Young Researchers Take the Lead is a project dedicated to presenting Lanckoroński Foundation Scholars who have received funding for research stays in Vienna and at our Center.
Every year the Lanckoroński Foundation awards residence scholarships to Vienna to five young scholars whose research interests include the humanities, especially history, art history of Poland until 1945 and we have the honor of hosting the Foundation's Scholars in our Centre, this year - due to pandemic circumstances - we would like to introduce them virtually.
In the first episode of our cycle of presentations of Lanckoroński Foundation Scholars, Piotr Borusowski, M.A., curator from the National Museum in Warsaw (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie), tells us how he is reassembling the dispersed collection of works of art of a famous collector - in his project "Ein Freund und Kenner der Kunst - Albrecht von Sebisch and his Collection of Paintings". During his stay, the scholarship holder will conduct research at the Albertina Museum, the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.
Episode 1: https://youtu.be/LSPaFLYC32A
"Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see". - we can hear in one of the famous songs by Queen and it is the hero of the second episode of our series - Young Researchers Take the Lead - Marek Świdrak, M.A. from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, who encourages us to look around. We are surrounded by a lot of great architecture, but we know very little about it, so the Scholarship holder will tell us about his project concerning a certain famous architect from Wrocław. In Vienna, for research purposes, he will visit, among others, the Kriegsarchiv, Albertina Museum and Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.
Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCRoWt2iieE
In the third episode, Aleksandra Matczyńska, M.A., a doctoral student at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut Sztuki PAN), will talk about how wealthy women in Silesia used to be patrons of the arts. In Vienna, she plans a research visit to the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute for Research on the Habsburg Monarchy and the Balkans - IHB) and the Austrian National Library, among others.
Episode 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Czcu09-ms
"Don't you know they're talking about a revolution?" sings Tracy Chapman. In the fourth episode, military historian Dr. Jacek Jędrysiak talks about his project on the forgotten uprising of 1846. He is looking forward to visiting Austrian archives, including the Kriegsarchiv and Haus- und Hofarchiv. He may also be interested in visiting the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum/Militärhistorisches Institut.
Episode 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6UWMGak1w
"You can shoot me straight to the top!" we hear in the famous song from the musical Fame. However, the road to the top of the career - for members of the painters' guild in sixteenth-century Toruń or Gdańsk was not so easy ... as Bartłomiej Łyczak, PhD - an art historian from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, tells us in the fifth episode of our series. To complete his project, he will be combing through the collections of the Austrian National Library and the Library of the University of Vienna.
Episode 5: https://youtu.be/2z6tpoPUgtw
In the sixth episode, Dr. Joanna Giel of the Institute of Philosophy, Silesian Philosophy Research Unit at the University of Wrocław, reports on the Silesian context of Martin Luther's writings.
Episode 6: https://youtu.be/nTGtKlrRFzE
We invite you to listen in!
