Film presentation and exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the first crossing of the Colca Canyon
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Live of the 2022 Benedict Polonus Award Ceremony
Saturday, June 25, 2022 3:45 pm.
Tomasz Grzywaczewski, a member of the Polish Chapter of The Explorers Club, is in Ukraine…
Tomasz Grzywaczewski, a member of the Polish Chapter of The Explorers Club, is in Ukraine, where he is a journalist, providing up-to-date information directly from the front line. You can follow his reports in English and Polish on www.tvpworld.com/ and www.tvp.info.pl
Live from Castle Museum Łańcut, Benedictus Polonus Award ceremony
Live from Castle Museum Łańcut, Benedictus Polonus Award ceremony (with ARSO Ensemble concerto)
Saturday 23 october 2021 hour 4pm CEST
“The legacy of Polish explorers of Yakutia”
Recording from the conference “Wacław Sieroszewski and Polish Explorers of Siberia” realized remotely on October 20, 2020 in the framework of the implementation of the Grant Perfect Science awarded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the project “Independence Engraved in DNA. Wacław Sieroszewski – Polish friend at the farthest ends of the world” No. DNK/SP/481115/2020.
Part I – The beginning
Part II – Conference proceedings
Alexander “Olo” Doba (1946-2021)
On February 22, departed a great traveler and kayaker who sailed three times across The Atlantic rowing alone in a kayak. He was a volcano of energy. With his accomplishments borders of the impossible were shifted.
Olo died in Tanzania while conquering Africa’s highest peak, Kilimanjaro fulfilling another travel dream.
We extend our deep sympathy to Olek’s Family.
Friends from the Polish Chapter of the Explorers Club
Aleksander Doba was the Laureate of the Special Mention awarded to him in 2015 by the Jury of the Prize Benedykt the Pole – read more on:
https://leczyca.info.pl/kultura/nagroda-im-benedykta-polaka/
Professor Jerzy Gąssowski (1926 – 2021)
June 9, 2017
(photo from https://leczyca.info.pl/kultura/)
With deep regret we inform that Professor Jerzy Gąssowski passed away on 1 st of February, 2021. He was an outstanding archaeologist who searched for and discovered the tomb of Nicolaus Copernicus in the Frombork Cathedral and laureate of the Benedict the Pole Award in 2017.
Funeral ceremonies will take place on February 11 at 11.00 A.M. (Holy Mass) in Warsaw at the Northern Cemetery – Wólka Węglowa (Funeral Home, room A).
Czytaj dalejChapter Connect – Poland
Join us tonight for another new episode of Chapter Connect, this time with our Poland Chapter! We’ll introduce you to Mariusz Ziółkowski FI’02, Chair of the Poland Chapter, in conversation with V.P. of Chapters Tim Radke MN’13.
Featuring special guests –
• Monika Rogozińska MED’93 – How the Chapter was born
• Marcin Jamkowski FI’05 – The deepest underwater cave – Hranicka Propast in Czech Republic
• Tomasz Stachura FI’13 – Wreck of Karlsruhe in the Baltic Sea
• Benedykt Hac FI’15 – Stuttgart: The most dangerous wreck in the south Baltic Sea
• Hubert Kowalski FI’17 – Underwater rescue of artifacts from the Swedish occupation of Poland in the 17th century
• Tomasz Grzywaczewski FI’14 – The Death Road across Siberia
• Andrzej Ciszewski FI’99 – Cave Explorations in China
• Mateusz Waligóra FI’20 – Solo unsupported Gobi desert crossing on foot and Vistula River walk
• Maciej Klósak FI’19 – In Szolc-Rogiński’s footsteps in Cameroon
• Anna Urbańska FI’14 & Jakub Urbański FI’14 – Cannibals of Papua New Guinea
• Andrzej Piętowski FI’09 – First kayak expedition down the Colca Canyon, Peru
To watch the stream, simply visit our homepage at explorers.org, our YouTube channel, or live on our Facebook page – Thursday, January 21 at 3:00 pm ET (21:00 in Poland)
Mariusz Ziółkowski FI’02 – Poland Chapter Chair
Mariusz Ziółkowski FI’02 is a Professor of Archaeology of the Americas at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He is also the Director of the Center for Andean Studies of the University of Warsaw in Cusco, and Extraordinary Professor at the Universidad Católica Santa María de Arequipa, Peru.
Ziółkowski specializes in Inca archaeology and ethnohistory, absolute dating techniques, archaeoastronomy, and has taken part in archaeological work in Poland, Iraq, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia. He was decorated with the Order of Merit, in the rank of Officer, by the Government of the Republic of Peru in 1998.
He is the author of several books, including – “Pachap unancha. The Metropolitan Calendar of the Inca State” (Ediciones El Lector, Arequipa 2015) & “Myths, rituals and politics of the Incas” (with Jan Szemiński – Ediciones El Lector, Arequipa 2018).
The Eleventh Annual Anthropological Lecture In Memory of Professor Andrzej Wierciński
The Eleventh Annual Anthropological Lecture In Memory of Professor Andrzej Wierciński
Zoom conference: “Pionier antropologii uczestniczącej: Jan Stanisław Kubary na Oceanii” by ks. prof. Wojciech Bęben.
Contact: profesor dr hab. Mariusz Ziółkowski mziolkowski@uw.edu.pl
Wacław Sieroszewski and Polish explorers of Siberia: yesterday and today
Preface
The project is part of the Grant Perfect Science – Independence Engraved in DNA. Wacław Sieroszewski – Polish friend at the farthest ends of the world no. DNK / SP / 481115/2020 of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Wacław Sieroszewski was a 19th-century Polish exile, who in Yakutia undertook scientific and exploratory activities, the culmination of which was the creation of one of the most important monographs on the life and customs of the Yakut “12 years in the country of the Yakut”. Currently, he is recognized by this Siberian Nation as a hero who discovered them for the world and contributed to the preservation of their culture, tradition and history. On April 20, 2021 75 years will have passed since the death of this outstanding researcher and independence activist, who, after returning from exile to Russian Siberia, served as both a PM and senator of the Second Polish Republic. In connection with this anniversary, a series of scientific events will be organized, during which the latest results of research on the figure and achievements of W. Sieroszewski will be presented.
The first part of the project will be the Warsaw-Yakutsk online conference on October 20, 2020. The following conference is scheduled for March 2021 and will have an innovative seminar character resulting from its combination with scientific expeditions, the results of which will be presented at the end of the conference.
2021 – the second part of the project will take place in Yakutia.
a/ Polish scientists and researchers in a conference / seminar in Yakutsk will present and remind the figure of Wacław Sieroszewski, then work out a plan to commemorate this extraordinary discoverer.
b/ a scientific journey will be carried out in the terrains related to Wacław Sieroszewskis’ scientific activities
c/ the third part will end with a seminar presenting the results of the journey, which will be a step towards further scientific cooperation and will contribute to a better mutual perception of both nations Polish and Russian Federation. At the same time, the conference conducted in this way will be an internationally understandable signal of goodwill that science and passion for exploration the world create a universal language that connects across divisions
Program
Virtual Exhibition
Transmission
Part I – The beginning
Part II – Conference proceedings
Maciej Besta
Exploration of these remote areas, still very rarely visited, is in progress and some Poles are involved in it. Polish Chapter of the Explorers Club congratulates Maciej Besta on his recent achievements in this field. As soon as the epidemic situation allows, we will listen to lectures on his explorations in our Warsaw headquarters. For the moment, with the Author’s consent, we provide a link to his website, where his expeditions and achievements are presented.
