Tony Judt Lecture 2025/Tadeusz Sławek

Tadeusz Sławek

The Borderland Foundation has been organizing annual lectures in order to commemorate the life and intellectual work of Tony Judt. This year the lecture was given by Tadeusz Sławek.

On August 6, 2025, at 5:00 PM, on the porch of the Krasnogruda manor, Tadeusz Sławek delivered a lecture entitled Odysseus’s Raft / The Raft of the Medusa. A Warning in a World of Lost Blessing.

Tadeusz Sławek is a scholar affiliated with the University of Silesia since 1971, where he served as Rector from 1996 to 2002. He specializes in English and American literature, comparative literature, and public discourse. In his academic work, he has focused on writers such as William Blake, Henry David Thoreau, and William Shakespeare.