Keely Stauter-Halsted (University of Illinois): Chicago Bureaucracy and Ordinary People: Migration, the End of Empire, and the Construction of Modern Poland
wt. 30.09.2025 | 13:00
Warszawa
Human mobility has informed nearly every phase of Polish history. The founding years of the post-World War I Second Republic were no exception. The post-imperial moment saw unprecedented migration as displaced refugees, POWs, returning labor migrants, and asylum seekers sought to cross into Polish territory. Their efforts to return marked a period of ethnic disaggregation that would shape the modern state for years to come. This presentation highlights the intimate zones where civic status was determined, exploring how border guards, government bureaucrats, police, and others made determinations about who belonged and who should be expelled from the Polish lands. It focuses on the ways ordinary people fought to make their home and construct a civic identity in the newly independent Polish state.
Keely Stauter-Halsted is Professor of History and Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She is the author of The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland (2001) and The Devil’s Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland (2015).
Discussant: Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Science
30.09.2025, godz, 13
Centre of Migration Research at University of Warsaw, Ochota Campus,
ul. Pasteura 7,
2nd floor, room 221
(wykład po angielsku)
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“Ludzie w drodze. Co historia uczy nas o współczesnych migracjach.”
Wiele się mówi w ostatnich latach o procesach migracyjnych zachodzących w Europie. W tym cyklu wykładów sięgamy do przykładów historycznych i współczesnych z Europy Środkowej oraz przedstawiamy je w ważnych politycznych i społecznych kontekstach.
Wykłady wtorkowe Niemieckiego Instytutu Historycznego, jesień 2025r
we współpracy z Ośrodkiem Badań nad Migracjami Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego