Polish studies: today and tomorrow

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 5 September 2023. 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.

Book of Abstracts

Programme

 

Thursday 7 September

	Panel I: Protest and the arts
9.30-10.10	Justyna Budzik	New Polish Film and Photography in the Context of Visual Culture: Image-Banners in the Conflicted World
10.10-10.50	Jannick Piskorski	Poland A and B in Postcolonial Theory and Pop Culture
10.50-11.30	Aneta Stepien	“My Body, my Choice”: intersectionality, creativity and solidarity in the abortion protest song
	Panel 2: East-West cultural interactions
1.00-1.40	Joanna Rydzewska and Elżbieta Durys	Polish Culture? World on Fire, Transnational Coproduction and the Inscription of Cultural Specificity
1.40-2.20	Kasia Szymanska	Text, Travel & Translation under the Cold War gaze: Poland and the other Others
	Panel 3: Negotiating Polishness in Twentieth-Century Polish Culture
2.40-3.20	Jordan Lian	Bronisława Niżyńska and Polish National Culture: The Case of Pieśń o Ziemi
3.20-4.00	Ola Sidorkiewicz	Pushing Against the Limits of National Form. A Study of Józef Czapski’s Lost Time. Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

Friday 8 September

	Panel 4: Polish migration to the UK
9.30-10.10	Agata Blaszczyk	Tackling mass migration. The Polish Resettlement Bill and Polish Resettlement Camps in the UK after the Second World War – Governance, Institutions, and Identity
10.10-10.50	Sabina Fibig Lord	Affective threads – attending to the emotive dimension of Polish women’s migration experiences
	Panel 5: Holocaust memory
11.10-11.50	Katarzyna Anzorge	Polish Holocaust memory in the late 1980s as part of the Cold War struggles
11.50-12.30	Jan Gryta	Scouting for sites of victory, encountering post-Holocaust spaces. Polish scouts discovering the Jewish genocide in the 1960s
	Panels 6a and b: Society and politics in contemporary Poland
1.30-2.10	Pawel Bukowski	Income inequality in 21st century Poland
2.10-2.50	Maria Obrebska	Coping with a crisis: the relationship between citizenship and mental health as experienced by LGBTQ population in Poland
3.10-3.50	Aleks Szczerbiak	Mobilising anti-clericalism: Polish anti-Church left-wing and liberal parties
3.50-4.30	Ewa Ochman	“Who cares about street names?” Resisting change and the protracted decommunization of public space in Poland
4.30-5.10	Anne White	The gendering of Ukrainian migration to Poland