Connections – Intersections – Confrontations
Connections – Intersections – Confrontations

Summary/Abstract: The Polish-Slovak Commission of Historians has reorganized its activities and decided to organize regular biennial conferences (alternating between Poland and Slovakia). This year’s conference was the fi rst of its kind and took place in Katowice, Poland, from 7 November to 9 November 2023, in the conference spaces of the modern building of the university library. The co-organizers of the conference were the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of History of the University of Silesia. Due to signifi cant interest (42 registered participants), the conference was divided into three days and at times into parallel blocks. The conference had two characteristic features. It was focused not only upon Polish–Slovak relations and history but more broadly on the region of Central (Central- Eastern) Europe. This increased the variety of topics and also attracted the attention of scholars from other countries. Organizers plan to maintain this concept in the future. This also applies to the second characteristic, which is relatively innovative for historical conferences in our region, namely the multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity of the event. The commission itself has been reorganized to include not only “classic” historians but also art historians, cultural historians and literary historians. This affords them an ideal forum in which to enrich each other with the different ways of thinking and methodological approaches of one another’s disciplines, which, although related, are often overlooked in the practical scientifi c work of the specifi c fi elds.

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