Lecture: “Comparative Literature in Poland: Beginnings – Thinking Models – Challenges”
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We invite you to join us for the ninth online academic seminar and discussion, entitled “Comparative Literature in Poland: Beginnings – Thinking Models – Challenges,” presented by Żaneta Nalewajk-Turecka (University of Warsaw). The seminar will take place on May 7, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. (EEST).
This lecture will focus on the history of comparative literature in Poland, presenting its
directions and its development and models of thinking, along with contemporary changes and
challenges. The lecture will also concentrate on pressing tasks of comparative literature
today, related to the exploration of idiomatic anthropological spaces represented in fiction
and to paving the way for better comprehension of them in the contemporary world. Further
considerations will include the continuation of the natural science-inspired tradition of
comparative research, in seeking patterns and rules. An especially important challenge for
contemporary comparative literature is the rethinking of the literary canon and defined this
canon’s texts in a relational manner, in actualizing the canon's communicative function in
international relations.
Żaneta Nalewajk-Turecka is an associate professor, literature historian and
comparativist at the University of Warsaw. Since 2005 she has worked as cofounder and
editor-in-chief of the literary quarterly Tekstualia. At the University of Warsaw, she works in
the Section of Comparative Studies at the Faculty of Polish Philology. She is the author of W
stronę perspektywizmu. Problematyka cielesności w prozie Brunona Schulza i Witolda
Gombrowicza (2010) and Leśmian międzynarodowy – relacje kontekstowe. Studia
komparatystyczne (2015), which was published in 2020 as Leśmian Internationally:
Contextual Relations. A Comparative Study. She is a member of the Polish PEN Club, the
Polish Comparative Literature Association and the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society.
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Meeting ID: 850 5916 5573
Passcode: 227600



