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SUMMARY:Uniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku
DESCRIPTION:Uniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku (dla osób w każdym wieku!) \nPolskiego Uniwersytetu na Obczyźnie (PUNO) \nzaprasza na wykład \nZdrowie zaczyna się w jelitach — błonnik sprzymierzeniec długowieczności \nWięcej w załączniku. \n 
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/uniwersytet-trzeciego-wieku/?lang=en
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SUMMARY:History Seminar -- Moczar`s “Partisans”: Nationalism\, Anti-Semitism\, Historical Myths
DESCRIPTION:25 February 2026\nProf. Paweł Machcewicz\, (Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences\, Warsaw)\nMoczar`s “Partisans”: Nationalism\, Anti-Semitism\, Historical Myths\n \n“The Partisans” were in the 1960s a very influential political group within the communist party and state apparatus in Poland. Led by Mieczysław Moczar\, the minister of interior and leader of the veterans` associations (during the WW II he was a famous commander of the communist resistance)\, they founded a dynamic political movement which strongly influenced not only politics\, but also mass-media and culture. Their ideology based on nationalism\, anti-Semitism and exploitation of Polish history – especially its non-communist aspects which helped attract followers from outside the ruling party. “The Partisans” undertook the most far-reaching attempt to shape the Polish model of national communism and were often compared by contemporary observers and analysts with parallel developments in Romania.   \n\nPaweł Machcewicz is a historian\, professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. From 2008 to 2017\, he was the founding director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. He has taught at the Warsaw University and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and was director of research and education at the Institute of National Remembrance in 2000-2006.  \n\nHis main areas of research are the Second World War\, the Cold War and communist regimes in East-Central Europe. His many books include:  Rebellious Satellite. Poland 1956  (Woodrow Wilson Center-Stanford University Press\, Washington DC-Stanford\, 2009); Poland`s War on Radio Free Europe 1950-1989 (Woodrow Wilson Center-Stanford University Press\, Washington DC-Stanford\, 2014); The War That Never Ends. The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk  (De Gruyter\, Berlin-Boston 2019); Wina\, kara\, polityka. Rozliczenia ze zbrodniami II wojny światowej  (with Andrzej Paczkowski; Znak\, Kraków 2021); Narodowy komunizm po polsku. „Partyzanci” Moczara  (Krytyka Polityczna\, Warszawa 2025).\n\n \nTopic: PUNO: History Seminar\nTime: Feb 25\, 2026 18:30 London\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89115030705?pwd=A11JhXuR2hSkAajeK4nBhS24Z2tizR.1\n \n \nMeeting ID: 891 1503 0705\nPasscode: 268637
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/history-seminar-moczars-partisans-nationalism-anti-semitism-historical-myths/?lang=en
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SUMMARY:Uniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku
DESCRIPTION:\nUniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku  (dla osób w każdym wieku!)   \nPolskiego Uniwersytetu na Obczyźnie (PUNO) \nzaprasza na wykład : Ochrona zdrowia podczas fazy nadaktywnego słońca (do 2035 r.)   \nWięcej w załączonym zaproszeniu: \n\n  
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/uniwersytet-trzeciego-wieku-2/?lang=en
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260114T183000
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SUMMARY:History Seminar: Deprivation of Citizenship and Diplomatic Fallout
DESCRIPTION:14 January 2026 | Dr. Pawel Duber (PUNO\, London)  \nDeprivation of Citizenship and Diplomatic Fallout: The 6 October 1938 Ordinance in Polish–Swiss Relations\, 1938–1940\n\nFollowing the Anschluss and the failure of the Evian Conference\, on the 6 October 1938 Poland issued an ordinance requiring passport revalidation\, effectively preventing many Jews from returning. Switzerland responded by tightening visa requirements and expressing concerns over reliability of Polish passports. The paper focuses on the impact of this law on the diplomatic relations between both countries and the role of Tytus Komarnicki\, Polish envoy to Switzerland\, whose initially liberal stance shifted toward strict enforcement of the aforementioned ordinance. Drawing on previously unused archival sources\, the study reveals how both countries navigated through legal\, diplomatic\, and humanitarian challenges amid worsening geopolitical conditions and after the outbreak of World War II.   \n \nDr hab. Paweł Duber is a historian and lecturer in the Unit of European History at the Polish University Abroad\, as well as a history teacher in British schools. He graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice and has worked at various cultural and academic institutions\, including the University of Warsaw\, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)\, the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek\, and Nottingham Trent University. He earned his PhD in 2009 at the Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk and completed his habilitation in 2015 at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. His research focuses on the political history of Poland after 1918\, 20th-century Central and Eastern Europe\, Polish political and military emigration after 1939\, the history of diplomacy and international relations\, and the politics of memory. He is the author / co-author of several books and nearly one hundred scholarly and popular articles. His most recent book\, a biography of the Polish diplomat and lawyer Tytus Komarnicki\, is being published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw.     \n\nPolish University Abroad LONDON is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\n \nTopic: Polish University Abroad History Seminar Zoom Meeting\nTime: Jan 14\, 2026 18:30 London\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/83685952743?pwd=WTUKHRbyUIb4s3vtVovVRQ7m96asnG.1\n \n \nMeeting ID: 836 8595 2743\nPasscode: 813470
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/history-seminar-deprivation-of-citizenship-and-diplomatic-fallout/?lang=en
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SUMMARY:Spaces of Treblinka. A Seminar with Jacob Flaws
DESCRIPTION:Spaces of Treblinka utilizes testimonies\, oral histories\, and recollections from Jewish\, German\, and Polish witnesses to create a holistic representation of the Treblinka death camp during its operation. This narrative rejects the historical misconception that Treblinka was an isolated Nazi extermination camp with few witnesses and fewer survivors. Rather than the secret\, sanitized site of industrial killing Treblinka was intended to be\, Jacob Flaws argues\, Treblinka’s mass murder was well known to the nearby townspeople who experienced the sights\, sounds\, smells\, people\, bodies\, and train cars the camp ejected into the surrounding world.\nThrough spatial reality\, Flaws portrays the conceptions\, fantasies\, ideological assumptions\, and memories of Treblinka from witnesses in the camp and surrounding towns. To do so he identifies six key spaces that once composed the historical site of Treblinka: the ideological space\, the behavioral space\, the space of life and death\, the interactional space\, the sensory space\, and the extended space. By examining these spaces Flaws reveals that there were more witnesses to Treblinka than previously realized\, as the transnational groups near and within the camp overlapped and interacted. Spaces of Treblinka provides a staggering and profound reassessment of the relationship between knowing and not knowing and asks us to confront the timely warning that we\, in our modern\, interconnected world\, can all become witnesses. See https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781496239730/spaces-of-treblinka/\n\nDr. Jacob Flaws is an assistant professor of history at Kean University in Union\, NJ where he teaches on topics in Modern European history\, the Holocaust\, and global genocide. He is the author of the 2024 book Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp\, published by the University of Nebraska Press\, as well as several other journal articles and book chapters. Flaws earned his Ph.D. In history from the University of Colorado-Boulder.\n\n\nTopic: Polish University Abroad History Seminar Zoom Meeting\nTime: Dec 10\, 2025 18:30 London\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nHttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89143105203?pwd=XvDTu3mKCw0BDeuV4JYgyRynlCBsss.1\n\nMeeting ID: 891 4310 5203\nPasscode: 679290
