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Associate Professor Magdalena Banaszkiewicz

Magdalena Banaszkiewicz, is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Intercultural Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She graduated both in Russian Studies and Cultural Studies. Her research interests focus on dissonant heritage, tourism, memory and sustainability, particularly in the Central and Eastern Europe region.

For the last few years she has been exploring the problem of tourism development in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (a research grant 2016/23/D/HS3/01960 financed by The National Science Centre in Poland). The results of the project will be published in the monograph “Tourism and Heritage in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone” (Routledge, 2022, forthcoming). Recently, she published a monograph “Tourism in Dissonant Heritage Sites” (Jagiellonian University Press, 2018) and co-edited with Sabine Owsianowska a volume “Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe. Bridging Worlds” (Lexington Books, 2018).

She is a Chair of the MA program in Heritage Tourism and co-editor of the scientific journal “Turystyka Kulturowa” (Cultural Tourism).

Assistant Professor Łucja Piekarska-Duraj

Łucja Piekarska – Duraj, Ph.D. is a social anthropologist affiliated with the UNESCO Chair for the Education about the Holocaust, Jagiellonian University (Krakow, PL) as well as independent consultant in heritage interpretation. In her recent book The Invisible Hand of Europe. The Museum as a civilizing tool (Peter Lang 2020) she examines processes of heritage Europeanization in museums with regard to Europe’s core metaphors. She is currently involved in research on populism in Poland and especially its connections with the Catholic Church as part of POPREBEL (H2020).

PhD Candidate Katarzyna Grzybowska

Katarzyna Grzybowska is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, a Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies, and a member of the Research Center for Memory Cultures.

She is conducting a research grant “Human remains in a local landscape. Between collective and environmental memory” (The National Science Centre in Poland). She participated in scientific grants in the field of Memory and Holocaust Studies: “Awkward Objects of Genocide” (TRACES, Horizon2020, 2016-2019) and “Uncommemorated Genocide Sites and Their Impact on Collective Memory, Cultural Identity, Ethical Attitudes, and Intercultural Relations in Contemporary Poland” (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Programme for the Development of Humanities, 2016-2019). She co-edited a book “Rzeczowy świadek” [Material witness] (Krakow: Jagiellonian Univ. Press, 2019).

Her interests are in Second World War issues and Holocaust Studies, narrations related to sites, and non-sites of memory. Her dissertation examines the memory of Krępiecki Forest. The research aims to uncover and analyze the contemporary functioning of a Holocaust by bullets place. The main conceptual frame for this task is the theory of collective and environmental memory. She is interested in local (bystanders) narrations in Holocaust geographies.