Professor Hubert Chudzio

hubert.chudzio@up.krakow.pl

Employee of the University of Pedagogy at the Institute of History and Archival Studies, Chair of 19th Century History

Director of the Documentation Centre for Displaced Persons, Exiles and Resettlement UP

Doctoral dissertation:

Dissertation topic: General Ludwik Bystrzonowki (1797-1878) – political and military activities, 2006

Habilitation dissertation:

Dissertation topic: Egypt in the legionary idea of the Great Emigration, 2015

Grants and research work: head of the grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the project of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities, entitled. “Generations are leaving. Source accounts of Polish Sybiraks from Great Britain” 2012-2016; member of the MNiSW grant, within the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities: “Inventory of historical materials on Polish emigration in the nineteenth century from the collections of the Polish Library in Paris and the Historical and Literary Society, together with the source edition of selected materials”, supervisor: Janusz Pezda, Ph.D.; manager of a long-term project (2008-2016): “Inventory of graves, quarters and war cemeteries in the territory of Malopolska”; manager of 16 foreign missions on five continents mainly documenting the fate of Polish Sybiraks in the world, manager of a project under a grant implemented from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within the framework of the Polish Sites of National Remembrance Abroad programme, entitled. “Renovation and documentation of the Polish cemetery in Kidugala (Tanzania) from the 1940s” (2021), project manager of the project within the grant implemented from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within the framework of the Polish Sites of National Remembrance Abroad programme, entitled “Renovation and documentation of the Polish cemetery in Kidugala (Tanzania) from the 1940s” (2021). ‘Renovation and documentation of Polish tombstones in the former Polish settlement of Masindi (Uganda) and inventory of the church’ (2022), head of the grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the project of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities entitled. “Diaspora of Polish Sybiraks in the world – record of source accounts/Notations and home archives of Sybiraks in the country – archival team” (2022-2027).

Membership of associations and scientific institutions:

Polish Historical Association
PAU Commission for the Study of the Polish Diaspora
Association of the Polish-German Centre in Cracow.
Association Polonaise des Auteurs, Journalistes et Traducteurs en Europe – A.P.A.J.T.E.

International and inter-institutional cooperation: Polish Library in Paris;

Polish Institute and Władysław Sikorski Museum in London; Józef Piłsudski Institute in New York; Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw.

Achievements:

Awards for scholarly and artistic activities:

Jerzy Skowronek Award, for the monograph “Politician of the Hotel Lambert. General Ludwik Bystrzonowski 1797-1878”. Awarded by the Chapter of the Jerzy Skowronek Award.
‘Światowid’ statuette – Awarded: “in recognition of his merits in the field of popularisation of Polish archaeology”. Awarded by: Archaeological Museum in Cracow, 2010.
Award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for the film “Ni Anch Nefertum – forgotten priest” – 2006.
Awards of the Rector of the Pedagogical University of Krakow for scientific and organisational activities 5 times – 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2015.
Grand Prix of the Popular Science Film Festival in Gdańsk, for the film “Ni Anch Nefertum – forgotten priest”. Organised by the University of Gdańsk – 2006.

Decorations:

Bronze Medal for Long Service – 2009
Silver Cross of Merit – 2012
Pro Memoria’ Medal – 2012
Sybiraka Honorary Badge – 2012
Gold Badge of Honour for Services to the Sybiraks Association – 2015
Silver Medal of Honour for Services to the Malopolska Region – 2021
Protector of Places of National Remembrance medal – 2022

Conference organisation:

Conference Organising Committee: “The history of the Polish nation and state – the editorial output of the National Publishing Agency”. Cracow 1998 Organizer: WSP Cracow.
Conference Organising Committee: “Lviv. City, Society, Culture. Cracow 2000. Organizer: Pedagogical Academy.
Organizing Committee of the XVII General Assembly of Historians in Cracow, 2004. Organiser: Polish Historical Association.
Organising Committee of the Conference (initiator of the conference): “Galicia in the Duchy of Warsaw. 200th Anniversary”. Cracow 2007. Organised by the Pedagogical University.
Conference Organising Committee (initiator and co-chairman of the conference): “Around the November Uprising. 180 – Anniversary”. Kraków 2010. Organisation: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Pedagogical University.
Organising Committee of the Conference (initiator and chairman): “From the frost of Siberia under the sun of Africa”. Cracow 2010. organisation Pedagogical University.
Organising Committee of the International Conference (initiator and organiser): “War and occupation in the memory of a small city”. Cracow 2013. organiser: the Documentation Centre of Displaced Persons, Expulsions and Resettlement of the UP and the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Scientific Committee (Vice-Chairman): IV Congress of Polish Scientific Societies Abroad. Cracow 2014. organisation Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Scientific Committee (co-initiator): Europe in Asia. From the history of Polish citizens in Kazakhstan during World War II. Polish-Kazakh academic conference, Krakow 2016. Organisers: the Institute of National Remembrance, the Documentation Centre for Dispatches, Expulsions and Resettlement UP, the Institute of History and Archival Studies UP.

