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Looking for tools to present your content? Family, local or ngo's history, branch's past, history of everyday life or every other content. Download the list of tools here:

How comes to discrimination? Be aware / Jak dochodzi do dyskryminacji? Uświadom sobie

Migration and discrimination of migrants were topics of a two day workshop at the Museum of History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

We learnt what we need to act against discrimination: knowledge, skills, reflection -> motivation to act. These reminds me of the concept of Swiss Johann Pestalozzi „head, heart and hand” [głowa, serce, ręka]. It means that our mind, feelings and actions should "act" together.

Mechanism of discrimination in short looks like this. / Mechanizm dyskryminacji w skrócie wygląda tak:

Jan Karski. Human beings and H/history

Looking for examples of brave but not out of reach people?
Jan Karski was one of them. His life was an inspiration for the conference "Jan Karski. Human beings and H/history. Aims of education for antidiscrimination"

It took place in Polish parlament in November'14, 28-29. 120 teachers and pupils took part on it. You also can do following things:

Network of Polish NGO's

Looking for network of NGO's?
Join the National Federation of Polish NGOs (Ogólnopolska Federacja Organizacji Pozarządowych, OFOP). OFOP is organising a meeting (a forum) of Polish non-governmental organisations every 4 years.

Teaching human rights and history

Combining human rights and history education can be very useful. One of the common values for both fields is the change. If you analyse history you look mostly for the change and dealing with human rights aimes mostly at bringing change into life.

The Change is also a title of a book wich is being prepared by an international team of scientists in collaboration with practitioners of history education and human rights education. I will upload it here, when it will be finished (at the end of 2015 or at the beginning of 2016)

German-Belorussian-Lithuanian relationships

Looking for ideas of scientific excursions? I recommend you to go to Lithuania. I took part on the excursion for German, Lithuanian and Belorussian students „Lithuania During a Period of The Two World Wars“ (05.10.2014 – 17.05.2014, Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania), organised in cooperation with the Vilnius University and European Humanities University.

Here you can  get to know our seminar's programme, so you can organise it for you and your group.

Urban Spaces of L'viv

On May 29-31, 2014 the 12th International Conference "Lviv: City – Society – Culture" took place at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Center for Urban History.

The conference, dedicated to Lviv’s urban space in both its physical and symbolic dimensions, is called "Urban Spaces of Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg: Imagination, Experiences, Practices."

More informations.

The year 1914 and L'viv and Galicia

Because of the 100th anniversary of the begin of World War I there are more publications about this turning point in the history. I wrote an article about the meaning of the year 1914 for L'viv and Galicia. I also wrote about the meaning of Galicia for the states Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Russian Imperium at that time. I've analysed the press and the memoires.

                              
Photo: 1914-1915, L'viv, Russian and Austrian medical service, first-aid workers. Autor: not known, collection: Ośrodek KARTA/KARTA Center. Source: http://foto.karta.org.pl/fotokarta/OK_019689.jpg.php

Textbook "History and human rights"

KARTA Center published the textbook "History and human rights" and translated it into English. You can find the textbook here: http://bit.ly/15Oljrr. I'm the co-editor of the textbook.

Workshops "History and human rights"

History education can be connected with the field of human rights. Since 2010 I'm attempting to do it on a theoretical and practical way. I worked out a theory and methodology on it, which could be useful also for you. You can download it here.

You can also download workshop scenarios for work with adults and pupils here.

History of Śląsk / Silesia

History of the borderland on example of Śląsk / Silesia is very important for Poles, Czechs and Germans.

Prof. Angelow (University Potsdam) conducted a seminar related to the history of Śląsk / Silesia from the 18th till 20th century.

Seminar group in Krasków by Świdnica

The Balkans in the 19. and the 20. century

I took part on a seminar about the history of the relationships on the Balkan in the 19th and 20th century in Varna 2006. On the seminar took part students of history at the Potsdam university and Bulgarian history students.

If you are interested in history of the World War I on the Balkan, I recommend you this book: Der Erste Weltkrieg auf dem Balkan: Perspektiven der Forschung (2011)
 

It's me on the main square in Varna.

Scientific background and mentors

My scientific background is based on study of German culture and language at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń 2002-2007 and history study at University of Potsdam 2007-2013.

I recommend you to go there because of many possibilities to develop your skills and interests. I took part on many excursions to different historical regions of East Central Europe and learnt to make researches on the history and culture of the region.

It all was possible only thanks to help of my mentors, Prof. Jürgen Angelow (University Potsdam), Prof. Maria Gierlak (Nikolaus-Kopernikus-University), Prof. Helmut Peitsch (University Potsdam), Prof. Włodzimierz Zientara (Nikolaus-Kopernikus-University) and Dr. Iwona Kotelnicka (Nikolaus-Kopernikus-University).