We are happy to announce that Institute of Slavic Studies (Polish Academy of Sciences), together with: Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (Indiana University Bloomington), London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Oslo Metropolitan University, the Network of Young Academics Against Antisemitism (NY3A), Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University, and Centre for Antisemitism and Racism Studies in Aachen, participates in organizing the International Network of Antisemitism Scholarship Online Seminar Series for Spring 2023.
Upcoming events
Wed, 8 Mar 2023, 20:00 CET (19:00 GMT) – “The Constraints of Being Jewish (Eastern Europe 1918–1939)” – Irena Grudzińska-Gross
About the event:
Irena Grudzińska-Gross is writing a biography of Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski (1901–1964), the author of a 1951 book about the Soviet Great Purge. His life span two world wars, Soviet prison, life under Nazi occupation in Poland and post-war anti-Stalinist activities in the west of Europe. He was a physicist and, consecutively, communist, anti-communist, and a gambler. Irena Grudzińska-Gross is examining how his being Jewish shaped his biography and how would it shape it today.
Irena Grudzińska-Gross is Professor in the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. Previously she taught at Emory, New York, Boston and Princeton universities. She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. She researches issues of war and violence in modern and contemporary European literature. She published among other books The Scar of Revolution: Custine, Tocqueville and the Romantic Imagination; Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets, Yale University Press, 2009; and, with Jan T. Gross, Golden Harvest: Reflections on Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust, Oxford University Press, 2012. She is an editor of Breaking the Frame. New School of Polish-Jewish Studies (Peter Lang, 2022).
Mon, 3 Apr 2023, 20:00 CET (19:00 GMT) – “After the war. Antisemitic and anti-antisemitic discourse until 1947 in Poland” – Katarzyna Chmielewska
About the event:
Katarzyna Chmielewska will provide a preliminary (and partial) portrait of Polish society at the end of, and just after the war, through an analysis of antisemitic and anti-antisemitic discourses. An important point of reference, determining attitudes towards Jews, will be the discourses of the post-war Kielce pogrom (1946). She takes into account three different actors: the leftist intelligentsia, the anti-communist underground and the Catholic intelligentsia. Katarzyna Chmielewska will analyze characteristic images, discursive figures, stylistic figures, as well as recurring topoi with a special focus on the “Jewish Bolshevism” stereotype.
Katarzyna Chmielewska is an assistant Professor at Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN). She specializes in memory studies, discourse analysis, especially cultural and literary contexts of the Holocaust research and Communism in Poland. She is a co-founder of the Center for Cultural and Literary Studies of Communism at IBL PAN, and editor of the series: Communism. Ideas – Discourses – Practices. Her publications – as co-author and scientific editor – include Reassessing Communism (CEU Press 2021), Monuments of memory. Places of oblivion (IBL 2017).
See more about the upcoming events:
London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University
ISS PAS coordinator:
Dr hab. Anna Zawadzka
anna.zawadzka@ispan.edu.pl