Wykład inauguracyjny prof. Normana Daviesa

The History of the Southern Levant: Twenty Lectures

                                                                      Norman Davies,   UJ – IO,

1. The Holy Land:  Jews, Christians, and Muslims, the monotheist religions
2. The Semites:  origins, languages, distribution
3. The Levant in Ancient Times: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hellenism and Rome
4. The Post-Roman Levant:  Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Ottomans
5. Ottoman Palestine in the Nineteenth Century, to 1914
6. Western colonialism and its designs on the Levant
7. Nationalism: the ideology of Blood and Soil – Germany, Poland, Russia
8. The Rise of Arab Nationalism:  advocates and adversaries
9. The Pale of Settlement in the partitioned lands of Poland-Lithuania
10. Zionism: a nationalist movement from East-Central Europe.

11. The First World War, 1914-18:  Ottoman Empire, Arabs and Zionists
12. 1918-21:  Britain and France and their Middle Eastern Settlement
13. 1921-39:   The British Mandate in Palestine: the birth of Transjordan
14. 1939-45:  World War Two in the Middle East and its consequences
15. 1945-48:  the Crisis of British Rule in Palestine;  entry of the UN
16. 1948:  Israel's Declaration of Independence & the Palestinian Nakhba
17. Palestinians at home and in exile:  the PLA
18. 1948+ : Political, economic, military and territorial consolidation of Israel
19. USA and USSR and their Middle Eastern proxies: Israel's wars
20. Since 1990: the endless Israeli-Palestinian ‘Peace Process' without peace

The Polish Armed Forces in the Middle East, 1941-46 :  Twenty Lectures

                                                                       Norman Davies,    UJ,

1. 1939-41.  Origins of the Polish Army in Russia
2. The Soviet Union and its Central Asian Republics: the Stalinist System
3. 1941-2.  General Anders and his Army: aims, formation, training
4. Uzbekistan and its neighbours
5. 1942:  Deteriorating relations with the Soviet authorities
6. The Anglo-Soviet Invasion and Occupation of  Iran, 1941+
7. 1941-2 Evacuations of the Polish Army to Iran
8. Modern History of  Persia/Iran
9. 1942-45:  the Polish Sojourn in Iran
10. The Teheran Conference,  November 1943: the ‘Big Three'

11. Polish civilian destinations: India, Tanganyika, Mexico, New Zealand
12. Modern History of Iraq
13. The Polish Army in the Middle East:  from Iran to Iraq and Syria
14. Modern History of Syria and Lebanon: the French Mandates
15. Modern History of Palestine, from 1900.  Zionism &Arab Nationalism
16. The Polish Army in Palestine, 1943-45: the Jewish Question
17. Modern History of Egypt and Libya
18. The North African Campaigns: the Polish Contribution
19. From Bari to Bologna: the Polish Second Corps fights in Italy
20. The Middle East in 1945-46: what the Poles left behind

fot. Anna Wojnar