Polish studies: today and tomorrow
6th annual conference of the UCL SSEES Polish Studies Research Group and British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Polish Studies Group
Polish studies: today and tomorrow
05 Sep 2024 - 06 Sep 2024
Like previous Polish studies events at SSEES, this event has a workshop format. Speakers will present work in progress. They look forward to receiving friendly and detailed feedback from colleagues united by a common interest in Poland, including Polish migration, but representing different academic disciplines and combinations of disciplines. The BASEES Polish Studies Group is an international group which ‘aims to enhance discussion on critical perspectives emerging in the field of Polish studies. The group seeks to foster research collaboration and enhance exchanges of ideas and expertise.’ Looking towards the future, one of our main aims is to support dialogue between researchers at different stages of their academic careers.
This year’s conference will be held online on Zoom. If you would like to register and receive a Zoom link, email Anne White, Professor of Polish Studies, SSEES, at anne.white@ucl.ac.uk by 2 September 2024. We welcome attendees who are not affiliated to any university; however, please let Anne know why you’d like to come to the event. The conference will not be recorded, since the papers present work in progress.
Programme
Thursday 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 | ||
| 10.30-11.15 | Magdalena Waligórska | 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) | ||
| 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 Stępień | Books and Sheepskin Coats: The Possessions of the March 1968 Emigrants |
| Panel 3: Historical (re-)interpretations | ||
| 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’s ‘Dances at a Gathering’ |
| 4.15-5.00 | Jannick Piskorski | Poland and Russia: Ewa Thompson and her critics |
Friday 6 September: Contemporary Poland
| Panel 4: Migration and identities | ||
| 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 Dobrodzień/Guttentag |
Further information
Ticketing
Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes