In the scope of the International Museum Day, on May 18, at 6:30 pm, the Faculty of Human Sciences invites Professor Albert Stankowski, Director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, for an open lecture on "Courage and the Fight for Freedom: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising".

Historian, scholar of Jewish history, who has published on the history of Polish Jews. One of the creators of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The originator and developer of the Virtual Shtetl portal. Member of the Jewish Historical Institute Association in Poland, the POLIN Museum Council, and the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valour Council. Graduate of MBA Studies Programme of the Warsaw School of Economics and the Museum Studies Programme of the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw. Visiting scholar of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. Awarded with the Golden Star (NCIV) of the National Council for International Visitors, the Decoration for Merit to Polish Culture and the Bono Merite honorary badge. The member of following Advisory Boards: Treblinka Museum, POLIN Museum, Pilecki Institute, the State Museum at Majdanek, KL Płaszów in Kraków, Stutthof Museum, and the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim. Member of the Steering Team for the Memorials and Permanent Memorials in Poland Program (2020-22). Since 2022, Deputy Chairman of the International Auschwitz Council and of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk. 

In partnership with the Embassy of Poland in Lisbon, the session is part of the "Intersecting Philosophy, Politics and Economics" cycle and is open to the entire academic community.

This open class will take place in Room 131 at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.