Reinventing Poland

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 
IN MEMORY OF GEORGE BLAZYCA
Held at the University of Paisley

10-11 November 2006

For details and registration form, see
http://www.paisley.ac.uk/business/cces/new.asp


Provisional Programme

Friday 10 November

10.00-10.15		Registration & Coffee

10.15-10.30		Welcome and opening of conference

10.30-11.30		Session 1: Poland's systemic transformation

Tadeusz Kowalik (University of Warsaw) Poland's systemic transformation and George Blazyca's views.

Ryszard Rapacki (Warsaw School of Economics) Poland's economic development level in comparative perspective, 1950-2005.

11.45-13.15		Session 2: Poland's economy today

Marzenna Anna Weresa (Warsaw School of Economics) Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Competitiveness of the Manufacturing Sector in Poland.

Marian Górski (Warsaw University Management School) Impact of fiscal and monetary policy on the economic growth in Poland in the years 1993 - 2005.

Piotr M. Jaworski (Napier University, Edinburgh, with  Slavo Radosevic, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London) The rise and fall of a central European enterprise - the case of Elektrim.

13.15-14.15		lunch
 


14.15-15.15		Session 3: Echoes of Solidarity

Susan Pearce (University of West Virginia) and Homa Firouzbakhch (University of Gdansk) What Happened to this Movement? Polish Transformations and Solidarity 25 Years Later.

John Bates (University of Glasgow) Solidarity in Polish Cinema, 1981-2006.

15.20-16.20		Session 4: History and identity

Ewa Sidorenko (University of Greenwich) Which way to Poland? Re-emerging from romantic unity.

Ewa Kokoszycka  (European University Institute in Florence) Patriotic Consumption. The origins and development of Polish vegetarianism - Polish Sonderweg?


16.25-17.25		Session 5: The EU and Polish economic development

Jaroslaw Kundera (University of Wroclaw) Economic effects of Poland's accession to the EU.

Adam Drobniak (University of Economics, Katowice) EU funds in the Silesian Region in the first years after accession (2004-2006).


17.30-18.30		Session 6: Aspects of Polish economic development

Krystian Heffner (University of Economics, Katowice) Processes of consolidating regional structures - the case of double citizenship in the Silesian region.

Robert Romanowski (University of Economics, Poznan) Role of Placemarketing in Multifunctional Rural Development.



20.00			Conference Dinner - Watermill Hotel, Paisley

 


Saturday 11 November

9.00-10.30	Session 7: Issues in Polish regional development, a comparative perspective

Martin Ferry (University of Strathclyde) Structural Funds and regional development approaches in Western Scotland and Silesia: a new era?

Eamonn Judge (Leeds Metropolitan University) Transport and economic development: comparisons and contrasts in theory, policy and practice between Poland and the UK.

Michael Danson, Ewa Helinska-Hughes, Stuart Paul, Geoff Whittam, An analysis of business angels in Scotland and Poland.


10.45-12.00		Session 8:  EU accession and Polish politics I

Aleks Szczerbiak (University of Sussex) 'Why Poles love the EU - but not (necessarily) the constitutional treaty'.

Simona Guerra (University of Sussex) Converging Poles: Polish Public Opinion Path Towards Accession.


12.00-13.00		Session 9:  EU accession and Polish politics II

Clare McManus-Czubinska and Bill Miller (University of Glasgow) European Civilisation or European Civilisations: the EU as a 'Christian Club'?: Public opinion in Poland 2005.

Jowanka K. Jakubek (University of Warsaw) European Policy Coordination 1991-2006 - what kind of a Polish experience?



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