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Subject: Re: Reinventing Poland Conference, 10-11 November 2006
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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