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SUMMARY:HISTORICAL TRUTH: POLAND AND THE POLITICS OF THE PAST - Dr Stanley
  Bill
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CONTACT:Cambridge Festival of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Dr Stanley Bill\, Lecturer in Polish Studies\, Department of S
 lavonic Studies\, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages\n\nIn the twent
 ieth century\, Poland became the laboratory for two violent totalitarian e
 xperiments\, suffering massive destruction and harsh oppression from both 
 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The unhealed wounds of this painful his
 tory are still strikingly present in both public debate and politics in Po
 land today. This talk examines different perspectives on historical ‘tru
 th’ and the politics of history.\n\nStanley Bill is lecturer in Polish S
 tudies at the University of Cambridge. He works largely on twentieth-centu
 ry Polish literature and culture\, with particular interests in religion\,
  secularization theory\, Polish-Ukrainian relations\, and postcolonial int
 erpretations of Polish cultural history. He has written on Czes?aw Mi?osz\
 , Bruno Schulz\, postcolonial theory in the Polish context\, Polish Romant
 icism\, as well as on religious problems in the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsk
 y. He recently published a translation of Czes?aw Mi?osz's unfinished nove
 l 'The Mountains of Parnassus' with Yale University Press.
LOCATION:Little Hall\, Sidgwick Site\, Sidgwick Ave\, Cambridge CB3\, UK
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