Monday, September 9th, 2019 "Life Adapts to the Situation": Survival Strategies of Polish Society, 1939-45

DateTimeLocation
Monday, September 9, 20192:00PM - 4:00PMSeminar Room 108N, 1 Devonshire Place

Description

During the German occupation, to a large part of the Polish people, everyday struggle for existence was more challenging than participation in resistance and armed conflict. The lecture will analyze and categorize strategies of survival that, according to contemporary definitions, form systems of values, which identify existing threats and provide survival mechanisms. The scope of the lecture will be limited to the Polish intelligentsia mostly in the German-occupied General Government, with limited focus on the Polish areas incorporated directly into the Reich.

This event is sponsored in part by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).


Speakers

Jerzy Kochanowski
Speaker
Professor, University of Warsaw

Piotr Wrobel
Chair
Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies, University of Toronto


Main Sponsor

Joint Initiative in German and European Studies

Co-Sponsors

German Academic Exchange Service

Konstanty Reynert Chair in Polish Studies

Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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