The Centre
The Mieroszewski Centre is a state institution established by the act of the Polish Parliment and supervised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.
The mission of the Mieroszewski Centre is to initiate, support and carry out activities aimed at the peoples of Eastern Europe, in particular Ukrainians, Belarusians, Georgians and Moldovans, in order to strengthen the independence of their countries, in the light of Russian attempts to revise borders and rebuild regional hegemony, to support processes that will contribute to the building of mature democracies, to bring them closer to Euro-Atlantic structures and to deepen their ties with Poland. Dialogue with the Russians remains within the Centre's sphere of interest, but for both political and moral reasons it must be limited to individuals and institutions that have unequivocally condemned Russian aggression and crimes.
Our patron is Juliusz Mieroszewski (1906-1976) - widely regarded as one of the most outstanding Polish political writers of the 20th century. Mieroszewski, as a convinced rationalist, believed that in the long term it is ideas that shape the world and are the determinant of the development of history, not the material base.
We pursue our objectives through:
- research
- publishing
- disseminating knowledge about the political situation, history, culture and heritage of Central and Eastern European nations in Poland and abroad
- conducting and supporting educational activities
- combating stereotypes
- counteracting disinformation
- organising conferences, seminars, lectures and public debates
- co-financing projects undertaken to promote dialogue in Polish-Ukrainian, Polish-Belarusian, Polish-Russian, Polish-Georgian and Polish-Moldovan relations
- running scholarship programmes
- maintaining contacts with academic, expert, scientific, cultural and political centres
PhD in political science. Since 2016 Director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, now Mieroszewski Centre. Formerly Deputy Director of the Centre, Head of International Economy and Energy Security Programme and Senior Research Fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). Graduated in international relations from the University of Łódź and the Dual Diploma Programme of the Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) and the University of Łódź in contemporary translation studies. Between 2003 and 2008, secretary of the editorial board of the Russian-language quarterly "Evropa". Author of numerous analytical studies, expert reports and articles on the energy policy of the Russian Federation, European Union-Russia relations, foreign policy of the Russian Federation and international climate negotiations, sanctions. Co-author and editor of the books "Geopolityka rurociągów. Współzależność energetyczna a relacje międzypaństwowe na obszarze postsowieckim" and "Energy Security and Climate Change: Double Challenge for Policymakers". Editor-in-chief of NovayaPolsha / Nova Polshcha. Member of the editorial board of "AREI - Journal for Central and Easter European History and Politics" and "Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny". Twitter: @E_Wyciszkiewicz
PhD in history, political scientist, specialising in the history of Eastern Europe, especially in the history of Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Russian relations, as well as the foreign and domestic policy of Eastern European states. Since 2022 deputy director of the Juliusz Mieroszewski Dialogue Centre and editor-in-chief of AREI. Journal for Central and Eastern European History and Politics. In 2014, he worked as rapporteur of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. From 2006 to 2011 he was an analyst and head of the research group at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. Author of the monograph: ‘Progressive Nationalist. Mykhailo Hrushevsky and his views on Poland and Poles', editor or co-editor of several monographs - in Polish and English - devoted to the history of Polish-Ukrainian-Russian relations. In 2022, he published two volumes of sources on Polish-Soviet relations during World War II, and in 2019 - two volumes of sources (together with Grzegorz Hryciuk) on the struggle of the Polish underground against the Soviets in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. He is a regular commentator on opinion-forming Polish and international media and a commentator on social media.
Senior Research Fellow, historian. He earned his PhD degree at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the history of the Soviet Union 1917-1991, particularly the period of revolution and civil war (1917-1922), and politics of memory. His current research project "Russia’s Politics of Memory Towards Poland and Ukraine, 1999–2022" aims to determine to what extent Russia's politics of memory has been a result of contingencies and spontaneous reactions to changing socio-political realities and the international situation or one may observe a long-term and coherent strategy in this area intended to delegitimize the existence of the Ukrainian state and weakening Poland's position within the European Union and NATO. He is going to apply text-mining methods. He is a member of the editorial board of the online journal Novaya Polsha. He was a Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (2019/2020) and a laureate of the START program of the Foundation for Polish Science (2020/2021). He cooperated with the Polish Institute of International Affairs on the publishing series "Polish Diplomatic Documents." He hosts a podcast on history and international affairs, „Polihistor” (in Polish).
contact: bronowicka@mieroszewski.pl, +48 602 680 125