Uniwersytet Wrocławski

Wykład organizowany jest w ramach cyklu naukowych seminariów „Poza kulturową oczywistością”** i odbędzie się 20 kwietnia 2023 w godzinach 18:00-20:00 we Wrocławiu (Klub Proza, Przejście Garncarskie 2).

Seminarium odbędzie się w języku angielskim.

The University of Lower Silesia DSW and the Wroclaw Branch of the Polish Sociological Association invite you to attend the lecture by Panayiotis Xenophontos (Oxford University): "Przemyśl in 2022: Observations from the Polish-Ukrainian Border"

The lecture is organized as part of the series of scientific seminars "Poza kulturową oczywistością" and will be held on April 20, 2023 from 18:00-20:00 in Wroclaw (Klub Proza, Przejście Garncarskie 2).

The seminar will be held in English.

Przemyśl in 2022: Observations from the Polish-Ukrainian Border

During the first six months of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I spent two months working as a volunteer at Przemyśl train station, Poland. This paper will highlight my main observations from my time on the Polish-Ukrainian border. These observations will be grouped up into two categories: refugee experiences, and volunteer experiences. In the first category I will discuss experiences related to me by those fleeing Ukraine, the ways refugees interacted with the train station and the town of Przemyśl at large, and the languages spoken and used by refugees encountered. In the second category I will explore issues of identity experienced by volunteers: where did they come from and why were they there? In the concluding remarks I will discuss the future trajectories of refugees and volunteers I met in Przemyśl. This paper emphasises the importance of looking at case studies of individual public spaces when researching and documenting the human experiences of the invasion.

Dr Panayiotis Xenophontos is a Lecturer in Russian at Oxford University. He teaches Russian-language Literature from the early 19th century to the present. He holds a BA, MSt, and DPhil from Oxford University. Panayiotis is currently completing his first monograph on the Russian-language poet Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996). In addition, he has recently commenced two new research projects. The first is a cultural history of the Greeks of Ukraine from the time of Catherine the Great to the present. The second is a new biography of the writer, and Gulag survivor, Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982).

** Celem seminariów "Poza kulturową oczywistością" jest podjęcie dyskusji nad zmianami zachodzącymi w edukacji, kulturze, polityce oraz mediach. Pragniemy zadać pytania o kwestie sporne, wątpliwe lub kontrowersyjne, których obecność w dyskursie publicznym w (nie)oczywisty sposób zmienia nasze realia.
Inspiracją dla cyklu seminariów naukowych „Poza kulturową oczywistością” w Dolnośląskiej Szkole Wyższej jest dorobek naukowy Profesora Roberta Kwaśnicy.

Komitet naukowy seminarium: Ewa Kurantowicz, Joanna Minta, Karolina Reinhard, Maria Reut, Justyna Kajta, Paweł Rudnicki, Beata Sierocka, Helena Wyligała