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/spaces-of-treblinka-a-seminar-with-jacob-flaws/?lang=en
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251105T183000
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SUMMARY:Polish University Abroad History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:5 listopada 2025 z profesorem Piotrem Maciejem Majewskim (Universytet Warszawski) ZOOM \n\nThe mechanisms of collaboration \n\nThis paper focuses on collaboration as a political and social phenomenon. It mainly concerns the Second World War\, but it also attempts to answer the question why collaboration with the enemy (collaborationism and other forms) was only recognised and condemned at that time. Through the analysis of various cases of collaboration in Eastern and Western Europe and Asia\, I attempt to show the mechanisms that occurred in the relations between the occupiers and the occupied communities. I demonstrate that this phenomenon was perceived and judged in very different ways\, and that the assessment could vary depending on the time\, place and circumstances. \n\n\n\nPiotr Maciej Majewski is Professor of History at the University of Warsaw. His main academic interests are history of Czechoslovakia and Czech lands and the Czech-German relations in 19th and 20th centuries. He has published extensively on the Munich Crisis\, prewar Czechoslovakia\, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. From 2009 to 2017\, Professor Majewski was deputy director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk\, responsible for development of the permanent exhibition. His latest monograph\, Brzydkie słowo na k”. Rzecz o kolaboracji [The Ugly K-Word. An Essay on Collaboration] (Warsaw 2024)\, explores the phenomenon of collaboration.  \n\n\n\nTime: Nov 5\, 2025 18:30 London \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting \n\n\n\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81938962052?pwd=yPZGMmf3nYuEmhIrL5NGfCPWMU6TYK.1 \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 819 3896 2052 \n\n\n\nPasscode: 094553
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/polish-university-abroad-history-seminar/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Jazz Education
DESCRIPTION:Following the historical perspective outlined in the first symposium\, the second installment of the series organized by the Department of Music Culture and Education at the Polish University Abroad (PUNO) in London will turn its focus to the contemporary challenges and transformations in jazz education. \nThe rapid pace of digital technology development is approaching the limits of social assimilation\, and is often perceived less as progress than as a form of shock. Within globalized musical environments\, attitudes are divided: some embrace and explore new tools with enthusiasm\, others adopt them cautiously and without great conviction\, while still others resist them outright. \nWithin the community of jazz musicians and educators\, the discourse is increasingly shifting from a discussion of challenges to one of a paradigm shift. The changes being imposed are redefining not only modes of teaching\, but also the very understanding of jazz as an art form. \nEmerging models of education require greater flexibility\, interdisciplinarity\, and a creative engagement with tradition. Contemporary technological tools open unprecedented opportunities for both individual and collective music-making\, while simultaneously raising questions regarding the authenticity of artistic experience\, the cultivation of musical perception\, and even the quality of the relationship between creator and audience. \nIn its cyclical format\, the symposium serves as a platform for the latest reflections and debates on jazz education. The forthcoming edition will address\, in particular\, the present search for balance between heritage and innovation\, as well as strategies for effective teaching and creative practice in jazz in the twenty-first century. The concluding discussion\, following a series of brief presentations\, will constitute the central element of the event. To this conversation we warmly invite not only academically engaged scholars\, but also practitioners—teachers active both privately and within institutions—whose voices provide an indispensable source of knowledge and guidance. \nMore information in invitation
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/jazz-education/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250924T183000
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SUMMARY:Polish History Seminar - POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Dear Colleagues\,\n\n\n\nThe first PUNO history seminar of the 2025/2026 academic year will take place on Wednesday 24th September at 6.30pm (UK time). Dr Pawel Duber will give a talk titled ‘Deprivation of Citizenship and Diplomatic Fallout: The 6 October 1938 Ordinance in Polish–Swiss Relations\, 1938–1940′. The seminar will take place online via Zoom\, See below for details.\n\nAnd on Friday 26th September our PUNO colleague Dr Magdalena Wanda Zegarlińska will launch her new book ‘Lynchland revisited: Duality as a source of „the uncanny” in films directed by David Lynch.’  This is an in-person event\, taking place in PUNO’s lecture room at POSK. See https://puno.ac.uk/premiera-ksiazki-26-09-2025/ for details. If you are interested in coming to the book launch\, please let me know as places are limited.\nBest wishes\,\nMichael\n\n\n24 September 2025      Dr. Pawel Duber (PUNO\, London)\nDeprivation of Citizenship and Diplomatic Fallout: The 6 October 1938 Ordinance in Polish–Swiss Relations\, 1938–1940\n\nFollowing the Anschluss and the failure of the Evian Conference\, on the 6 October 1938 Poland issued an ordinance requiring passport revalidation\, effectively preventing many Jews from returning. Switzerland responded by tightening visa requirements and expressing concerns over reliability of Polish passports. The paper focuses on the impact of this law on the diplomatic relations between both countries and the role of Tytus Komarnicki\, Polish envoy to Switzerland\, whose initially liberal stance shifted toward strict enforcement of the aforementioned ordinance. Drawing on previously unused archival sources\, the study reveals how both countries navigated through legal\, diplomatic\, and humanitarian challenges amid worsening geopolitical conditions and after the outbreak of World War II.