A+ Lectures: prof. Patrice Dabrowski: “What Americans know about Polish history - or should!”
The Institute of History and the Office for Development and Cooperation, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, would like to invite you to a new lecture of the second edition of the “A+ Lectures” Programme.
The lecture will be held on 14 December 2021 (Tuesday) and will start at 5 p.m. (GMT+1). The event will be available through our ClickMeeting webinar platform and via our YouTube channel.
The lecture titled “What Americans know about Polish history - or should!” will be delivered by Patrice Dabrowski, Professor of History, Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
About the researcher
Professor Patrice M. Dabrowski is a Harvard-trained historian whose main scholarly interest lies in Polish and East-Central European History. She has taught and worked at Harvard University, Brown University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Vienna. Professor Dabrowski is the author of several books, including a 1000-year history of Poland (Poland: The First Thousand Years) and the just released The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine. In 2014 the President of Poland awarded her the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej). In 2021 professor Dabrowski received the Mary Zirin Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.
Abstract:
Based on her experience lecturing as well as teaching Polish and East-Central European History at several American universities, Professor Patrice M. Dabrowski will present what an average American knows about Polish history, will explain why that might be the case, and will propose various aspects of Polish history that should be of interest to Americans.
Moderator: dr hab. Robert Kuśnierz, prof. AP from the Institute of History of the Pomeranian University in Słupsk
Hosted by: dr hab. Marek Łukasik, prof. AP- Vice-Rector for Development and Cooperation Pomeranian University in Słupsk
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