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It is with great sadness that we received the news of the death of Prof. Andrzej Paczkowski, an outstanding historian, activist of the democratic opposition during the communist era in Poland, co-founder of our institute, and long-time head of the Department of Contemporary Political History. Professor Paczkowski was the founder of the underground Solidarity Archives and the author of fundamental works on, among other things, the history of the press, the history of the security apparatus and the political system of the Polish People’s Republic, and strategies of social resistance. His studies on the background to the introduction of martial law – “The Road to the ‘Lesser Evil’” and “The Polish-Jaruzelski War” – have become part of the canon of Polish historiography; his books “The Black Book of Communism” and “The Spring Will Be Ours” brought him international renown.
In the deceased, we bid farewell to a friend, colleague, and mentor to generations of Polish historians. The death of Prof. Paczkowski is a great loss for Polish science and public debate.
Richard Pipes Laboratory of Institute of Political Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences invites you to a discussion meeting around the book “The Rise and Fall of the Bund in Poland. 1944-1949”, published by Peter Lang, 2025.
The guest of the meeting will be the author of the book, Dr Martyna Rusiniak-Karwat.
Commentary: Dr Piotr Kędziorek
Chair: Dr Bartłomiej Krzysztan
When: November 17th 2025, 12:00 am
Where: Zoom Platfor
Registration link:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/WApwqPMdQzqkjtNsqUAtZw#/registration
We already know the plenary guests of the V Conference by Richard Pipes’ Laboratory IPS PAS: „5th Conference of the Richard Pipes Laboratory of the IPS, PAS – Imperialism, Decolonization, Agency. Historical and Political Discourses of Power in the Global East”.
Prof. Jie-Hyun Lim of Sogang University in Seul, a historian specializing in studies about memory, nationalism, and history in the transnational aspect.
Prof. Madina Tiostanova of Linköping University in Sweden, specializing in postcolonialism, feminism and decolonialism.
Prof. Jonathan Daly of University Of Ilinois Chicago, a historian specializing in history of Russia and in ideas of civilization.
Mykoła Riabczuk, a Ukrainian intellectualist, essayist and literary critic. Award winner of the POLKUL Foundation for promoting good relations between Poland and Ukraine (1999) and the Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Award (2002).
You can find more about the plenar guests and conference here: https://tiny.pl/7nkw01rh
Deadline for the individual applications is prolonged until April 20th.
Conference co-financed from the state budget, allocated by the Minister of Science as part of the Excellent Science II Program.
Richard Pipes Laboratory at the Institute of Political Studies PAS cordially invites for the seminar:
Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States
Discussion around the book with Authors.
Guests:
Prof. Maria Popova, McGill University
Prof. Oxana Shevel, Tufts University
Chair:
dr Aleksandra Spalińska, Institute of Political Studies PAS
March 25th 2025
2pm CET, 1pm GMT, 9am EST
on the Zoom Platform
Registration link:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/sAl1cV7-RoK7LglFcfeoiQ