On 4-5 September, the Institute of Polish Culture will host an international academic conference on ‘Colonial Entanglements in Central and Eastern Europe Before 1939’.
Day 1 (4th Sept.)
Session 1A, 10:00–12:15
– Introduction by the organizers: Agata Łuksza, Łukasz Zaremba, Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw
– Ben Dew, Polish Historical Writing in Britain, 1830-1918: Conceptualising Empire
– Agata Łuksza, Black Effigies in the Nineteenth-Century Polish Culture. Methodological Reflections on Racial Fantasies and Performative Blackness in the Absence of Afro-Diasporic People
Session 1B 12:30–1:45
Artist talks by:
– Weronika Szczawińska
– Witek Orski
Lunch
Day 2 (5th Sept.)
Session 2A 10:00–11:45
– Introduction by the partnering institution: Lena Dallywater, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography
– Łukasz Zaremba, Where Do the Cannibals Live? Transnational Colonial Imagination in 1930’ Poland
– Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Whose Colonies, Whose Fantasies? The Polish pre-WWII Colonial Project in the Light of Postcolonial Discourse
Session 2B 12:00–2:00
– Wacław Forajter, Deadly Whim. Race and Sovereignty in ‘Killing Time’ by Hajota
– Piotr Puchalski, The Postcolonial in Poland’s Entanglements in Africa in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Perspective
– Sofia Gavrilova, Russian Authoritarian Imaginaries. Developing New Spatial Imaginaries and Everyday Strategies through Geographical Education
Lunch
Session 2C 3:30–5:30
– Zoltán Ginelli, ‘We Never Had Colonies’: Global Histories of Race and Colonialism in Hungary, 1850-1939
– Marta Grzechnik, Sea, Overseas Connections, and Aspirations of Global Status – the Case of Interwar Poland
– Dagnosław Demski, Whose Legacy is it? Tracing Ethnographic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe
Summary and final discussion 5:30–6:00
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