The article discusses the transformations of Polish Studies over the last thirty years. They occurred as a result of a threefold opening: a) to media other than literature (film, television, radio, the Internet); b) to popular culture; c) to minority cultures within Polish culture (in ethnic terms – Jewish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Roma, Czech, Slovak, German cultures; in class terms – worker and rural cultures; in gender and queer terms – gender and sexual minority cultures). The expansion of the area of research and didactics gives Polish studies greater autonomy (it can take up problems in media studies, the history of political systems, economics, sociology, medicine...), but at the same time confronts Polish studies with numerous past and present conflicts (class, ethnic, gender). The revised approach to conflicts is to draw them into research and didactics, and transform them into a key challenge of the discipline.
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