Jakub Basista
E-mail: basista@chello.pl
Education:
1982-1985 Institute of History,
1977-1984 Institute of Mathematics,
1973-1977
Degrees:
1991 -
Ph.D. in History at the
1985 -
M.A. in History at the
1984 -
M.Sc. in Mathematics at the
Work Experience:
Teaching:
1985 – present; Institute of History
at the
2003 – present; Department of English
Philology at WSP TWP (
1985-present: lectures, tutorials and
seminars in early modern (16th-18th centuries) and modern (19th century) world
and Polish history at the Jagiellonian University (Institute of History); each
year about five/six courses taught to undergraduate students of history. In all
over 8000 hours of tutorials, lectures, seminars taught in the past 20 years.
Courses
taught in English for foreign students:
·
Polish 20th Century History taught in English to
Norwegian students at the
·
[1] Survey of Polish pre-1939 History; [2]History of
·
[1]Political and Social History of Central Europe in the
Twentieth Century; [2]Formation of Modern European States 1648-2000; [3]History
of the Present taught in English at MA program in European studies for
foreign students in English at the Jagiellonian University.
·
History of Poland taught to international students in
English at the
·
An Outline of Polish pre 20th Century History
taught
for Erasmus students.
·
History of England taught in English for students of
·
History of the USA taught in English for students of
Over 70
lectures on Polish modern and contemporary history of Poland, Poland’s
integration with EU delivered (in English) to foreign (mostly American)
students in Vienna (America Institut; Institute of European Studies; Vienna
University) and Kraków (Midwest Consortium for Study Abroad; Haderslev
Statsseminarium, Denmark; Dartmore Institute, Prague) in the years 1989-2008;
topics centered on history of Kraków, contemporary political, economic issues,
on the church and recent changes in Poland. Guest lectures held in 1997 at
Over 50 lectures on Polish
contemporary history; on nationalism in the nineteenth century Central Europe;
on History and Mythology delivered (in English) to students from Central Europe
and NIS during summer school sessions of College
for New Europe in Kraków in 1994-2002.
Administrative:
April 1992 – June 1994: Representative
and Coordinator for
April 1994 – June 2002: Country Director of Civic Education Project in
July 2000 – June 2002: Country Director of Civic Education Project in the
Other:
2005 – 2006; member of the Editorial
Board of Cognitio a graduate humanities
journal published by
1995 - present: Secretary to the Editor of HISTORYKA, a professional
yearly devoted to methodology of history and historiography. The only
periodical of such profile in
1980 - 1992: over 500 guided tours of
Kraków (about 300 in English), among others some of the VIP guests of the
Rector of the
Scholarships, study trips, awards:
2005 – Lanckoronski Fund scholarship
for research at the British Library in
2003 – Lanckoronski Fund scholarship
for study at the British Library in
1996 – Three weeks research at Yale
University Library.
1995 – Award of the Rector of the
1992 - Oxford Colleges Hospitality Scheme scholar at
1987/88 - Soros scholar at St.
Antony's College,
1989, 1990 - monthly study trips to
Selected
Presentations:
Papers delivered at conferences (P) means in Polish; (E) means in English:
Among others - First English colony in America (P) (Kraków 1993); W.Laud's
role in the English Civil War (P) (
Paper delivered at AHA conference in
Paper on Why write history?(E) delivered
in
Paper on: On visits to Holy Places by Sarmatian Travelers (P) presented in
Paper on: Is Ethics Possible in Teaching and Learning at Polish Universities a
Decade after the ‘Velvet Revolution’?(E)
presented in
Paper on: The Image of
Paper on: Protestants in Poland-Lithuania in the Second half of the Seventeenth
Century (E) presented in
Paper on:
Paper
on: The Idea of Antemurale Christianitatis in the Polish Political Thought
in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century (E) delivered at
a conference in Appeldoorn in January 2005.
Paper on: Europeae peregrinatio (E) delivered at a conference in
Paper on: James I (VI)’s Vision of Royal Power (P) delivered in Łódź in November 2005.
Organizational:
A conference on:
Two
professional international history conferences organized single-handed in
Over a dozen student conferences,
workshops, debates organized and co-organized within the framework of the Civic
Education Project in the years 1992-2002.
Interests: good classical music and
good literature; tourism and sightseeing; carpentry.
