The Commission was founded in December 2008 on the Professor Lucjan Suchanek' s initiative  as a part of the Slavic Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The function of the chairman is served by prof. zw. dr hab. Lucjan Suchanek.

 

The first session of the Commission was held in Opole on 23 September 2009.  During this meeting  the program of planned activities was presented. One of the most important aims was to develop a full bibliography of works, performed by members of the Commission, which concern the period of the Russian emigration.

 

The Commission of Slavic Emigration was a Polish committe for six years. On May 29, 2013, prof. L. Suchanek turned to Professor Stanislav Haide, the Chair of the International Committe of Slavists, with the suggestion to include The Commission of Slavic Emigration in the International Committe of Slavists.

 

In September 2013, at the 15th International Congress of Slavists in Minsk, the Commission has been joined the Committee of the International Congress of Slavists (as one of 39), and L. Suchanek became its chairman. Since then, the Commission of Slavic Emigration has gained an international recognition. The process of including candidates from other countries has begun.

 

The members of the Commission of Slavic Emigration come from 11 countries. Their scientific interests  concern various aspects of the Slavic emigration, so that their research has an interdisciplinary character.

 

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TASKS OF THE COMMISSION OF SLAVIC EMIGRATION

OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF SLAVISTS

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• monitoring and coordinating the emigrantological research in countries that are members of the International Committee of Slavists;

• organizing (co-organizing) scientific sessions, international scientific conferences concerning modern bibliographic information systems;

• publication of collective works;

• coordination of the research on the bibliography of emigrantological works of Committee members.

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Between 2025 and 2030, the Commission plans to continue its activities in the following areas:

• publishing the journal Slavic Emigrantology (Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Michał Głuszkowski) and expanding its circle of authors and readers (an application to include the journal in the Scopus database is planned in the near future);

• implementing partnership projects in education, translation, research, and publishing;

• developing a database of conferences and initiatives in the field of migration studies;

• updating information on the KES website in Polish, Russian, and English.

 

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