Беларускія студэнты ва Універсітэце Стэфана Баторыя ў Вільні: уплыў універсітэта на нацыянальную тоеснасць студэнта
Belarusian Students at the Stefan Batory University: The Impact of the University on the National Identity of the Student

Author(s): Andrej Mastyka
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Belarusian Students’ Union; Stefan Batory University; Western Belarus; higher education in interwar Poland; national minorities in interwar Poland
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the features of the national consciousness of Belarusian students at the Stefan Batory University, its forms and transformations. The main domains through which the university could influence the students’ public awareness are analysed: the SBU policy towards student national minorities; the development and coordination of various forms of minority communities’ organisation and their activities; educational and research work aimed at the promotion and support of certain national and cultural views, studies of local history, ethnography, languages, etc. The SBU’s administration attempted to create a consolidating platform based on regional principles and ideas of Occidentalism (Westernism) which would then be a springboard for various cultural, academic, and educational initiatives of minorities.

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