Poland, Europe and the World

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Piotr Wilczek, "Poland, Europe and the World"

March 29, 2018 @ 7:30 pm

Contact: Center for Slavic, Eurasian & East European Studies
Phone: +1.919.962.0901
Email: cseees@unc.edu

Venue: FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium
Phone: +1.919.962.2435
Address: 301 Pittsboro St. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 United States

Piotr Wilczek

This is a special presentation by the ambassador of Poland to the United States and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Dessert reception to follow.

As a prolific literary scholar, intellectual historian and translator, Piotr Wilczek was the founding director of Collegium Artes Liberales (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences), where he also chaired the Center for the Study of the Reformation and Intellectual Culture in Early-Modern Europe. He authored and edited 22 published monographs and more than 100 journal articles which appeared in Poland, the UK and the United States, both in English and Polish. Prior to his diplomatic appointment in 2016, he was representative in Poland of the New York-based Kosciuszko Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to educational, cultural and artistic exchanges between the United States and Poland.

This event is part of Polish Week at UNC-Chapel Hill. This event series is co-presented by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies; Carolina Center for Jewish Studies; College of Arts and Sciences; Center for European Studies; Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures; Department of History; Department of Women’s and Gender Studies; Department of Music; and the Program in Global Cinema Studies.