The seminar: "Languages, nations, religions. Neighborhoods at the Northern Kashubia"
26-28.09.2003
In cooperation with: Christian Pletzing, Academia Baltica - Lubeka.

                  In the North of Kashubia, among Puck, Wejherowo and Żarnowieckie Lake a colourful mixture of languages, religions and nations has been formed since the medieval times. Apart from Kashubian, German and Polish people there were also newcomers from Fryzja and the Netherlands who settled down here in the 16th and 17th centuries. From 1945 Ukraine people had to accept this region as their new home whereas the Germans left their fatherland. The nationality of the Northern Kashubia had been also constantly changing: the rule of the Pomeranian Princes was replaced by the reign of the Teutonic Order. Later the region was governed by the Crown of the Polish Kingdom until the First Partition of Poland in 1772 and then taken over by Prussia. In the first half of the 20th century there were Polish and German claims to the land properties.

                  The aim of the seminar was to ask questions about the possibility of coexistence of different, often unfriendly ethnic and religious groups which created the history and the present times of Pomerania / Eastern Prussia and whose relations were complicated, neither hostile nor friendly.

Sample lectures:

	Grzegorz Berendt (University of Gdańsk) Krokowa and its surroundings during the "ghastly century" 1939-1949.
	Artur Jabłoński (county foreman), Norda. Northern Kashubia today.
	Prof. Siegfried Melchert (Poczdam), Die Kaschuben westlich d ostlich des Zarnowitzer Sees und Bruggemanns Ubersetzung der Kirchentexte in Schmolsin.
	Prof. Marek Stażweski (university of Gdańsk), The community of Krokowa and the surroundings in 19th century. The basic factors of modernization.

                  Apart from the mentioned above there were also many other lecturers: Prof. Andrzej Groth from The University of Gdańsk (Village Krokowa in 17th and 18th centuries), Felicitas Barbara Heibutzki from Eitorf, Aleksander Klempa from the PAN Library in Gdańsk (Religious relations in the North of Kashubia between 16th and 17th centuries), prof. Linkner from the University of Gdańsk (Kashubian village in comparison to "others" in literature), Ulrich Muller from Berlin (Latin, Polish, German and Jewish - about the multiplicity of the languages in Royal Prussia), prof. Jerzy Sampa from the University of Gdańsk Worship of Kashubian language and ethnic identity in 19th and 20th centuries.

Polish and German seminar for teachers "Kashubia - history and culture of the region"
24-25.10.2003
In Cooperation with: Julita Venderbosch, The culture of the Eastern and Western Prussia department manager at Western Prussia Museum in Lunegurg

                  The seminar was the meeting of teachers from Puck, Krokowa, Hel, Wierzchucino and from Nadrenia-Westfalia. Getting the greater knowledge of the history and getting to know each other led to cooperation and beginning of the students exchange. There were 20 participants at the meeting. The lecturers presented the historical and present situation of Kashubian minority and the methods of the international students exchange.

The plan of the lectures:
Jarosław Brodowski (Polish-German Youth Cooperation, Warsaw): The organization of the youth exchange.
Artur Jabłoński (foreman of the Puck County): Present situation of Kashubian monority.
Prof. Tadeusz Linkner (Kościeżyna): Kashubian Village in literature by Hieronim Derdowski.
Renata Mistarz (The Educational Centre fro Teachers, Gdańsk): Problem of Kashubian education.
Prof. Jerzy Samp (Gdańsk): The problem of conciliation in the Gdańsk literature after the Second World War.
Prof. Zygmunt Szultka (Słupsk): Origin and major development directions of Kashubian people in Pomeranian region from 6th century to the end of the 18th century.