Research

The research field of the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies is the multifaceted examination of Poland. Poland and the study of Poland is understood as an integral part of regionally-oriented research on East-Central Europe. The goal is a comprehensive understanding – historical as well as current – of social, economic and cultural processes in Poland within a European and global background.

Our concept of Polish Studies is presumed upon interdisciplinarity. The Center therefore complements the traditionally more humanities-oriented research on Poland with approaches and methods from the cultural, economic and social sciences.

The Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies is currently focused on the following fields:

Economic and Social Sciences

• (Labor) Migration in 19th-21st Century
• Socialist and market transformation (esp. in the 1980s and 1990s)
• History of technology
• Language development (including migration and multilingualism)
• Societal change in modern history

Eastern European History and Cultural Sciences

• History of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Minority history
• History and memory culture
• Provenance research
• Popular Culture