text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, photos by Dorota Babilas, Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, Paweł Rutkowski Last month, we were hosting another From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria conference. The theme of QAQV9 was the past which, according to the well-known line by William Faulkner, “is never dead” and is “not even past”. It was the second conference organised […]
text by Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz This year the annual British Association of Chinese Studies (BACS) Conference was held from September 3rd until September 5th in Leicester and was hosted by the University of Leicester. With around 300 participants and a variety of scholars from different fields – from economics to history to culture – it was […]
text by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys ‘Darkling I listen; and, for many a time, I have been half in love with easeful Death…’ “Ode to a Nightingale”, 51-2 From George Orwell and Daphne de Maurier to Gerald Mainley Hopkins, John Constable, Leigh Hunt, and, naturally, John Keats, Hampstead provided both inspiration and refuge to some of England’s […]
