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20.06.2024

Meeting with residents of the Visegrad Literary Residencies Program

What does functioning at the intersection of cultures and languages entail? How does the experience of being in between affect identity? How does it deform in literature? To what extent does bilingualism enable being in the world and being “at home”?

Zofia Ziemann, a translator and scholar from the Department of International Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, discussed these and many other issues with Michaela Kučova, Timea Sipos and Tomasz Jędrowski, who stayed at Villa Decius in May and June for the Visegrad Literary Residencies, during a meeting at Massolit Books on June 6.

Photo – Paweł Mazur

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Call for participants to WIRE

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The Villa Decius Association and Dr hab. Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, prof. UJ invite all interested to participate in the WIRE project (Women in Resistance. Reshaping the narratives on Female Antitotalitarian Resistance in Europe) Kick-Off Meeting which takes place on 4th of April 2023 at 13.15 in the Institute of History of Jagiellonian University (room 307).
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