Meeting: “Vistula. The River Biography”

October 17, 6 pm

In the era when rivers get legal subjectivity, it is about time to show history from their point of view. The Vistula is becoming that narration axis in Prof. Andrzej Chwalba's book “Wisła. Biografia rzeki.”

Its significance to the country's development, centuries of exploiting its resources, natural disasters, connections between political stages, economic history, and military strategies – all of those topics were raised in the conversation of prof. Andrzej Chwalba and Bartosz Sadulski.

Guest:

Prof. Andrzej Chwalba

Host:

Bartosz Sadulski

Place:

The International Cultural Centre, Rynek Główny 25, “The Ravens” Hall

The meeting was interpreted into Polish Sign Language and transmitted on the ICC Facebook profile.

Biographical notes:

Prof. Andrzej Chwalba – Professor of History, researcher of the social, cultural, and political history of the 19th to 21st century. Expert in Polish-Russian relations and the history of Krakow and the Jagiellonian University. Member of a dozen scholarly councils and committees, social and cultural institutions, and museum boards, domestic and foreign. Author of over 20 books, of which the latest are “Festung Krakau. Kraków w cieniu twierdzy,” and “Cham i Pan” (with Wojciech Harpula).

Bartosz Sadulski – writer and editor, author of novel “Rzeszot,” which won the Kościelscy Award, a nominee for the “Nike” Literary Award, and the Conrad Award. Author of three poetical publications. Secretary of the quarterly magazine “Herito.” Permanent cooperator of the “Dwutygodnik” site. Scholar of the “Młoda Polska” programme in the literature category (2019). Lives in Nowa Huta.