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Mondays with WUWr #34

What’s new at the University of Wrocław Press?

In our series #MondayswithWUWr, we keep you up to date with the most important events, book news and issues important to the Publishing House! We also encourage you to follow the wuwr.eu website and the Publishing House’s social media – FbLinkedInInstagram and YouTube. We encourage you to watch!

Wrocław Good Books Fair this week coming up!

There’s no doubt that the last weeks have been passing for the Publishing House in preparing for the Wrocław Good Books Fair, which will be held this week – from 5 to 8 December – at the Centennial Hall.

The publishing house will have twice as big a booth this year, as there are many more new books than in previous years, too! Among the books that will premiere at the fair is the highly anticipated item “Od lokomotyw do czołgów. Przed Pafawagiem: 100 lat zakładów Linke-Hoffman” by Patrick Starczewski.

The Linke-Hofmann Werke AG (LHW) concern, on the basis of which the Polish Pafawag was founded after the war, is a legend on the historical map of industrial Wroclaw. The foundation for its development was laid by combining the strengths of two hitherto competing companies: Gotffried Linke Wagon Building Factory and Hofmann Brothers Wagon Factory. Linke’s factory got off the ground in 1834 and produced, among other things, horse-drawn carriages, to soon produce railroad platforms and locomotives for the Upper Silesian Railroad, which was just being built. The Hofmann company started with fire pumps, which it converted fairly quickly into railroad and tramway cars.

The merger was followed by one of the largest industrial plants in Europe at the time (200 hectares of land, nearly 80 of which were under roof), employing four thousand people. The Linke-Hofmann-Werke joint stock company switched its production to military needs during both world wars. At the time, the factory produced airplanes, armored trains, semi-tracked tractors and components for Hitler’s secret weapon, the V2 rockets, using, among other things, forced laborers from Poland.

After 1945, the State Wagon Factory in Wrocław (Pafawag) began producing rail vehicles. The history of the concern up to 1939 is described by Patrick Starczewski, a historian and entrepreneur. As a result, in addition to its purely historical value, the book also provides insight into the business aspect of the road that the small Wroclaw company went through to become a European giant. The book contains more than 200 illustrations and photos, many of them unpublished, and presents plans of the architectural and urban layout of the factory.

We highly recommend this publication! https://wuwr.eu/produkt/od-lokomotyw-do-czolgow-pafawag/

And we invite you to the author’s meeting, which will be held on Sunday, 8 December in the Yellow Room of the Centennial Hall at 12:00! The conversation with the author will be moderated by prof. Tomasz Głowiński.

Przemysłowy Wrocław sprzed PAFAWAGu. 100 lat fabryki Linke-Hoffmann Werke | Patrick Starczewski | Facebook

In addition, we invite you to two more meetings around WUWr books:

Sky, Sea, Electricity and Classic Jeans. Discover the blue world with Justyna Bajda

Did you know that blue is the favorite color of people from all over the world? Where did this color actually come from, when it is so rare in nature?Justyna Bajda’s book is a masterfully conceived, well-written and very evocative publication. The idea to trace the aesthetic, and with it the artistic tendencies of the nineteenth century, by tracing the career of blue in culture, turned out to be very fruitful! The meeting will be moderated by Izabela Magdziarczyk of the Art History Institute. It was she who first heard about the idea for this book. It promises to be an extremely interesting conversation in shades of blue!

8 December, at 14:00, Hall Green of the Centennial Hall

Odkryj niebieski świat z Justyną Bajdą, autorką „Błękitny fin de siècle”

Piłka nożna na celowniku polityki. Author’s meeting with Dariusz Wojtaszyn

Soccer is the most popular sport in Europe, triggering particularly strong emotions and attracting crowds of fans. The importance of soccer in the 20th and 21st centuries has resulted in numerous attempts to politically instrumentalize it. Politicians have sought to exploit and appropriately channel the passions associated with the spectacle of football to achieve desired political or social goals. This has led to many pathologies present in modern sports. Journalist Jarosław Tomczyk (Football) will discuss the history and backstage of soccer with Dariusz Wojtaszyn.

Please join us on Sunday, 8 December, at 4:00 pm in the Green Room at the Centennial Hall!

Piłka nożna na celowniku polityki. Spotkanie autorskie z Dariuszem Wojtaszynem | Facebook

In addition to these meetings, this Thursday – 5 December, at 6:00 pm, a meeting will be held at the PROZA club around the book “Co Pan na to, Panie P.? Sztuka / Kultura / Komunikacja”.

Thanks to the initiative of the University of Wrocław Press and courtesy of the Wrocław House of Literature, there will be an opportunity to meet with the much-loved prof. Leszek Pułka from the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, the pretext will be a jubilee book created just for him!

“Jubilee books usually monumentalize the protagonist, but we would like to invite, also on his behalf, to talk about the topic that the aforementioned volume paradoxically evokes. We would like the authors of the texts included in the volume and the guests of the meeting to discuss the right to be forgotten. During the meeting we will talk about the social and philosophical aspects of the right to be forgotten, reflect on its impact on our identity, collective memory, and what it means for us to be able to forget in a world where the internet ‘remembers everything’.” – we read on the event’s website.

You are cordially invited! The meeting will be moderated by editor Mariusz Urbanek of the University of Wrocław Press.

The project “Integrated Program for the Development of the University of Wrocław 2018-2022” co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund

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