Lecture

01 Feb 2025 · 10.40 am

Matthias Schwartz: ‘Kresy’ as a Combat Zone: Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian Borderlands in Poland‘s Popular Culture

Venue: GCSC (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture), Otto Behaghel Str. 12, 35394 Gießen

Research project(s): Adjustment and Radicalisation

Lecture as part of the conference Re-Thinking Post-Socialist War(s): Comparative Dimensions of the War in Ukraine (2014–2024) at the GCSC (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture) in Gießen, 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2025

Slavist and historian Matthias Schwartz is deputy director of the ZfL and co-coordinator of the program area World Literature. He is head of the projects World Fiction, Post/Socialist. Eastern European Literatures and Cultures and Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe.