Dr Maciej Górny

from June 2011 - May 2012
Mail jmgorny(at)gmail(dot)com

Maciej Górny was a fellow at Jena's Imre-Kertész Kolleg from June 2011 until May 2012. He is working at the historical institute of the Polish academy of sciences since 2006. He was a research associate at the centre for historical studies in Berlin from 2006 - 2010. Górny held a scholarship at the Berlin Kolleg for comparative European historical studies from 2004 - 2006. He received his doctorate in 2004 from the Polish academy of sciences. Maciej Górny studied history, Polish studies, Slavic studies and Hungarian studies in Warsaw.

Research Project at the Kolleg

The project "Racial sciences and psychology of the people during World War I. Central- and Eastern-Europe." searches for parallels between the so-called "Rassenlehre" and older traditions, such as the "Völkercharakterologie" of the 19th century. It will examine how these ideas were transferred Western Europe, Germany and Austria to Central eastern and South-eastern Europe. One aspect will include potential crossovers and imitations between different scientific discourses. The European discourse on womanhood and its influence on ethno-psychological analysis of "female" or "softened" nations is of special interest.

Main areas of Research

Central-eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century
History of historiography
Discourses on race

Functions/ Memberships

Member of the editorial staff of "Historie. Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften"
Member of the editorial staff of "Acta Poloniae Historica"
Member of the editorial council of "Dějiny - teorie - kritika"

Monographs

"Die Wahrheit ist auf unserer Seite". Nation, Marxismus und Geschichte im Ostblock, üb. v. Peter Oliver Loew, Błażej Białkowski u. Andreas Warnecke, Köln - Weimar - Wien 2011.

Przede wszystkim ma być naród. Marksistowskie historiografie w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, Warszawa 2007.

Między Marksem a Palackým. Historiografia w komunistycznej Czechosłowacji, Warszawa 2001.

Editorships

Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945). Texts and Commentaries, vol. 3/2: Modernism - Representations of National Culture, Hg. Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Górny, Vangelis Kechriotis, Budapest - New York: CEU Press, 2010.

Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945). Texts and Commentaries, vol. 3/1: Modernism - Creation of the Nation State, Hg. Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Górny, Vangelis Kechriotis, Budapest - New York: CEU Press, 2010.

Deutschland, Polen und der Zweite Weltkrieg. Geschichte und Erinnerung, Hg. Jerzy Kochanowski, Beate Kosmala, unter Mitarbeit von Maciej Górny, Andreas Mix, Potsdam-Warschau: DPJW, 2009 (zweite, erweiterte Auflage erscheint voraussichtlich 2011).

Polska - Niemcy. Wojna i pamięć, Hg. Jerzy Kochanowski, Beate Kosmala, unter Mitarbeit v. Maciej Górny, Andreas Mix, Warszawa-Poczdam: PNWM, 2009 (zweite, erweiterte Auflage erscheint voraussichtlich 2011).

Polska - Niemcy Wschodnie 1945-1990. Wybór dokumentów, Bd. 3: 1956-1957, bearb. v. Maciej Górny, Mateusz J. Hartwich, Warszawa 2008.

Polnische Perspektiven, Hg. Dorota Danielewicz-Kerski, Maciej Górny, Berlin: Berlin 2008.

Articles (Selection)

Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, in: The Oxford History of Historical Writing / ed. by Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf. - Vol. 5: Historical Writing Since 1945. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011, S. 243-265.

"Wschodnie barbarzyństwo" i "kultura" w refleksji charakterologicznej okresu I wojny światowej, "Przegląd Wschodni" XI (2010), 2, S. 341-364.Národ a revoluce. Rok 1918 v kontextu "pokrokových tradic" národních dějin ve středovýchodní Evropě, in: 1918. Model komplexního transformačního procesu?, Hg. Lucie Kostrbová, Jana Malinská, Praha: Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, 2010, S. 51-62.

Völkerkrieg - Rassenkrieg. Völkercharakterologie und die beiden Weltkriege in Ostmitteleuropa, in: Österreichisch - polnische militärische Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert, Hg. Claudia Reichl-Ham, Irmgard Nöbauer, Wien: Heeresgeschichtliches Museum 2010, S. 89-110.

(mit Justyna Górny) Nasze Niemcy, nasz Berlin, in: Moje Niemcy - moi Niemcy, Hg. Hubert Orłowski, Poznań: Instytut Zachodni 2010.

Reviews (Selection)

Turda, Marius: Modernism and Eugenics. Basingstoke 2010, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 20.04.2011.

Jerzy Kłoczowski and Hubert Łaszkiewicz (eds.), East-Central Europe in European History. Themes & Debates, Acta Poloniae Historica 102 (2010), S. 221-224.

Jedlicki, Jerzy: Błędne koło, 1832-1864. Warszawa 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 23.06.2009.

Janowski, Maciej: Narodziny inteligencji (1750-1831). Warszawa 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 23.06.2009.

Micińska, Magdalena: Inteligencja na rozdrożach, 1864-1918. Warszawa 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 23.06.2009.