Interdisciplinary Research Seminar. Blackness, decolonization of Africa, PRL

We invite all people who have socialist internationalism or issues related to the relationship between the Cold War and the decolonization of the African continent in their research interests. The focus of the meeting will be the impact of these issues on the social, cultural and creative fields of Polish artists after 1945.

Starting points for the seminar will be the exhibition Black Roads entering the White Land and the book Critical Approaches to Art, Race and Coloniality in Eastern Europe edited by Dorota Jagoda Michalska and Marta Zboralska. The aim of the meeting will be to examine how the ideo-political evolution of the PRL influenced the presence of motives of condemnation of racism and colonialism, or related to Blackness and Sub-Saharan Africa in culture between 1945 and 1989, but to try to answer the question of how to study these unresolved and ambivalent phenomena. The seminar will be an opportunity to meet and exchange different perspectives related to the subject, which has been addressed in various ways in numerous scientific and non-fiction publications in the last decade.