Fabryka Silesia – Borders, on the Process of Shaping the Borders of Upper Silesia – From the Middle Ages to the Present


01.05.2016 – 30.09.2016
Katowice, ul. PCK 19
Regionalny Ośrodek Culture w Katowicach

Borders. The starting point will be a presentation, in a series of essays, reportages, and interviews, of the process of shaping the borders of Upper Silesia – from the Middle Ages to the present day. We will show the course of past and present cultural, national, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries. We will also address intra-regional borders dividing industrial Silesia from the Opole part of the region, the Beskids, and western Lesser Poland. Even more important will be the analysis of mental borders and…