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The Polish Heritage Society Grant
The Polish Heritage Society is a registered U.K. charity whose aim is to remember, record, and propagate among the wider British public the contribution of Poles to the shared cultural and historical heritage of the United Kingdom. The Society has generously donated £1,000 towards the work of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.) to sponsor research and writing that addresses any aspect of the Polish Heritage of Joseph Conrad, and that promotes an understanding which extends across cultural and linguistic boundaries. This donation is to be in the form of separate awards of £200 spread over five years, and 2014 saw the third of these.
In 2012 the award was made to Brygida Pudelko who presented her paper, “The Impact of Music and Painting on Turgenev’s and Conrad’s Art”, at the International Conference in Bath.
In 2013 the award was made to Malgorzata Stanek to enable her to present her paper, “Some Reflections on Teaching ‘Amy Foster’ and ‘Prince Roman’ as Narratives Negotiating Identity”, at the International Conference in Rome.
In 2014 the award was made to Joanna Skolik to enable her to present her paper, “Poland Revisited: A British Citizen on the Polish Problem”, at the International Conference in Canterbury.
In 2015 the award was made to Ewa Kujawska-Lis to enable her to present her paper “Conrad’s Mastery of Language in Early Marlow Narratives” at the International Conference in London.
In 2017 the award was made to the members of a panel from Silesia and Warsaw on ‘Spectral Conrad’ at the International Conference in London: Jacek Mydla, Karol Samsel, Anne Keithline and Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech.
Gail Fraser Memorial Conference Travel Grant
In remembrance of Gail Fraser (1939–2011), Bruce Fraser has provided funds for a young scholar either in the final stages of doctoral studies or within three years of obtaining the doctorate to defray costs of attending the Society’s annual conference.
Gail Fraser, who taught in the Department of English at Douglas College, New Westminster, British Columbia, was a specialist on Conrad’s short fiction on which she wrote her dissertation at the University of British Columbia, the basis of her Interweaving Patterns in the Works of Joseph Conrad (1988). In addition to other essays on this topic, she contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996) and wrote the Introduction to The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ and Other Stories (Penguin, 2007).
The Travel Grant was awarded as follows:
- 2012: To Joshil K. Abraham, Lecturer at the Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communications Technologies and Research (New Delhi), who presented a paper at the Bath conference on “Marlow’s Logocentric Journey in ‘Heart of Darkness.'”
- 2013: To Joanna Mstowska, a full-time Lecturer, Post-doctoral status, at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru, Poland, who presented a paper at the Rome conference on “Conrad’s Victory and Pirandello’s “La trappola”: a Victory over Form?”
- 2014: To Pei-Wen Clio Kao and Charne Lavery, who presented papers at the Canterbury conference on “The Symbiotic Relation between Colonizer and Colonized: A Contrapuntal Reading of ‘Heart of Darkness”’, and “Looking back in Victory: ‘Native Life’, the threat of witness, and narrative perspective”, respectively.