Speaker: Bogdan Góralczyk
Venue: China-CEE Institute – 1052 Budapest Petőfi Sándor str. 11.
Date: 29 April 2019 2pm
About the speaker: Professor Bogdan Góralczyk, Director of the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw
Professor Bogdan Góralczyk, Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw, since September 2016 also a director of the Center. Former Ambassador of Poland to Thailand, the Philippines and Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Burma; 2003-2008). He was also Chief of the Cabinet of Polish Foreign Minister (2001-2003) and long-term diplomat in Hungary (1991-1998); prolific writer, author of many books and articles in Polish, English and Hungarian.
He has recently published (in Polish): A biography (first one in Polish) of dr Sun Yat-sen, Warsaw 2013; “Przebudzenie smoka. Powrót Chin na scenę globalną” (Revival of the Dragon. Return of China to the Global Scene), Warsaw 2012. He also edited a volume „Polska-Chiny. Wczoraj, dziś, jutro”, also published in English as “Poland – China: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Toruń 2014; “Unia Europejska jako aktor na scenie globalnej: Razem czy osobno?” (European Union as a Global Actor: United or Fragmented?”, Warsaw 2014) and “European Union on Global Scene: United or Irrelevant?”, Warsaw 2015. His recent major studies in English: papers in “Yearbook of Polish European Studies” (2009/2010/2011/2013/2014). “Polish Sinology: Reflections on Individualized Trajectories” has been published in a volume by Chih-yu Shih (Ed.), “Sinology in Post-Communist States” at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and in 2017 another article within that project was published: “Hungarian and Polish Sinology: Parallel Lives”, in: (Chih-yu Shih, Peizhong He, Lei Tang eds.), “From Sinology to Post-Chineseness: Intellectual Histories of China, Chinese People, and Chinese Civilization”, Beijing 2017. Prof. B. Góralczyk was visiting scholar in many Universities in US, Thailand, China and India, etc.
