Lecture: Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Process and Beyond

Lecturer: Magdalena Nowak (University of Gdańsk)

Language: English

Organised by: Chair of History of Southeast and Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg in cooperation with the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Europe and America in the Modern World” and the Center for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies “Think Space Ukraine”, funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA)

Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Process and Beyond

This lecture presents the Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation process (1989/90-2025) and its historical background (phases, current situation, future perspectives).

The lecture is part of the research colloquium “History and Social Anthropology of Southeastern and Eastern Europe”. You can find the program of the colloquium under the link.

Magdalena Nowak

Assoc. Prof., Dr. hab. Magdalena Nowak has been working at the Institute of History (Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk) since 1996. From 2008 to 2012 she was the Deputy Dean (Students and Education) of the Faculty of History. 2015-2019 she was the head of Historical Tourism Working Team, Institute of History. 1986-1991 she completed her historical studies at the University of Gdańsk. In 2004 she received her Doctor’s Degree (PHD) in Humanities (University of Gdańsk). In 2019 she completed her habilitation at Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk. She conducted her research in Poland, in Lviv, Ukraine (2000-2010) and in Vienna as a beneficent of Lanckoroński Fund Scholarship in Vienna (2008, 2009).

Her scholarly interests include Polish-Ukrainian relations of 19th and 20th centuries; relations between the Latin- and Greek-rite of the Catholic Churches; the development of national consciousness of Poles and Ukrainians; the shaping of national identity of Metropolitan Archbishop Andrei Sheptyts’kyi (1865-1944), history of tourism.

Photo: Lucyna Lewandowska, https://en.historia.ug.edu.pl/strona/103937/nowak_magdalena