Colonial Entanglements in Central and Eastern Europe Before 1939

Colonial Entanglements in Central and Eastern Europe Before 1939

Veranstalter
Institute of Polish Culture
PLZ
00-927
Ort
Warsaw
Land
Poland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
04.09.2023 - 05.09.2023
Von
Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig

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'.

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

https://ikp.uw.edu.pl/2023/08/25/konferencja-colonial-entanglements-in-central-and-eastern-europe-before-1989/
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01.09.2023