Call for papers - International scientific conference on Henryk Bereska

We cordially invite you to submit proposals for papers for the international academic conference "Henryk Bereska - Man's Being in Between", which will be held on 15-17 October 2025 at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice.

The year 2025 commemorates the 20th anniversary of the death of Henryk Bereska, an outstanding translator, poet and promoter of literature. A year later, in 2026, is the 100th anniversary of his birth. These important anniversaries are an opportunity to reflect on his extensive literary and translation output and his role in the Polish-German cultural dialogue. The conference will focus, among other things, on Bereska's literary output, his translations, his activities as a mediator between Polish and German cultures and his significance for science. Following the conference, a monograph is planned to be published by the Harrassowitz publishing house.

Date for submission of abstracts: 30 April 2025.
Conference languages: Polish, German (possibly English)
Registration form: Click here
Further details about the conference can be found on the project website: www.europa-uni.de/kds-Bereska

The conference is organised in cooperation between the Department of Translation Studies and Glottodidactics at the Institute of Germanic Philology at the University of Wrocław, the Karl Dedecius Foundation and the Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies (at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder), the Karl Dedecius Archive at Collegium Polonicum, the Department of Cultural and Media Didactics at the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

The conference will be held in cooperation with the German Studies Department of the University of Wrocław.

Contact about the conference: anmeldung-kds@europa-uni.de
We look forward to hearing from you!

With best regards,
on behalf of the organisers,
Karl Dedecius Foundation