The next seminar in PUNO’s Polish History Seminar series will take place on Wednesday, 15 May at 6.30pm. Please find details below. On 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'. […]
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 […]
19 June 2024 Professor Havi Dreifuss (University of Tel Aviv) Facing the Unthinkable: Initial Responses of Polish Jews to the Mass Murder Polish 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 […]
The Cinema of Good Change: The Populist Politics of History and Memory on Polish Movie Screens, 2015-2023 This 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’ […]
Migration Status as Ethnicity: Natives, Migrants and Refugees in Postwar Poland Poland 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, […]
15 January 2025 Dr Michał Przeperski, Polish History Museum, Warsaw Wild, Wild East: Transformation of People and Mentality in Poland, 1986-1993. Today 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 […]
Public Responses to the Renaming of Commemorative Street Names in Post-communist Poland: Daily Lives, Experiences of Change and Sense of Place. The 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 […]
Topic: Polish University Abroad LONDON's Zoom Meeting Time: Feb 19, 2025 19:00 London Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89456334601?pwd=lblbNVYjJosfKZbRaMn2oT2qZ3l0Ro.1 Meeting ID: 861 1778 1730 Passcode: 679059
Ladies and Gentlemen The 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. The annual April Conferences have been held at […]
Dear Colleagues, The 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 […]
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. The rapid pace of digital technology development is approaching the […]
5 listopada 2025 z profesorem Piotrem Maciejem Majewskim (Universytet Warszawski) ZOOM The mechanisms of collaboration This 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 […]