\n \nDr hab. Paweł Duber is a historian and lecturer in the Unit of European History at the Polish University Abroad\, as well as a history teacher in British schools. He graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice and has worked at various cultural and academic institutions\, including the University of Warsaw\, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)\, the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek\, and Nottingham Trent University. He earned his PhD in 2009 at the Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk and completed his habilitation in 2015 at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. His research focuses on the political history of Poland after 1918\, 20th-century Central and Eastern Europe\, Polish political and military emigration after 1939\, the history of diplomacy and international relations\, and the politics of memory. He is the author / co-author of several books and nearly one hundred scholarly and popular articles. His most recent book\, a biography of the Polish diplomat and lawyer Tytus Komarnicki\, is being published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw.\n\n\nZOOM LINK:\nTopic: Polish University Abroad History Seminar\nTime: Sep 24\, 2025 18:30 London\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nHttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89145522267?pwd=lwbNXVnkcFwPzU3rjpZIeQdAxYSYXK.1\n\nMeeting ID: 891 4552 2267\nPasscode: 673786
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/polish-history-seminar-3/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminarium-ZWKB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250412T100000
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SUMMARY:XV April Conference
DESCRIPTION:Ladies and Gentlemen  \nThe Rector and Senate of the Polish University Abroad cordially invite you to the conference\, which will take place on Saturday\, April 12\, 2025\, in the Multimedia Hall (4th floor) of the Polish Social and Cultural Centre in London and on the Zoom platform.   \nThe annual April Conferences have been held at the University since 2011 and are dedicated to the memory of Ryszard Kaczorowski – the last President of Poland in exile\, who died in the Smolensk disaster. \nThis year’s edition will have a special significance as it commemorates 85 years of the University’s activity. In line with the title of the Conference “We remember the past\, create the present\, and design the future\,” participants will have the opportunity to learn about the history and contemporary achievements of PUNO and take part in discussions about its future.  \nThe event will also provide a space for reflection on the challenges associated with teaching in the era of digital advancement. \nWe hope that you will honor us with your presence and join the interdisciplinary dialogue on Polish science abroad and the new challenges posed to all of us by the development of technology and artificial intelligence. \nZoom link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/84269620782?pwd=aIVMgVjvAkEBjBkbAlaZRQu4VdoxaR.1 \nMeeting ID: 842 6962 0782 \nPassword: 254257 \nMore information on conference website
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/xv-konferencja-kwietniowa/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:April Conference
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SUMMARY:Akademickie pogadanki o muzyce
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nTopic: Polish University Abroad LONDON’s Zoom Meeting\n\nTime: Feb 19\, 2025 19:00 London\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89456334601?pwd=lblbNVYjJosfKZbRaMn2oT2qZ3l0Ro.1\n\nMeeting ID: 861 1778 1730\nPasscode: 679059
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/akademickie-pogadanki-o-muzyce-4/?lang=en
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250205T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250205T200000
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SUMMARY:Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Public Responses to the Renaming of Commemorative Street Names in Post-communist Poland: Daily Lives\, Experiences of Change and Sense of Place.\n \nThe collapse of communism in Eastern Europe did not bring about widespread destruction of the material heritage of communist dictatorships in the region. In fact\, given that on the whole public acceptance of the regime change has been high\, the process of de-commemoration has been more contested than anticipated. This paper focuses on the process of de-commemoration after the fall of communism in Poland. It examines urban residents’ responses to the renaming of streets\, paying close attention to the practices and discursive strategies they adopted to resist change. Investigating these responses provides a means of understanding the multifaceted aspects of the contested nature of de-commemoration and sheds light on the ways in which the top-down remaking of urban streetscapes affected local residents. It also enables us to better understand the nature of the post-communist transition in the region and provides insights into the everyday conflicts that underlie symbolic change.\n\nEwa Ochman is a Senior Lecturer in East European Studies in the Department of History at the University of Manchester and a member of the Centre for the Cultural History of War. She is the author of Post-communist Poland: Contested Pasts and Future Identities and has published on issues relating to Polish politics of memory\, difficult heritage\, and state-sponsored history after 1989 in Journal of Contemporary History\, Memory Studies\, History and Memory\, Nationalities Papers\, East European Politics and Societies\, and Cold War History. She is currently working on a book-length study of the history of post-communist de-commemoration in Poland.\n\n\nThe seminar will take place online. Here is the direct ZOOM link:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/84694353808?pwd=3gwqj8ZX93ZHNaOYA3h4z8POrMR4Fz.1\nAlternatively\, register via: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/polishuniversityabroadpuno
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/twentieth-century-polish-history-seminar-15/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminarium-ZWKB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250115T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250115T193000
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SUMMARY:Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:15 January 2025          Dr Michał Przeperski\, Polish History Museum\, Warsaw\n\nWild\, Wild East: Transformation of People and Mentality in Poland\, 1986-1993.\n\nToday everything is obvious: the dictatorial system collapsed\, so the things are exactly as they should have been from the very beginning. But Poles in 1986 were not aware that they were living in the final stages of communism. The story of a great change is full of myths and simplifications but after more than 30 years it is finally worth showing that the final years of the Polish People’s Republic were not so grey at all\, as much as the early 1990s were not so colourful. The processes which were labelled as ‘transformation’ are more than a mere political change negotiated at the Round Table in the early weeks of 1989. It is time to challenge popular opinions with actual data and sociological research from to draw collective portrayals of the groups that were absent in the big picture of ‘the transformation’. Of pivotal importance is what was happening on Polish streets and in Polish homes. Wild\,\nWild East is a journey to an exotic and fascinating country that Poland was at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nThe seminar is online. To register\, visit: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/polishuniversityabroadpuno
