Have you ever wondered how Poland has been developing since The Wall came down in 1989? Here’s an opportunity to learn about the impact of cultural transfers and transformations in Polish popular culture with an esteemed visiting Professor.

Dr Andrzej Antoszek is Adjunct Professor at both the Catholic University of Lublin and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin where he teaches American and African-American Studies and Translation and Cultural Studies. Dr Antoszek’s work has focused on cultural exchanges, appropriations and the development of trans-nations in Europe. In 2006 he was instrumental in organising an international conference in Poland, ‘Bridges Across the Nations: African American Culture in the 21st Century’, which explored issues of assimilation of American and Afro-American culture by the cultures of Central and Eastern Europe.

In November 2009, Dr Antoszek will be one of the keynote speakers at the Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations conference on cultural appropriations in Melbourne. His address will focus on his research on cultural transfers which are part of an Australian model of postgraduate business studies offered in Poland at the Lublin Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois and at the Southern Cross University.

Over the past twelve years, Dr Antoszek has been collaborating with Professor Phillip Neck from the Southern Cross University. Their findings illuminate the effects of the cultural transfer of Australian business philosophy and education to Poland and show how this has led to a series of interesting interactions between what is global and what is local.

Dr Antoszek has prepared this talk specifically for Sydney audiences who are interested in Poland and would like to hear some insights into this exciting country which over the last twenty years has emerged from its communist past to become a member of the European Union and NATO and one of the most dynamic economies in the region.

Brought to you by:
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland and Polish Graduates Association of NSW

Free entry. RSVP: phone: 9327 8600 or via e-mail:

consul.polonia@sydney.polemb.net