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  • University of Warsaw (Online)

Interdisciplinary Online Ph.D. Seminar

Social Logics Of Culture In Contemporary Central Europe

 (From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century)

University of Warsaw

11 April 2022

PROGRAM

09:15-09:30 Introduction and Welcome 

PART 1

ART HISTORY AND THE ENGAGED CREATION

09:30-11:30

Moderator: Paweł Rodak (University of Warsaw)

1. Alper Çakır, Anticipation of The First World War in Thomas Mann’s ‘Magic Mountain’ and Ernst Glaeser’s ‘Class 1902’: Different Discourses on WW1 in German Literature, Charles University
2. Ying Wu, Chinese style in Czech modern art, the art works of Emil Filla in 50s, Sorbonne University
3. Elia Moretti, The Politics of Experimental Music Theatre in Central Europe, Charles University
4. Denisa Bytelova, Socially Engaged Art in Central and Eastern Europe and “A Vision for a New Culture and its Place”. New Forms of Critical Art, Charles University

PART 2

CULTURE IN THE MODERNIZATION PROCESS

12:00-14:00

Moderator: Jadranka Gvozdanović (Heidelberg University) 

Commentator: Zuzana Štefková (Charles University)

1. Łukasz Kożuchowski, Why evil is evil? Perceptions of a sin as a social phenomenon in the ego-documents of the peasants of the Kingdom of Poland around 1900, University of Warsaw
2. Lucy Brown, The Legend of Jan Kefer: alternative spiritualities and the occult in the First Republic of Czechoslovakia, Charles University
3. Anastasia Mamaeva, In Czechoslovakia, Lucky Luke drinks lemonade. French and American popular cultures in Czechoslovak cinema, 1948-1989, Sorbonne University
4. Sara Quondamatteo, Preuves and Poland: the French magazine and Polish culture facing modernity, Sorbonne University

PART 3

NATIONAL LOGICS OF CULTURE

14:30-16:00

Moderator: Magdalena Latkowska (University of Warsaw)

Commentator:Nicolas Maslowski (University of Warsaw)

1. Gramskopf Rostislav, Reflection of Social Logics of Czech Sociology, mapping the changes as conflicts between production and public relevance in the 20th and 21st century, Charles University
2. Silvia Travasoni, The Discursive Construction of National Identity in Italy and Poland: from 1990s until nowadays, University of Warsaw
3. Iva Petrak, Manifestations of linguistic purism in an authentic discourse of Croatian online discussion forums, Heidelberg University

PART 4

SOCIAL LOGICS FROM AN INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVE

16:30-18:00

Moderator: Małgorzata Smorąg Goldberg (Sorbonne University)

Commentator: Ariadna Lewańska (University of Warsaw)

1. Maciej Duklewski, Social Class as the Premise for a New Culture: Worker Photography in Poland, 1918-1939,  University of Warsaw
2. Velimir Mladenovic, «Un grand art modeste». Elsa Triolet and the Problem of Translation, University of Novi Sad (Serbia) and University of Poitiers (France) 
3. Mariia Kuznetcova, The representation of the personal traumatic experience of the past in the work Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald, Charles University

College of Central European Studies

The College integrates teachers and researchers working on Central Europe in the different universities and disciplinary fields, and who will coordinate courses or, in the longer term, diplomas in the field of Central European Studies. The aim is to create a network of lectures, that will transform progressively into a common European diploma, with various specialisations, accredited by University of Warsaw, Charles University in Prague, Sorbonne University, Heidelberg University, and from another 4U+ universities in the future.

Scientific council Marina Brambilla (University of Milan), Valentina Crestani (University of Milan), Paola Mattei (University of Milan), Jadranka Gvozdanović (University of Heidelberg), Nicolas Maslowski (University of Warsaw), Paweł Rodak (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Latkowska (University of Warsaw), Ariadna Lewańska (University of Warsaw), Aleksandra Katarzyna Wiktorowska (University of Warsaw), Marie-Françoise Saudraix (Sorbonne University), Małgorzata Smorąg-Goldberg (Sorbonne University), Richard Biegel (Charles University), Jiří Šubrt (Charles University), Zuzana Štefková (Charles University)

Organization Aleksandra Katarzyna Wiktorowska (University of Warsaw)

The project is supported by: