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Read more at: Contemporary Polish Poetry

Contemporary Polish Poetry

Two seminars on contemporary Polish poetry, including a reading and translation workshop.


Read more at: New Books in Cambridge Slavonic Studies
New Books in Cambridge Slavonic Studies

New Books in Cambridge Slavonic Studies

A presentation of five new books by Cambridge researchers in Slavonic and East European Studies.


Read more at: Polymorphic Commonwealth: Cultural Transfers in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania
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Polymorphic Commonwealth: Cultural Transfers in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania

A two-day conference for postgraduate students, featuring leading experts as discussants, organised by Cambridge postgraduate students Stepan Blinder and Stanisław Banach with the support of Cambridge Polish Studies, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES), and the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund.


Read more at: New Book: Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh
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New Book: Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh

16 December 2021 Associate Professor in Polish Studies Dr Stanley Bill has published a new book on the poetry of Czesław Miłosz with Oxford University Press - entitled Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity . The book presents Miłosz's poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of...


Read more at: The Cultural Politics and Geopolitics of the Borderlands: The Case of Czesław Miłosz
Milosz

The Cultural Politics and Geopolitics of the Borderlands: The Case of Czesław Miłosz

The renowned Polish-Lithuanian writer Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) would have been 110 years old this year. Today, well over a century after Milosz’s birth, the Centre for Geopolitics asks what his work meant in his own time and what it holds for today.


Read more at: Central European Perspectives on the Challenges of COVID and Brexit

Central European Perspectives on the Challenges of COVID and Brexit

Cambridge Central European Conference 2021, in partnership with Cambridge Polish Studies and the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES), marked the 30th anniversary of the Visegrad Cooperation.


Read more at: Polish Café - Lent Term
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Polish Café - Lent Term

Speak Polish with native speakers and fellow students at the Polish Café.


Read more at: The Idea of the Republic in Poland-Lithuania: A Conversation with Robert Frost
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The Idea of the Republic in Poland-Lithuania: A Conversation with Robert Frost

Cambridge Polish Studies and the University of Warsaw hosted a special conversation with historian Robert Frost (University of Aberdeen) about his work on the forthcoming second volume of his three-part Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania.


Read more at: Pan Tadeusz: a theatrical reading with music
Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz: a theatrical reading with music

A theatrical reading of Adam Mickiewicz's epic poem Pan Tadeusz (1834) with live musical interludes.


Read more at: Polish-Russian relations: an open discussion
Poland-Russia

Polish-Russian relations: an open discussion

A discussion of Polish-Russian relations, featuring Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz and Igor Gretskiy .


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Transforming Polish Language Studies

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