Meetings

Category: New publications, Editorial notes, XXw, Regional history, Reports of meetings, Polish historiography, Holocaust, News, SG - Źródła historyczne, Social history

Official opening of the permanent exhibition in the Jewish Historical Institute

15 November 2017

 

On 14 November, President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda and his Wife took part in the official opening of the permanent exhibition „What we were unable to shout out to the world”, presenting original documents from the Underground Archive...

Category: Conferences, Meeting, Research projects, Discussion, News, Political history, Social history, Economic history, Cultural history

Democracy beyond the nation?

04 August 2017

How can democracy be collectively shaped in today's Europe? How can it be observed beyond the concept of a nation? What dangers and challenges currently threaten democracy?

We invite 100 young people 18 years and older to participate in a European democracy project in Eisenach and work together to...

Category: Exhibitions, Editorial notes, XXw, Albums and photos, Meeting, Polish historiography, News, Social history, Political history, Economic history

Interview with Director Jacek Friedrich of the Gdynia City Museum, part 1

26 April 2017

 

Alan Lockwood: Let's begin with Gydnia. What are comparisons you suggest in operating your museum, to help visitors "wrap their heads” around Gdynia, which went from fishing village to the premier port city in interwar Poland, both rapidly and by concerted design. For non Poles, Brasilia and...

Category: Lectures, XXw, Meeting, Editorial note, Research projects, Discussion, News, Economic history, Cultural history, Memory studies

Grodno: city, region, memory - talk in Kraków

31 March 2017

 

April 3, (Monday), 6:00 p.m.

A lecture by Katarzyna Konczewska in the open lectures cycle organised by the Academy of Heritage

Lecture in Polish, free entrance

 

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Category: Conferences, XXw, Regional history, Meeting, News, Social history, Military history, Political history, Economic history, Memory studies

The meeting of the Polish-Ukrainian Forum of Historians - 27-30 March in Kraków

25 March 2017

 

On the 27-30 March 2017, under the auspices of the Polish and Ukrainian Institutes of National Remembrance, another meeting of the Polish-Ukrainian Forum of Historians will be held in Kraków.

The forthcoming proceedings will focus on the Ukrainian aspect in the programme and ideology of the...

Category: Conferences, Editorial notes, XXw, Meeting, Polish historiography, Holocaust, News, SG - Źródła historyczne, Social history, Political history

Gdańsk war museum: grand opening, uncertain future

22 March 2017

 

The Museum of the Second World War unveils its ambitious exhibition after eight years of development, and founding director Paweł Machcewicz holds a press conference about his tenure.

 

The long anticipated, court-disputed opening on 23 March will display the scope and scale of the institution’s...

Category: Conferences, Lectures, Exhibitions, Editorial notes, XXw, Albums and photos, Meeting, Holocaust, History and film, Research projects

Exhibition on the Polish Righteous of the Holocaust in New York City

21 March 2017

 

The opening on 5 April will present the exhibition by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews at the Polish Consulate, with a lecture by Dariusz Stola, director of POLIN.

 

Director Stola’s lecture will be part of opening ceremonies at the Polish Consulate for the exhibition „They...

Category: XXw, Regional history, Reports of meetings, News, Social history, Political history, Economic history, Cultural history, Memory studies, Historical Policy

Director Alicja Knast: "The Light of History” exhibition and Muzeum Śląskie in Katowice, part 1

06 February 2017

 

The history of Muzeum Śląskie – the Silesian Museum in Katowice – dates back to the early interwar period following Upper Silesia’s entering Poland’s Second Republic, as Director Alicja Knast describes to open this two-part interview, which begins below.

In 2015, along with opening its new...