Scientific conferences

The Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” and the Upper Silesian Genealogical Society “Silius Radicum” invite you to participate in the interdisciplinary scientific conference: Traces of the past… Genetic and traditional genealogy in archaeological, historical and socio-cultural research, which will be arranged in a hybrid format on 20-21 April 2023.

Reconstruction and archiving of the genealogy of families living in the villages of Upper Silesia is one of the important research projects undertaken at the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów”. Its implementation provided a number of observations indicating the need for interdisciplinary analyses, taking into account, inter alia, genetic research. Therefore, we propose reflection on both traditional and genetic genealogy, additionally encouraging analysis and interpretations from the perspective of anthropology, ethnology, history, archaeology, natural sciences and other scientific fields. We invite you to present a variety of issues: research results, methodological guidelines, socio-cultural contexts, etc. considerably inspired by genealogy. The subject of interest of the organisers includes all areas whose basis is researching the past from the perspective of the analysis of human genealogical history.

Planned conference is linked with the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Upper Silesian Genealogical Society “Silius Radicum”. Since the beginning the Society is engaged in researching and popularisation of the traditional and genetic genealogy. This activity resulted in establishing the Project SILESIA in 2016. Its main goal is to explore and reveal the genetic heritage of Silesians. The conference will create an opportunity to summarise the results achieved within the Project SILESIA, as well as discuss the effects of the research on a large group of native Silesians conducted within the Genomic Map of Poland project. The conference will be accompanied by an exhibition presenting the achievements of the members of the Upper Silesian Genealogical Society “Silius Radicum”.

The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań is a partner of the conference since it has been implementing large-scale, interdisciplinary genomic and archaeogenomic projects for several years. The goal of their research is, among others, describing the genetic variability of contemporary and historical communities inhabiting the territory of Poland. As part of one of the projects, the aforementioned Genomic Map of Poland is being worked on. The Institute also conducts research on the origins of the Piast dynasty and the society of the early Piast state.

We expect that presenting the papers will take up to 30 minutes and the presentation of the report up to 15 minutes.

The presented papers will be subjected to the double blind peer review. Papers with a positive review will be published in the “Yearbook of the Museum »Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów«” or in a monograph dedicated to the subject. The deadline for submitting articles is May 10, 2023. Authors will receive a copy of the publication (please note that authors will not receive additional payment for the publication of the article).

The application form should be sent by February 10, 2023 to the address: bulla(at)muzeumgpe-chorzow.pl. The organisers will accept the most interesting and innovative papers from among the submitted proposals.

The conference fee is 320 PLN. The payment should be made by February 28, 2023.

The detailed program of the conference will be available in the second half of March 2023.

 

• Organizing committee

Paulina Cius-Górska (acting director of the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów”)

Dr. Agnieszka Przybyła-Dumin (Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów”, University of Bielsko-Biała)

Dr. Beata Piecha-van Schagen (Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów”)

Mirosław Mitrenga (Upper Silesian Genealogical Society “Silius Radicum”)

• Conference secretaries

Krzysztof Bulla (Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów”, Upper Silesian Genealogical Society “Silius Radicum”)

Damian Jureczko (Upper Silesian Genealogical Society “Silius Radicum”)

 

 

Application Form

 

Payment information

SWIFT CODE /BIC/: INGBPLPW, IBAN: PL 38 1050 1243 1000 0010 0000 4091

Exact Address of bank: ING Bank Śląski, ul. Sokolska 34, 40-086 Katowice

Title: Conference – Traces of the past…, name of the participant

 

Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów”
would like to invite to a postponed
the 4th international interdisciplinary conference
of the LOST VILLAGE conference series
“Lost Village 4: Disasters and Their Consequences”,
which will be held in Chorzów, in the seat of the Museum
on 3-4 November 2021

The inspiration for organizing the fourth rural historical conference (postponed due to COVID) of the “Lost Village” cycle is the reality of the pandemic around us, as well as the constant interests both in the topic of lost villages and in the papers presented during the previous three our meetings in the years 2014–2018. The willingness, declared by the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park”, is to organize regularly (every two years) conferences devoted to this issue. Still noticeable divergence between the state of knowledge on late medieval and modern villages in Poland and other central European countries, as well as the increasing interest in the history of the former settlements, assured the organizers to continue the discussion in this field. We would like also to focus on the interdisciplinary methods of analyzing the lost villages, run by archaeologists, historians, cultural anthropologists, geographers and other specialists of different fields of science.

Just as in previous editions, the first part of the conference will be devoted to the material traces of former rural settlements. Our aim is to present relics of discovered structures – this time with particular emphasis on historical disasters that affected them (either ending their existence or making survivors to undertake the efforts of reconstruction) and left traces of these tragic events in the layout of these settlements and the surrounding landscape.

The second module (generally well related to the first one) are topographic structures that are often still visible in the landscape and show the transformed or rebuilt rural settlements – we are most interested in traces of past epidemics, natural disasters, war damage and other calamities.

