patriarchal Power in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Sally Karmi (The Applied Science Private University, Jordan) Patriarchal Fathers, Submissive Daughters in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood and Hanan Al-Shaykh Clara Ijeoma Osuji (University of Lagos, Nigeria) Trapped Within the “Father-Box”: Portraits of Fatherhood in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart	Udi Lebel (Ariel University, Israel) “Heroic” Paternal vs. “Post-Heroic” Maternal Parenting: Soldiers’ and Casualties’ Parents Positioning Małgorzata Pietras-Mrozicka (University of Łódź, Poland) “Want to Daddy.” A Father as a Caregiver of a Hospitalized Child in the Eyes of the Hospital Staff Kathrin Peltz (Hochschule Landshut, University of Applied Sciences, Germany) The “Elterngeld” in Germany – Implications for the Involvement of Fathers
18:15 Closing Remarks, THE END Room 208