Sunday, May 20, 2012

Semi-Annual Board Meeting and Europe in Exile Conference

The Semi-Annual Board Meeting of the Polish-American Historical Association is scheduled for May 31, 2012 at the University of Gdansk, Poland.

The meeting will coincide with the international conference, East-Central Europe in Exile: Patterns of Transatlantic Migrations. The conference, scheduled for May 31st- June 3rd, 2012, at the Department of History, University of Gdansk, is co-organized by the following partners: History Department, University of Gdańsk, Poland Partners: History Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Polish American Historical Association, City of Gdynia, and Visegrad Fund.

The program of the conference is posted online (pdf): http://eceinexile.ug.edu.pl/upload/files/18/eceinexile_conference_program.pdf The conference's website includes additional information about this event: eceinexile.ug.edu.pl.

The papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and the deadline for submission is June 30, 2012.

Organizing committee: Dr. Anna Mazurkiewicz (Department of Contemporary History, University of Gdańsk) – project coordinator ; PhDr. Slavomír Michálek, DrSc. (Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava); Doc. PhDr. Francis D. Raška, PhD. (Department of American Studies, Charles University, Prague); Dr. Magdolna Baráth (Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security, Budapest)