Pekacz, Jolanta T.

Jolanta T. Pekacz is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Dalhousie University, previously Canadian Research Chair (Tier II) in European Studies. Her major fields of interest are Memory, identity and gender in nineteenth-century Europe, French salons as lieux de mémoire, biography, Fryderyk Chopin and social history of music.

Research Interests: Memory, Identity and gender in nineteenth-century Europe, French salons in the nineteenth century as lieux de mémoire, Frederic Chopin, and Social history of music

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Institution: Dalhousie University
Fields of Expertise:

Collective Identity

Commemoration and Memorialization

Cultural Memory and Policy

Memory Politics

Public History

Research groups: Memory Politics
Email: Jolanta.Pekacz@Dal.Ca
Media outreach: Yes
Languages: English, French, Polish
Publications:

Music in the Culture of Polish Galicia, 1772–1914 (Rochester, 2002).

Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms (Aldershot, 2006).

“Les Amies des philosophes: The Making of Enlightenment Salon in Nineteenth-century France,” French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar, [containing selected papers from the 18th George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation held in Auckland, New Zealand in 2012], vol. 5 (2014), 53–61.

“Chopin and the Discourse on Salons,” in Chopin in Paris: The 1830s (Warsaw: Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina/National Frederic Chopin Institute, 2009), 297–312, 297-312.

“Music, Identity and Gender in France in the Age of Sensibility,” in French History and Civilization. Selected Papers from the 2008 George Rudé Seminar, University of Melbourne.

Foreword to Franz Liszt, F. Chopin in The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, 9 vols., ed. and trans. by Janita R. Hall-Swadley, vol. I (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2011–), ix–xii.

“Chopin as a National Composer: A Story of an Appropriation,” in Foramu porando kaigiroku 2009 [Forum “Polska” 2009/Forum “Poland” 2009], ed. by Tokimasa Sekiguchi and Masachiro Taguchi (Tokyo, 2010), 12–25 (Japanese version) and 87–98 (English version).

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