Leon Getz’s drawing created in the Polish internment camp Dombie in 1919
Join us on February 27 at 1:00 pm Pacific Time for a virtual talk, featuring Dr. Jagoda Wierzejska of the University of Warsaw. This online talk is part of the Slavic Lecture Series.
Join lecture via Zoom here: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66849368557?pwd=RjVuUzBpZ3IzZHgxcUVVSlZUeTBRZz09
Title: “The Choice of Ukrainian National Identity in Interwar and Postwar Poland: The Case of Leon Getz”
Abstract: Dr. Jagoda Wierzejska will give a lecture on Leon Getz, a painter from a Polish-Ukrainian family from Lviv, who chose a Ukrainian national orientation, while living and working in the interwar and then post-war Poland. An extremely interesting artist, associated with Ukrainian national circles, Leon Getz was under surveillance by the Security Services of the People’s Republic of Poland, which became the cause of his personal tragedy.
Bio: Dr. Jagoda Wierzejska is a historian of contemporary literature and culture, and an associated professor in the Department of Literature of the 20th and 21st century at the Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw (Poland). In 2011, she defended her PhD and won the Prize of the Polish Emigration Archive for the best PhD dissertation on the emigration topic. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal “Przegląd Humanistyczny” [“The Humanistic Review”], and author of the book Retoryczna interpretacja autobiograficzna. Na przykładzie pisarstwa Andrzeja Bobkowskiego, Zygmunta Haupta i Leo Lipskiego [Rhetorical interpretation of the autobiography. The cases of writing of Andrzej Bobkowski, Zygmunt Haupt and Leo Lipski] (2012). Dr. Wierzejska is the co-author of the international project Galician Polyphony. Places and Voices (2014-2015), and a fellow of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine (2016) and the University of Vienna, Austria (2017). She is the winner of the scholarship competition for the most prominent young scholars in Poland (2018-2020), and the principal investigator of the research project (Multi)national Eastern Galicia in the interwar Polish discourse (and in its selected counter-discourses) (2019-2023, no 2018/31/D/HS2/00356).