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/twentieth-century-polish-history-seminar-14/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminarium-ZWKB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241113T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021731
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SUMMARY:Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Migration Status as Ethnicity:  Natives\, Migrants and Refugees in Postwar Poland\n\nPoland famously became ‘ethnically homogeneous’ during and immediately after the Second World War\, as its previous minority populations were either killed during the Nazi occupation\, forced to emigrate\, and left outside of Poland’s post-1945 frontiers.  And yet\, across the western half of the country\, subsequent discussions of the remaining\, ostensibly homogeneous population routinely used what seemed suspiciously like an ethnic grid to analyse it.  People were most often assigned one of three categories depending on their background\, specifically their migration status:  native\, settler\, or refugee.  As in other contexts with such terms have structured public debates about community cohesion\, these labels came with a host of stereotypes\, both negative and positive.  In this talk\, I will be examining how this kind of ethnic grid was used in discussion of postwar social integration.  Who was meant to integrate whom in this process of integration?\n\nJim Bjork is Professor of Modern European History at King’s College London.  He received his PhD at the University of Chicago and worked at various American universities before moving to the UK in 2005.  His research interests focus on the interplay between religion and nationality in Poland and Germany.  Jim’s first monograph was Neither German nor Pole:  Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland.  His current project examines migration and internal diversity within Catholic communities in Poland after the Second World War. Articles related to this current research have recently been published in the Journal of Modern History\, German History\, Central European History and various edited collections.\n\nTo register\, visit https://www.tickettailor.com/events/polishuniversityabroadpuno
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/twentieth-century-polish-history-seminar-13/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminarium-ZWKB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241030T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021731
CREATED:20241027T135800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241027T135800Z
UID:8607-1730311200-1730318400@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:The Cinema of Good Change: The Populist Politics of History and Memory on Polish Movie Screens\, 2015-2023\n\nThis paper examines politics of history and memory in Polish cinema during the rule of the Law and Justice party from 2015 to 2023. First\, it explores feature films that glorified the mythologised community of the ‘Accursed Soldiers’ who fought the communist government after World War II\, their supposed descendants\, victims of the 2010 Smolensk air crash\, and the Polish Righteous who sheltered Jews. Second\, it analyses a drama series produced by Polish state TV\, Krucjata. Prawo serii (Crusade. Great deeds will come\, Łukasz Ostalski and Wojciech Tomczyk\, 2022-23)\, which addressed the alleged consequences of unfinished decommunization and lustration. I argue that these film narratives constituted part of a large project\, which sought to forge illiberal and ethno-confessional national identity based on nationalism\, social conservatism\, and Roman Catholicism and new elites. These ‘patriotic’ movies rewrite national past endorsing a “politics of assertion” (Assmann\, 2020) which projects positive national self-images centred on heroism and martyrdom. The drama authored by Tomczyk targets post-communist and liberal elites\, always portrayed as nationally\, socially\, and culturally suspect and imagines the work of “the deep state.”\n\nMikołaj Kunicki is a historian and film scholar. He received his PhD in History from Stanford University. Kunicki taught history at the University of Oxford\, University of Notre Dame\, and UC Berkeley and lectured on media and communication studies at the University of Wrocław. From 2013 to 2016 he was the director of Programme on Modern Poland in St Antony’s College. Kunicki is head of the European History Unit at Polish University Abroad (PUNO) in London and an Adjunct Professor of Cinema in Ithaca College London Center. His research concentrates on communism\, nationalism\, authoritarianism and their relationships with film and television. He is the author of Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism\, Catholicism and Communism in Twentieth Century Poland (Ohio University Press\, 2012) as well as articles and chapters on Polish and European history\, cinema\, nationalism and contemporary politics.
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/twentieth-century-polish-history-seminar-series/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminarium-ZWKB
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240619T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240619T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021731
CREATED:20240527T161818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240527T161818Z
UID:8478-1718820000-1718829000@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Polish History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:19 June 2024 Professor Havi Dreifuss (University of Tel Aviv)\n\nFacing the Unthinkable: Initial Responses of Polish Jews to the Mass Murder \n  \n\nPolish Jews were confronted with news of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” through various channels\, eliciting diverse reactions. This lecture examines their initial responses to the systematic mass murder\, with a particular focus on Orthodox communities\, their leadership\, and their modes of engagement. Drawing from an array of contemporary sources\, our discussion will center on the horror\, the efforts to respond\, and the profound sense of powerlessness in the face of Nazi Germany’s atrocities.\nHavi Dreifuss is a historian of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe at the Department of Jewish History at Tel – Aviv University\, heads the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations (TAU)\, and The Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at The International Institute for Holocaust Research\, Yad Vashem. Her research deals with various aspects of everyday life in the Holocaust\, including: the relationship between Jews and Poles\, religious life in light of the Holocaust\, Jewish existence facing extermination.\n\nTo register\, visit https://www.tickettailor.com/events/polishuniversityabroadpuno/1266690
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/polish-history-seminar/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminarium-ZWKB
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240518T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240518T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021731
CREATED:20240425T201309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T202226Z
UID:8428-1716026400-1716051600@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:XIV April Conference
DESCRIPTION:You are kindly invited to the IVth April Conference What were the similarities and differences in the way historical policy was conducted in the Second Republic\, the Polish People’s Republic\, and the Third Republic? This main question will be addressed during an international conference on the politics of history and memory in Poland organised on the 18 May 2024 by the European History unit of Polish University Abroad in London.   \nMore about event here.
