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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Polymorphic Commonwealth: Cultural Transfers in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania

Commonwealth

26-27 September 2022

Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre,

Fitzwilliam College, º£½ÇÉçÇø

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A two-day conference for postgraduate students, featuring leading experts as discussants, organised by º£½ÇÉçÇø postgraduate students Stepan Blinder and StanisÅ‚aw Banach with the support of º£½ÇÉçÇø Polish Studies, º£½ÇÉçÇø Ukrainian Studies, the º£½ÇÉçÇø Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES), and theÌýGeorge Macaulay Trevelyan Fund.

Also streaming live on Zoom:Ìýhttps://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7w3BKABtQu-UBmUTFk8OvA

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DAY ONE: September 26

10:45 AM–12:15 PM: Keynote Lecture Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville College, University of Oxford) From ‘tribe’ to ‘dynasty’ – Globalising the Jagiellonians of Central Europe, C. 1377-1596 Ìý

1:00 PM–2:45PM: Panel One The Spatial Fluidity Of Early Modern Transfers:Interconnecting Global And Local

DISCUSSANT: Olenka Z. Pevny (Fitzwilliam College, º£½ÇÉçÇø)

John Freeman (Hughes Hall, º£½ÇÉçÇø) The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Atlantic Colonialism: An Investigation into the Entanglements of the Duchy of Courland’s Expansion

Jan Blonski (European University Institute) Spaces of Social Encounters. Taverns in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as Intermediaries Between Local and Global

Natalia Woszczyk (European University Institute) The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a Haven for Heretics? The Emotive History of Bohemian Religious Refugees in Early Modern PoznaÅ„ Ìý

3:30 PM–5:20 PM: Panel Two Textualization As A Mediator Of Cultural Exchange

DISCUSSANT: Ihor Teslenko (Fitzwilliam College, º£½ÇÉçÇø)

Ladislas Latoch (Sorbonne University/University of Warsaw) A Conditioned Transfer: Strangers’ Attitudes towards Polish-Lithuanian Public Culture and Sociability in the First Decade of the Commonwealth

Jan Květina (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences) ‘Not Sodom and Gomorrah, but Heaven on Earth’: Early Modern Concept of Otherness in the Polish-Lithuanian Republican Propaganda

Sergii Bagro (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) Between Res Publica and Res Privata: Opposition of Public and Private Spheres in the Political Rhetoric of the Zaporizhzhya Host of the Second Half of the 17th – Early 18th CenturiesÌý

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DAY TWO: September 26 7:45 AM–9:00 AM: Panel Three Transferring Practices

DISCUSSANT Maria Grazia Bartolini (University of Milan)

Barbara Dzierżanowska (University of Warsaw) Ruthenian Songs of Persuasion: Poetical Means of Religious and Political Transfer in the 17th-18th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Ewelina Sikora (Central European University) Sarmatism à la Cosmopolitan? Parallels, Inspirations, and Influences in Polish-Lithuanian Cuisine in the Late Seventeenth Century

Bogdan Pavlish (Northwestern University) Early Church History on the Stage of the Armenian Theatre in Lviv, 1668-1669 Ìý

11:45 AM–12:30 PM: Closing Discussion Does Poland-Lithuania Have A Global History Of Cultural Exchanges? Ìý

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