Bio

Artúr Jablonskji / Artur Jabłoński is a Kashubian, a language and identity researcher with a PhD degree, working at the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity at the University of Warsaw. He started his career as an editor of Kashubian programs on public television in Gdańsk. Then he founded Radio Kaszëbë and managed the CSB TV project of the satellite television from Pomerania. He also was Head of Puck County and co-chaired the work of the Joint Commission of Government and National and Ethnic Minorities in Poland. He represented Kashubian organizations in signing the Protocol to Ensure Language Rights (Donostia Protocol 2016) and in the Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity and the European Free Alliance. Thanks to cooperation with the Basques, in 2017, he founded a Kashubian primary school in Wejherowo. He is a writer, creating literature in his native Kashubian language. His goal is to positively change society – both the majority and the minority.