The third aspect is immaterial traces – traditions, narrative tales, songs, stories, toponyms – analyzed in terms of their socio-cultural functioning of the villages, customs and rituals of the rural populations, as well as their transformation and disappearing. The most interesting here will be the aspect of the settlements experiencing tragedies and related to them: the awareness and fears of residents, potentially perceptible in verbal folklore, cultivated customs or even preserved documents.

The program of the conference presumes 30-minute-long paper and 15-minute-long communique. Everyone who wants to participate in the paper sessions, is asked to fill in and send the application until 30^th September, 2021 to the following e-mail address: dumin@muzeumgpe-chorzow.pl. The organizers of the conference reserve for themselves the right to choose among the received proposals. You will be informed about the decision of the organizing committee not later than on 4^th October, 2021.

The deadline for paying the conference fee, which is 200 PLN – if stationary (and embraces conference materials, two lunches, gala dinner, beverages, post-conference publication) or 100 PLN – if remote (post-conference publication), is 15^th October, 2021 (account number: SWIFT: INGBPLPW; IBAN: PL 38 1050 1243 1000 0010 0000 4091, title: Conference – Lost village 4, Name and Surname of the participant).

The detailed program of the conference will be available in the second half of October 2021.

The text of those lectures, which would be reviewed positively, will be published in the Annals of the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” or as a monography (three previous editions of the Lost Village Conferences ended up with a monographic volumes). The deadline for sending articles is 31^st March, 2022. The authors of the published texts will not receive any remuneration, but they will obtain one copy each of the periodical, in which the text will be published.

Conference organizers:

Dr. Artur Madaliński, Director, MGPE

Dr. Przemysław Nocuń

Dr. Krzysztof Fokt

Dr. Agnieszka Przybyła-Dumin

Secretaries:

Barbara Papaj

Krzysztof Bulla

Call for papers

Application form

Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów”
would like to invite to
the 3rd international interdisciplinary conference
of the LOST VILLAGE conference series
“Lost Village 3: Community, Self-governance, Space”,
which will be held in Chorzów , in the seat of the Museum
on 21-22 November 2018

The inspiration for organizing the third rural historical conference of the “Lost Village” cycle are great interests both in this topic and in the papers presented during the previous conferences in 2014 and 2016. Important is also the willingness, declared by the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park”, to organize regularly (every two years) scholarly meetings devoted to this topic. In 2018, the Museum is also going to publish the papers and proceedings from the 2016 conference. Still noticeable divergence between the state of knowledge on late medieval and modern villages in Poland and other central European countries as well as the increasing interest in the history of the former settlements assured the organizers to return to the interdisciplinary discussion in this field.

Just as in 2014 and 2016, the first part of the 2018 conference will be devoted to the analysis of the material relics of former villages. Our aim is to present relics of settlements as well as buildings and structures of such kind, discovered during archaeological surveys (this time we want to focus on the traces of a developing self-governance: village leaders’ [scultetus / iudex] seats – including their manor houses with households – mills, court-inns etc.). We would also like to continue the discussion on the interdisciplinary methods of analyzing the lost villages, run by archaeologists, historians, cultural anthropologists, geographers and other specialists of different fields of science.

The second module (generally well related to the first one) are topographic structures that are often still visible in the landscape – much transformed since the middle ages – like homesteads, which, when being funded and organized – were not a self-generated phenomenon but rather a result of the next level of both legal and economic development of settlements (we are interested the most in the traces of results of cooperation within these communities, like: reclamation or melioration works, digging the mill races or mill ponds etc.).

The third part will focus on immaterial traces – traditions, narrative tales and stories, topographic names – analyzed in terms of their socio-cultural functioning, customs and rituals of the rural populations as well as their transformations and disappearing. The most interesting will be the aspect of the self-governed villages seen as communities of peasants and of – connected with it – awareness and identity of the villagers, potentially perceptible during queries in the archives.

The program of the conference presumes 30-minute-long paper and 15-minute-long communique. Everyone who wants to participate in the paper sessions, is asked to fill in and send the application until 31^st August, 2018 to the following e-mail address: dumin@muzeumgpe-chorzow.pl. The organizers of the conference reserve for themselves the right to choose among the received proposals. You will be informed about the decision of the organizing committee not later than on 20^th September, 2018.

The deadline for paying the conference fee, which is 200 PLN (and embraces conference materials, two lunches, gala dinner, beverages, post-conference publication), is 30^th September, 2018 (account number: SWIFT: INGBPLPW; IBAN: PL 18 1050 1243 1000 0024 0029 5966, title: Conference – Lost village 3, Name and Surname of the participant).

The detailed program of the conference will be available in the second half of October 2018.

The text of those lectures, which would be reviewed positively, will be published in the Annals of the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” or as a monography. The deadline for sending articles is 31^st March, 2019. The authors of the published texts will not receive any remuneration, but they will obtain one copy each of the periodical, in which the text will be published.

