Research Colloquium | Magdalena Nowak (Gdansk) | The Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Process and Beyond

Abstract:

This lecture presents the Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation process (its phases 1989/90–2025) and its historical background: The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict in the 19th and 20th history (the Polish-Ukrainian War 1918–1919, The Volhynia Massacre, The Vistula Action 1947). Current development of the reconciliation and its future perspectives will be also reflected upon during the lecture.

Bio:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. hab. Magdalena Nowak has been affiliated with the Institute of History at the University of Gdańsk since 1996, where she has held various academic and administrative roles, including Deputy Dean for Students and Education (2008–2012) and head of the Historical Tourism Working Team (2015–2019). She earned her PhD in Humanities in 2004 and completed her habilitation in 2019, both at the University of Gdańsk. Her research focuses on Polish-Ukrainian relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, the interplay between Latin- and Greek-rite Catholic traditions, the national consciousness of Poles and Ukrainians, and the identity of Metropolitan Archbishop Andrei Sheptyts’kyi. Her monograph on Sheptyts’kyi has received multiple academic awards and is being translated into Ukrainian. Prof. Nowak is an active member of several scholarly associations, including ASEEES, MAG, and the Polish History Society.