The historian and anti-communist dissident Adam Michnik will be in Constanța in mid-October, where he will receive the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa from Ovidius University, according to a press release issued by the institution.
The event, organized at the initiative of the Faculty of History and Political Sciences within UOC, will take place on 15 October at 12:00, in the University Senate Hall, Campus, Building A (1 Aleea Universității), the release also states.
On the same day, at 6:30 p.m., the Faculty of History and Political Sciences, in partnership with the Constanța Casino, will hold a lecture by Adam Michnik in the form of a dialogue with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniel Citirigă, the dean of FISP, starting from the following themes: European communism, freedom, the challenges of the transition, and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Admission is free, based on reservations made on the Constanța Casino website, the release adds.
Adam Michnik – anti-communist resistance since his student days
Adam Michnik (b. 1946), a historian, activist, and journalist translated into more than 25 languages, is one of the most important Polish intellectuals of the 20th century, and his entire career has been defined by a courageous stance of opposing the Polish communist regime, Ovidius University of Constanța explains.
- “Michnik stood out for his courageous stance in challenging the regime in communist Poland, which led to an initial three-year prison sentence at the age of 18, for which he was expelled from university. In the 1970s he was already one of the most influential young Polish intellectuals; he then became a founding member of KOR (the Workers’ Defense Committee) and an adviser to the ‘Solidarity’ trade union, and he contributed to the ‘Flying University,’ which promoted non-communist education among workers.”
After the coup and the imposition of martial law by General Jaruzelski in December 1981, Michnik spent another five years as a political prisoner, a period that cemented his status as a symbol of resistance and drew Western attention to his case.
In the late 1980s, in 1989, when Poland’s communist regime was collapsing, Adam Michnik was a chief adviser for the Solidarity union in negotiations with the government that paved the way for the first partially free elections. He later founded – and still leads- Gazeta Wyborcza, which has become the most influential publication in Central and Eastern Europe, the university adds.
- “His books have been translated in more than 25 languages; he is regularly invited to international symposia and published in some of the world’s largest dailies. In Romanian, the following have been translated by Polirom: Mărturisirile unui disident convertit (Confessions of a Converted Dissident), Restaurația de catifea (The Velvet Restoration), and Scrisori din închisoare și alte eseuri (Letters from Prison and Other Essays),” UOC concludes.
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