Publications:

Monographs:

– Politician of the Lambert Hotel. General Ludwik Bystrzonowski, Kraków 2008, pp. 327.

– Egypt in the Legionary Idea of the Great Emigration, Kraków 2014, pp. 316.

Edited works:

– Galicia in the Duchy of Warsaw. 200th Anniversary, Kraków 2009 (ed. with H. Żaliński), pp. 228.

– From the Frost of Siberia under the Sun of Africa. On the 70th Anniversary of the Arrival of Polish Sybiraks in Eastern and Southern Africa, Kraków 2012, pp. 239.

– Around the November Uprising. A collection of studies, Kraków 2014 (ed. with J. Pezda), pp. 491.

Source editions:

– Generations Go Away. Source accounts of Polish Sybiraks in the UK. Nottingham, UP Scientific Publishing House, Kraków 2014, (ed. with A. Hejczyk), pp. 456.

– Pokolenia Odchodzą. Source accounts of Polish Sybiraks from Great Britain. Bradford, UP Scientific Publishing House, Kraków 2015,(edited with A. Hejczyk and A. Szopa), pp. 378.

– Generations Gone. Source accounts of Polish Sybiraks in Great Britain. Leeds, UP Scientific Publishing House, Krakow 2015, (ed. with A. Chłosta-Sikorska, M. Buś), pp. 392.

– K. Chyży – Ostrowska, Widziałam i pisałam… Pamiętnik niesłyszącej Sybiraczki, compilation of source text and edition by Hubert Chudzio, Kraków 2016, pp. 544.

Catalogues of archival collections:

– Catalogue of the collection of the Polish Library in Paris “Ogół Emigracji Polskiej w Anglii”, No. III, (typescript and electronic version, co-authored by H. Żaliński), 2012, pp. 240.

Articles:

– Ludwik Bystrzonowski (1797-1878). Agent of the Hotel Lambert in the Balkans in the era of the Spring of Nations, [in:] Year 1848. The Spring of Nations in Galicia, ed. by W. Wica, Cracow 1999, pp. 176-190.

– The uncommon military career of General Ludwik Bystrzonowski, [in:] V Sympozjum Biografistyki Polonijnej – Kraków 2000, ed. by A. Judycka and B. Klimaszewski, Lublin 2000, pp. 333-342.

– August Szultz – engineer and builder of Muhammad Ali’s fortresses, [in:] Poles and persons of Polish origin in the armed forces and police of foreign countries. Materiały VI Międzynarodowego Sympozjum Biografistyki Polonijnej – Brussels 2001, pod red. A. i Z. Judyckich, Toruń 2001, pp. 51-61.

– Father Maksymilian Ryłło (1802-1848) – activity in Syria and Lebanon, [in:] Duchowieństwo polskie w świecie. Materials of the VII International Symposium on Polish Biographical Studies: Rome, 17-18 October 2002, ed. by A. and Z. Judyckich, Toruń 2002, pp. 42-50.

– Adam Kulczycki (1809-1882) – Polish explorer of Oceania in the service of France, [in:] Poles in France. History and the Present. Materials of the 8th International Symposium on Polish Biographical Studies: Stella Plage – Vadricourt, 2-3 October 2004, ed. by A. and Z. Judyckich, Warsaw 2004, pp. 17 – 27.

– Kraków the “capital” of the Duchy of Warsaw. The last months of the Potyl¿an state, [in:] Kraków, Studia z dziejów miasta. W 750 rocznicy lokacji, edited by J. Rajman, Kraków 2007, pp. 133-147.

– Paris. Country. Europe. Sposoby komunikowania agentów Hotelu Lambert, [in:] Komunikowanie i komunikacja na ziemiach polskich w latach 1795-1918, ed. by K. Stępnik and M. Rajewski, Lublin 2008, pp. 87-98.

– Militia of the Free City of Kraków, Police Historical Magazine, Warsaw 2008, pp. 38- 42.

– Dilemmas of power. The Government of the Duchy of Warsaw in Galicia [in:] Galicia in the Duchy of Warsaw. 200. rocznica, ed. by H. Żaliński and H. Chudzio, Kraków 2009, pp. 34-73.

– Fascination with the Orient. Polscy podróżnicy na Bliskim Wschodzie w pierwszej połowie XIX wieku, [in:] Polska kultura fizyczna i turystyka w czasach zaborów i II Rzeczypospolitej [Polish Physical Culture and Tourism in the Times of the Partitions and the Second Polish Republic], ed. by D. Dudek, Studia i Monografie nr 61, Kraków 2009, p. 48-61.

– Emigracja polska w Portsmouth w świetle dziennika Franciszka Stawiarskiego (Polish emigration in Portsmouth in the light of Franciszek Stawiarski’s diary), [in:] Pamiętniki, dzienniki i relacje od nowożytności do czasów współczesnych, jako źródła do badań historycznych, ed. by K. Karolczak, Kraków 2011, pp. 113-125.

– Misdemeanours, Misdemeanours, Crimes: The Criminal Law of the Polish Emigration in Great Britain [in:] Man in the Theatre of the World: Studies in History and Culture dedicated to Professor Stanisław Grzybowski on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, ed. by B. Popiołek, Kraków 2010. p. 203-214.

– Polish generals in the defence of the Kars fortress during the Crimean War, “Studia z Historii Społeczno-Gospodarczej XIX i XX wieku”, ed. by W. Pusia and J. Kita, vol. 9, Łódź 2011, pp. 153- 172.

– Polish emigration in Portsmouth in the light of Franciszek Stawiarski’s diary, [in:] Pamiętniki, dzienniki i relacje od nowożytności do czasów współczesnych, jako źródła do badań historycznych, ed. by K. Karolczak, Kraków 2011, pp. 113-125.

– Caucasian affairs in European politics in the years 1831-1864 – Ludwik Widerszal’s youthful dissertation, [in:] L. Widerszal, Caucasian affairs in European politics in the years 1831-1864, “Klasycy Historiografii Warszawskiej”, Warsaw 2011, pp. 291-305.

– Polish Scouting in Eastern and Southern Africa in the Years 1941-1948, [in:] Ideały wychowawcze i myśl polityczna harcerstwa polskiego, edited by G. Baziura, Kraków 2011, pp. 77-99 (co-author: A. Hejczyk).

– On the scouting trail in the jungle and savannah. Polish Scouting in Africa in the years 1941- 1948, “Kraków Yearbook of Scouting History”, vol. VII, Kraków 2011, pp. 31-44.

– Inventory of graves, quarters and war cemeteries on the territory of Malopolska in the light of the Act of 1933 On graves and war cemeteries, [in:] Kłopotliwe pamiątki. The Difficulty of Inheritance, ed. by Z. Budrewicz and M. Sienko, Kraków 2012, pp. 131-147.

– From Siberia to the Black Land. Polish settlements in East and Southern Africa in the years 1942- 1952, [in:] From the Frost of Siberia under the Sun of Africa. On the 70th anniversary of the arrival of Polish Sybiraks in Eastern and Southern Africa, ed. by H. Chudzio, Krakow 2012, pp. 71-113.

– Lost homeland. Kresowianie w Afryce Wschodniej i Południowej w czasie II wojny światowej i po wojnie. Reactions to the “Yalta” decisions, [in:] Kresowianie na świecie, ed. by M. Kalczyńska, K. Rostocka, A. Wierciński, Opole 2013, pp. 55-69 (co-authored with A. Hejczyk).

– The Legion Idea in the Thought of the Great Emigration in the Years 1831-1834, [in:] Wokół powstania listopadowego. A collection of studies, ed. by H. Chudzio, J. Pezda, Kraków 2014, pp. 265-284.

– Collections of the Centre for Documentation of Displacement, Expulsion and Resettlement, “Archeion” no. 114 (2013), Warsaw 2013, pp. 59-70 (co-authored with A. Hejczyk).

– Из Сибири в свободный мир через польские представительства в Казахстане, [in:] Польские дипломаты в Казахстане 1941-1943 годы, Astana 2015, pp. 9-17.

– “For our freedom and yours …”. Polish deportees in ranks of the 2nd Polish Corps, “Biztpol Affairs”, Vol. 3, No. 3, Budapest 2015, pp. 10 – 24. (http://corvinusculture.com/wpcontent/uploads/2016/02/biztpol_affairs_3.31.pdf ) (co-authored with A. Hejczyk).

– From across the sea and the ocean. Reactions of Polish emigrants from Algeria and the USA to the events of 1848, article in print (for the memorial book of Prof. A. Cetnarowicz), Kraków 2016.

Other articles:

– Conference: ‘Dzieje narodu i państwa polskiego – dorobek edytorski Krajowej Agencji Wydawniczej’, Historical Studies, Year XLII, 1999, notebook 4 (167), pp. 640-642.

– 5th International Symposium on Polish Biographical Studies. Kraków 22-23 September 2000, in: ‘Konspekt. Journal of the Pedagogical Academy in Kraków, no. 4, Autumn 2000, Kraków 2000, pp. 107-108.

– Encyclopedia of Krakow, Biographical entries, Krakow 2000.

– Egyptian passions – or with archaeologists under the pyramids, to: “Konspekt”, no. 14/15 (2003), pp. 71- 74.

– We are slaves to our historical culture and politics. On methodological problems of history discussed by Jacek Chrobaczyński, Andrzej Chwalba, Czesław Robotycki and Krzysztof Zamorski, (leading the discussion, writing and drafting the article): “Konspekt”, no. 14/15 (2003), pp. 47-55.

– On the need for a “Centre for film documentation of the humanities”, “Konspekt”, no. 14/15 (2003), p. 104.

– Militia of the Free City of Cracow (1815-1846), “IPA” (Nationwide Quarterly of the International Police Association), no. 28, Poznań – Katowice 2004.

– Foreign historians at the 17th General Meeting of Polish Historians. Interview with Prof. Henryk W. Żaliński, “Konspekt”, no. 21 (2005).

– Stanisław Zatłoka from Czerwienne – actor, journalist, social activist [in:] Podhalanie w świecie. History and the Present. Materiały IX Międzynarodowego Sympozjum Biografistyki Polonijnej: Zakopane 9-11 September 2005, ed. by A. and Z. Judyckich and H. W. Żaliński,

Kraków 2005, pp. 43-47.

– Summary of the activity of the Students’ Scientific Circle of AP Historians in the academic year 2003/2004, “Annales Academiae Paedagogicae Cracoviensis”, Folia 28, Studia Historica IV (2005), ed. by J. Gołębiowski, Cracow 2005, pp. 262-264.

– Summary of the activities of the Student Scientific Circle of AP Historians in the academic year 2004/2005, “Annales Academiae Paedagogicae Cracoviensis”, Folia 29, Studia Historica IV (2006), ed. by J. Gołębiowski, Kraków 2006.

– Introduction (co-authored with H. Żaliński) [in:] Galicia w Księstwie Warszawskim 200. rocznica, ed. by H. Żaliński and H. Chudzio, Kraków 2009, pp. 5-9.

– Activities of the Student Scientific Circle of AP Historians in 2005/2007 “Annales Academiae Paedagogicae Cracoviensis”, Studia Historica VII (2008), ed. by J. Gołębiowski and K. Polk, Kraków 2008.

– Activities of the Students’ Scientific Circle of the UP Historians in 2007-2008, “Annales Academiae Paedagogicae Cracoviensis”, Folia 66, Studia Historica VIII (2009), ed. by J. Gołębiowski and K. Polk, Kraków 2009, pp. 291-293.

– Scientific Camp of the Joachim Lelewel Student Scientific Circle of Historians UP in the Gorlice district in 2008, “Annales Academiae Paedagogicae Cracoviensis”, Folia 66, Studia Historica VIII (2009), ed. by J. Gołębiowski and K. Polk. Polk, Kraków 2009, pp. 295-298.

– Opinion on the textbook by Grażyna Szelągowska Ludzie, społeczeństwo, cywilizacje. Historia XIX i XX w.: podręcznik dla liceum ogólnokształcącego, liceum profilowanego i technikum (zakres podstawowy), WSiP, Warszawa 2003 [in:] Prace Komicji PAU do oceny podręczników szkolnych, vol. VII, pod red. G. Chomickiego, Kraków 2009.- From the Frost of Siberia under the Sun of Africa.The mission of historians of the Pedagogical University in East Africa, “Konspekt”, no. 3-4/2009 (33), Kraków 2009, pp. 77-87.- Student Scientific Circle of Historians of the Pedagogical University at a scientific camp in the Nowy Sącz district; “Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis.Studia Historica”. – 2010, Z. 9, pp. 146-147.

– Summary of the activities of the Student Scientific Circle of Historians UP in the academic year 2008/2009, “Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historica”. – 2010, Z. 9, pp. 140-145.

– On the big screen, “Living Archaeology”, no. 1 (53), 2011, pp. 30-31 (co-authored with J. Rydzewski).

– Documentation and renovation of Polish cemeteries in Tanzania and Uganda, “Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historica”. – 2011, Z. 10, pp. 154-161.

– Student Scientific Circle of Historians of the Joachim Lelewel Pedagogical University in the academic year 2009/2010, “Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historica”. – 2011, Z. 10, pp. 149-153.

– “They came out of the land of slavery… On the 70th anniversary of the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement”. Exhibition at the Archaeological Museum in Kraków, “Zesłaniec”, No. 48, Warsaw 2011, pp. 109-111.

– Opening of the Centre for the Documentation of Displacement, Expulsion and Resettlement, “Zesłaniec”, no. 47, Warsaw 2011, pp. 194-195.

– Introduction, [in:] From the Frost of Siberia under the Sun of Africa. On the 70th anniversary of the arrival of Polish Sybiraks in Eastern and Southern Africa, ed. by H. Chudzio, Kraków 2012, pp. 7-12.

– The Polish Library in Paris – the work of historians at the Pedagogical University on its collections, “Konspekt”, no. 1/2013 (46), Kraków 2013, pp. 80-86.

– Introduction, [in:] K. Rafalska, Przeżyłam łagry. Memories of a Polish teacher from Polesia, Kraków 2013, pp. 5-14.

– Film documentation of archaeological excavations and its various uses, [in:] First Congress of Polish Archaeology, Warsaw, 19-21 September 2013, Warsaw 2013, p. 211.

– On the guinea fowls at Countess Reyowa’s. 12. 12. Montrésor, [in:] Sztambuch Henrik W. Żaliński, ed. by K. Karolczak, Ł. T. Sroka, Warsaw 2013, pp. 59-64.

– Introduction, [in:] Wokół powstania listopadowego. A collection of studies, ed. by H. Chudzio, J. Pezda, Kraków 2014, pp. 5-7.

– August Szultz, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, T. XLIX, Kraków 2014.

– Introduction, [in:] K. Chyży – Ostrowska, Widziałam i pisałam… Pamiętnik niesłyszącej Sybiraczki, compilation of source text and edition Hubert Chudzio, Kraków 2016, pp. 5-12.

Participation in European and other international and national programmes:

