Asynchronous Histories Summer School 2025

First Edition: Conceptual Change

Organizing Committee:
Anna Gulińska, Bartłomiej Błesznowski, Jan Krakowian, Piotr Kuligowski

Hosting and Financing:
University of Warsaw

Institutional Partners:
History of Concepts Group
Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

All events are taking place in the UW didactic building at ul. Dobra 55, 00-312 Warszawa unless specified otherwise.
Room № 1.120

Monday, 22 September

9:30 – 10:00
Registration

10:00 – 10:15
Welcome (Piotr Kuligowski & Bartłomiej Błesznowski)

10:15 – 11:45
Seminar: Petitioning the Sub-Imperial Assembly in post-Vienna Europe
Convenor: Piotr Kuligowski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)

12:00 – 13:00 – lunch break


13:15 – 14:45
Seminar: The topic of ‘Misplaced Ideas’ Revisited
Convenor: Elias J. Palti (University of Buenos Aires)

15:15 – 16:45
Participant paper presentations: Session I
Commentator and Chair: Elias J. Palti (University of Buenos Aires)
(Participants papers)

17:00 – 18:30
Participant paper presentations: Session II
Commentator and Chair: Jan Surman (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
(Participants papers)

19:00 – Reception: Klubojadalnia Młodsza Siostra
ul. Dobra 14/16, 00-388 Warszawa

Tuesday, 23 September

10:15 – 11:45
Seminar: Ideologies of Modernity and their Temporalities
Convenor: Augusta Dimou (New Europe College)

12:00 – 13:00 – lunch break

13:15 – 14:45
Roundtable Discussion: How to Establish a Methodological Current in a Semi-Peripheral State? The Warsaw School of the History of Ideas and Beyond
Chair: Elżbieta Kwiecińska (Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

Panelists:
Bartłomiej Błesznowski (University of Warsaw)
Waldemar Bulira (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University)
Daniel Edison (University of California, Berkeley)
Jan Surman (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

15:15 – 16:15
Participant paper presentations: Session III
Commentator and Chair: Piotr Kuligowski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
(Participants papers)

16:30 – 18:00
Participant paper presentations: Session IV
Commentator and Chair: Augusta Dimou (New Europe College)
(Participants papers)

Wednesday, 24 September

09:45 – 11:15
Seminar: The Past Out of Joint: 19th-Century Political Exile and the Question of Asynchronous Social History
Convenor: Oliver Zajac (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)

11:30 – 12:30 – lunch break

12:45 – 14:15
Roundtable: Conceptual Change and the Co-existence of Asynchronicities
Chair: Bartłomiej Błesznowski (University of Warsaw)

Panelists:
Jani Marjanen (University of Helsinki)
Olena Palko (University of Basel)
Elias J. Palti (University of Buenos Aires)

14:45 – 16:15
Participant paper presentations: Session V
Commentator and Chair: Jani Marjanen (University of Helsinki)
(Participants papers)

16:30 – 17.30
Participant paper presentations: Session VI
Commentator and Chair: Olena Palko (University of Basel)
(Participants papers)

18.00 MSN (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw) Tour with Tomasz Fudala
Marszałkowska 103, 00-110 Warszawa *Metro Świętokrzyska subway station

Thursday, 25 September

10:15 – 11:45
Seminar: Visions of Republicanism in the Ottoman Intellectual World
Convenor: Banu Turnaoglu (University of Cambridge/Sabanci University)

12:00 – 13:00 – lunch break

13:15 – 14:45
Seminar: Re-Europeanizing the Enlightenment: A View from the Margins
Convenor: László Kontler (Central European University)

15:15 – 16:45
Participant paper presentations: Session VII
Commentator and Chair: Banu Turnaoglu (University of Cambridge/Sabanci University)
(Participants papers)

17:00 – 18:00
Participant paper presentations: Session VIII
Commentator and Chair: Laszlo Kontler (Central European University)
(Participants papers)

Friday, 26 September

10:15 – 11:45
Seminar: Liberalism in the Peripheries
Convenor: Maciej Janowski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)

12:00 – 13:00 – lunch break

13:15 – 14:45
Workshop on Academic Publishing: From Manuscript to Journal Article. Strategies for Early-Career Researchers
Convenor: Rosario Lopez (University of Málaga)

15:15 – 16:45
Participant paper presentations: Session IX
Commentator and Chair: Rosario Lopez (University of Málaga)
(Participants papers)

16:45 – 17:15 – Wrap-up discussion, concluding remarks