Łucja Charewiczowa’ Seminar in History of Women and Gender, Affiliated to Warsaw Scientific Society and Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences

Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences "The gender of historical protagonists seems to be, if anything, an awarenessinforming factor and a driver behind action only for the female part of society and in female-dominated spheres". 1This, not too optimistic, statement made by a German historian some twenty years ago seems still valid, at least in the Polish context.Although the category of '(cultural) gender' is increasingly in use, there is still no platform (in spite of the scientific paradigm's popularity and politicisation) that would attract the scholarly milieu to enable flow of knowledge and exchange of experiences between history researchers.In our search of an individual who, owing to her calibre as a scholar, would well serve as a patron for our project, we have quickly chosen ucja Charewiczowa , a historian active in the interwar period in Lww.It was her who, a representative of Polish academic milieu, postulated that scholarly research be pursued into history of women, and made part of historical discourse for good, taking local and national context into account.For a brief biography of this historian and a list of her major publications, please refer to the Archive section in this issue of APH .In October 2017, we initiated the 'ucja Charewiczowa' Seminar in History of Women and Gender.The Seminar was organised as a series of cyclical meetings, each including a lecture and workshop discussions or a panel discussion, at which advanced doctoral or postdoctoral (habilitation) projects are discussed, including on the basis of the work in progress (as previously distributed among the participants).The meetings are held on a quarterly basis, usually at the seat of the Warsaw Scientific Society.In our Seminar work we focus on the tradition behind its scholar-patron and her own achievements, but there is more to it .Some of the attendees can very well remember the meetings and discussions as part of the informal ' Anna arnowska School', inaugurated in the 1990s by the Warsaw-based historian.The intellectual community once gathered around Professor arnowska commenced what developed into a long-term project of research into the history of women in Polish territories in, primarily, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in a comparative context.The nine-volume publication based on 1 Archiwum Polskiej Akademii Nauk (Polish Academy of Sciences -the Archive in Warsaw [hereinafter: APAN], Materials of Maria Turnau-Morawska, class.no.80, ii.2 The statistics as of 2016, in reference to the archival material stored at the APAN, Group III -Personal archives of Polish scientists and other persons.I do not take so-called 'small legacies' into consideration.For the present purpose, I only take account of the manuscript sets that have been elaborated on

History of science · Political science · Sociology · Classics · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · History · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies