methodology

Category: New publications, Editorial notes, XXw, Polish historiography, Editorial note, News, Methodology, Social history, Economic history, Political history

Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland. Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines by Lukasz Szulz

06 November 2017

 

This book traces the fascinating history of the first Polish gay and lesbian magazines to explore the globalization of LGBT identities and politics in Central and Eastern Europe during the twilight years of the Cold War.

It details the emergence of homosexual movement and charts cross-border...

Category: Conferences, XXw, News, SG - Źródła historyczne, 19th century, Middle Ages, Methodology, Social history, Cultural history

Conference: Religious and ethnic diversity in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from a comparative perspective

18 April 2017

Religious tolerance and its shortcomings in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania remain a subject of intense scholarly investigation. Moreover, the relatively peaceful coexistence of various religious and ethnic groups in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth nourishes the...

Category: Conferences, XXw, News, Middle Ages, Methodology, Military history, Social history, Cultural history, Memory studies, history of Polish culture

PIASA conference in Kraków in 2017- Call for Papers

12 September 2016

 

The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America is pleased to invite proposals for its 75th Annual Conference to be held in conjunction with the Polska Akademia Umiejętności (Polish Academy of Learning) in Kraków, Poland, June 16-18, 2017.

Proposals are solicited for complete sessions or...

Category: Editorial notes, XXw, Albums and photos, Polish historiography, Discussion, News, sources, 19th century, 15 th century, Middle Ages

An interview with the Polish History Museum Director Robert Kostro

10 May 2016

 

This interview inaugurates a series of talks with directors of Polish history museums. The series continues with Paweł Machcewicz, founding director Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, with its scheduled opening in early 2017 the subject of widespread discussion. For the following...

Category: Conferences, XXw, Polish historiography, 16th - 18th century, Discussion, News, Methodology, Social history, Economic history, Political history

PIASA - Call for Papers

08 February 2016

 

The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences (PIASA) and the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto are pleased to invite proposals for PIASA’s 73rd Annual Conference to be held at the University of Toronto, June 11-13, 2015.

Proposals...

Category: Lectures, Holocaust, Polish historiography, Research projects, News, workshop, Memory studies, Methodology

Seminar on the International Tracing Service Digital Archive for Polish Scholars

25 January 2016

 

Seminar on the International Tracing Service Digital Archive for Polish Scholars

September 12–16, 2016

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the...

Category: Lectures, Exhibitions, New publications, Editorial notes, Meeting, Editorial note, Discussion, News, Methodology, Memory studies

From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum - book disscusion in POLIN Museum in Warsaw

07 September 2015

 

Since the late nineteenth century museums have been seen as agents of imperialism and colonialism, strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of elitism and commercialism. What can we therefore do to transform museums into places of open, critical...

Category: New publications, XXw, Polish historiography, News, Methodology, Political history, Social history, Memory studies

Nodes of Memory in Independent Poland - book review

21 December 2014

 

Nodes of Memory in Independent Poland is a book focused on the human memory of historical circumstances. The accent aims to shift from the point of view of historians to the direct point of view of participants in historical events.

 

As Robert Kostro writes in the preface, this phenomenon...