The Second World War Through Anglo-Polish Eyes Conference, 1-2 Nov 2023, POSK London

'The Second World War Through Anglo-Polish Eyes' marked the Second Edition of the Anglo-Polish Cultural Exchange Festival, an annual festival part of the Granville-Skarbek Anglo-Polish Cultural Exchange project, which was launched in October 2022 (more about the project below).
The interdisciplinary conference focused on exploring aspects of Anglo-Polish culture and heritage within the context of the Second World War and brought together diverse speakers from historians, artists and curators to leaders of various Anglo-Polish organisations including archives, museums and galleries and community groups.
Among the speakers were authors and historians: Roger Moorhouse, Neal Ascherson, Clare Mulley, Dermot Turing and Dr Halik Kochanski as well as Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery, Dr Alison Smith, Filmmaker Peter Fudakowski and BBC Journalist Mark Urban.
Hosted at the Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK) the conference was co-curated by three Anglo-Polish academics:
Jenny Grant, Historian & Anglo-Polish World War Two Postgraduate Researcher, Queen Mary University of London (X: @SilenceInPolish);
Juliette Bretan, PhD candidate, Anglo-Polish Depictions of Poland and East-central Europe in Britain Scholar, University of Cambridge (X: @JCBretan)
Dr Julia Griffin, Art Historian, Curator of the Award-winning Young Poland Exhibition at the William Morris Gallery, Curator of the Anglo-Polish Cultural Exchange at POSK and Anglo-Polish Visual Arts Scholar
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Organised with signficant support from POSK's Arts Director Elvira Olbrich.
The conference was also organised in collaboration with the University of Oxford and its 'Their Finest Hour Project', which is compiling an online archive of people's personal memories and mementos of WWII: theirfinesthour.english.ox.ac...
The Granville-Skarbek Anglo-Polish Cultural Exchange is a project that seeks to illuminate the contribution to mainstream British culture and society, made by people of Polish heritage over the past 200 years. The project was originated by the Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK) and is delivered in partnership with the two foremost Anglo-Polish organisations in the UK, the Polish Cultural Institute in London (PCI) and Ognisko Polskie (The Polish Hearth). The project is the first time these three organisations have collaborated in this way.
For more about the Granville-Skarbek Anglo-Polish Cultural Exchange, visit: anglopolishculturalexchange.o...
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