International Conference “The Future of Polish Studies” (July 6-7, 2023) Senate Hall, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

Dziekan Wydziału “Artes Liberales” prof. Robert Sucharski zaprasza do udziału w konferencji “The Future of Polish Studies”. Odbędzie się ona w dniach 6-7 lipca br. w Sali Senatu UW (w Pałacu Kazimierzowskim).

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International Conference “The Future of Polish Studies” (July 6-7, 2023)
Senate Hall, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
Draft Conference Programme

Norman Davies (Polish Studies Foundation)
“Polish Studies: Past and Present”
1. History and Cultural History
Moderator: Robert Frost (University of Aberdeen)
Jan Gryta (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
“Between Polish and Global History. In Search of the Demarcation Line”
Brian Porter-Szűcs (University of Michigan)
“Beyond Anticommunism: Studying the PRL in the 21st Century”
Ewa Ochman (University of Manchester)
“Polish Studies and Transnational and Global Histories”

2. Literature and Language
Moderator: Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto)
Schamma Schahadat (University of Tübingen)
“Polish Studies as Area Studies? Some reflections on literary history as entangled history”
Edyta Nowosielska (University of Cambridge)
“Shaping the Future: Challenges and Perspectives in Polish Language Studies in the UK”
Benjamin Paloff (University of Michigan)
“Polish Literature’s Brief Future: A Prophecy”

3. Public Outreach and Digital Polish Studies
Moderator: Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (Polish History Museum; UCL)
Jan Pomorski (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
„e-Polish Studies. A Joint Project of Online Studies Conducted by John Paul II Catholic
University of Lublin and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin”
Marek Skulimowski (Kościuszko Foundation)
“The Kosciuszko Foundation and Polish Studies Programs in the U.S.”

4. Social Sciences
Moderator: Jan Kubik (Rutgers University)
Adam Daniel Rotfeld (University of Warsaw)
“The Future of Polish Studies on International Security”
Marta Bucholc (University of Warsaw)
“The place of sociology in the landscape of Polish studies”
Stanley Bill (University of Cambridge)
“Centring the ‘Periphery’: Poland’s Politics in Comparative Context”

5. Decolonialising Central and East European Studies
Moderator: Joanna Niżyńska (Indiana University)
Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge)
Tomasz Zarycki (University of Warsaw)
Andriy Portnov (Humboldt University, Berlin)

International Conference “The Future of Polish Studies” (July 6-7, 2023)
Senate Hall, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
July 6
09.15 – Registration and coffee
10.00am-10.20am – Opening
10.20am-11.00am – Keynote
11.00am-11.30am – Coffee
11.30am-1.00pm – Panel 1: History and Cultural History
1.00pm-2.00pm – Lunch
2.00pm-3.30pm – Panel 2: Literature and Language
3.30pm-4.00pm – Coffee
4.00pm-5.30pm – Panel 3: Public Outreach and Digital Polish Studies
July 7
9.30am-11.00am – Panel 4: Social Sciences
11.00am-11.30am – Coffee
11.30am-1.00pm – Panel 5: Decolonialising Central and East European Studies
1.00pm-2.00pm – Lunch
2pm-3.30pm – Concluding Roundtable