Misfits in Poland and Polish Literature

Prof. Dr. Przemysław Czapliński, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Dr. Joanna Bator, Author, Guest Professor, Warsaw

Datum: 22.10.2014
Zeit: 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Ort: Universität Bern, Hauptgebäude, Hochschulstrasse 4, Raum 331

Przemysław Czapliński (PhD, Polish Literature, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 1992) is professor of Polish literature at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, chief of studies on literary criticism. He has published widely in the fields of Polish modern and postmodern literature, the history of ideas, the history of literary criticism, and the sociology and anthropology of literature. A recipient of several national book awards, Czapliński is the author of over a dozen books, his latest Resztki nowoczesności. Dwa szkice o literaturze i życiu [Remnants of Modernity. Two Essays on Life and Literature] (Kraków 2011; English edition forthcoming). Czapliński has edited and coedited several volumes, most recently: Zagłada. Współczesne problem rozumienia i przedstawiania [The Holocaust. Contemporary Problems of Comprehension and Representation] (Poznań 2009). He organized several interdisciplinary conferences, most recently on: the Holocaust, the anthropology of literature, the relation between modernity and Sarmatism, the poetics of migration, the poetics and politics of Camp.