Anna Wylegała

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences



Visiting Researcher

Duration of stay: 12–18 January 2025
Based at IOS

Anna Wylegała is a sociologist and Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Her work focuses on the social history of the II World War and the immediate postwar period. She is also interested in the qualitative methodology of social research, oral history and memory studies. She is author of "Displaced Memories: Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine" (2019) and "Był dwór, nie ma dworu. Reforma rolna w Polsce" [There was an estate, there is no estate any more. Agricultural reform in Poland] (2021). She also co-edited two other volumes: "The Burden of the Past: History, Memory and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine" (2020), and "No Neighbors' Lands: Vanishing Others in Postwar Europe".

She will be a visiting researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America from 12–18 January 2025. She will be collaborating with Sabine Rutar (IOS Regensburg) and Natali Stegmann (UR), who have applied for ScienceCampus Seed Money, to develop research ideas relating to Graphic Novels as a Medium to Visualise Historical Experience of Mass Violence and Refuge. She will also discuss her research on Researching the Collection, Preserving, Analysing and Disclosing of Ukrainian Testimonies of war, as well as presenting the output from a previous project developed with Sabine Rutar on oral history.

Events with Anna Wylegała

 16 Jan 25 | 14:15 | Room S.214, UR Sammelgebäude Colloquium | Anna Wylegala (Warsaw) | The Longue Durée of Social Structures: Post-feudal Perspectives on the Gentry’s Legacy in Poland and Ukraine

 15 Jan 25 | 14:15 | Room S.214, UR Sammelgebäude Guest Lecture | Anna Wylegała (Warsaw) | Talking about the Russian War against Ukraine from Women’s Perspectives

 14 Jan 25 | 16:15 | Room 017, AlFi Landshuter Str. 4 Book Presentation | Anna Wylegała (Warsaw), Sabine Rutar (IOS) & Volha Bartash (UR) | No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe. Vanishing Others