Program seminarium „Re-Imagining Democracy in East Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Programme:
Seminar: Re-Imagining Democracy in East Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century
Organizers: Joanna Innes, Bartłomiej Błesznowski, Piotr Kuligowski, Mark Philp
Venue: Tadeusz Kościuszko Room, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
Friday (25 April 2025)
10.15–11.15 Chair: Maciej Janowski
Mark Philp (University of Warwick), public lecture: Being a Democrat before Democracy
11.30–12.30 Introduction to the project Chair: Marcin Jarząbek
Joanna Innes (University of Oxford), Introduction to the Re-imagining Democracy Project
Piotr Kuligowski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences), Approaches to Writing a Chapter about Polish talk about Democracy, 1780–1870
12.30–13.15 LUNCH BREAK
13.15–14.30 The late eighteenth century Chair: Mark Philp
Radek Szymanski (University of Warsaw), Rousseau’s Considerations on the Government of Poland in the eyes of Michał Wielhorski. Polybian 'democracy’ as a constituent of a mixed government contra Rousseau’s democratic sovereignty of the nation
Dorota Wiśniewska (University of Wrocław), Political Representation according to Polish Noblewomen in the Long 18th Century
COFFEE BREAK
15.00–16.15 Chair: Joanna Innes
Piotr Kuligowski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences), From Counter-Concepts to Reconciliations: Conceptual Variations of Polish Democracy in the 19th Century
COFFEE BREAK
16.45–18.15 Ideas Chair: Camille Creyghton
Adrian Wesołowski (Jagiellonian University in Cracow) Popular Means Democratic: On the Semantic Connections Between Popularity, Revolution, and Democracy During the November Uprising
Oliver Zajac (Slovak Academy of Sciences) Hesitant Democrat? Czartoryski’s Views on Political Representation and Reform
Tomasz Hen-Konarski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences), Imagining Revolution in Habsburg Galicia: Michał Suchorowski’s 1832 Pastiche of La Muette de Portici in the Broader Context of Vormärz Politics
Saturday (26 April 2025)
9.30–10.45 Changing political cultures Chair: Jana Hunter
Maciej Janowski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences), The Transfer of Political Practices from the Nobility to the Peasantry in the 18th and 19th Century Poland
Francois Guesnet (University College London), Renegotiating Jewish Freedoms in the Kingdom of Poland
COFFEE BREAK
11.15–12.30 Democracy and representation in an urban context Chair: Stephen Lovell
Kamil Śmiechowski (University of Łódź) How Did Democracy Reach Urban Discourse in Poland?
Kseniya Tserashkova (Vilnius University), Urban commoners (meshchanie) self-government in the Russian Empire and its features in the Belarusian-Lithuanian provinces
12.30–13.15 LUNCH BREAK
13.15–14.45 States and nations Chair: Piotr Kuligowski
Gennadii Korolov (Mieroszewski Centre), Federalism and the Shadow of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Ukrainian Intellectuals on Imperial Transformation and Democratic Ideals (1831–1918).
Marcin Jarząbek (Jagiellonian University in Cracow), Democratic and Independent Poland: How the Concept of State Independence aligned with Democratic Ideals in the Second Half of the 19th Century.
Cody Inglis (Central European University), Their Freedom and Ours: Hungarian Views on the Polish Revolt of 1863
14.45–15.25 Final thoughts