Polish-Egyptian archaeological mission to Sakkara, Egypt, 1998, as documentalist, Organised by the Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Supreme Council of Antiquities (Ministry of Culture of Egypt). Mission leader: Prof. Karol Mysliwiec.
Polish-Egyptian archaeological mission to Tell Atrib, Egypt, 1998, as documentalist, Organised by: Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Supreme Council of Antiquities (Ministry of Culture of Egypt). Mission leader: Dr Hanna Szymańska.
Polish-Egyptian archaeological mission to Deir El Bahari (Hatshepsut Mission), Egypt, 2000, as documentalist, Organised by: Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Supreme Council of Antiquities (Ministry of Culture of Egypt). Mission leader: Dr Zbigniew Szafrański.
Polish-Egyptian archaeological mission in Deir El Bahari (Rock Mission), Egypt, 2000, as documentalist, Organised by: Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Supreme Council of Antiquities (Ministry of Culture of Egypt). Mission leader: Prof. Andrzej Niwiński.
Co-direction and design of the Polish-German student research camp “1000 – leciecie Państwa Polskiego” in Pomerania and Warmia. 2000. Organised by the Pedagogical Academy. Polish-Egyptian archaeological mission to Sakkara, Egypt, 2003, as documentalist, Organised by: Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Supreme Council of Antiquities (Ministry of Culture of Egypt). Mission leader: Prof. Karol Mysliwiec.
Management of student research camp in Greater Poland. Project: Historical map of the oldest monuments in Wielkopolska. 2003. Organiser: Pedagogical Academy.
Organisation and management of a 3-year project: “The Western Lands as an example of migration of Polish, German and Ukrainian populations, during, and after World War II”. Permanent bases: Oleśnica (Lower Silesia), Szczecinek (Pomerania), Lidzbark Warmiński (Warmia). Years 2004-2006. Organised by the Pedagogical Academy.
Polish-Egyptian archaeological mission in Marei, Egypt, 2006, as documentalist, Organised by: Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Supreme Council for Antiquities (Ministry of Culture of Egypt). Mission leader: Hanna Szymańska, Ph.
Polish-Lithuanian student exchanges, including academic sessions on Polish-Lithuanian relations through the centuries. Project management. Organisers: Vilnius Pedagogical University and Krakow Pedagogical University. 2007-2008.
Organisation, development and co-management of the project: “Akcja “Wisła” we wspomnieniach ludności Łemkowszczyzny”. Bieszczady and Beskidy. 2007. Organised by the Pedagogical University.
Polish-Guatemalan archaeological mission in Nakum, Guatemala, 2008, as a documentalist, Organised by: Jagiellonian University; Ministry of Culture of Guatemala. Mission leader: Dr Jarosław Źrałka.
Organisation and supervision of an exchange project between Polish and German students in Krzyżowa. 2008. Organisation: Pedagogical University of Kraków and Pedagogical University of Freiburg.
Polish-Egyptian archaeological mission to Sakkara, Egypt, 2008, as documentalist, Organised by: Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Supreme Council for Antiquities (Ministry of Culture, Egypt). Mission leader: Prof. Karol Mysliwiec. Project management:”Inventory of war graves, quarters and cemeteries in the Małopolska region”.Organised by the Governor of Malopolska.2008 – and beyond.Polish-Egyptian archaeological mission in Tell El Farcha, Egypt, 2009, as documentalist, Organised by: Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Supreme Council for Antiquities (Ministry of Culture of Egypt).Mission leader: Prof. Krzysztof Ciałowicz.
Polish-German-Israeli research and teaching project entitled: ‘Collective (National) Identity in Israel, Germany and Poland’, Participation.Years 2009-2010 Organised by: Pedagogical University of Kraków; Beit Berl Academic College in Kefar Saba (Israel); Pädagogische Hochschule in Ludwigsburg.
Organisation and co-direction of Polish-German student scientific exchange in Oberschleißheim. 2010.Organisers: Pedagogical University of Cracow and the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oberschleißheim near Munich.Participation in the international project:”Activities of the Delegations of the Polish Embassy in the USSR between 1941 and 1943″, dedicated to the search in the archives of Kazakhstan for documentation related to the activities of the Polish Delegations.The project is conducted by the Polish Embassy in Astana.
Project management: “Inventory of war graves, quarters and cemeteries in the Małopolska region”. Organised by the Governor of Malopolska. 2008 – and beyond.
Polish-Egyptian archaeological mission in Tell El Farcha, Egypt, 2009, as documentalist, Organised by: Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Supreme Council for Antiquities (Ministry of Culture of Egypt). Mission leader: Prof. Krzysztof Ciałowicz.
Polish-German-Israeli research and teaching project entitled: ‘Collective (National) Identity in Israel, Germany and Poland’, Participation. Years 2009-2010 Organised by: Pedagogical University of Kraków; Beit Berl Academic College in Kefar Saba (Israel); Pädagogische Hochschule in Ludwigsburg.
Organisation and co-direction of Polish-German student scientific exchange in Oberschleißheim. 2010. Organisers: Pedagogical University of Cracow and the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oberschleißheim near Munich.
Participation in the international project: “Activities of the Delegations of the Polish Embassy in the USSR between 1941 and 1943”, dedicated to the search in the archives of Kazakhstan for documentation related to the activities of the Polish Delegations. The project is conducted by the Polish Embassy in Astana. Acting as an expert, I am currently preparing an exhibition devoted to the documents found. The project is also planning a book publication of the discovered archival materials.