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/iv-april-conference/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:April Conference,Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240515T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240515T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20240511T182116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240511T182116Z
UID:8450-1715796000-1715803200@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The next seminar in PUNO’s Polish History Seminar series will take place on Wednesday\, 15 May at 6.30pm. Please find details below. \nOn Saturday 18 May\, PUNO’s Unit of European History hosts an online conference titled ‘The Politics of History and Memory in Poland in the 20 and 21st Century – Between Continuity and Change’. For details and to register\, visithttps://www.tickettailor.com/events/polishuniversityabroadpuno/1221922 \nBest wishes\, \nMichael \n15 May 2024 Professor Robert Hampson (Institute of English Studies\, University of London) \nConrad and the Polish problem \n  \nThe talk will start with ‘The Shadow of 1863’: it will begin with Conrad’s parents\, Apollo and Ewa Korzeniowski – their political activities in relation to Polish independence; the hopes they placed on their son\, Konrad; and Apollo’s role in relation to the Central National Committee. It will consider Conrad’s sense of himself as a child growing up in the shadow of 1863 and also why he left Poland. The next section\, ‘Emigration of the Talent’\, will begin with Orzeszkowa’s 1899 criticism of Conrad and the charge of desertion. It will discuss Conrad’s work of reminiscence\, A Personal Record\, which he began in 1908\, as a response to Orzeszkowa and to a more recent criticism (by Robert Lynd) that he was a man ‘without either country or language’. A Personal Record asserts the continuity of Conrad’s life as a sailor and as a writer\, while also bringing Polish life and history into English literature. It displays Conrad’s commitment to Poland\, but also his pessimistic sense of the prospects of Polish independence. The third section\, ‘Autocracy and War’\, will begin with Conrad’s response to the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) in the form of his 1904 essay ‘Autocracy and War’. It will consider how he subsequently takes on the role of a public intellectual in relation to ‘the Polish problem’ with ‘A Note on the Polish Problem’ (1916) and ‘The Crime of Partition’ (1918). The role of Józef Retinger will be considered here. The final section\, ‘Poland Revisited’ will focus on Conrad’s 1914 visit to Poland and the essay he wrote of that title. It will consider his engagement with his father’s legacy and his own sense of complex\, multiple loyalties. \nRobert Hampson FEA\, FRSA is a Research Fellow at the Institute for English Studies and Professor Emeritus at Royal Holloway\, University of London. He is the author of three monographs: Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity; Cross-Cultural Encounters in Conrad’s Malay Fiction; and Conrad’s Secrets\, which won the Adam Gillon Award from the Joseph Conrad Society of America. He co-edited Conrad and Theory with Andrew Gibson\, Conrad and Language with Katherine Isabel Baxter\, and The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe with Véronique Pauly\, and has recently published a critical biography\, Joseph Conrad\, with Reaktion Books. His latest book\, Joseph Conrad\, From Cosmopolitanism to Transnational Activism was published this year (2024) by Palgrave Macmillan. He is Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) and recipient of the Ian P. Watt Award for Excellence from the Joseph Conrad Society of America. \nTo register for this and other PUNO events\, please visit:https://www.tickettailor.com/events/polishuniversityabroadpuno
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/seminar-3/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminarium-ZWKB
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240417T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240417T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20240415T195712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240415T195712Z
UID:8388-1713376800-1713384000@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Seminar
DESCRIPTION:„W naszych hałaśliwych czasach o wiele łatwiej jest przyznać się do swoich wad\, przynajmniej jeśli są atrakcyjnie opakowane\, niż rozpoznać własne zalety\, ponieważ są one ukryte głębiej i sam w nie do końca nie wierzysz…” /W. Szymborskiej/ Ronald Reagan powiedział kiedyś: „Polska nie jest Wschodem ani Zachodem. Polska leży w centrum cywilizacji europejskiej. Wniósł ogromny wkład w rozwój tej cywilizacji”. Ten słynny cytat zwraca naszą uwagę na fakt\, że Polska poprzez swoją burzliwą historię wyrosła na złożone\, nowoczesne\, szybko rozwijające się kulturowo i gospodarczo państwo europejskie. Jednocześnie jednak świat zachodni postrzega nas jako ostoję tradycji\, konserwatywnych wartości\, kraj niemal jednorodny pod względem rasy\, religii i przekonań. W ostatnich latach\, głównie dzięki platformom streamingowym\, takim jak Netflix czy HBO Max\, filmy z udziałem Polski i Polaków stały się dostępne i spopularyzowane wśród szerszej publiczności. Filmy takie jak: „Corpus Cristi”\, „Zapomniana miłość”\, „Zimna wojna” czy „Zielona granica”\, żeby wymienić tylko kilka\, zyskały uznanie i uznanie aż w Mieście Aniołów i biją rekordy popularności na Netflixa. Dlaczego? Dlaczego teraz? Poniższe seminarium poświęcone będzie tendencjom\, jakie możemy zaobserwować we współczesnym polskim kinie\, dotyczących polskiej tożsamości w świecie\, przemianom\, jakie zaszły w polskiej mentalności oraz autorefleksji Polaków w ciągu ostatnich dwóch-trzech dekad. Jak Polacy rozumieją i podchodzą do aktualnych zagadnień socjologicznych\, takich jak tożsamość płciowa\, pochodzenie etniczne\, migracja i przekonania religijne? Czy jesteśmy tym samym narodem\, którym byliśmy 20\, 30 lat temu? Jak współczesne kino polskie ma się do wspaniałej „nowofalowej” twórczości Wajdy i Polańskiego? Czy jesteśmy obecnie świadkami renesansu polskości w kinie światowym?  \nPodczas seminarium dr Zegarlińska podejmie próbę odpowiedzi na powyższe pytania i przedstawi kompleksowe studium współczesnych tropów\, tematów i gatunków\, które w ostatnich dekadach definiowały polską tożsamość w kinie. Czy ten obraz jest odbiciem rzeczywistości\, czy jedynie jej sprytnie zmanipulowaną interpretacją? Magdalena Wanda Zegarlińska jest wydawcą naukowym\, tłumaczem i redaktorem związanym z PUNO. W 2014 roku uzyskała stopień doktora Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego\, specjalizując się we współczesnej literaturze brytyjskiej i kinie autorskim. Jest doświadczoną lektorką i nauczycielką języka angielskiego\, specjalizującą się w CLIL – nauczaniu języka jako zjawiska kulturowego; dodatkowo pracuje z uczniami SEN ze spektrum autyzmu. Organizatorka i uczestniczka wielu międzynarodowych konferencji naukowych\, tłumaczka i autorka programów nauczania dla uczniów szkół średnich i wyższych. Wcześniej była wykładowcą w Wyższej Szkole Bankowej w Gdańsku. Jej zainteresowania naukowe obejmują badania snów\, psychologię przestępczości i intertekstualność.  \nRegistration under following link \nhttps://buytickets.at/polishuniversityabroadpuno/1221877
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/seminar-2/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminarium-ZWKB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240221T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20240208T213943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T213943Z
UID:8301-1708540200-1708547400@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Seminar
DESCRIPTION:“People’s History of Poland” – methodology and reception \n“People’s History of Poland” sold more than 70\,000 copies on the Polish market and sparked a lively debate about the presence of lower classes in historical consciousness in present day Poland. In my presentation\, I will talk about the ideas behind my book and its reception. \nAdam Leszczyński – historian\, sociologist\, journalist\, associate professor at the SWPS University\, member of the “Krytyka Polityczna” team and co-founder of OKO.press\, a leading Polish online medium. He has published\, among others\, “People’s History of Poland” (2020) and recently “Defenders of serfdom” (2023). \n\n  \nTime: Feb 21\, 2024 18:30 London \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89777190914?pwd=urZ27bBrbMk1bgAOI9kfXfOLxKfFb6.1
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/seminar/?lang=en
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminarium-ZWKB
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240125T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240125T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20240123T223320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240123T224113Z
UID:8230-1706205600-1706212800@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Reading Filipowicz
DESCRIPTION:READING FILIPOWICZ WITH ANNA ZARANKO \n‘Cat in the Wet Grass’ by Kornel Filipowicz – between reading and translation \nYou are cordially invited to the fourth meeting in the series ‘Reading Filipowicz’. This time we will enter into the fascinating world of Filipowicz’s works in conversation with Anna Zaranko\, who translates Filipowicz’s works into English. \nThe meeting will be hosted by Regina Wasiak-Taylor and Dr Katarzyna Zechenter \nAbout the guest \nAnna Zaranko was born in England to Polish parents. She took a First Class degree in Russian from the University of Durham and went on to hold two British Council scholarships at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She did research towards a D.Phil. in Polish literature at Oxford University (where she was also an assistant editor at POLIN – a journal of studies in Polish Jewry) but moved into publishing\, alongside freelance editing\, writing\, reviewing\, and translating (from Polish\, Russian\, and French). In 2015\, she was an American Literary Translators’ Association Mentee\, working with Bill Johnson. In 2020 Anna received Found in Translation Award for her translation of The Memoir of an Anti-hero by Kornel Filipowicz\, published by Penguin Modern Classics in 2019. Her other translations include further works by Kornel Filipowicz\, i.e. the short stories When They Come in Our Dreams by Kornel Filipowicz (Przekrój Magazine\, 2019) and Cat in the Wet Grass (2023). Cat in the Wet Grass has been translated for the Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories\, selected by Antonia Lloyd-Jones\, due out in January 2025. It will include approximately 39 stories dating back about a hundred years to the present day and hopes to provide the English-language reader with a good cross-section of Polish writing. It includes nine stories that have been previously published in other collections or journals\, and 30 that have never been translated into English before. It includes 13 (one third of the book) by women writers. Some of the writers are famous\, others have been forgotten. With the kind permission of the publishers and editors\, Filipowicz’s short story will be presented at the next seminar in the “Reading Filipowicz” series \n\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\nAbout the meeting hosts \nRegina Wasiak-Taylor\, Chair of the Union of Polish Writers Abroad (ZPPnO)\, vice director Director of the Research Center on the Legacy of Polish Migration at the ZPPnO\, Editor-in-Chief of the London-based “Pamiętnik Literacki”\, author of books on emigration\, active participant in international academic conferences\, and animator of the cultural and literary life of the Polish diaspora in the UK. She edits books\, promotes Polish authors and translators of Polish literature\, and moderates international literary and academic meetings. \ndr Katarzyna Zechenter is Associate Professor of Polish Literature and Culture at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Vice-Director of the Research Centre on the Legacy of Polish Migration at ZPPnO. She graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow with an MA in Polish Literature. After further studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, she obtained a second MA (1992) and a PhD (1996) and later taught as an assistant professor at the University of Kansas\, Lawrence\, in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. In 2000 she joined the UCL School of Slavic and East European Studies\, where I teach courses on Polish Literature\, Cinema in Eastern Europe and Polish Cinema\, as well as a course on Polish Jewry (Beyond Stereotypes: Jews in Polish Culture). \n\n\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\nAttend the meeting after registering with ZOOM: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ofuyqpj0rHdDnydK3aIMbO05dvTXGn5G5 \nWe also encourage you to contact us by email: czytaniefilipowicza@gmail.com \n\n\n\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\n\nFor those registered for the meeting\, the organisers will send the Filipowicz short story to be discussed in two language versions (Polish and English). The meeting will be held in English. \nThe meeting with the translator of The Memoir of an Anti-hero into English is the next in the series of open seminars ‘Reading Filipowicz’. The series is organised by the Research Centre on the Legacy of Polish Migration (ZPPnO)\, the Contemporary Literary and Artistic Culture Unit and the Computer Science Unit of the Polish University Abroad (PUNO) in London. The project is led by Dr Justyna Gorzkowicz.
