The 4th Congress of International
Researchers of Polish History
The 4th Congress of International Researchers of Polish History will take place in
Kraków on October 19-22, 2022. It is organized by the Polish Historical Society and co-
organized by the Jagiellonian University, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Polish History
Museum, Kraków Museum, and International Culture Centre.
The theme of the Congress will be “meetings of cultures”. We would like to look at
the history of Polish lands through the prism of mutual relations and interactions with
decades- and centuries-old trends and cultural patterns. Ideas and goods, customs and
patterns, identities and languages inter each other here like in a melting pot. Cultural, ethnic,
linguistic, religious, economic, demographic, and social cultures, they constituted a dominant
factor in Polish history, leaving a lasting trace in our cultural heritage and collective identity.
By inviting researchers interested in the history of Poland to Kraków, we would like to
address questions about the dynamics, scale and complexity of these interactions, the main
directions of their transmission and retransmission, and to look at the effects of the meetings
of cultures for the history of Poland.
We invited representatives of various disciplines to participate in the Congress:
historians, archaeologists, art historians, anthropologists, sociologists, literary scholars,
linguists, and cultural scientists. Graduate and undergraduate students will also be featured in
their own sessions. There will be a poster session and the next edition of the “Pro Historia
Polonorum: competition for the best foreign book on Polish history published in recent years,
as well as other accompanying events, including the promotion of Kraków as a university
city.
Agnieszka Chlosta-Sikorska & Marcin Jarzabek
Co-chairman of the Organizing Committee
Congress Secretariat
Polish Historical Association, Krakow Branch
ul. Gołębia 13 31-007 Kraków
email: sekretariat.ivkongres@uj.edu.pl