The second volume (out of three) of Michał Markowski’s The Collected Textx 1988-2023, titled Polityka (Politics), contains 57 essays, articles, and extended comments on topics so diverse as Camus and colonialism, Heidegger and nazism, Conrad and…
Karen Underhill’s new book Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity (June 2024) was published by Indiana University Press as part of the series Jews In Eastern Europe. In the 1930s, through the prose of…
UIC Alumnus Dr. Agniezska Jezyk will give the inaugural lecture of the Maria Kott Endowed Professorship of Polish Studies on Thursday, October 24 at 6:00 pm at the University of Washington. Congratulations, Agniezska!…
Matthew Kendall was recently featured on The Eurasian Knot podcast to discuss his article, “Room for Noise in Soviet Sound Recording”. Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/euraknot/ek039
PRLS students participated in a folk art workshop delivered by a local artist, Grace Bazylewski. She taught them the traditional paper cutting technique known as wycinanki. Students made beautiful and colorful wycinanki, and…
The 600-page, 1st volume of the three-volume collection of The Collected Texts 1988-2023, which gathers all texts related to the issue of interpretation that Professor Markowski did not include in his already published…
Professor Markowski directed the International Joseph Conrad Literary Festival, one of the major literary events in Europe, for the 15th time! He also chaired the jury of The Conrad Award for the best…
The city of Kraków has honored Michał Paweł Markowski, Professor and Head of Polish Studies, with a dedicated bench in the city park surrounding the center of Krakow, to emphasize his contributions to…
Please join us in congratulating our own Karen Underhill who has just been awarded by the European Union Center (through Title VI) for her curriculum innovation project (“Development of a Multilingual Polish/Jewish Studies…
Dear All, following our students’ request from the last year’s seminar, Professor Michal Markowski is proposing a new course, which he will also open for students from other departments. If you know anybody…
