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Lemkin 2018-2023

The objective of the project, which is supervised by Professor Piotr Madajczyk, is to examine and popularize the achievements of 20th-century Polish legal thought, with a particular focus on Polish intellectuals, chief among them Rafał Lemkin.

Scientific conferences, exhibitions and publications, organized on an annual basis, will center on a discussion of the new paradigm of sovereignty, human rights, and international law in the wake of the catastrophe of the Second World War.

The full name of the project is “The contribution of Polish legal and scientific thought to the shaping of the concept of genocide. Rafał Lemkin and the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Polish experience of occupation by National-Socialist Germany”.

The project is financed under the “Szlakami Polski Niepodległej” Program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the years 2018–2023, project no. 01SPN1705318, amount of funding: 985,110 PLN.

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    On September 9, the Pilecki Institute in New York invites you to an international expert seminar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance. The following day (September 10), there will be a meeting with Holocaust survivor Eva Paddock. The events accompany the exhibition “Between Life and Death. Stories of Aid during the Holocaust,” which can be visited until October 29, 2026.

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    Call for Articles – Volume 9 of the Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies yearbook

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