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Shaped by Memory and Migration: Workshop on Contemporary Poland

26 May 2017, 11:30 am–5:20 pm

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Event Information

Location

IAS Common Ground (Room G11 South Wing)

Remembering the past and migration abroad have both for centuries been fundamental to the identity of Poland. Today, they remain acutely significant - the first to politicians, the second to ordinary citizens. The workshop will be an opportunity to discuss research in progress which addresses both themes, as well as how they intertwine.

If you would like to attend, please email Anne White

 Programme
11:30-1:30

Panel 1

Mateusz Mazzini (GSSR, Warsaw),‘Mnemonic excluders. Historical revisionism in Poland and Law and Justice as a new type of memory entrepreneurs’

Aleks Szczerbiak (University of Sussex), 'Politicising the communist past?: The politics of truth revelation in post-1989 Poland'

Ewa Ochman (University of Manchester), ‘Between the sacred past and oblivion: the Battle of Warsaw, 1920, in today’s Poland’

1:30-2:10 Lunch
2:10-3:30

Panel 2

Katarzyna Zechenter (SSEES), ‘The role of suffering in recent Polish fiction’

Andrzej Śledź (UJ, Kraków) ‘What makes a difficult past difficult?’ 

3:30–4:00 Tea

4:00-5:20


Panel 3

Izabela Grabowska (SWPS, Warsaw) and Anne White (SSEES), ‘The consequences of migration for Poland’

Jan Kubik and Marta Kotwas, 'Polish symbolic wars: from unity in diversity of the Solidarity era to the polarization of “the Fourth Republic”.'

5.20-5.40
Concluding Discussion