Current Events and Announcements
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences announces the publication
of a new book published by PIASA Books. The book may be purchased
at $18.95 by contacting the Institute at (212) 868- 4164 or at
piasany@verizon.net
New Perspectives in Polish Culture: Personal Encounters, Public Affairs collects essays that examine the public-private dynamic as Polish culture-from the nineteenth century to the present day-interacts with the tensions, ambiguities, and idiosyncrasies of European modernity. The authors of these essays discuss Polish poetry, fiction, theatre, and literary and cultural theory. Writers and artists discussed in these essays range from Adam Mickiewicz and Joseph Conrad through Witold Gombrowicz, Miron Bialoszewski, Czeslaw Milosz, Zofia Nalkowska, and Tadeusz Kantor to Slawomir Mrozek, Tadeusz Rozewicz, the poets of bruLion, and the latest dramatists, as well as many other authors active both in Poland itself and in the Polish diaspora.
Edited by:
Tamara Trojanowska, Artur Placzkiewicz, Agnieszka Polakowska, and Olga Ponichtera
April
Scholarships for summer courses in
the Centre of Polish Language and Culture For Foreigners "POLONICUM",
University of Warsaw
The Polish Language and Literature Program at UofT is offering two scholarships for the summer courses at the University of Warsaw's summer school in Polish language and culture to current UofT undergraduate or graduate students who have declared major or minor in Polish Language and Literature or in Polish Studies.
The scholarships, which are funded by the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw cover tuition, accommodation in the University of Warsaw dormitories, and allowance for meals. Travel expenses are not covered. We recommend students attend the (57th!) Summer Course of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners in August 2012.
A one-page letter of intent (max. 250 words) explaining the objectives for participating in Polonicum’s summer session and a list of courses taken in the Polish Language and Literature Program at UofT (including the grades) should be submitted to Professor Tamara Trojanowska via email (t.trojanowska@utoronto.ca).
Application deadline: April 20, 2012
Placement Tests
In order to make the planning of next year courses (and schedules) easier for our students, we will be offering placement tests for those students who are interested in taking Polish language courses in 2012/13. The tests will take place in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at 121 St. Joseph Str., room 406B.
First test will be organized on April 23 at 2:00;
Second test will be organized on September 6 at 2:00.
Students may come to the tests without prior registration.
April 3
Farewell party
October
Transmission,Transgression, and Polish Studies
4th International Conference in Polish Studies
October 15-18, Chicago
Initiated by the Polish Language and Literature Program at UofT at the First International Polish Studies Conference, In Search of (Creative) Diversity: New Perspectives in Polish Literary and Cultural Studies Abroad in 2006, the conference will have its fourth edition in Chicago. Organized by the Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland and the Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago, it will focus on problems and issues of methodology and interdisciplinarity in the field of Polish studies.
Click here for details and a full CFP.
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