On Friday, 27 September, seven universities of the Academic Consortium Katowice City of Science will jointly open the new academic year in the European City of Science Katowice 2024. During the official part of the ceremony in the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra concert hall, we will be joined by Prof. Norman Davies – special guest of the event.
The author of several best-selling books on European history and a world-renowned English historian of Welsh descent will deliver the inaugural lecture ‘What »the West« doesn’t understand’. It will be a unique opportunity to listen live to the author of such publications as God’s Playground: a History of Poland or Europe: a History.
To participate in the ceremony, register via the form (available in Polish and in English). Registration must be completed by 20 September.
Let’s celebrate and listen to the lecture together!
More information about the Interuniversity Inauguration of the Academic Year 2024/2025 in the European City of Science Katowice 2024 can be found on the website of the University of Silesia.
Prof. Norman Davies – English historian of Welsh descent, known for his excellent publications on the history of Europe and the British Isles. He is the author of the prize-winning history of Poland, God’s Playground (1981) and the Number 1 best-seller in Britain Europe: A History (OUP, 1996). Professor Davies has been awarded the CMG in 2001 for ‘services to history’, and has collected several Polish distinctions including the Order of Merit. Norman Davies is a regular broadcaster and commentator. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia, McGill, Hokkaido, Stanford, Harvard, Adelaide, ANU, and Cambridge. From 2000 – 2006 he was a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and in 2006-2008 a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is an Honorary Fellow of St.Antony’s College, Oxford University and an honorary citizen of four Polish cities – Lublin, Krakow, Warsaw and Wroclaw.
Today Norman Davies resides in Oxford where he lives and writes.
Publications in English: White Eagle, Red Star: the Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20 (1972); God’s Playground: a History of Poland (1981); Heart of Europe: the Past in Poland’s Present (1984); Europe: a History (1996); The Isles: a History (1996); Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City, on Wroclaw/Breslau, with Roger Moorhouse (2000); Rising ’44: the Battle for Warsaw (2003); Europe East and West: Collected Essays (2006); Europe at War, 1939-45: No Simple Victory (2006), published in the USA as No Simple Victory (2007); Vanished Kingdoms (2011); Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History (2017).
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