20 April 2021

Speakers

Dr. Łukasz Adamski

Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding
His academic interests include Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Russian relations in historical and contemporary dimensions.

Prof. Jerzy Borzęcki

University of Toronto at Mississauga
Prof. Borzęcki is the author of The Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), favorably reviewed by more than a dozen scholarly journals.

Dr. Estelle Bunout

University of Luxembourg
In her research. Dr. Bunout examines the history of the expertise of Eastern Europe in Germany and Poland (1918-1972), among other subjects.

Prof. Isabelle Davion

Université Paris Sorbonne
Prof. Davion’s research interests include diplomatic-strategic history, history of international relations, history of war, and contemporary history of the Germanic world and of Central and Eastern Europe.

Prof. Frédéric Dessberg

University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Prof. Dessberg’s academic interests include French foreign policy, in particular with regards to Central and Eastern Europe between the two world wars.

Dr. Mateusz Drozdowski

Pedagogical University of Kraków
Dr. Drozdowski’s academic interests include the history of Kraków and the process of rebuilding Polish independence during World War I.

Prof. Paweł Duber

Nottingham Trent University
Prof. Duber is foremost interested in the issue of collective memory and historical politics in contemporary international affairs.

Prof. Maciej Franz

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Prof. Franz’s interests include the military history of the 16th-17th centuries, especially in relation to the Cossacks and the idea of a Cossack state in the Ukraine, as well as the history of the Ukrainian lands from the 16th to the 20th century.

Prof. Małgorzata Gmurczyk-Wrońska

Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History (PAS)
Prof. Gmurczyk-Wrońska researches 20th-century political and diplomatic history, especially of Poland and France.

Prof. Maciej Górny

Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History (PAS)
Prof. Górny is academically interested in the history of East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries and in the history of science.

Dr. Maciej Grabski

Towarzystwo Naukowe im. Wojciecha Kętrzyńskiego (Olsztyn)
Dr. Grabski’s interests include Polish-Russian relations in the second half of the 19th century and in the 20th century; national, social, cultural, political and economic relations in the so-called “Taken Lands” as well as press studies.

Prof. Krzysztof Kania

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Prof. Kania’s academic interests include the history of diplomacy in the first half of the twentieth century and the history of Polish political emigration.

Prof. Yulia Kantor

St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Kantor’s research interests include the history of international relations in the interwar period as well as culture and politics of memory in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space.

Dr. Krzysztof Kloc

Pedagogical University of Kraków
Dr. Kloc’s academic interests include the history of diplomacy in the first half of the twentieth century and the history of Polish Piłsudskiite irredentism of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Tomasz Korban, M.A.

Pedagogical University of Kraków
His research interests include the history of the Polish People’s Republic, especially diplomacy and émigré community.

Prof. Marek Kornat

Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History (PAS)
Prof. Kornat’s research interests include political and diplomatic history of the 20th century.

Prof. John J. Kulczycki

University of Illinois at Chicago
Prof. Kulczycki specializes in the modern history of East Central Europe, with an emphasis on Polish-German relations and nationalism.

Prof. Ēriks Jēkabsons

University of Latvia
Prof. Jēkabsons’s research revolves around the history of modern Latvia: its minorities, military, and relations with Poland.

Prof. Dariusz Jeziorny

University of Łódź
Prof. Jeziorny’s main research focus is international relations during the interwar period, especially British foreign policy.

Dr. Wiktor Marzec

Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies
Dr. Marzec’s interests include historical sociology, historical discourse studies, intellectual history, labor history, public sphere.

Prof. Gennadi Matveyev

Moscow State University
Prof. Matveyev’s interests oscillate around Polish-Soviet relations. He is a member of the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Issues.

Dr. Alexander Ogorodnikov

Polotsk State University
Dr. Ogorodnikov’s academic interests include: the socioeconomic development of cities in the 20th century, urbanization and city-making processes, public administration.

Prof. Adam Ostanek

Technical Military Academy in Warsaw
Prof. Ostanek’s academic interests include the history of interwar Poland’s southeastern territories in terms of the military, internal security, and Polish-Ukrainian relations.

Dr. Wojciech Paduchowski

Institute of National Remembrance (Kraków)
Dr. Paduchowski’s research interests include the socioeconomic history of Poland and world history of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the philosophy of history and public security.

Prof. Jan Pisuliński

University of Rzeszów
Prof. Pisuliński’s academic interests include Polish-Ukrainian relations in the 20th century, diplomatic history, and human rights.

Dr. Piotr Puchalski

Pedagogical University of Kraków
Dr. Puchalski’s academic interests include the history of Poland in a global context; Polish colonial and nationality policies; the evolution of the international system; decolonization.

Julie Reynolds, M.A., J.D.

Independent Scholar
Dr. Reynolds is the Senior Research Librarian at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York.

Prof. Keely Stauter-Halsted

University of Illinois at Chicago
Prof. Stauter-Halsted’s teaching and research examine issues of ethnicity, gender, and class in East Central Europe. Stauter-Halsted has published on topics ranging from peasant nationalism to Polish-Jewish relations, prostitution and human trafficking.

Dr. Jarosław Suchoples

University of Jyväskylä
Dr. Suchoples is involved in a variety of projects on the History and Memory of World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.

Dr. Krystian Maciej Szudarek

University of Szczecin
Dr. Szudarek conducts research on British foreign policy and diplomacy in the 20th century, the question of disarmament in international relations, and the history of the League of Nations.

Prof. Mariusz Wołos

Pedagogical University of Kraków
Prof. Wołos’s academic interests include the history of international relations in the 20th century as well as the foreign affairs of France, Soviet Union and Poland in the first half of the 20th century.