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SUMMARY:Warsaw Rising Museum - Dr Paweł Ukielski
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DESCRIPTION:Deputy Director of the Warsaw Rising Museum\, Dr Paweł Ukiels
 ki\, will discuss his involvement with the Museum from its establishment i
 n 2004 to the present\, while also commenting on larger trends in Polish p
 erceptions of the nation’s past in the years since 1989.  \n\nThis talk 
 is the first in a series of events sponsored by the Cambridge Committee fo
 r Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES) exploring the different way
 s in which historical events are being portrayed in Central and Eastern Eu
 rope today\, with a particular focus on efforts to infuse technology and t
 rends in popular culture into narratives of past events so as to appeal to
  younger generations.     \n\n*Dr Paweł Ukielski* is a political scientis
 t\, historian\, and the current Deputy Director of the Warsaw Rising Museu
 m (2004-2014\, and since 2016). He is also a senior fellow at the Institut
 e of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a lecturer at
  the Collegium Civitas University. From 2014-16 he was vice president of t
 he Institute of National Remembrance\, and from 2011-17 he served on the E
 xecutive Board of the Platform of European Remembrance and Conscience. He 
 has conducted research and taught courses on the Central-East European pos
 t-communist transition\, regional cooperation in East-Central Europe\, the
  break-up of Czechoslovakia\, Czech-Slovak relations\, and the politics of
  remembrance. He is the author of _Aksamitny rozwód. Rola elit polityczny
 ch w procesie podziału Czechosłowacji_ (‘The velvet divorce. The role 
 of political elites in the division of Czechoslovakia’)\, published in 2
 007\, and the co-author of 1989 – _Jesień Narodów_ (‘1989 – The Au
 tumn of Nations’)\, the Polish edition of which was published in 2009. H
 e has written for several Polish and European academic journals and is the
  author of a report published in 2016 entitled _Mapa Trójmorza. Przegląd
  punktów wspólnych i rozbieżności w polityce 12 państw regionu_ (‘A
  map of the three seas. An overview of common points and discrepancies in 
 the policies of the 12 countries in the region’).
LOCATION:Latimer Room\, Clare College
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