Plenary speakers:

PRZEMYSŁAW CZAPLIŃSKI – literary historian specializing in the nineteenth and twentieth-century Polish literature and Head of the Department of Anthropology of Literature (Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University). A renowned literary critic, essayist and translator, Przemysław Czapliński received many significant prizes: Medal of Young Art (1996), Ludwik Fryd Prize (1997), Kościelski Prize (1998), or Kazimierz Wyka Prize (2004). He is the author of more than ten books dedicated to contemporary Polish fiction. He publishes in many acclaimed journals and newspapers such as “Teksty Drugie”, “Pamiętnik Literacki”, “Res Publika”, “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Tygodnik Powszechny”, “Polityka”. Professor Czapliński was a plenary speaker at Humboldt University in Berlin, Harvard University in Boston, Université Libre in Brussels, as well as in Regensburg, Dresden, Budapest, Illinois, Tubingen, Munich, Bratislava, Bologna, Florence and Pisa.

ALEXANDRE GEFEN – literary critic and literary scholar, Head of Centre for French Language and Literature (Centre d'Étude de la Langue et de la Littérature Française) created by the French Centre of National Scholarship (CNRS) and Sorbonne University (Université Paris Sorbonne). Since 2017, he has been managing the following projects: Theory and History of Art and Contemporary Literature, conducted in cooperation with Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, and LABEX OBVIL (Observatoire de la vie littéraire). Alexandre Gefen is a founder of fibula.org – a website promoting French literature. His scholarly interests include literary theory, contemporary French literature, theory of mimesis, theory of literary fiction, biographical fiction and literary emotions (scholarly project Les Pouvoirs de l’art. Expérience). He publishes his articles inter alia in Magazine littéraire – an acclaimed literary journal.