Bozena Uminska, University of Warsaw: “Homogeneous Society, Exclusions, Dissent”

Monday, November 9, 12:30pm to 3:00pm Eastern time.
509 O’Brian Hall
Presented by the Gender, Law & Social Policy Working Group

This talk will focus on the status of women, gays and lesbians, and Jews in contemporary Poland.

Dr. Uminska is a faculty member of the Institute of Applied Social Science at the University of Warsaw and at the Jewish Historical Institute. She also lectures on Gender Studies and History of Philosophy at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She is also a poet whose work has been translated into English and German languages, as well as a freelance writer whose articles on film, literature, art and culture have appeared in weekly and monthly Polish publications. Her book A Figure with Shadow: Jewish Women in Polish Literature from the End of the 19th Century to 1939 was among the top twenty nominated for Nike, the most prestigious literary award in Poland.