Our initiative brings down to creating a platform upon which to integrate the circle of sociologists dealing with ethnicity issues (participation in scientific meetings, seminars, etc.) as well as to organise and support enterprises devoted to these questions (i.a. conferences, symposia, lectures, publications).

As scholars, we are concentrated on such phenomena as: minorities, identity, neighbourships, migrations, multiculturalism, Central-Europeanness as well as various movements, collectivities – analysed in an ethnic and nationalities context. By means of our initiative, we make reference to the XIX-century, Central European sociology which used to devote much more attention to the problems of nationalities than the Western European thinkers did. Through the operation of the Section of the Sociology of Ethnicity, we intend to create an opportunity for the members of the PSA to broaden the spectrum of their activity by the problems which still, in spite of the global pressure, have not lost validity.

The Section of the Sociology of Ethnicity came into being on 28 February 2014.

Its present Executive Board, elected on 13 September 2019, comprises:

• Kamilla Dolińska (Wrocław Branch of PSA) – chair
• Marcin Dębicki (Wrocław Branch of PSA) – vice chair
• Bożena Pactwa (Katowice Branch of PSA) – vice chair
• Justyna Kajta (Wrocław Branch of PSA) – secretary
• Natalia Niedźwiecka-Iwańczak (Wrocław Branch of PSA) – treasurer
• Zuzanna Brunarska (Warsaw Branch of PSA) – member of the Board
• Artur Wysocki (Lublin Branch of PSA) – member of the Board

Contact: etnicznosc.pts@gmail.com

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Information on our activity can be found at the Section’s FB profile (https://www.facebook.com/sse.pts) and on the websites of the PSA Departments whose members are active in our Section (e.g. http://www.pts.wroclaw.pl).

ENTERPRISES ACCOMPLISHED:

• 3–4 December 2020 – organisation of the scientific conference ‘Wielokulturowość polskich miast. Teoria, praktyka, polityka’ [Multiculturalism of the Polish Cities. Theory, practice, politics], co-organised by: Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław;
• 15 December 2019 – organisation of the meeting, within the frames of the ‘SocioPerception in Reception’ circle: ‘Gość w dom? O migrantach z Ukrainy w Polsce’ [Welcome Home? On the Migrants from Ukraine in Poland], co-organised by: Wrocław Branch of the PSA, Culture Zone Wrocław, Wrocław Contemporary Museum;
• 27 November 2019 – organisation of the scientific conference ‘30 lat pojednania polsko-niemieckiego. Sukcesy i wyzwania’ [30 Years of the Polish-German Reconciliation. Success and Challenges], co-organised by: Department of Strategic and European Studies, Institute of International Studies, University of Wrocław and Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies;
• 11–14 September 2019 – organisation of two thematic groups, within the 17th Polish Sociological Congress: ‘Tożsamości zbiorowe narodów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej’ [Collective Identities of Central and Eastern European Nations], chaired by: Ryszard Radzik, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw, Artur Wysocki, Institute of Sociology, the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin; ‘Heterogeniczność postaw wobec migrantów i mniejszości etnicznych’ [Heterogeneity of attitudes to migrants and ethnic minorities], chaired by: Zuzanna Brunarska, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw and Aneta Piekut, Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield;
• 7 June 2019 – organisation of a reading by prof. Beata Halicka and prof. Zbigniew Anthony Kruszewski on the book ‘Life in Borderlands. Zbigniew Anthony Kruszewski. Biography’, co-organised by: Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies
• 4–5 April 2019 – organisation of the scientific conference ‘Sąsiedztwa III RP – Niemcy’ [Polish Neighbourships – Germany], co-organised by: Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław;
• 18 November 2018 – organisation of the meeting, within the frames of the ‘SocioPerception in Reception’ circle: ‘Patriotyzm współcześnie’ [Patriotism today], co-organised by: Wrocław Branch of the PSA, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Culture Zone Wrocław;
• 7–8 June 2018 – organisation of the scientific conference ‘Religia w społecznym kontekście: etniczność – kultura – struktura’ [Religion in a social context: Ethnicity – Culture – Structure], co-organised by: Department of Sociology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn; Section of the Sociology of Religion of the PSA; Faculty of Theology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn;
• 13 May 2018 – organisation of the meeting, within the frames of the ‘Sociological Sundays in Panato Café circle: ‘Cud pogranicza?’ [The Miracle of Borderland?], co-organised by: Wrocław Branch of the PSA, 2Bfair Foundation, Section of the Sociology of Ethnicity of the PSA and  Panato Café;
• 5 April 2018 – organisation of the scientific conference ‘Sąsiedztwa III RP – Białoruś’ [Polish Neighbourships – Belarus], co-organised by: Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław; Wrocław Branch of the PSA;
• 30 November 2017 – organisation of the discussion ‘Europa Środkowa – literacko, społecznie, etnicznie’ [Central Europe – literary, socially, ethnically], participated by: dr Marta Cobel-Tokarska, dr hab. Marcin Dębicki and dr Ludwika Włodek, co-organised by: Ethnographic Museum in Wrocław;
• 23–24 November 2017 – organisation of the scientific conference: ‘Krajobrazy pamięci w kontekstach społecznych i kulturowych’ [Landscapes of memory in social and cultural contexts], co-organised by: Institute of Sociology, Silesian University in Katowice; Katowice Branch of the PSA;
• 26 October 2017 – organisation of the scientific meeting with dr Dariusz Wojakowski ‘O charakterze narodowym’ [On National Characteristics];
• 12 December 2016 – organisation of the scientific meeting with dr Agata Chutnik ‘Przyjazdy litewskich Polaków na studia do Polski. Przemiany tożsamości’ [The Lithuanian Poles’ Coming for Studies to Poland. Transformations of Identity];
• 1–2 December 2016 – organisation of the scientific conference ‘Sąsiedztwa III RP – Słowacja’ [Polish Neighbourships – Slovakia], co-organised by: Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław;
• 20 March 2016 – organisation of the meeting within the frames of the ‘Sociological Sundays in PanatoCafé’ circle: ‘Między nami, sąsiadami?Niemcy, Czesi i Ukraińcy – jak ich widzimy, jak widzą nas?’ [Among the Neighbours: The Germans, Czechs and Ukrainians – how do we see them, how do they see us?], co-organised by: Wrocław Branch of the Polish Sociological Association, 2Bfair Foundation, Section of the Sociology of Etnicity of the PSA and Panato Café;
• 2 December 2015 – organisation of a reading by prof. Beata Halicka: ‘Polski Dziki Zachód. Przymusowe migracje i kulturowe oswajanie Nadodrza, 1945-48’ [The Polish Wild West. Forced Migrations and Cultural Taming of the Odra-River Land, 1945–48], co-organised by: Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies (OBROP) and Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies;
• 23 November 2015 – organization of the lecture, within the frames of the ‘Etno-meetings’ circle: ‘Wielcy Czesi i Słowacy ostatnich 150 lat – na podstawie analiz prozopograficznych’ [Great Czechs and Slovaks of the last 150 Years – based on the Prosopographic Analyses], delivered by dr Nicolas Maslowski (Charles University in Prague);
• 21 October 2015 – organisation of the lecture, within the frames of the „Ethno-meetings’ circle: ‘Romowie w Czechach i w Polsce u progu XXI wieku’ [Roma People in the Czech Republic and Poland at the Turn of the 21st Century], delivered by dr Elżbieta Szyszlak and dr Tomasz Szyszlak (Institute of the International Studies, University of Wrocław), co-organised by: Ethnographic Museum in Wrocław;
• 15–16 October 2015 – co-organisation of the scientific conference ‘Sąsiedztwa III RP – Rosja’ [Polish Neighbourships – Russia], organised by: Department of the Sociology of Borderland, Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław and Section of the Sociology of Ethnicity of the PSA; Wrocław Branch of the PSA and Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies;
• 19 March 2015 – organization of the lecture, within the frames of the „Ethno-meetings” circle: ‘Pogranicze kultur. Międzynarodowy Festiwal im. Bruno Schultza jako przykład pojednania, współpracy I dialogu pomiędzy narodami [Borderland of Cultures. The Bruno Schultz International Festival as an Example of Reconciliation, Cooperation and Dialogue between Nations], delivered by Andrij Yurkevych, MA (National Pedagogical University in Drohobych), co-organised by: Ethnographic Museum in Wrocławiu;
• 8 December 2014 – organisation of the lectures, within the frames of the ‘Ethno-meetings’ circle: ‘Poczucie tożsamości młodych Polaków na Białorusi, Ukrainie i w Republice Czeskiej’ [Sense of Identity of the Young Poles in Ukraine, Belarus and the Czech Republic], delivered by dr hab. Barbara Grabowska (Silesian University), co-organised by Ethnographic Museum in Wrocław;
• November 2014 – establishing cooperation with the Ethnographic Museum in Wrocław, aiming at organisation of the lectures within the frames of the ‘Ethno-meetings’ circle, devoted to the phenomena crucial for the Section;
• 10–11 April 2014 – co-organisation of the scientific conference ‘Sąsiedztwa III RP – Ukraina’ [Polish Neighbourships – Ukraine].