Polish Constitutional Crisis (Seminar)

In association with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford and Wolfson College
Poland: From Paradigm to Pariah 

Polish Constitutional Crisis:
Facts and Interpretations

Thursday 8 March, 17.30 – 21:00 &
Friday 9 March, 09:00-15:30 Wolfson College, Oxford

PROGRAMME

Thursday 8 March: LECTURE

17:30 Poland: From Paradigm to Pariah: Polish Constitutional Crisis: Facts and Interpretations

Marcin MATCZAK, University of Warsaw

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
19:15 DINNER
Cherwell Boathouse, Bardwell Road

Friday 9 March: WORKSHOP


9:00 – 9:30 Coffee
9:30 Introduction: Constitutional Crisis in Poland

Denis Galligan, University of Oxford

9:45 Post-Communist Phantom Pains: On the Socio-Legal Background to the Controversial Reforms in Poland
Jaroslaw KUISZ, University of Warsaw
How Democracy Dies (in Poland): A Case Study of Anti-Constitutional Populist Backsliding
Wojciech SADURSKI, University of Sydney
11.15 COFFEE BREAK

11.30 Defiant History: Remembering the Holocaust in Poland Nanor KEBRANIAN, Queen Mary, University of London
Can and Should States Legislate Collective Memory
Amir PAZ FUCHS, University of Sussex 13:00 LUNCH

14:00 New Conservatism or National Populism? The Cases of Hungary, Bulgaria, and Poland

Daniel SMILOV, University of Sofia 14:45 Discussion and Conclusions
15:30 WORKSHOP ENDS