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Stefan Halikowski
Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski: The greatest Polish writer of 鈥榗amp literature鈥�, his lifelong censorship, and redemption in the eyes of the Citizenship Act

Tuesday 27 January, 12-1pm, S0.10 (Social Studies)
This talk revisits the life of Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski (1919-2000), whose Inny Swiat (A World Apart), published 1951, was the first of the great Soviet Gulag exposes (foreword by Bertrand Russell). Herling made his life in exile, in Naples, and his works were banned in Poland, his home, until the very end of his life. I thought of him as I conclude the process of obtaining my own Polish passport. Art. 21, clause 10 of the Citizenship Act offers an 80% reduction for 'persons with the status of anti-communist opposition or an anti-communist activist or a person repressed for political reasons'. The Polish state today (Third Republic, 1989-) commemorates and valorizes the lives of dissidents and anti-Communists who suffered exile, censorship and repression for fifty years under the PRL (Polish People's Republic, 1952-1989).

Tuesday 27^th January, 1pm -3pm, Room FAB5.30

Roundtable on 'Caribbean Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions',

with presentations by Angus Martin, Kate Astbury, Abigail Coppins and David Lambert.

'Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions: The Eastern Caribbean in the 1790s'. 

A round table event with Angus Martin, visiting fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies, Angus, is an independent scholar and heritage consultant.

Tuesday 27^th January at 1pm.

with presentations by Angus as well as Kate Astbury, Abigail Coppins and David Lambert.

 Room location Room FAB 5.30

John Angus Martin is an historian, archivist and museum curator from Grenada who attained a PhD from the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University in October 2023. He has been based in Grenada since 2022, when he returned to serve as the director of the Grenada National Museum, but is currently engaged as an independent scholar and heritage consultant. He has been readying his dissertation, titled 鈥樷�淲e Navel-String Bury Here鈥�: Finding Identity in the Grenada Islandscape,鈥� for publication.

Dr Angus Martin: YPCCS Visiting Fellow, 2026

Roundtable on 'Caribbean Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions', with presentations by Angus Martin, Kate Astbury, Abigail Coppins and David Lambert.

John Angus Martin is a historian, archivist and museum curator from Grenada who attained a PhD from the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University in October 2023. He has been based in Grenada since 2022, when he returned to serve as the director of the Grenada National Museum, but is currently engaged as an independent scholar and heritage consultant. He has been readying his dissertation, titled 鈥樷�淲e Navel-String Bury Here鈥�: Finding Identity in the Grenada Islandscape,鈥� for publication.