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/reading-filipowicz/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230626
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20230423T164220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230423T164220Z
UID:7506-1687564800-1687737599@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:June Conference
DESCRIPTION:We invite experienced researchers and PhD students to apply to participate in PUNO’s V International Interdisciplinary Academic Conference. \nThis event aims to unite young researchers worldwide to explore and discuss AI’s educational opportunities and challenges. Participants can present a paper or a poster showcasing their research and findings related to the conference theme. We encourage you to submit your abstract for consideration. We welcome submissions from various academic disciplines\, including but not limited to the one described in Conference Topics.  \nMore info on our website: juneconference.puno.ac.uk
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/june-conference-2/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Conference,June Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230510T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230510T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20230503T203925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T203925Z
UID:7512-1683741600-1683748800@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Professor Colin Clarke (University of Oxford)\nGermany’s Persecution of the German Jews\, Evisceration of Poland and Exploitation of the Ghettoes  \nTime: Apr 19\, 2023 06:00 PM London \nTopic: Polish University Abroad LONDON’s Zoom Meeting – History Seminar\nTime: May 10\, 2023 06:00 PM London \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/84554589215?pwd=SGF5ajg2Vlo0MHBCSHdnZ1FyRUhEQT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 5458 9215\nPasscode: 844502
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/twentieth-century-polish-history-seminar-12/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminarium-ZWKB
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230430
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20230313T223511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T223511Z
UID:7372-1682726400-1682812799@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:April Conference
DESCRIPTION:Since 2011\, the Polish University Abroad has been organising the annual international “April Conferences”\, dedicated to the memory of the last President of Poland in Exile – Ryszard Kaczorowski\, who died tragically in the Smolensk catastrophe. More information can be found on conference website .
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/april-conference/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:April Conference,Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230419T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230419T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20230404T195301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T195301Z
UID:7408-1681927200-1681934400@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:dr Wojtek Rappak (PUNO)\nSome reflections in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising  \nTime: Apr 19\, 2023 06:00 PM London \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/88000665951?pwd=eXJVeUNFWVJlRUNkZ2hzd0pINWdrdz09 \nMeeting ID: 880 0066 5951 \nPasscode: 000007 \nExactly 80 years ago\, on April 19th 1943\, about a thousand young Jewish fighters attacked various German positions in the Warsaw ghetto. The attack took the Germans by surprise\, some reports even say that they were shocked to be attacked by Jews. After a day of setbacks\, the Germans appointed a new commander\, General Jurgen Stroop\, who initiated a brutal counterattack aimed at the complete destruction of the Warsaw ghetto\, its Jewish fighters and its remaining inhabitants. Commanding a force of over 2000 fully-armed Gestapo\, Waffen-SS and other units\, it took Stroop nearly two months to defeat the Jews. And on the 16th of May\, nearly two months after the start of the uprising\, in a report to his superiors\, Stroop declared that ‘the Jewish district of Warsaw no longer exists’. The ghetto was in ruins\, almost all of the fighters were dead\, and about 60\,000 inhabitants who were still hiding in the ghetto bunkers were sent to be murdered in Treblinka or shot en route. And yet the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a triumph of Jewish armed resistance. To all the exhausted inhabitants of the Ghetto\, death must have seemed inevitable\, survival unlikely. To the Ghetto fighters\, a Jewish resistance force ensured that Stroop’s forces paid a price\, the fighters died with honour. There is another aspect of their heroism: there was some help from the Polish or the ‘aryan’ side of the ghetto\, but in broad terms\, the Ghetto fighters fought alone. In London on May 13th\, Szmul Zygielbojm\, the Bundist member of the Polish National Council\, committed suicide to express his ‘profound protest against the inaction in which the world watches and permits the destruction of the Jewish people’. This talk will include a brief account of the wartime context of the Ghetto Uprising\, the reasons for its importance and the need for its commemoration.      \nWojtek Rappak was born in Gdańsk and studied philosophy and history in Canada\, Warsaw\, Paris and London. He gained his first doctorate from King’s College\, University of London\, for research into the foundations of logic and the early philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. His supervisor was the late Peter Winch. In 2021 he was awarded his second doctorate\, from University College London (UCL)\, after submitting a history dissertation which examined the archival evidence on how Jan Karski tried to alert Western leaders about the Holocaust. His supervisor was Antony Polonsky\, a world authority on Jewish history\, at UCL’s Hebrew and Jewish Studies department. Wojtek is a Reader in history at the Institute of European Culture at the London-based Polish University Abroad (PUNO). He is also an expert on the application of logical principles in the design of automated systems that use large\, industrial-scale databases. He is a co-founder and a director of Rational Commerce Ltd.\, which offers this expertise to customers in the financial\, manufacturing and government sectors. Wojtek has published articles in journals in Britain\, Poland and Israel. All of them deal with various aspects of World War Two\, Jan Karski and the Holocaust. He presented papers and gave talks at conferences in London\, Jerusalem\, Warsaw and Gdańsk. He is currently preparing a book which will present a new view of Jan Karski and his time.
