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Totalitarianism Across History and Disciplines

We invite graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from all disciplines to submit proposals for papers regarding any aspect of totalitarianism, from a broad theoretical and historical perspective. The deadline for applications is 15.09.2022. The history of confronting totalitarianism, both as a personal and a collective experience, delivers a universal message in the face of contemporary challenges of radical political evil. Totalitarian regimes…

Category: european history, Polish History, The international online conference, totalitarian regimes, totalitarianism

Reconciliation: a Long and Winding Path. 10th European Remembrance Symposium

The aim of the 10th European Remembrance Symposium is to discuss the meaning and role of reconciliation in the context of both historical and contemporary European internal and international conflicts. Traumas and a painful past are extremely important aspects of national identities and collective memories, requiring adequate commemoration and tributes to the victims. However, if…

Category: european history, history, memory politics, The international online conference

In Search of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

In English, the largest state of early modern east-central Europe is usually called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Polish and Lithuanian versions mean the Republic of the Two Nations (implicitly – Polish and Lithuanian), but this is a relatively recent usage among historians. This elusively named polit, conventionally dated 1569-1795, is often judged by the fact…

Category: early modern Europe, european history, lecture, Polish History, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, The international online conference

Towards a history of compromise: comparing political unions in the British Isles and Poland-Lithuania

Politics in modern democratic and consensual systems depends on compromise, and yet the ability to compromise is not always seen as a virtue. In an age in which political compromise seems ever more difficult to achieve, the lecture “Towards a history of compromise: comparing political unions in the British Isles and Poland-Lithuania” considers the history…

Category: British Isles, european history, Polish History, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, The international online conference, union

Liberating Europe

During the Second World War, the Allies were faced with many challenges, not least of which was the task of retaking Europe from Nazi hands. Beginning on 6 June 1944 with the successful D-Day landings and culminating in the fall of Berlin in May 1945, the liberation of Europe would see brutal fighting, displays of…

Category: allies, europe, Europe in 20th century, european history, Second World War, The international online conference, World War II

1956 De-stalinization; Before and After

Was the year 1956 a turning point in the Cold War? What events during the 1956 had an impact on course of the world history? Is the de-stalinization in the USRR and the Soviet ruled countries all about Krushchev and his secret speech during the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?…

Category: Cold War, communism, european history, Polish History, soviet union, The international online conference

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Totalitarianism Across History and Disciplines

Reconciliation: a Long and Winding Path. 10th European Remembrance Symposium

In Search of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Towards a history of compromise: comparing political unions in the British Isles and Poland-Lithuania

Liberating Europe

1956 De-stalinization; Before and After

St. Maria Faustina Kowalska and the cult of Divine Mercy

On Divine Mercy Sunday

A centre of entertainment and a temple of culture

An interview with Agata Łuksza about the beginnings of Warsaw’s theatre

John III Sobieski and Marysieńka

Love letters of the Polish King to his beloved wife

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795: Light and Flame

Review of the book by Richard Butterwick