Talking Interdisciplinary Polish Studies #1

In the fi rst episode of our podcast Talking Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, a special feature of the academic Polish Studies Blog, we cover nothing less than our common denominator – Polish studies. For a closer look at this only seemingly self-explanatory term, we invited some of the leading German-speaking Polish studiesscholars:

• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast – Professor for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies and head of the Center of the same name at theEuropean University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)
• Yvonne Kleinmann – Professor for Eastern European History and head of the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studiesat Marti n Luther University in Halle
• Peter Oliver Loew – Head of the German Insti tute for Polish Aff airs in Darmstadt and honorary professor at the TechnicalUniversity in Darmstadt
• Ruprecht von Waldenfels – Professor for Slavic Philology at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and deputy head of theAleksander Brückner Center

The conversation is hosted by Anna Labentz, editor-in-chief of Pol-Int. In its first part, we put the question What are (interdisciplinary) Polish studies? in the centre of the disscussion.