Selected Publications:
Books, author, co-author, editor:
·
Jews in Old
·
·
Propaganda religijna w
przededniu i pierwszych latach angielskiej wojny domowej – Kraków 2007 (Historia
Jagiellonica Press)
·
Kalendarium dziejów Polski (Polish History), ed. Andrzej Chwalba (Co-author; author of sixteenth –
eighteenth centuries), Kraków 1999, second ed. 2001, p. 296-460.
·
Wielka Brytania (Great
Britain) in:
Encyklopedia Historyczna Świata (Historic
Encyclopedia of the World), ed. Andrzej Pankowicz, Antoni Podraza, vol.
IX, Kraków 2001, p. 299-348.
·
·
Systemy polityczne w
Europie,
·
·
Czartoryski, Adam (s. 280-281); Poland (s.
761-762); Polish Forces (s. 762-765);
Poniatowski, Józef (s. 766-768); Russo-Polish War (s. 851-852); Saxony (s. 879-880) [in:] The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary
and Napoleonic Wars”, red. Gregory Fremont-Barnes, ABC-Clio,
·
Berman, Bierut, Gierek, Gomułka, Jaruzelski,
Solidarity, Wałęsa, Wyszyński,
[in:] The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A
Political, Social and Military History, red. S. Tucker, ABC Clio,
·
Catherine II, Impact of Revolutionary Thought on
Poland, Partitions of Poland, Polish Constitution, Polish Revolutions,
Revolutionary Calendar,
[in:] Encyclopedia of the Age of
Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, red. Gregory Fremont-Barnes,
Articles and Review Articles:
·
Błogosławiony Szymon z
Lipnicy
(Blessed Simon of Lipnica), "Tygodnik Powszechny" 1982, no. 29.
·
Francja w opinii szlachty
polskiej (
·
Z dziejów stosunków
polsko-angielskich w epoce nowożytnej (From the History of Polish-English
Relations in the Early Modern Period), "Studia Historyczne" 1989,
XXXII, 127(4), p. 629-641.
·
Kilka uwag o
konstytucyjnych przyczynach angielskiej wojny domowej (Several Comments on the
Constitutional Causes of the English Civil War) "Sobótka" 1992, 1-2.
·
Spór wokół Arminianizmu;
czy arcybiskup Laud wywołał angielską rewolucję? (Debate on Arminianism; Did
archbishop Laud cause the English Revolution?) [in:] Studia z dziejów kultury i mentalności czasów nowożytnych, ed.
Krystyn Matwijowski, Bogdan Rok,
·
Jesteś ślicznie ubrany,
czyli pierwsza angielska kolonia w Ameryce (Your Dress is Beautiful, or the
First English Colony in
·
Więcej o angielskiej
rewolucji w XVII wieku (More on the English Revolution in the Seventeenth
Century) [in:] "HISTORYKA", XXV, 1995, p. 89-97.
·
Historia, aksjologia, mity (History, axiology,
myths) [in:] Historia, mity,
interpretacja, ed. Alina Barszczewska-Krupa, Łódź 1996.
·
Soviet Influence on History
Teaching and Textbooks in
·
Trzy siedemnastowieczne relacje
angielskie o nieszczęśliwym porwaniu, okrutnej niewoli i cudownym wyzwoleniu z
niewoli algierskiej (Three
Seventeenth Century English Relations on the Miserable Capture, Terrible
Captivity and Miraculous Relief from Algerian Slavery) [in:] Niewolnictwo i niewolnicy w Europie od starożytności po czasy
nowożytne, ed. Danuta
Quirini-Popławska, Kraków 1998, pp. 187-195.
· O nawiedzaniu miejsc świętych przez sarmackich podróżników (On Visits to Holy Places Undertaken by Sarmatrian Travellers), [in:] Rzeczpospolita wielu wyznań, ed: Adam Kaźmierczyk, Andrzej Link-Lenczowski, Mariusz Markiewicz, Krystyn Matwijowski, Kraków 2004, pp. 281-291.
·
Book Reviews and Short Notices:
About 30 book reviews and short
notices in Polish and foreign historical journals. In English in POLIN (1988
vol. III; 1990 vol. V, 1998 vol. XI) and EHR (414, Jan. '90; 416, July '90; 420
July '91; 430 February '94; 446, April ‘97), SCN (vol. 62, Nos. 1&2, 2004;
vol. 62, Nos. 3&4, 2004).
Other, Varia:
About 50 entries to Polish
Encyclopaedias on history.
Selective bibliography of Polish
publications on the history of universities for the years 1989-1994: History of Universities, vols IX-XIV,
publ. 1990-1995.