“The Work of Oskar Kolberg as National and European Heritage,” a two-day international academic conference, was held in Poznań, Poland on May 22-23. Poland’s president Bronisław Komorowski was the honorary patron of this important event, co-organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Marshall of the Wielkopolska Province, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Ethnological Society and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The conference highlighted Kolberg’s contributions to Polish and European culture, focusing on the source materials collected by Kolberg that described and defined the heritage of various Polish regions.
More information on the conference and the program at: www.kolberg2014.org.pl
[Source: kolberg2014.org.pl]