International Scientific Conference Polish-Belarusian Cultural, Literary, and Linguistic Relationship, Wisznice 2019

Abstract

ries ‘Polish-Belarusian Cultural, Literary, and Language Relations’ was held, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Professor Michał Sajewicz (Mikhail Saevich), Ph.D. The conference was organized by the Institute of Slavonic Philology and the Institute of History of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, the Polish Society of Belarusian Studies, the Commune Government of Wisznice and the Society ‘Together for Wisznice’. The town of Wisznice (Lublin Voivodeship) was chosen as the place for the next international meeting in Poland. The conference was attended by historians, sociologists, religious scholars, ethnographers, literary critics, and linguists from Poland (Lublin, Wisznice, Biała Podlaska, Warsaw, Poznan, Opole, Białystok, Bygdoszcz, Wroclaw, Gdansk), Belarus (Minsk, Grodno, Gomel), and other countries (Great Britain, Germany, Slovakia, Ukraine). Next to the researchers recognized in the Humanities, were graduate students and applicants. Director of the Institute of Slavic Philology Siergiej Kowalow, Head of the town of Wisznice Piotr Dragan, Head of the Society ‘Together for Wisznice’ Daniel Dragan, Chairman of the International Association of Belarusists Iryna Bagdanovich received the honorary right to open the conference. The conference was warmly welcomed by the former Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of Belarus Elżbieta Smułkowa and Consul of the Republic of Belarus in Biała Podlaska Vasil Kurlovich. The reports delivered at the plenary session (chaired by Iryna Bagdanovich and Siergiej Kowalow) were devoted to a wide range of problems related to the modern humanitarian process. It opened with the conceptual presentation of Professor Elżbieta Smułkowa ‘As Evidenced by the Belarusian Correspondents of Antonina ObrębskaJabłonska’. In the informative rich report, the author judiciously relected the direction of the scientiic and pedagogical activity of Professor A. Obrębska-Jabłońska from Warsaw University, whose dynamic activity has contributed to the signiicant spread of knowledge on East Slavic Philology in Poland. Professor Uladzimir Karotky continued the plenary session with a profound report