Why did the Polish constitution of March 1921 fail to establish a stable political system? What were the factors for emergence of Independent Poland 1918? These and other questions will be discussed during an event organized by the Institute of Polish Military. Antony Polonsky, Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at Brandies University, was a Rhodes…
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…
Don’t miss the chance to listen to a fascinating discussion on the 40th anniversary of imposing martial law in Poland! The discussion will deal with the general context of the 1980s in an international context of politics with Poland as the main focus. During the event scholars will discuss some of the global events during…
Representative assemblies were common in late medieval Europe. Though they varied tremendously in their organization, customs, and functions, they shared a transnational inheritance of ideas and methods that added up to a common European tradition. The political and constitutional significance of individual institutions has been exhaustively documented, but little has been done to investigate them…
The conference “Stalin and his neighbours 1939–1945” aims to analyze the previous interpretations of the goals of the Soviet policy towards Poland and other countries in the region during the Second World War, as well as to identify research gaps. The immediate cause for the organization of this meeting is the 80th anniversary of General…
Pedagogical University of Cracow, in cooperation with Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe), University of Leipzig, Institute of European Network Remembrance and the Solidarity in Warsaw and Paweł Włodkowic Institute in Wrocław, invites you to the 2nd International Scientific Conference: History as an Instrument of Contemporary International Conflicts. The problem of the influence of history on…
