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A book by Dr Olga Linkiewicz, Poland and the Making of Transnational Social Science: Eastern Europe, the United States, and the Wilsonian Moment (2026), has been published by Bloomsbury Academic in the Histories of Internationalism series, edited by David Brydan and Jessica Reinisch. The book reconstructs the circulation of expert knowledge on nationality issues between

The Asynchronous Histories Summer School aims to explore regions and moments in history marked by the coexistence of asynchronous sociopolitical tendencies and processes. These conditions often reveal paradoxical outcomes when seemingly well-established actors and mechanisms are put into practice. The absence—or inefficiency—of “The Great Synchronizer,” whether imperial order, centralized state apparatus, or the power of

Recombining Representation During the Transformation from Empires to Nation-States 1905-1923 15-16th of June 2026, Warsaw Second Conference on Parliamentary Junctures in Continental Europe Organizers: Wiktor Marzec, Naum Trajanovski, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk, Piotr Kuligowski The years 1905-1908 brought about shockwaves that challenged the imperial order in Central and Eastern Europe. Among possible solutions to the new political

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 GroupTadeusz 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

Institute of History, Polish Academy of SciencesWarsaw 26–27 September 2025 Conference: ‘Russkiy Mir: Historical Genealogies, Geocultural Meanings, Strategic Goals,and Possible Boundaries of the Russian World Concept’ P R O G R A M M E / P R O G R A M DAY I / DZIEŃ IFriday 26 September, Institute of History, Warsaw, Lelewel

All presentations can be attended online. If you want to join online, send an email to TacitismConference@proton.me and we will send you the link to the online session website: tacitism.wordpress.com Day 1 Thursday 18 September 9:30 Welcome and Opening remarks 10:15 Session 1: European Expansion and American Tacitism. Chair: Anna Laskowska 10:15 Arthur Weststeijn, Virtue

The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research We cordially invite you to the workshop on the theme INTERCULTURAL MOBILITY ON AND UNDER BORDERS and conference THE FOUNDATION OF KYIV AND THE TERRITORIES OF THE SOUTHERN RUS. CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND ITS RECEPTION Warsaw (4–5th

The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences Announces Its Own Recruitment Process to the Anthropos Doctoral School of the Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences: General Information on the Institute’s Recruitment and the Project The Institute of History PAS (IH PAN) is conducting its own recruitment to the Anthropos

Grand Duchy of Lithuania Historical source texts, contexts and interpretations 15–16 October 2025 National Museum Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania 4 Cathedral Sq., Vilnius Preliminary  thematic blocks for conference papers: We kindly invite researchers in historical source studies of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to participate in this conference. Please send your conference

As a result of the competition for the position of assistant within the NPRH project “Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Polish Lands in the Middle Ages – New Perspectives”, the Director of the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences has decided to appoint Dr Michalina Duda. Thank you for participating

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

Tacitism: Ethics, Politics and Europe 16th-18th c. Warsaw 18-20 September 2025 Rooted in the works of the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, the Tacitist voice exerted an important influence on political discourse during the long century from the late 16th to the early 18th century. From marginal and suppressed beginnings, often associated with Machiavelli but decisively

Asynchronous Histories Summer School Call for Applicants First Edition: Conceptual Change 22–26 September 2025, Warsaw The Asynchronous Histories Summer School aims to explore regions and moments in history marked by the coexistence of asynchronous sociopolitical tendencies and processes. These conditions often reveal paradoxical outcomes when seemingly well-established actors and mechanisms are put into practice. The

The 12th Splendid Encounters. Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Early Modern World conference aims to stimulate discussion of deception, threats, bribery, double-dealing and other forms of dishonesty in diplomacy in global contexts from c.1500 to c.1800. Therefore, we invite submissions related to these issues from scholars at all stages of their career, but especially proposals

Organizers: Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk, Piotr Kuligowski, Wiktor Marzec First day, 23 January 2025 Venue: German Historical Institute Welcome and introduction, 10:00–10:20 Keynote lecture 10:30–11:30Silvia Marton (New Europe College / University of Bucharest)Voting and Electoral Fraud in Nineteenth Century Romania. A Contribution to the History of Corruption Project showcase 11:30–12:15Piotr Kuligowski and Quentin SchwanckHow Revolutionary Assemblies in Paris, Brussels, and

We invite applications for one PhD position within the Project “Non-Ukrainians in Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917-1921: (Trans-)National Agency in the Struggle for Emancipation and Survival” directed by doc. dr hab. Gennadii Korolov (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences), and supported by a grant from the National Science Centre under the OPUS LAP scheme/WEAVE initiative, in collaboration with the Department of East European History of the University Vienna (team led by prof. dr Börries Kuzmany).

V International Congress of Indigenous Worlds – Poland Sources and Interethnic Narratives about Indigenous Peoples in the Past and Their Reflection in the Present Location: Institute of History, Polish Academy of SciencesRynek Starego Miasta 3100-272 Warsaw, Poland(Old Town) Date: November, 21–22, 2024 Hosting institution in Poland: Supporting international institutions: Coordinators of the V COIMI –

The Anthropos Doctoral School, Polish Academy of Sciences and Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw We invite applications for one PhD position within the Project “Women experts and feminist knowledge production in post-war East Central Europe (1945-1989),” directed by Dr. Hab. Natalia Jarska (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy

During the eighteenth century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was commonly considered, e.g. by Montesquieu, to exemplify an aristocratic polity. In the early nineteenth century, some Poles began to argue that this aristocratic heritage presented a major obstacle to the rebirth of the country. What was needed instead was the development of a democratic version of the Commonwealth (rooted by some in a different account of the past). The scene for this thinking was profoundly influenced by the French revolution, which put ‘democracy’ as a possible form for government and society in the modern world firmly on the agenda.

We cordially invite you to the third in a series of conferences on the theme Worlds of the Slavs Food in the Worlds of the Slavs up to the 16th century Warsaw (September 18-20, 2024) Place of conference: Joachim Lelewel Conference Hall at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences (Rynek Starego Miasta 31;

Organizers: Piotr Kuligowski, Wiktor Marzec, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk Academic Committee: Marnix Beyen, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Paulina Kewes, Judit Pál, Henk te Velde First Edition, 23-24 January 2025 Residues and Innovations within Imperial Orders. Political Assemblies in Continental Europe, 1800-1850 The turn of the 18th and 19th centuries witnessed profound transformations in the political landscape of continental Europe, that might