Poza tabu. Kijowska konferencja w roku 2018. O emigracji niepodległościowej ukraińskiej i polskiej

Abstract

The article is an analysis of the organisational aspects of an international Polish-Ukrainian conference, of which the University of Bialystok and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv were co-organisers. On 23 -2 5 May 2018, the International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference "Ukrainian and Polish independence emigration in the twentieth century. Traditions - personalities -ideas - rhetoric" took place, which was attended by 120 researchers from Ukraine, Poland, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Taiwan. The author points out both the achievements of this scientific meeting (the possibility of scientific contacts, the formulation of a collective research topic) and the weaker sides of the joint undertaking (organisational issues, the issue of the publication of session materials, the organisers' overly liberal approach to the topic of the speeches, which sometimes did not relate to the main idea, attaching cultural events to scientific ones, cooperation with Polish diplomacy). However, she considers the conference a success. It would have been impossible to organise a similar event in the era of pandemics and escalating war, geopolitical tensions in 2021.