On the occasion of the second anniversary of the ERC Starting Grant project “Recycling the German Ghosts. Resettlement Cultures in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia after 1945 (SPECTRAL RECYCLING)” (no. 101041946), the research team has prepared a summary of the activities carried out to date.
Their research involves queries in national and local archives as well as ethnographic fieldwork in three selected regions, namely Pomerania in Poland, Northern Bohemia in Czechia, and Upper Nitra Basin in Slovakia. In the initial two years of the project, researchers successfully gathered nearly 200 interviews. This dataset encompasses both oral history interviews and ethnographic approaches. The research team spent many hours looking for the relevant documents in the archives, talking with interview partners, documenting the material objects being studied, and exploring the locations they investigated.
The team led by Dr Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska actively disseminates the results of its research through participation in radio shows, podcasts and open events, thus effectively reaching a wide audience, including those outside the academic community.
We invite you to visit the project website, where you can read more about the summary of the team’s work so far and follow the researchers’ activities on social media.
The project will last until 2027. We wish you good luck and keep our fingers crossed for further successes!
