Deadline: August 15. 2023
We are organizing a panel stream on Polish culture at AATSEEL 2024 (see the description below). If you like to join one of the panels, submit a paper abstract to AATSEEL by August 15 and mention the stream title in your message. Please feel free to contact me (wodzynski@wisc.edu) or Lukasz Sicinski (lsicisnsk@indiana.edu) with any questions.
Beyond Horizon: Alternatives and Transgressions in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Polish Culture
The concept of horizon evokes a feeling of openness and an air of potentiality – a sense of wonder that invites us to explore the unknown. At the same time, we always perceive the horizon from a particular vantage point, which means it is anchored in and inseparable from a specific context. This context determines our vision, confining what we can see and, by extension, what we know or even think as possible.
Our three-panel stream seeks to investigate how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Polish culture explores this tension between openness and closure, aiming to address the theme of “opening horizons” from multiple theoretical perspectives and across disciplinary lines. We are especially interested in papers that explore productive engagements with existing cultural models and innovative attempts to go beyond established paradigms.