2011 – Lvivcenter

Magdalena Semczyszyn

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 07:02:32 +0000

Magdalena Semczyszyn (born 1982) is a historian, and graduate of the Department of History and International Relations at the University of Szczecin. Since 2006, she has worked at theBranch Office for Public Education, Institute of National Remembrance in Szczecin where she researched mainly the local works of national minorities. She’s also interested in Polish-Ukrainian relations in the XIX-XX centuries. Magdalena Semczyszyn is currently working on a doctoral dissertation, entitled The Activities of the Central Voting Committee in the Light of Nationality-Related, Social and Political Problems in Eastern Galicia during the Years 1867–1906. She has written scholarly articles on this topic and has co-edited and translated for the book Wielki terror na Ukrainie. Operacja polska 1937-1938, t. 1-2, Warszawa 2010. (Great Terror in Ukraine. The Polish Operation of 1937-1938).

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Dr. Jan Fellerer

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:58:43 +0000

Born in Munich in 1968, Jan Fellerer graduated in Slavonic Philology from the University of Vienna in 1995. After a few years at the Department of Slavonic Philology at the University of Basel, where he received his doctorate in 1999, Jan Fellerer took up the post of University Lecturer in non-Russian Slavonic Languages at the University of Oxford, Wolfson College. Jan Fellerer’s main research interests lie in the field of Polish, Czech and Ukrainian linguistics and philology with special reference to the modern period from the late 18th century to the present day. He has published widely on Slavonic syntax, aspects of the history of Polish, Czech and Ukrainian, discourse analysis, language contact and historical sociolinguistics, including a book on multilingualism in 19th-century Galicia and an edited volume on discourses of resistance in the late Habsburg Monarchy.

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Marco Carynnyk

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:55:59 +0000

Marco Carynnyk is a writer, researcher, and translator. He has written several works on the topics of literature and cinema, and edited a compendium of documents on the Ukrainian Famine. He is currently working on a book about Ukrainians, Jews, and Poles in Galicia and Volhynia in 1939 – 1941.

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Dr. Katarzyna Kotyńska

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:52:48 +0000

Dr. Katarzyna Kotynska is a researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), instructor at Jagiellonski University, and translator of Ukrainian literature. Her research interests include Lviv as a literary phenomenon, and the history of Ukrainian literary essay.

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Prof. Natalia Aleksiun

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:44:45 +0000

Natalia Aleksiun studied Polish and Jewish history at the Warsaw University, the Graduate School of Social Studies in Warsaw and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was a fellow of Foundation for Polish Science (Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej), Batory Foundation, Fulbright, Lady Davis, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York and the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. She received her doctorate from Warsaw University in 2001. Her dissertation appeared in print as Where to? The Zionist Movement in Poland , 1944-1950 (in Polish) in 2002. In 2010, she received her second PhD from New York University based on her dissertation entitled: "Ammunition in the Struggle for National Rights: Jewish Historians in Poland between the Two World Wars".

She published in Polin, Yad Vashem Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, Studies in Contemporary Jewry and German History. She is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, New York. She was also Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently, she is working on two book projects: on Jewish Historians in the Second Polish Republic and the so called cadaver affair at Medical Departments of Polish Universities in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Olha Martynyuk

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:41:36 +0000

Olha Martyniuk is a PhD candidate at National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". Her field of concentration: Kyiv, in the inter-revolutionary period - 1905-1917, public policy, State Duma elections, Russian conservatism and liberalism, anti-Semitism, nationalism, and the women’s movement.

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