Zapraszamy do obejrzenia panelu dyskusyjnego, który miał miejsce na konferencji „Przyszłość studiów nad Europą Środkową i Wschodnią w świetle rosyjskiej agresji na Ukrainę” w październiku 2024 r. w Warszawie.

W tej dyskusji panelowej chcemy podsumować konferencję, analizując status studiów nad Europą Środkowo-Wschodnią w kontekście globalnym. Wojna Rosji z Ukrainą skupiła uwagę świata na tym regionie, co mogłoby prowadzić do nowej oceny jego politycznego, kulturowego i historycznego znaczenia. Czy jednak Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia faktycznie zyskała własną podmiotowość badawczą i czy studia nad nią stały się bardziej samodzielne? Zastanowimy się również nad wpływem dyskursu politycznego na naukowy – czy nauka podąża za polityką, a jeśli tak, z jakim skutkiem? Jaką pozycję mogą zająć studia nad tym regionem na globalnym "rynku idei" i jaki wkład mogą wnieść do zachodniej nauki?

Moderator: Dr. Ian Garner, Center for Totalitarian Studies, Pilecki Institute

Paneliści:

• Prof. John Micgiel, East European Centre, University of Warsaw
• Dr. Tetiana Portnova, University of Potsdam
• Prof. Mark Kramer, Harvard University
• Prof. Igor Kąkolweski, Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin

John S. Micgiel is a historian specializing in the modern history of East Central Europe. Having received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, he spent nearly three decades teaching in the University’s School of International and Public Affairs where he was, among other administrative assignments, long-time Director of the Institute on East Central Europe.  For many years he has been recurring Visiting Professor at Warsaw University’s East European Centre. Professor Micgiel has authored or edited more than a dozen books on the region and is a frequent visitor to its academic institutions. His most recent monograph is on US-Polish intelligence cooperation during World War Two and is entitled Project Eagle: The Top Secret OSS Operation that sent Polish Spies Behind Enemy Lines (Essex, CT: Stackpole Books, 2024).

Tetiana Portnova is a historian specializing in intellectual history, urban history and museology. Since November 2023, Portnova has been working as a research associate at the University of Potsdam (DFG position). In 2012-2021 Portnova was an Associate Professor at the Chair of Historiography, Source and Archival Studies of the Dnipro National University. Since 2021 she has been working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Dmytro Yavornytsky Dnipro National History Museum.

Mark Kramer is Director of Cold War Studies at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Director of the Sakharov Program on Human Rights. Originally trained in mathematics at Stanford University, he went on to study international relations as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and an Academy Scholar at Harvard, where he subsequently joined the faculty. In addition to teaching international relations and comparative politics at Harvard, he has been a visiting professor at Yale University, Brown University, Aarhus University in Denmark, and American University in Bulgaria. He has written or edited many books and articles on a variety of topics.

Igor Kąkolewski is the director of the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBH PAN) in Berlin and a professor at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland). Historian, educator, exhibition organizer, and a member of the Joint German-Polish Textbook Commission. In his research Kąkolewski deals with the early modern history of Poland in the European context and German-Polish-Jewish relations. From 2012 to 2020 he was the Polish scientific coordinator on the Polish-German joint history textbook “Europe – Our History”.

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