We we invite you to the opening of the 2024/2025 academic year for the Forum on Central and Eastern Europe with a lecture by Przemysław Czapliński, Professor of Polish Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Czapliński is the author of over a dozen books and the recipient of several national book awards.

Przemysław Czapliński will explore how the economic, political, and cultural crises of the 1970s shaped Polish prose. He will focus on writers Jerzy Andrzejewski, Tadeusz Konwicki, Marek Nowakowski and Kazimierz Brandys, examining their depictions of a society grappling with the erosion of collective values and the rise of individualism—changes that set the stage for Poland’s eventual shift toward capitalism. 

Lecture: ‘Democracy, Law and the Modernist Crisis of the Masses: Polish Culture of the 1970s’, a lecture by Przemysław Czapliński

October 10, 2024
16:00
Language: English
Museumzaal – MSI 02.08
Erasmusplein 2
3000 Leuven

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