Professor Ewa Mazierska in Lund
19–21 October 2026
Lund University is delighted to welcome Professor Ewa Mazierska, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Lancashire, for three lectures and seminars devoted to Polish and East European cinema, Cold War culture, mobility, war, and political memory.
Professor Mazierska is a leading scholar of European and Eastern European cinema and popular music. Her research spans film history and theory, post-communist cinema, Cold War culture, popular music, mobility, memory, and cultural politics. She is also Principal Editor of Studies in Eastern European Cinema.
Her publications include:
- Popular Music in Eastern Europe: Breaking the Cold War Paradigm (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)
- Roman Polanski after The Pianist: The Man and His Films
- Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age: Politics, Economy, Culture and Technology
Across three days in Lund, Professor Mazierska will explore how cinema and popular culture negotiate borders, historical experience, national identities, political memory, and the enduring legacies of war.
All are warmly welcome.
Monday, 19 October | 10.00–12.00 | Room A121
Within the SAS course
What did it mean for Polish musicians to travel across the Iron Curtain?
This lecture explores Cold War mobility through the memoirs of Polish popular musicians, examining cultural exchange, artistic careers, encounters between East and West, and the possibilities and restrictions associated with international travel.
Organised by Polish Studies, SOL, Lund University
Supported by NAWA and the Polish Institute in Sweden
Tuesday, 20 October | 13.00–15.00 | LUX C121
How has cinema represented the difficult and entangled histories of Poland and Ukraine?
Professor Mazierska examines postwar film, national narratives, historical conflict, and the ways in which cinema participates in the construction, negotiation, and transformation of political and cultural memory.
Hosted by Film Studies, Lund University
Supported by CEMES
Wednesday, 21 October | 13.15–15.00 | LUX B336
YES Research Seminar
This seminar revisits Andrzej Wajda’s Samson (1961) in the context of Holocaust memory, postwar Polish cinema, and European film history. It asks how cinema gives form to the memory of war, persecution, and the destruction of Jewish life, and considers the place of Wajda’s film within broader discussions of postwar representation, cultural memory, and European film culture.
Organised by Polish Studies within the YES Research Seminar Series
Supported by NAWA and the Polish Institute in Sweden
Three events – cinema, music, mobility, history, war, and memory.
All welcome.