Prof. Bożena Shallcross i Prof. Andrzej Karcz, Poeta liryczny jako pisarz polityczny. "Zniewolony umysł" Czesława Miłosza (A Lyrical Poet as a Political Writer. "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz) / spotkanie z cyklu webinariów IBL PAN i Fundacji Kościuszkowskiej

Almost 40 years after Nabokov's death his texts continue to function as literary Fabergé eggs in which scholars keep finding hidden surprises and previously overlooked details. As Nabokov wrote in Conclusive Evidence, "the unravelling of a riddle is the purest and most basic act of the human mind." However, readers and critics are divided on the issue of whether Nabokov is a postmodern riddle-maker enjoying the game itself without enabling the player to reach the ultimate solution, or whether the riddles are solvable by a reader astute enough to follow all the sophisticated patterns and allusions which point to Nabokov's metaphysical convictions.

Famously associated with the strange attraction of the irregularly shaped pearl, the term ‘baroque’  eludes precise definitions and keeps engendering conflicting emotions in contemporary cultural discourses. The concept of the neobaroque not only inherits the polycentric semantics of baroque but poses additional problems due to the multiplicity of senses attached to the prefix neo. These circumstances find reflection in a concern about the variety of relationship between history, aesthetics and politics in available conceptualisations of the return of the baroque in (European, Western, global) Modernity, multiple shapes of the New World baroque, and variously conceived neobaroques only recently discovered and rehabilitated or presently arising as ways of interpreting possible futures of our planet. This staggering richness of ideas promises stimulating and very productive discussions.

Zapraszamy na krótką wycieczkę z polską sztuką i historią emigracji prezentowanych na tle dynamicznego i tętniącego życiem Londynu. To dwujęzyczne wydarzenie organizowane jest przez Ośrodek Badań nad Polskim Dziedzictwem Emigracyjnym w Londynie i Blue Point Art Gallery London. Zapraszamy na serię interesujących rozmów. Dowiedz się, w jaki sposób społeczna odpowiedzialność badań akademickich, humanistyka cyfrowa i interdyscyplinarność mogą przyczynić się do postrzegania wkładu polskiej społeczności w krajobraz kulturowy Londynu.