Conference organizers:

Andrzej Sośnierz , Director, MGPE

Dr. Przemyslaw Nocuń
Dr. Krzysztof Fokt
Dr. Agnieszka Przybyła-Dumin

Files do download:

Conference MGPE – Lost Villages 3 – call for papers

Conference MGPE – Lost Villages 3 – aplication form

Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” invites you to participate in an interdisciplinary scientific conference entitled ” Religiousity and everyday life in the evangelical environment”, which will take place at the Museum headquarters on November 16, 2017.

In the area of interest of the organizers of the conference there will be distinctions of worldview, ritual and customs as well as narrative communities distributed in the community, annual and family habits, neighborhood relations, interior decoration and significance given to space or objects, as well as genealogy and fate of evangelical and evangelical Catholic families. Considering the strategy of functioning in a heterogeneous religious denomination family.

More details and the application form can be found below.

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We invite you to an international interdisciplinary scientific conference entitled ” In the footsteps of the past … Genetic genealogy in prehistory and historical research, organized by the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” and the Upper Silesian Genealogical Society “Silius Radicum”, which will be held at the Museum’s headquarters on 21-22 June 2017.

Below is an attachment with the conference program:

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The Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” and Upper Silesian Genealogical Society “Silius Radicum” invite you to participate in an international interdisciplinary scientific conference entitled “ In the footsteps of the past … Genetic Genealogy in Prehistory and Historical Research”, which will be held at the Museum’s headquarters on 21-22 June 2017. More details and application form can be found below in download files.

Detailed message, invitation and application form:
http://muzeumgpe-chorzow.pl/en/scientific-activity/scientific-conferences/in-the-footsteps-of-the-past-genetic-genealogy-in-prehistory-and-historical-research/

The “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” Museum and the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze intend to organize another one-day conservation session devoted to maintenance, display, protection and storage of metal monuments on 8 December this year.

The direct inspiration for organizing the session is: maintenance of a litter box conducted by the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” and works by the Museum of Coal Mining. As the conservation sessions at MGPE have become a forum for exchange of views and experiences of professionals – conservators of museums and representatives of conservation services, we would like to cover a wide range of topics from maintenance theory through presentation of specific realizations to issues related to exposure. And storage of metal objects.

Detailed message, invitation and application form:
http://muzeumgpe-chorzow.pl/en/scientific-activity/scientific-conferences/iv-preservation-session/

The Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” invites you to participate in the second international interdisciplinary scientific conference from the series WIEŚ ZAGINIONA. “Village past but present: traces of old villages and their research”,
Which will take place in Chorzow on 16-17 November 2016.

The inspiration for organizing the second rural conference from the “Lost Country” series is a great interest in the subject, as well as speeches, presented at the first edition of the 2014 conference. It is also important to publish a summary report for the current year.

Texts of the speeches that will receive a positive review will be published in the Museum’s Annual Magazine “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” (the magazine) or dedicated monographic.

Detailed message and application form:
http://muzeumgpe-chorzow.pl/en/scientific-activity/scientific-conferences/conference-village-past-but-present/

The “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” Museum and the Upper Silesian Genealogical Society “Silius Radicum” invite you to the Genetic Genealogy Session, which will be held at the Museum on 11 April 2016, at 4 pm. During the meeting will be delivered lectures: “The application of genetic research in history, archeology and genealogy” – dr. Łukasz Lubicz Łapiński and “Genetic Genealogy: What Does DNA Say About Our Past, Present and Future?” – Erica Grzeszkowiak.

For more information, please call +48 32 450 27 04 to 06; +48 32 241 07 18 ext. 200.

One of the main distinguishing features of the region is the folk costume, which is still to this day the most representative element of traditional local culture. Shaped for generations its structure has become a symbolic code, expressing a system of values, rules of behavior, ritual. As a kind of communication medium, the attire informed the social status and ritual role of the wearer, was an expression of prestige, distinctiveness and belonging to a given social and regional group, performing religious, magical, erotic and aesthetic functions.

The use of materials and techniques, the formal criteria that shaped the aesthetic and artistic character of decorations are the main themes of the conference “Folk costume. Between crafts and art”.

The application form below.

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The “Museum of Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” invites you to the conservation session “Polychrome wood, maintenance, research, behavior” and the opening of the exhibition “Polychrome wood – a few words about conservation” on 3 December 2015 at the Museum’s headquarters.

The session will start at 10.00. Tickets cost PLN 6 and PLN 8.

Meeting program in the appendix.

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Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów”

Chorzów, November 5, 2015

Soon, on November 5, 2015, an interdisciplinary scientific conference will take place in the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park” in Chorzów: Upper Silesian nobility from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. History, architecture, economy, social relations.

The inspiration for organizing the conference is the planned reconstruction of the Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów in the Upper Silesia Manor House with its surroundings. In the papers will be presented the results of research from the entire historical area of Upper Silesia. The time range covers the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Materials will be presented on the way of functioning and conversion of manor areas and buildings, their backyard, as well as mutual relations and relationships between landowners and their employees and the inhabitants of their villages. Among the issues will also be the everyday life and history of noble families.

Download the conference program below.

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