Mr Jarosław Sellin, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, appointed the new Polish members of the ENRS Assemblies. Professor Andrzej Nowak joined the ENRS Academic Council and Mr Robert Kostro and Professor Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski became the new ENRS Advisory Board members.
Andrzej Nowak is a Polish historian and publicist, professor of the humanities; a professor at the Institute of History at Jagiellonian University and Head of the History of Russia and USSR Section at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He is the Head of the Section for culture, national identity and history policy at the National Development Council (NRR) appointed by the Polish President Andrzej Duda.
He was a visiting professor at universities in the United States (Columbia University, Harvard University, Rice University, University of Virginia), Great Britain (Cambridge University, College of London), Canada (Toronto University, Simon Fraser University, McGill University, University of Alberta), as well as the University College of Dublin, University of Masaryk in Brno, Collegium Civitas in Warsaw and Tokyo University.
His main research interests include cultural and political history and political thought in East-Central Europe in 19th and 20th centuries, international political relations and European historical memory policies. He is considered one of the top Polish experts on past and present Polish-Russian relations. He is the author of more than thirty books and some 200 historical articles, studies, reviews and interviews.
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski is a university professor and a conservative politician, serving as a Member of the European Parliament. He holds a PhD and a habilitation in law from the University of Łódź. He comes from a family of long political traditions. Mr Ujazdowski has taken an active role in public life from the early eighties. He was arrested in 1982 and sentenced for distribution of leaflets calling for opposition to Martial Law. During his studies at the law faculty in Łódź he joined the opposition movement called ‘Ruch Młodej Polski’ (Young Poland Movement). He also edited a magazine ‘Prześwit’ (Clearance) published in samizdat. He was a Member of Parliament in the I, III, IV, V, VI terms. Between 2004-2005 he held the post of Deputy Speaker of the Sejm (Parliament). He was also twice the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2000-2001, 2005-2007). While holding this office he restored State responsibility for conservation, collaborated on modern historical policy, and established the Polish History Museum and the Remembrance & Future Center (Ośrodek Pamięć i Przyszłość) in Wrocław.
Robert Kostro is a Polish historian, publicist and journalist. In the 1980s, he joined the opposition movement called ‘Ruch Młodej Polski’ (Young Poland Movement). In 1988 he co-founded the conservative association called Academic League. Between 1991 and 1994 he was a journalist at ‘Polish Politics’ as well as several other journals. In 1997 he was appointed Director of the Department of Foreign Relations in the Prime Minister’s Office. After the appointment of Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski as Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Mr Kostro became the Head of his Political Cabinet. In 2001 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. From 2006 he is founding Director of the Polish History Museum.