Part of the lecture series "Rechtsruck in Europa. Die polnischen Perspektiven"

The politics of memory occupies an important place in the agenda of many European parties classified as right-wing populism. It is used to legitimise state power, reproduce social order, build identity and consolidate various political entities, particularly nations,…

Part of the lecture series "Rechtsruck in Europa. Die polnischen Perspektiven"

The talk will analyze propaganda and political discourse over the past hundred years in Poland. I intend to show, to what extent the threads making up nationalist ideology and Catholic integrationism - anti-Semitism, anti-elitism, fear of sexuality - survived the…

Part of the lecture series "Poland and its language(s)“

The period of German occupation and the tragic events of the Second World War, in the context of everyday life in the Upper Silesia, raise multi-faceted questions related not only to communication but above all to the dynamics of social interactions.

How did the inhabitants of the region…