Polish News and Events

What would it take to fake a sonnet by the French Renaissance poet Louise Labé?

Violetta Vedeneeva — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:22:21 +0000

Timothy Chesters weighs in on the controversy over the authorship of the Oeuvres de Louise Labé Lyonnaise (1555). Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems as a joke. Since then...

Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland

Violetta Vedeneeva — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:17:15 +0000

With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...

The 18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Violetta Vedeneeva — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:47:38 +0000

Welcome! The 18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition will take place in ��, U.K. from Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th April 2026. Please see the Call for Papers . Invited Speakers Laura Dominguez, University of Southampton Ayşe Gürel, Bogazici University Cristóbal Lozano, University of...

PhD student Juliette Bretan presents BBC Radio 3 programme on Polish tango

Eleanor Stocks — Wed, 14 May 2025 11:13:13 +0000

English PhD student Juliette Bretan recently presented a BBC Radio 3 programme on Polish tango. In the programme, Juliette traces the musical adventure of the tango and its interwar explosion eastwards in colder climes like Warsaw. A rich, unexpected history, encountering some of those who have brought it back to life...

Transforming Polish Language Studies

Stan — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are very pleased to invite you to a one-day conference on "Transforming Polish Language Studies: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities".

Doublethink: Where do Polish Carpets Come From? (Dr Tomasz Grusiecki)

Stan — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Please join us on Thursday, 30 January at 5.30 , in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College for the first lecture of Lent Term 'Translation Speaker Series'.

�� Polish Studies: Celebrating 10 Years

Eleanor Stocks — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:51:19 +0000

On the ten-year anniversary of the establishment of the Polish Studies Programme at the ��, we invite you to a celebratory event.

The Slavonic Studies Section presents the 'Translation Speaker Series' 2024-25

Eleanor Stocks — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:59:46 +0000

We warmly invite you to attend the Slavonic Studies/CamCCEEES joint 2024-25 Speaker Series, which is dedicated to the subject of Translation In conceptualising this lecture series, we conceived of 'translation' in the broadest of terms. That is, not just as the translation of words or texts from one language into another...

Book Announcement: 'Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives'

Eleanor Stocks — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:20:16 +0000

We are happy to share news of the publication of ‘Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives’ (University of Pittsburgh Press), edited by Professor Bill and Professor Dr Simon Lewis, with contributions by Professor Bill and Dr Olenka Pevny.

The Future of Polish Studies

Stan — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:29:22 +0000

This interdisciplinary conference The Future of Polish Studies will take place on July 6 and 7, 2023 in Warsaw and online as a joint initiative of �� Polish Studies and the University of Warsaw.