Bogumil Jewsiewicki Explained

Bogumil Jewsiewicki
Birth Place:Vilnius, Reichskommissariat Ostland
(modern-day Lithuania)
Awards:Distinguished Africanist Award
Alma Mater:University of Łódź
Discipline:African history
Workplaces:Université Laval
Main Interests:Memory studies

Bogumil (Bogumił) Jewsiewicki Koss (born 1942 in Vilnius) is a Polish-Canadian historian and an Africanist specialising in the history of Central Africa, notably the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the social usage of visual memory.

Jewsiewicki obtained a Master's degree in ethnography in 1964 and a PhD in 1968, both at the University of Łódź in Poland. From 1968 through 1974 Jewsiewicki taught at, Université Lovanium of Kinshasa and Université Nationale du Zaïre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, later Zaire. He then emigrated to Canada to work at Université de Saint-Boniface in Winnipeg and in the Département d’histoire of Université Laval since 1977, becoming a full professor in the comparative history of memory (histoire comparée de la mémoire) in 1985.[1] [2] [3]

Jewsiewicki was a researcher at the Centre d'études africaines of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, and curated exhibitions on Congolese popular urban painting and on photography at the Museum for African Art in New York (1998-1999) and at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna. In 2009, he retired from his teaching post and continued as a researcher and member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions (CÉLAT, fr) at Université Laval.[4] Jewsiewicki was the recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association,[5] and in 2007 he won Marius Barbeau Medal from the Association canadienne d'ethnologie et de folklore (Folklore Studies Association of Canada, ACEF FSAC).[6] Jewsiewicki's collection of popular Congolese paintings was acquired by the Royal Museum for Central Africa at Tervuren, Belgium.[7] [8]

A festschrift was published in Jewsiewicki's honour in 2009 entitled Images, mémoires et savoirs. Une histoire en partage avec Bogumil Koss Jewsiewicki with Karthala, edited by Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem and Mudimbe-Boyi.

Publications

Jewsiewicki published many scholarly articles, books and book chapters, including:[9]

Books honouring Jewsiewicki's work are:

External links

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bogumil Jewsiewicki Koss Professeur émérite . 3 November 2022 . Historien hors du commun, le professeur Bogumil Koss est un spécialiste de l'Afrique centrale francophone et des usages sociaux de la mémoire. . french.
  2. Web site: International Network for Theory of History. Bogumil Jewsiewicki . inth.ugent.be . International Network for Theory of History, Ghent University . 3 November 2022 .
  3. Book: Toma, Dolores . 3. Laudatio Domini Bogumil Koss Jewsiewicki. Dans I. Ndaywel è Nziem, M. Elisabeth Mudimbe-boyi, Pierre Nora (Eds.): Images, mémoires et savoirs : une histoire en partage avec Bogumil Koss Jewsiewicki, Karthala, Paris, 2009, pp. 803-808 . 2009 . Cairn.info . 10.3917/kart.nday.2009.01.0803 . 978-2-8111-0208-1 . 3 November 2022 . french.
  4. News: Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Membre émérite. Université Laval . Celat . CELAT, Centre de recherche Cultures – Arts – Sociétés . 3 November 2022 . Biographie. Ancien titulaire d’une Chaire du Canada en histoire comparée de la mémoire, professeur retraité au Département d’histoire de l’Université Laval, chercheur au CELAT (Centre interuniversitaire d’Études sur les Lettres, les Arts et les Traditions) et au Soi et l’autre, Bogumil Jewsiewicki-Koss est un spécialiste de l’Afrique centrale francophone, de renommée internationale. . french.
  5. Web site: Distinguished Africanist Award . 2022 . africanstudies.org . African Studies Association . 3 November 2022 .
  6. Web site: Folklore Studies Association of Canada . Marius Barbeau Medal . www.acef-fsac.ulaval.ca . 2022 . 3 November 2022.
  7. Web site: This is not a Collection by Bogumil Jewsiewicki . garagemca.org . 3 November 2022 . Africanist Bogumil Jewsiewicki spent many years working in Congo and amassed a huge collection of popular paintings, which was later acquired by the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren..
  8. Some paintings the Royal Museum for Central Africa bought from Jewsiewicki in 2013 are shown here: Web site: "This is not the Tippu Tip necklace" . Lacaille . Agnès . 29 April 2022 . africamuseum.be . 3 November 2022 . Materials: gilded copper alloy (brass?), glass (paste), silk cord and silver thread, plant fibres. Inventory number: HO.1959.84.1.
  9. Web site: Bogumil Jewsiewicki . scholar.google.com . Google Scholar . 3 November 2022 .
  10. Jewsiewicki . Bogumil . Mudimbe . V. Y. . December 1993 . Africans' Memories and Contemporary History of Africa . History and Theory . 32 . 4 . 1–11 . 10.2307/2505629 . 3 November 2022 . 2505629 . Wiley for Wesleyan University.