Rody pogranicza polsko-litewskiego: projekt i jego realizacja u progu nowej epoki

Abstract

The author presents the main objectives of the research project whose results are published in form of a book. Scientists have met at the 3rd academic conference in the series “Bilingualism in Central and Eastern Europe. Literature, language, and culture”. The subject of the conference was: “The Miłosz Family and other families of the Polish-Lithuanian Borderlands. History, lives, literary testimonies”. The conference took place in Vilnius on the 8th and 9th of November 2019. It was organised by: the Department of Philological Studies “East – West” of the University of Białystok, the Vilnius Academy of Education of the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, and Książnica Podlaska of Łukasz Górnicki in Białystok, which has been supporting interdisciplinary research for many years. The two-day event received support from the programme of the Ministry of Education and Science“Regional Excellence Initiative” realised in the years 2019-2022 in the fields of linguistics and literary theory at the Department of Philology of the Białystok University. As the author of the introduction pointed out, the monograph is a result of this project, which will be continued in cooperation with Polish and Lithuanian scientists.