Polish Studies Working Group Postgraduate Workshop Schedule

Polish Studies Working Group Postgraduate Workshop Schedule

Thursday, 26 October 2023 (17:15-18:15 BST)

Josef Butler (King’s College London)

Frozen in Aspic? Continuities and ruptures in identity between the Polish community in wartime and post-war Britain and the longue durée of Polish history and culture

Thursday, 7 December 2023 (17:15-18:15 GMT)

Madeleine Pulman-Jones (Columbia University)

Polish literary culture in Tel Aviv between 1968 and 2006

Thursday, 26 January 2024 (Time TBC)

Daryna Slipchuk (Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Bohdan Zaleski’s Ukrainian Myth: History and Identity

Thursday, 29 February 2024 (Time TBC)

Julia Kulon (University of Chicago)

Multiple Acts of the “I” in Wojciech Fangor’s Keep the State’s Secret: Self-Portraiture, Self-Performativity, and Self-Documentation in Polish Socialist Realism

Marta Zboralska (University of Oxford)

Art After Witold Gombrowicz

Thursday, 29 March 2024 (Time TBC)

Aritra Banerjee (University of Burdwan)

Understanding ‘‘The horror’’ of Russification: Imagining Poland in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Izabela Sobczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

Anglo-American Modernism in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing. Ewa Kuryluk’s Case

Thursday, 26 April 2024 (Time TBC)

Przemysław Górecki (University of Warsaw)

Masculinities in Polish contemporary fiction

Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk (University of Łódź)

Nihil novi sub sole? Some remarks on censorship in communist and contemporary Poland

Thursday, 30 May 2024 (Time TBC)

Jordan Lian (University of Cambridge)

Niżyńska the Interlocutor of Polish Ballet in Nazi Germany

Thursday, 27 June 2024 (Time TBC)

Jess Jensen Mitchell (Harvard University)

“Music Was Made For the Homeless:” Representations of Upper Silesia in Nostalgic Literature of the Transition-Era

Jannick Piskorski (University of Hamburg)

Poland A and B in Postcolonial Theory and Polish Music

The Polish Studies Working Group (PSWG) is part of the TORCH Critical-Thinking Communities