2006 Konferencja w Debreczynie
Report from Debrecen Conference
Imaginative Spaces: Canada in the European Mind, Europe in the Canadian Mind
Organized by Central European Association for Canadian Studies and University of Debrecen, Hungary
The annual 2006 CEACS conference was a success. It took place in Debrecen (27-29 October) as one of the conferences organized by the Canadian Studies Centre of the University of Debrecen on the general topic of CANADA IN THE EUROPEAN MIND, EUROPE IN THE CANADIAN MIND. This time, participants—about 80, mostly from Central Europe (including 7 Polish participants), but also from Austria, Germany, and Canada--were invited to reflect more specifically on “Imaginative spaces.” Scholars analysed different aspects of this general topic in papers dealing with Canadian and Quebec literature, culture, politics and lingustics. The conference hosted ICCS representatives, including both President Christopher Rolfe and President-Elect Cornelius Remie. The ICCS used the event to launch its new publication: a collection of articles titled “Canada from the Outside In”; and to remind conference participants of the international programs and scholarships it offers (the presentation was given by Guy Leclair). During the conference CEACS new executive was elected, with Janos Kenyeres replacing Don Sparling as President of the Association. Canadian Studies Centre student theatre provided evening entertainment: a performance of Judith Thompson’s Perfect Pie.
The list of Polish participants and titles of their papers delivered in Debrecen:
- Albański Łukasz The Significance of Social and Symbolic Capital in Organization of the Canadian Polish Congress
- Krywult Małgorzata “The Holy Land”. Canada in the Views and Life Experience of Polish Immigrants from the 1980’s in Toronto
- Paluszkiewicz- Misiaczek Magdalena Europe in Canadian Mind- Visions of Europe in “Correspondence of Canadian Army Medical Corps’ Nurses During WWII”
- Rzepa Agnieszka “Impossible to Break into nice free stroll” Canadian- recitation of Paris in Gail Scott’s “My Paris”
- Soroka Tomasz William Lyon Mackenzie King’s Premiership. A New Era of Canadian Relations with Europe
- Spiechlanin Katarzyna Poetic Brotherhood- Confederation Poets and Their European Cousins
- Wordliczek Rafał The Canadian Promised Land: European Jews in Canada
- Wronska Iwona Accomodation of Differences: Canadian Model for Europe
Agnieszka Rzepa