Professor Norman Davies, doyenne of English-speaking
historians of Poland and author of (amongst other books) the global best-seller
Europe: a history and God’s playground, the standard work on
Polish history will be among the eminent speakers at the Conference.
Titled “Solidarity: a retrospective”, the conference has attracted a number of
distinguished historians, from Poland, Britain and the United States, each of
whom will analyse different aspects of the origins, achievements and legacy of
this landmark movement in the history of modern Europe.
Also speaking are Professor Mark Kramer of Harvard University
and Dr Jakub Basista, assistant head of the Institute of History of the
Jagiellonian University, Krakow as well as Dr Janina Lyons and Professor Professor Maciej Smolenski of
the Irish Polish Society, who will discuss the support afforded to the Polish
people in the 1980s by the Polish community in Ireland, and by the Irish
people, at that time.
In
addition to these talks, there will also be a recital of songs from the
Solidarity era by Cork’s own Polish choir, and a showing of Andrzej Wajda’s
film Man of Iron, which chronicles
the struggle to establish Solidarity and which won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes
Film Festival in 1981.
This
event is being organised by Gabriel Doherty of UCC’s School of History, with
generous assistance from the Embassy of Poland, Dublin.
The
proceedings will take place in UCC’s Boole IV lecture theatre.There is no
charge for attending the conference, which is open to the public, with a
particular invitation extended to the Polish community in Ireland.
The
programme for the event can be found at
http://www.ucc.ie/en/history/home/
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