Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska
Biographic Data
| ID | 80958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karolina |
| FAMILY NAME | Ćwiek-Rogalska |
| SIGNATURE | ĆWIEK-ROGALSKA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Slavic Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6142-5609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sympathy for the Unfamiliar Ghosts
Although the scholarship to date has assumed that after the Second World War in central Europe, in regions where forced displacement took place, the new, mostly Slavic settlers neglected and destroyed German cemeteries left behind by the expellees, I argue that this process did not start in the first years after the war because of the relationships that the settlers established with chosen German dead. I explain why this particular deceased indiv…
Looking at the back of a document
Traditionally, the reverse sides of archival documents have attracted little attention from either archivists or historians, except in cases of palimpsests. What remains understudied is that they are material surfaces that might influence the circulation of documents. To challenge this conventional understanding, we propose a close analysis of the repurposing of documents bearing swastikas within the bureaucratic practices of post-1945 Poland. Th…
Worldmaking practices of the Polish Bureau of Settlement and Resettlement Studies
With or against the river? Tracing changes and relationships between social and ecological systems on the central Vistula floodplain over the last 200 years
Studying the relationship between humans and their environment is crucial for observing escalating human pressure. This article examines how two distinct rural communities, living side-by-side, coped with environmental crises during the 19th and 20th centuries. Our case study is Kazuń, a 19th-century settlement inhabited by Catholics and Protestants separated only by a lake, an old Vistula riverbed. Our analysis utilizes written archives (includi…
Haunted Vegetation
When the Mnemonic Actors Become Storytellers. The Lore of the ‘Recovery’ in 1970s Poland
The article examines the memoirs of Polish soldiers who settled in the lands that Poland acquired after the Second World War, the so-called Recovered Territories. The author argues that these memoirs reflect different forms of conveying the stories about the ‘recovery’, i.e. the acquisition of the formerly German lands by the Polish state in 1945. Depending on the historical and political context, as well as the personal and collective experience…
Ghostly Presences
The article examines the process of cultural adaptation of resettled persons concerning the cultural landscape and heritage. It is based on the example of the formerly German territories annexed to Poland after World War II (the Recovered Territories). The author analyses, how the unfamiliar elements of the cultural landscape were culturally reinterpreted and handled by the authorities and the new inhabitants. She focuses on the inscriptions of e…
Necroreverence of Soviet cemeteries in Central Europe
Geniusze, kosmici i dinozaury. Nieoczywiste związki nauk ścisłych i humanistycznych
Geniuses, Aliens and Dinosaurs. Unobvious Associations Between the Sciences and the HumanitiesIntroduction to the vol. 17th of Adeptus Geniusze, kosmici i dinozaury. Nieoczywiste związki nauk ścisłych i humanistycznychWstęp do numeru 17 „Adeptusa”
Archiving in the Face of Erasure
The article introduces the notion of the “post-German” archive as an idea for further research on the erased cultures of Central Europe. The author questions the hierarchical and top-down structure of the institutionalized archive. Instead, she proposes to understand the “post-German” archive as an inclusive conception. It would incorporate various narratives, languages, and perspectives. In this way, the canonization of given motives can be avoi…
Pytania bez odpowiedzi. Krajobrazy Zagłady z perspektywy kulturowej
Wrocawski kulturoznawca Jacek Maczyski w swojej ksizce doktorskiej juz na samym wstpie zaznacza, e jednym z jego postulatow jest, by studia nad Zagad otworzy "na histori rodowiskow", jak rowniez by wczy je "w trwajce aktualnie debaty na temat zmian klimatu, zrownowazonego rozwoju, wymierania gatunkow, klsk ekologicznych czy zwizanych z tym migracji klimatycznych" (Maczyski 7). Zagada jako wydarzenie zaplanowane i przeprowadzone przez ludzi -i, na…
"Jak pisać o "Ziemiach Odzyskanych
The Competition of Memories
This article answers the question how the situation of incorporation of Central Pomerania, formerly a German region, into Poland in 1945 affected the formation of its commemorative landscape. The author discusses how this affected the erection of new monuments after 1945, and if the example of German Great War memorials, erected here after 1918, had an influence on new Polish commemorative practices. A “competition of memories” is used here as th…
The Glory of Death? German Memorials of the Great War in the North-Western Czech Borderlands after 1945
War memorials (in German, Kriegerdenkmäler) were built after World War I in almost every village and town in Czechoslovakia that had a German population, to commemorate those who had been killed in the war. After 1945, these memorials were either destroyed or recycled. The author shows how the new Czech inhabitants who replaced the traditional population of the borderlands coped with these memorials. Focusing her research on the Cheb and Mariánsk…
Pamięć w słowach – o nieadekwatności pojęć (przypadek czesko-polsko-niemiecki)
Memory in words: On the inadequacy of terms (A Czech-Polish-German example)This article is devoted to the inadequacy of the Polish and Czech terminology related to the displacement of German-speaking communities after 1945. Discussing the example of the terms “Sudety” and “pohraničí” (Borderlands), the author identifies the inadequacy of various equivalents of these concepts in Polish secondary literature. The adopted methodology makes it possibl…
Worldmaking practices of the Polish Bureau of Settlement and Resettlement Studies
The Competition of Memories
This article answers the question how the situation of incorporation of Central Pomerania, formerly a German region, into Poland in 1945 affected the formation of its commemorative landscape. The author discusses how this affected the erection of new monuments after 1945, and if the example of German Great War memorials, erected here after 1918, had an influence on new Polish commemorative practices. A “competition of memories” is used here as th…
