Ethnic Minorities in Polish Lands: Lemkos and Ukrainians

The Jagiellonian Law Society and the Kosciuszko Foundation present the fourth lecture in their series on ethnic minorities in Polish lands.

Ukrainian Lemkos (Carpathian highlanders) from south east Poland. Old prewar photo.

In this webinar, Professor Pisulinski from the University of Rzeszow, Poland will speak about Lemkos, a minority group from south-eastern Poland.

Professor dr. hab. Jan Pisuliński is a Polish historian and currently an assistant professor in University of Rzeszow. He is the chief of the Unit of the Recent History in the Institute of History at Rzeszow University. His main area of research is Polish-Ukrainian relations in the XX century. He is an author of over 60 scientific publications. Among his recent publications are:

  • Not only Petljura: The Ukrainian Question in Polish Foreign Policy, 1918-1923, Wroclaw 2004
  • The Resettlement of the Ukrainian Population from Poland to Soviet Ukraine, 1944-1947, Rzeszow, 2009
  • Special Operation “Vistula,” Libra PL, Rzeszów, 2017
  • Lemkos, Poles, and Operation Vistula: The Suffering of the Lemkos and its Reception Among the Poles, The Polish Review, Vol. 64, No. 2, 2019
The event will take place on 24 February 2022 at 12 PM US EST.

 

Registration link: https://bit.ly/3qFaGrw

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