The Red House and Open Society Institute - Sofia have the
pleasure to invite you to:
Horror, not Honour: Politics
of Memory in Poland
public lecture by Irena Grudzinska Gross (Poland)
The post-1989 changes in Eastern Europe, and especially those
after the EU accession, caused an almost unbearable tension
between the need to maintain national and personal continuity
on the one hand and the necessity to open old (physical and
mental) borders and concepts of national history on the other.
Hence the growth of nationalism, which is kind of an alergic
reaction to the post-sovereignty national existence within
the European Union. An example of that reaction are the discussions
about the past and its meaning that are now raging in Poland.
Part of "Crisis in Central Europe" cycle of lectures
- a bilateral projecy of Center for culture and debate The
Red House and Open Society Institute - Sofia.
More information for the lecturer:
Irena Grudzinska Gross is executive director
of the Institute for Human Sciences and a professor of modern
foreign languages at Boston University. A graduate of Columbia
University (1982), she taught at the Graduate Institute of
Liberal Studies at Emory University and taught comparative
literature at New York University. Her books include Czeslaw
Milosz and Joseph Brodsky (just published in Polish, with
an English-language version forthcoming) and The Scar of Revolution:
Tocqueville, Custine and the Romantic Imagination (1991),
which appeared in four languages. She has edited several books
on literature and the transformation process in Central and
Eastern Europe and is the author of over forty book chapters
and articles published on these subjects in the international
press. From 1998–2003, she was responsible for the East-Central
European program at the Ford Foundation.
March 4 (Tuesday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
In English, with interpretation in Bulgarian.
Entrance: 2/1 ëâ.
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