Małgorzata Pakier and Robert Żurek joined the ENRS team.
Their responsibilities include assesing ENRS projects and providing advice to project managers. Additionaly, Dr Żurek will coordinate works on the upcoming historical exhbition.
Małgorzata Pakier is Head of the Research Department at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Since 2011 she has coordinated, jointly with Joanna Wawrzyniak, the ‘Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe’ program at ENRS. She is a member of the Social Memory Laboratory at Warsaw University.
Pakier’s academic interests include social and cultural remembrance in Eastern Europe, the concept of Europeanization of memory, and Holocaust memory and representation. Her most important publications include: The Construction of European Holocaust Memory: German and Polish Cinema after 1989 (2013); A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance (ed. with Bo Stråth; 2010, 2012); Memory and Change in Europe. Eastern Perspectives (ed. with Joanna Wawrzyniak, 2015).
Robert Żurek studied History and Catholic Theology at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He received his PhD degree from Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He was a fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, deputy director of the Historical Research Center of Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and the director of the Wrocław Delegation of the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland. Currently he is a board member of the Krzyzowa Foundation.
He has written numerous scientific and educational publications, with a special emphasis put on the 20th-century Polish-German relations. His other projects include an exhibition about the role of Catholic Church played in Polish-German reconciliation, as well as a film documentary and a radio play dedicated to different aspects of Polish-German relations.