The report on the jubilee international conference "Towns that created Europe. 70 years of Polish archaeological research in Wolin", Wolin, 26-28.08.2022

Abstract

On 26-28 August 2022, an anniversary conference was held in Wolin entitled 'Towns that created Europe. 70 years of Polish archaeological research in Wolin'. The event was organised as part of the 6th Wolin Medievalist Meetings by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Andrzej Kaube Regional Museum in Wolin, the National Museum in Szczecin and the Wolin Municipality. The event was held under the honorary patronage of the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Prof. dr. hab. Piotr Gliński, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. dr. hab. Zbigniew Rau, Minister of Education and Science, Dr. hab. Przemysław Czarnek, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Marek Gróbarczyk, West Pomeranian Voivode Zbigniew Bogucki, and the Polish National Committee of the International Council for Monuments Protection ICOMOS POLAND. The conference was attended by nearly 70 participants (including 19 speakers) from Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Estonia, Ukraine and England. During the conference, a letter of intent to include Wolin on the UNESCO World Heritage List was signed.