Tomasz Hen-Konarski, Visiting Scholar at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University and Researcher at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (IH PAN)
IN-PERSON ONLY
All attendees of this lecture are invited to come at 12:15pm for a light lunch. The lecture will start at 12:30pm.
Galicia occupies a special place in Ukrainians’ understanding of their national past, both vernacular and scholarly. But how "Galician" is the hegemonic narrative of Galicia’s history? In this talk, Tomasz Hen-Konarski will invite the audience to reflect on the hidden costs of the nationalization of the past in a province that took shape in legal circumstances profoundly different from those prevalent in most Ukrainian territories. What could we gain and what do we risk losing by questioning the smooth flow of Ukrainian nation-building on both banks of the Zbruch?
Dr. Tomasz Hen-Konarski is a researcher at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (IH PAN). He holds Magister degree from the University of Warsaw and PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (2017). Apart from Florence and Warsaw, he either studied or taught in Bielefeld, Budapest, London, Lviv, and Vienna. His research interests include: Polish and Ukrainian nation building in Galicia, Catholic Enlightenment, and the Greek Catholic Church as a political institution of the Austrian Monarchy.
Tomasz is a member of two research teams: Adam Kożuchowski’s “Polish Socio-Political Concepts of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century” at IH PAN in Warsaw (2021-2025, funded by Poland’s NCN) and András Fejérdy’s “Negotiating Sovereignty: Challenges of Secularism and Nation Building in Central Eastern Europe since 1780” at the Research Centre for the Humanities in Budapest (2022-2027, funded by ERC). He published his work on Austrian, Polish, and Ukrainian topics in Acta Poloniae Historica, Austrian History Yearbook, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, European History Quarterly, and Kwartalnik Historyczny. He serves also as one of the convenors of the Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History.
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LOCATION:Pritsak Memorial Library at HURI, 34 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20231212T173000Z DTEND:20231212T190000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR