PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Przemysław Piotr Damski

I am a history graduate from the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Łódź. After completing my doctoral studies, I joined the Faculty of Business and International Relations at the Vistula University where I was, among other things, Deputy Head and then Head of the International Relations Teaching Programme responsible for didactic reform.

I advocate project-based teaching methods, in which the lecturer is a guide, a tutor for the student in his individual or group pursuit of planned goals. I see students as co-authors of the classes who are not only learning themselves, but, simultaneously, teaching the other participants of the classes. This enables the active acquisition of knowledge and skills through the implementation of practical tasks.

My research interests focus on contemporary and past international relations with a particularly on the Arctic, issues of emotion in interstate relations, World War I and US-British relations. My inquiries have resulted in numerous articles published in academic journals, e.g. , Przegląd Zachodni, Sprawy Międzynarodowe, Dzieje Najnowsze or Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne. In 2017 my book Najbliższe narody. Stosunki brytyjsko-amerykańskie w dobie prezydentury Theodore'a Roosevelta (1901-1909) has appeared.

My experience up to now led me to the conviction of the need of combining the craft and methods of international history with the methodology of the social sciences, as well as benefit from the achievements of other fields and disciplines, such as neuroscience.

An important place in my professional activity is the delivering of knowledge to a wider audience. I took part in the Warsaw Science Festival, in the popular science panel of the Łódź Sci-Fi and Fantasy Festival KapitularzFantastyka Festival, and I conducted classes in the Children's University of Interesting History - DUCH. My texts were published in the portals Histmag, Hrabia Tytus and in such magazines like Focus.Historia and Nowe Książki.

I prefer to spend my free time with my family and friends. Despite my busy schedule, I try to find some time to read fantasy books, spy novels by John Le Carre or comic books. However, I always manage to find time to listen to podcasts, rock and progressive metal, jazz or opera.

• emotions in international relations
• Arctic in international relations
• history of international relations between 19th and 21st centuries, American-British relations during the First World War and the emotional aspects in World War I diplomacy in particular
• Methodology of international history
• English School of International Relations

Latest publications

Damski, Przemysław. „Przypadki Alaski i Svalbardu jako przykład odchodzenia Federacji Rosyjskiej od konceptu «szczególności Arktyki» po 24 lutego 2022 roku”. Przegląd Zachodni 386, nr 12 (2023): 171–91. https://doi.org/10.60972/PZ.2023.1.2.171 .

https://doi.org/10.60972/PZ.2023.1.2.171Damski, Przemysław Piotr. „Arktyka w przestrzeni informacyjnej państw arktycznych w dobie wojny rosyjsko-ukraińskiej (24 lutego–8 czerwca 2022 r.)”. Sprawy Międzynarodowe 76, nr 2 (2022): 125–44. https://doi.org/10.35757/SM.2022.75.2.07 .

Damski, Przemysław Piotr. „Klio czuje. Refleksje nad historią międzynarodową na przykładzie problemu emocji”. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 52 (2022): 409–34. https://doi.org/10.24425/hsm.2022.142735 .

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Grants

NCN MINIATURA 6 (2022-2023) - Aspekt emocjonalny brytyjsko-amerykańskich stosunków dyplomatycznych w latach 1914-1919

Roosevelt Institute for American Studies Research grant (2017) - Middelburg, The Netherlands

Roosevelt Study Center Research grant (2012) - Middelburg, The Netherlands

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Foreign enquiries

Latest

• Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (August, 2023)
• Manuscripts & Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, Hew Haven, USA (August, 2023)
• Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Columbia University, Nowy Jork, USA (May, 2023)
• National Archives Records and Administration, College Park, USA (May and August, 2023)
• The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA (May and August 2023)

Former

• The National Archive of the United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom (2007, 2009, 2014, 2018, 2019)
• The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2016)
• The Parliamentary Archives, London, United Kingdom (2014, 2017, 2018, 2019)
• The British Library, London, United Kingdom (2007, 2010, 2018, 2019)
• Churchill Archive Center, Cambridge, United Kingdom(2018)
• Roosevelt Institute for American Studies / Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands (2012, 2017)
• John-F.-Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2010, 2017)
• Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm Zentrum, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany (2010, 2017)

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Professional experience

2013, 2015-2023 - Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Faculty of Business and International Relations at Vistula University.

2018-2021 - Head of International Relations Teaching Programme at Vistula University.

2018-2019 - Researcher in EUnderground Project (Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union) an educational programme for high school pupils

2017 - Guest speaker, Global Citizenship – Voluntaria 2017, La Chapelle-D’Abondance, Francja, European Educational Exchanges-Youth for Understanding (topic Emotions and prejudices in International relations)

2017 - ERASMUS+ : Visiting Professor at Escola Superior de Educação de Bragança (Instituto Politecnico de Braganca, Portugalia)

2017-2018 - Deputy Head of International Relations Teaching Programme at Vistula University.

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Education

2013 - Doctor of Phylosophy in world history between 1871 and 1918, University of Łódź.

PhD Thesis- Stosunki brytyjsko-amerykańskie w dobie prezydentury Theodore'a Roosevelta (1901-1909) [Published]