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/twentieth-century-polish-history-seminar-11/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminarium-ZWKB
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230228T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230228T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20230215T183227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T183319Z
UID:7238-1677607200-1677614400@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The next Polish history seminar will take place on Tuesday\, 28th February 2023 at 6:15 PM Piotr Paziński (author\, jurnalist) will give a presentation titledDiscussion on Bird Streets.   \nDetails of forthcoming seminars can be found at : \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://puno.ac.uk/struktura-puno/zaklad-wspolczesnej-kultury-brytyjskiej-seminaria/ \nIn order to participate\, please register via Eventbrite at \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bird-streets-tickets-513249251327
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/twentieth-century-polish-history-seminar-10/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminarium-ZWKB
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230201T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230201T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20230128T191620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230128T191620Z
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SUMMARY:Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The next Polish history seminar will take place on Wednesday 1 February at 6.15pm via Zoom.Dr Agnieszka Pasieka (University of Bayreuth) will give a presentation titledUnwanted heirs: The Solidarity movement and youth far-right activists in contemporary Poland. .Zoom meeting: \nDetails of forthcoming seminars can be found at : \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://puno.ac.uk/struktura-puno/zaklad-wspolczesnej-kultury-brytyjskiej-seminaria/ \nZoom Meeting \n\n\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81774455393?pwd=NVl1Nlg1SG1HckdyZnY5WTM4eERXdz09 \nMeeting ID: 817 7445 5393 \nPasscode: 648824
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/twentieth-century-polish-history-seminar-9/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminarium-ZWKB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230118T181500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230118T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20230108T113703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230108T113703Z
UID:6961-1674065700-1674070200@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Dear Colleagues\, \nnext twentieth century Polish history seminar will take place on Wednesday 18 January at 6.15pm Dr Janek Gryta (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) will give a presentation titled Between assimilation and emigration. Identity building amongst Polish Jews in the 1950s and 1960s. The Zoom link is pasted below. \nDetails of forthcoming seminars can be found at: – https://puno.ac.uk/struktura-puno/zaklad-wspolczesnej-kultury-brytyjskiej-seminaria/ \nTopic: Polish University Abroad LONDON’s Zoom Meeting – History Seminar \nTime: Jan 18\, 2023 06:00 PM London \nZoom Meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/84481815137?pwd=T2lEV2VpbnU5QUNKWXNPT1ZjKzAydz09 \nMeeting ID: 844 8181 5137 \nPasscode: 772330
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/twentieth-century-polish-history-seminar-8/?lang=en
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminarium-ZWKB
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221215T084500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221215T220000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20221212T213849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T213849Z
UID:6940-1671093900-1671141600@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Virtual exhibition
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to a virtual guided tour of the exhibition and a discussion of the artistic work of Cyprian Norwid. \nThe meeting\, co-organised with\, among others\, the high school in Warsaw\, entitled: ROMANTICISM ONCE AGAIN. NORWID — SKETCHES\,will take place on the ZOOM Platform (link to the meeting below)\, this Thursday\, 15 December\, from 10.00 to 11.00 a.m.\, Warsaw time. \nThe meeting will be hosted by: Regina Wasiak-Taylor – chairwoman of the Polish Writers Abroad\, Justyna Gorzkowicz – deputy director of the Institute of European Culture of the Polish University Abroad and Jarek Solecki – director of the virtual Blue Point Art Gallery London. From the Warsaw side\, the event will be overseen by Monika Kozioł. \nSee you there. \nTopic: Romantyzm raz jeszcze: Norwid — szkice \nTime: Dec 15\, 2022 08:45 AM London \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/84897597636?pwd=WTgrUmczUmJQc21uV0dxWWRlazkrZz09 \nMeeting ID: 848 9759 7636 \nPasscode: 007556
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/virtual-exhibition/?lang=en
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221214T181500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221214T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20221208T225352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T144523Z
UID:6926-1671041700-1671046200@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Dear Colleagues\, \nThe next twentieth century Polish history seminar will take place on Wednesday 14 December at 6.15pm via Zoom. Artur Roland Kozlowski (WSB University\, Gdansk) will give a presentation titled In the Name of the German Nation” The German jurisdiction in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of the General Government (1939-1944). Zoom link is pasted below. \nDetails of forthcoming seminars can be found at: – https://puno.ac.uk/struktura-puno/zaklad-wspolczesnej-kultury-brytyjskiej-seminaria/ \nTopic: Polish University Abroad LONDON’s Zoom Meeting – History Seminar \nTime: Dec 14\, 2022 06:00 PM London \nZoom meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/87228950802?pwd=V1BHc0VsVFZLWkIxMWY3TUQxUXdTQT09 \nMeeting ID: 872 2895 0802 \nPasscode: 819365
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/twentieth-century-polish-history-seminar-7/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminarium-KKP
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221207T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T021732
CREATED:20221123T102437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221123T102437Z
UID:6910-1670436000-1670443200@puno.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Polish Culture Course
DESCRIPTION:Romanticism in Polish minds and hearts\, \n now and before… \n Academic discourse \n The 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the first issue of “Ballads and Romances” by Adam Mickiewicz. It began the Polish Romanticism. “The literature and culture of Polish Romanticism shaped the spiritual dimension and profile of Poles” – Members of the Parliament wrote in the resolution on announcing 2022 as the Year of the Romanticism in Poland. \n There are debates\, in printed and electronic media\, that try gradually to decrease the value of Romantic culture and authors\, finding them outdated and not important anymore for today’s Polish society. Obviously\, it’s not unimportant to the general consciousness of Poles living in Poland and abroad. \n As part of our traditional meetings of the Polish Culture Course\, with the participation of outstanding experts in culture of Romanticism age (incl. aspects of the past and presence)\, together with the university professors and our academic teachers\, members of the Association of the Polish Writers Abroad\, and other people interested in Romanticism\, 18 . \n We are going to create a scientific and cultural event with the high social and pedagogical impact. Feel free to join us! \n                              Yours faithfully\,  \n                                  Ewa Lewandowska-Tarasiuk \n Dean of Humanities Faculty
URL:https://puno.ac.uk/puno-event/polish-culture-course-5/?lang=en
CATEGORIES:Seminarium-KKP
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