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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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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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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
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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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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: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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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
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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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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