We would like to invite you to participate in the first in a series of Zoom webinars, entitled “Gdańsk ID”. Its organizers are the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, the Faculty of History of the University of Gdańsk in cooperation with the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the International Border Studies Center UG. 

The series of meetings will be devoted to the problems of identity. During our first meeting, we would like to discuss the identity of Gdańsk. Please, find details on the flyer below. 

Prof. John Dunn from Valdosta State University was our guest for outdoor classes offered to students working in UG’s Historical tourism MA (weekend course), November 13^th, December 4^th and 11^th 2021.

Prof. Dunn is a visiting professor at the Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk in winter semester 2021/2022. We were delighted to show him around Oliwa and its beautifully forested hills. At the same time he could peer observe prof. Magdalena Nowak’s outdoor classes and experience being guided by the Polish students.  

The Faculty of History of the University of Gdańsk has established cooperation with Ukraine, the partner country of the European Union within the Erasmus + program (KA107). It was based on the earlier developed scholarly and research contacts, joint conferences and publications. The Erasmus + cooperation includes the exchange of teaching staff with two universities: the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv (2019-2021 and 2020-2022) and the Poltava National Pedagogical University. W. H. Korolenka in Poltava (2020-2022).

Because of its genius location – Gdańsk is a perfect space to sample intercultural encounters, offering lessons of coexistence and conflict, of diversity and exclusion.

During the 2020/2021 summer semester, thanks to the collaboration between the University of Gdańsk and the University of Michigan-Dearborn, our 3rd year History students had the opportunity to work closely with American students. The project was supervised by professor Anna Mazurkiewicz (UG) and professor Anna Muller (U of Michigan-Dearborn) with the help of mgr Iwona Flis (UG) and mgr Anna Podciborska (UG).

On May 27^th 2021, during an international conference entitled: BORDER SEMINAR, a new research center was inaugurated at the UG. The International Border Studies Center (IBSC) at the University of Gdańsk is an independent research unit fostering and promoting the UG’s international cooperation and interdisciplinary research in humanities and social sciences. With a strong representation of scholars of the Faculty of History,

Institute of History - Study offer in foreign languages – 2020/2021 (winter)