Monday, 21 May 2018, 6:00pm
Latimer Room, Clare College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录 听
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Deputy Director of the Warsaw Rising Museum, Dr听Pawe艂 Ukielski, discussed his involvement with the Museum from its establishment in 2004 to the present, while also commenting on larger trends in Polish perceptions of the nation鈥檚 past in the years since 1989. 听
This talk was听the first in a series of events sponsored by the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Committee for Russian and East European Studies () exploring the different ways in which historical events are being portrayed in Central and Eastern Europe today, with a particular focus on efforts to infuse technology and trends in popular culture into narratives of past events so as to appeal to younger generations.听The听event - co-organised by 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Polish Studies - was听hosted听by , a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of History currently working on the memory of the Warsaw Rising. 听 听听
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Dr Pawe艂 Ukielski is a political scientist, historian, and the current Deputy Director of the Warsaw Rising Museum (2004-2014, and since 2016). He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a lecturer at the Collegium Civitas University. From 2014-16 he was vice president of the Institute of National Remembrance, and from 2011-17 he served on the Executive Board of the Platform of European Remembrance and Conscience. He has conducted research and taught courses on the Central-East European post-communist transition, regional cooperation in East-Central Europe, the break-up of Czechoslovakia, Czech-Slovak relations, and the politics of remembrance. He is the author of Aksamitny rozw贸d. Rola elit politycznych w procesie podzia艂u Czechos艂owacji (鈥楾he velvet divorce. The role of political elites in the division of Czechoslovakia鈥�), published in 2007, and the co-author of 1989 鈥� Jesie艅 Narod贸w (鈥�1989 鈥� The Autumn of Nations鈥�), the Polish edition of which was published in 2009. He has written for several Polish and European academic journals and is the author of a report published in 2016 entitled Mapa Tr贸jmorza. Przegl膮d punkt贸w wsp贸lnych i rozbie偶no艣ci w polityce 12 pa艅stw regionu听(鈥楢 map of the three seas. An overview of common points and discrepancies in the policies of the 12 countries in the region鈥�).