The Glory of Death? German Memorials of the Great War in the North-Western Czech Borderlands after 1945
War memorials (in German, Kriegerdenkmäler) were built after World War I in almost every village and town in Czechoslovakia that had a German population, to commemorate those who had been killed in the war. After 1945, these memorials were either destroyed or recycled. The author shows how the new Czech inhabitants who replaced the traditional population of the borderlands coped with these memorials. Focusing her research on the Cheb and Mariánsk…
Pamięć w słowach – o nieadekwatności pojęć (przypadek czesko-polsko-niemiecki)
Memory in words: On the inadequacy of terms (A Czech-Polish-German example)This article is devoted to the inadequacy of the Polish and Czech terminology related to the displacement of German-speaking communities after 1945. Discussing the example of the terms “Sudety” and “pohraničí” (Borderlands), the author identifies the inadequacy of various equivalents of these concepts in Polish secondary literature. The adopted methodology makes it possibl…
The Glory of Death? German Memorials of the Great War in the North-Western Czech Borderlands after 1945
War memorials (in German, Kriegerdenkmäler) were built after World War I in almost every village and town in Czechoslovakia that had a German population, to commemorate those who had been killed in the war. After 1945, these memorials were either destroyed or recycled. The author shows how the new Czech inhabitants who replaced the traditional population of the borderlands coped with these memorials. Focusing her research on the Cheb and Mariánsk…
Pytania bez odpowiedzi. Krajobrazy Zagłady z perspektywy kulturowej
Wrocawski kulturoznawca Jacek Maczyski w swojej ksizce doktorskiej juz na samym wstpie zaznacza, e jednym z jego postulatow jest, by studia nad Zagad otworzy "na histori rodowiskow", jak rowniez by wczy je "w trwajce aktualnie debaty na temat zmian klimatu, zrownowazonego rozwoju, wymierania gatunkow, klsk ekologicznych czy zwizanych z tym migracji klimatycznych" (Maczyski 7). Zagada jako wydarzenie zaplanowane i przeprowadzone przez ludzi -i, na…
"Jak pisać o "Ziemiach Odzyskanych
The Competition of Memories
This article answers the question how the situation of incorporation of Central Pomerania, formerly a German region, into Poland in 1945 affected the formation of its commemorative landscape. The author discusses how this affected the erection of new monuments after 1945, and if the example of German Great War memorials, erected here after 1918, had an influence on new Polish commemorative practices. A “competition of memories” is used here as th…
Geniusze, kosmici i dinozaury. Nieoczywiste związki nauk ścisłych i humanistycznych
Geniuses, Aliens and Dinosaurs. Unobvious Associations Between the Sciences and the HumanitiesIntroduction to the vol. 17th of Adeptus Geniusze, kosmici i dinozaury. Nieoczywiste związki nauk ścisłych i humanistycznychWstęp do numeru 17 „Adeptusa”
Archiving in the Face of Erasure
The article introduces the notion of the “post-German” archive as an idea for further research on the erased cultures of Central Europe. The author questions the hierarchical and top-down structure of the institutionalized archive. Instead, she proposes to understand the “post-German” archive as an inclusive conception. It would incorporate various narratives, languages, and perspectives. In this way, the canonization of given motives can be avoi…
Ghostly Presences
The article examines the process of cultural adaptation of resettled persons concerning the cultural landscape and heritage. It is based on the example of the formerly German territories annexed to Poland after World War II (the Recovered Territories). The author analyses, how the unfamiliar elements of the cultural landscape were culturally reinterpreted and handled by the authorities and the new inhabitants. She focuses on the inscriptions of e…
Necroreverence of Soviet cemeteries in Central Europe
Haunted Vegetation
When the Mnemonic Actors Become Storytellers. The Lore of the ‘Recovery’ in 1970s Poland
The article examines the memoirs of Polish soldiers who settled in the lands that Poland acquired after the Second World War, the so-called Recovered Territories. The author argues that these memoirs reflect different forms of conveying the stories about the ‘recovery’, i.e. the acquisition of the formerly German lands by the Polish state in 1945. Depending on the historical and political context, as well as the personal and collective experience…
Worldmaking practices of the Polish Bureau of Settlement and Resettlement Studies
With or against the river? Tracing changes and relationships between social and ecological systems on the central Vistula floodplain over the last 200 years
Studying the relationship between humans and their environment is crucial for observing escalating human pressure. This article examines how two distinct rural communities, living side-by-side, coped with environmental crises during the 19th and 20th centuries. Our case study is Kazuń, a 19th-century settlement inhabited by Catholics and Protestants separated only by a lake, an old Vistula riverbed. Our analysis utilizes written archives (includi…
Sympathy for the Unfamiliar Ghosts
Although the scholarship to date has assumed that after the Second World War in central Europe, in regions where forced displacement took place, the new, mostly Slavic settlers neglected and destroyed German cemeteries left behind by the expellees, I argue that this process did not start in the first years after the war because of the relationships that the settlers established with chosen German dead. I explain why this particular deceased indiv…
Looking at the back of a document
Traditionally, the reverse sides of archival documents have attracted little attention from either archivists or historians, except in cases of palimpsests. What remains understudied is that they are material surfaces that might influence the circulation of documents. To challenge this conventional understanding, we propose a close analysis of the repurposing of documents bearing swastikas within the bureaucratic practices of post-1945 Poland. Th…
German (8 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (6 works) · Central European Literary Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (5 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (5 works) · History (4 works)