IX EAST EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL 2000


LECTURES - WARSAW(June 25-July 4)


MARTIN MALIA - professor of history, University of California, Berkeley
Russia in the Western Eyes (inaugural lecture of the School)

(June 26-29: Reunions activities for the past graduates East European Summer School)

ZBIGNIEW WOJCIK - historian, professor emeritus, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw)
17th Century: Changing Power Relations in Eastern Europe

WŁADYSŁAW A. SERCZYK - historian, professor, Pedagogical College (Rzeszów, Poland)
18th Century: Russia in Europe - The Building of an Empire

ROMAN WAPINSKI - historian, professor, Gdańsk University
19th and 20th Centuries: The Heritage of the Rzeczpospolita and the New Ideologies of National Independence

PIOTR EBERHARDT - geographer, professor, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw)
20th Century: Evolution of the Nationality Question in East Central Europe



LECTURES - WARSAW (July 12-15)


WOJCIECH ROSZKOWSKI - historian, professor, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw)
20th Century: East Central Europe during the Communist Period

LENA KOLARSKA-BOBINSKA - sociologist, director of the Institute of Public Affairs (Warsaw)
The 1990's and Beyond: The Transformation in East Central European Countries

BOHDAN OSADCZUK - historian, professor emeritus, Free University of Berlin
The Successes and Failures of Prediction: East Central Europe Over the Past Half Century (closing lecture of the School)


In addition: visits to institutions, archives, libraries, museums, and a field trip: Palaces of Warsaw. The field trip will be conducted by: WALDEMAR BARANIEWSKI - historian of art, assistant professor at the University of Warsaw.



LECTURES - WROCŁAW (July 6-10, at the Ossolineum)


WŁADYSŁAW BARTOSZEWSKI - Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Solidarity - Poland - Europe, 1980-2000 (inaugural lecture of the session)

ADOLF JUZWENKO - historian, director of the Ossolineum Library (Wrocław)
The Anti-Communist Opposition in the People's Republic of Poland: Origins - Evolution - Legacy
Round Table Discussion: Anti-Communist Opposition in the People's Republic of Poland, with leaders of the former Opposition and of the Solidarity

ANDRZEJ PACZKOWSKI - historian, professor, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw)
The Problem of Resistance on a Social Level under Communism

BOHDAN OSADCZUK - historian, professor emeritus, Free University of Berlin
Solidarity in Poland and Oppositional Activities in Ukraine

AKOS ENGELMAYER - former Hungarian ambassador to Poland and Belarus
The Polish Opposition, Solidarity, and Opposition Movements in Central Europe

DIETER BINGEN - political scientist, historian, Deutsches Polen-Institut (Darmstadt)
The Federal Republic of Germany's Policy Toward Poland and the USSR after 1980

ANDRZEJ KORBONSKI - political scientist, professor, University of California, Los Angeles
US Policy toward Soviet Union after 1980 (closing lecture of the session)



SEMINARS


1. East Central Europe: Where Cultures, Nations, and Religions Meet (BOHDAN CYWINSKI - historian, professor, University of Warsaw)

2. The West's Eastern Policy (BOHDAN OSADCZUK - historian, professor emeritus, Free University of Berlin)

3. Russian Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Present (MICHAEL RYWKIN - professor emeritus, City College of New York)

4. Twentieth Century Polish Culture (ANDRZEJ MENCWEL - cultural historian, professor, University of Warsaw)

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