– What kind of conference did you go to from Paris to Boston?
– Annually in November and all time in another American city, ASEEES organizes a convention of scientists, involving respective 100 researchers from around the world. Each of them presents its current investigation within a panel composed of respective researchers working on akin topics. The association, which is located at Pitts burgh University, Pennsylvania, was founded after planet War II; it aims to support investigation and publications related to nations and territories in its area of interest. This year's conference was held in Boston, at the 35-story Marriott Hotel located in the centre of the city celebrated for its alleged Boston tea, 1 of the early episodes of the American Revolution. In mention to the past of the city, the papers were to take into account the subject of "Liberation". Researchers (about 500 people) – both celebrated professors (among them Timothy Snyder and Irena Grudzińska- -Gross) and PhD students – came from all over the world, represented disciplines specified as history, cultural history, art history, literary studies. The themes varied, but the majority afraid the past of Central Europe (often Ukraine) and Russia in the 20th and 21st centuries. References in Polish investigation (so-called: Polish Studies) touched Polish-Jewish, Polish-Ukrainian, feminism, mass culture. Scientists were invited to Harvard University to survey the rich Slavic resources in his libraries.
