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Polish studies: today and tomorrow
05 September 2024鈥�06 September 2024, 10:15 am鈥�12:00 pm
6th annual conference of the UCL SSEES Polish Studies Research Group and British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Polish Studies Group
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Prof Anne White
Like previous听Polish听studies听events at SSEES, this event has a workshop format. Speakers will present work in progress. They look forward to receiving friendly听and听detailed feedback from colleagues united by a common interest in Poland, including听Polish听migration, but representing different academic disciplines and combinations of disciplines. The BASEES听Polish听Studies听Group is an international group which 鈥榓ims to enhance discussion on critical perspectives emerging in the field of听Polish听studies. The group seeks to foster research collaboration听and听enhance exchanges of ideas听and听expertise.鈥� Looking towards the future, one of our main aims is to support dialogue between researchers at different stages of their academic careers.听听
This year鈥檚 conference will be held online on Zoom.听If you would like to register and receive a Zoom link, email Anne White, Professor of听Polish听Studies, SSEES, at听anne.white@ucl.ac.uk听by 2 September 2024. We welcome attendees who are not affiliated to any university; however, please let Anne know why you鈥檇 like to come to the event. The conference will not be recorded, since the papers present work in progress.
ProgrammeThursday 5 September: History and its contemporary resonances
10.15-10.30 | Anne White | Welcome and introduction |
Panel I: Dispossession in World War II and Its Consequences for Contemporary Poland | 听 | 听 |
10.30-11.15 | Magdalena Walig贸rska | Intimate Dispossession: Plundered Jewish Clothing and Its Afterlife in Postwar Poland |
11.15-12.00 | Marta Duch-Dyngosz | Social Transactions Involving Jewish Property in former Polish Shtetls |
Panel 2: Dispossession (continued) | 听 | 听 |
12.45-1.30 | Katarzyna Maniak and Anna Kurpiel | Adopted Objects: Mediating Role of Objects in Post-Migration Areas after World War II |
1.30-2.15 | Monika St臋pie艅 | Books and Sheepskin Coats: The Possessions of the March 1968 Emigrants |
Panel 3: Historical (re-)interpretations | 听 | 听 |
2.45-3.30 | Oliver Zajac | A Tale of Two Emigrations: Comparative Analysis of the Polish Great Emigration in France and the United Kingdom |
3.30-4.15 | Helena Hammond | Dance as yizker bukh? Concepts of doikayt; landkentenish, and co-territoritorializing the interwar Polish shtetl in Jerome Robbins鈥檚 鈥楧ances at a Gathering鈥� |
4.15-5.00 | Jannick Piskorski | Poland and Russia: Ewa Thompson and her critics |
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Friday 6 September: Contemporary Poland
Panel 4:听 Migration and identities | 听 | 听 |
9.30-10.15 | Kelsey Weber-Lawson | Roots of Place and Kin: Muslim Polish Tatar identities |
10.15-11.00 | Izabela Grabowska | Migration Skill Corridors to Warsaw from Eastern Europe and Asia |
11.00-11.45 | Anne White | Small Towns in Poland and Migration from Former USSR and Asia: the case of Dobrodzie艅/Guttentag |