International Youth Rally “Europe of Youth – Europe of Peace”, organiser and designer. Wapienne – Krakow 2014. Participation: Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Serbia, Romania, Czech Republic. Organisers: Malopolska Voivodship Office, Jagiellonian University, Pedagogical University.
Achievements in teaching and popularisation of science:
Creation of the UP Documentation Centre for Displaced Persons, Expulsions and Resettlement. This institution was created as a result of the work of conducting research projects with history students of the Pedagogical University. Currently, some of the students involved in these projects are employees of the Centre and continue their research activities.
Since 2003 the Supervisor of the Student Academic Circle of Historians of the Pedagogical University of Krakow. Over the years the Circle has been recognised several times as the best in the rankings of the circles of the Pedagogical University. Through its activities it has also gained great recognition in Poland, which can be seen in media reports.
Originator, founder and editorial supervisor of the student historians’ magazine “Wehikuł Czasu”, published from 2004 to the present.
Since 1994 he has collaborated with TVP Kraków. For this TVP and other TVP programmes he has prepared several hundred materials (news and films) on historical and archaeological topics, promoting Polish science.
As a historian, for many years he has been an expert in TVP programmes on the following topics: history of the 19th and 20th centuries; forced migration; archaeology.
Originator and director of the International Archaeological Film Festival organised by the Archaeological Museum in Kraków.
The newspaper “Rzeczpospolita” published in the form of CDs a series of 4 films directed by him entitled “Śladami polskich archeologów”. As so-called inserts, they were included in the magazine in 2006. In total, the number of more than one million CDs became a significant promotion of Polish science.
He prepared projects for, and mostly led, 15 thematic student summer science camps between 2000 and 2016. Their results include a collection of more than 200. witness accounts of forced migrations and more than 800. inventoried objects recognised, according to the 1933 law, as war graves, quarters and cemeteries.
The Silesian Museum in Katowice, during the Night at the Museum in 2013, organised a screening of films directed by him, preceded by his own lectures. Similar was the 2011 Wrocław Post-Competition Screening of the 1st Archaeological Film Festival – Kraków 2010, where his archaeological films were screened in the Town Hall preceded by meetings with the author. The films also promoted Polish science during screenings in e.g. Poznan, Chelmno and Krakow.
A film directed by him: Ni Anch Nefertum – the forgotten priest was qualified for the final screenings of several foreign film festivals, where it promoted the achievements of Polish science. See: Thessaloniki (Greece) 2006, Besançon (France) 2007, Bordeaux (France) 2008.
As part of its cooperation with the Malopolska Board of Trustees, it has been co-organising the competition for young people “The fate of Poles in Siberia” since 2012. There have been 5 editions so far. In 2014, the competition became nationwide.
He has prepared and led, as a manager, 14 scientific missions abroad, in which employees and students of the Pedagogical University participated. One by one these were in Tanzania 2009 (Tengeru), Uganda 2009 (Koja and Masindi); UK 2010 (Leicester); Australia 2011 (Perth); UK 2012 (Nottingham), 2013 (Bradford, Leeds, Birmingham), 2014 (Coventry); Canada 2014 (Montreal), Israel 2015, South Africa-Zimbabwe-Zambia 2015, USA (Hardford, New Britain) 2016, Romania (Cacica) VI and IX 2016. These resulted in the documentation (cartographic, photographic and film) of Polish necropolises in East Africa and the filming of more than 200. hour-long accounts of Siberians who left Soviet Russia in 1942 with the Polish army commanded by General Władysław Anders, as well as the rescue of the disappearing heritage of the Polish village of Kaczyk in Bukovina.
He has repeatedly given historical and archaeological lectures as part of rehabilitation for inmates in the Cracow – Podgórze detention centre.
The Discovery Historia TV channel in 2007-2014 repeatedly presented a series of 5 popular science films directed by him entitled: “Polish Pharaohs”, documenting the work of Polish archaeological missions in Egypt. A similar series of films promoting Polish science on historical and archaeological subjects was presented on TV Planete (7 productions), TVP Kraków (over 20 films), TVP Historia (2), TVP 1 (1).
During the Krakow Science Festival in 2013, as a representative of the Pedagogical University, he gave an interview for the film collection entitled. “People of Science”. A year later, as part of this Festival, the research unit created and led by him, the Centre for Documentation of Displacement, Expulsion and Resettlement, was selected by UP for the Festival as an example of the most interesting scientific project of the university. As a result, a report on the Centre’s scientific activities was produced by the organisers of the Krakow Science Festival. As part of the promotion of science, a film about the Centre was also produced by TVP Historia (premiere 22 April 2014).
Developed, together with the staff of the Centre for the Documentation of Displacement, Expulsion and Resettlement, a series of educational workshops for young people on the forced migration of Poles. Since 2012 and still, such workshops are regularly held at Fort Skotniki.