The history of industrial Lodz has aroused great interest of researchers for years, so the authors took up the difficult task of approaching it in a different, innovative way. They have organised the previous findings, but also revealed new facts to the reader. This is a book about Lodz, which has become the "promised land".
Accompanying exhibition – "Łódź zajmuje mnie i porywa... " [Lodz occupies and captivates me...] and a meeting with the authors
The premiere of the publication will be accompanied by the exhibition "Łódź zajmuje mnie i porywa... ". The image of the city at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the collections of the University of Lodz Library. After the exhibition opening, we are delighted to invite you to a conference and a meeting with the authors under the common slogan: "Kariera miasta Łodzi. Od rolniczego miasteczka do wielkoprzemysłowej metropolii (1820-1914)" [Career of the city of Lodz. From an agricultural town to a large-industrial metropolis (1820-1914)].
The meeting will take place on 21 November at. 5:00 p.m. in the hall of the old building of the University of Lodz Library (former front entrance to the building), at Jana Matejki 32 in Lodz.
Programme:
5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.| Opening of the exhibition
The exhibition presents several dozen of the oldest, most valuable and unknown documents from the collection of the University of Lodz Library, concerning the history and changes in the broadly understood landscape of Lodz over the years 1820-1914. Photographs, plans, unique official and private handwritten documents and ephemera present the city's heyday, the life of which – according to the main idea of the exhibition - "occupies and captivates" [Wł. Reymont] with its diversity and multithreading.
5:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.| Meeting with the authors
- Prof. Dr hab. Jarosław Kita (the meeting moderator)
- Prof. Dr hab. Wiesław Puś – The formation of a modern and multicultural city community.
- Dr hab. Kamil Śmiechowski – What is the phenomenon of industrial Lodz?
- Dr hab. Marta Sikorska, Associate Professor – Not only female workers – women in 19th-century Lodz.
- Dr hab. Joanna Sosnowska, Associate Professor – "…łodzianie bogaci nie skąpią grosza, gdy ofiarą łzę ubogiemu otrzeć mogą" – charity and philanthropy in industrial Lodz.
- Dr hab. Piotr Gryglewski, Associate Professor – From a town to an agglomeration – the architectural diversity of industrial Lodz and its suburbs.
- discussion
- signing books and talking to the authors
"Łódź poprzez wieki". A Monograph Written in Tribute to the City and to the People of Lodz
Source: Lodz University Press
