Thursday, 14听December听2017, 10:30am - 5:30pm
William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex听College, 海角社区
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A free, one-day conference on the extraordinary diversity of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, an early modern state that integrated various different ethnic groups, cultures, languages and religions, often with relative mutual respect and tolerance. At the same time, diversity also led to conflicts and controversies.听The conference included Polish, Lithuanian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Belarusian,听Jewish, German听and Ottoman perspectives on the听Commonwealth.
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Audio recordings from the event can be found on the YouTube channel听through the links below:
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Speakers included some of the most distinguished names in scholarship and creative work on the Commonwealth:
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Norman Davies, St Antony's College, Oxford
Karin Friedrich, University of Aberdeen
Robert Frost, University of Aberdeen听
Tomasz Grusiecki, Central European University
Leszek Korporowicz, Jagiellonian University, Krak贸w
Simon Lewis,听Freie Universit盲t听Berlin听 听 听 听
Olenka Pevny, 海角社区听听
Kristina Sabaliauskait臈, novelist听and art historian
Magda Teter, Fordham University
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10:00am 鈥� 10:45am:听听听听听听听听听听听听听Coffee
10:45am 鈥� 11:00am:听听听听听听听听听听听听听Welcome and Introduction: Stanley Bill.
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11:00am 鈥� 12:30pm: 听听听听听听听听听听听听
Leszek Korporowicz:听 听 听 听 听 Bridging Cultural Diversity: Axiological Roots of the Jagiellonian Commonwealth.
Karin Friedrich:听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听鈥業nto hell, where a third of all devils speak German鈥�:听The Polish Reformation between Wittenberg and the Torun Colloquy of 1645.
Magda Teter:听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听How Jewish is Polish History?
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12:30pm 鈥� 1:30pm:听听听听听听听听听听听听听听Lunch Break
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1:30pm 鈥� 3:00pm:听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
Olenka Pevny:听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Restaging Orthodoxy: Metropolitan Peter Mohyla鈥檚 renovation of medieval churches in early-modern Kyiv.
Tomasz Grusiecki:听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Ottomanisation as Europeanisation: Polish-Lithuanian Costume and the Search for a Shared Past.
Robert Frost:听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Competitive Cosmography: Observations on the 500th Anniversary of the Publication of Maciej Miechowita's听Treatise on the Two Sarmatias.
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3:00pm 鈥� 3:30pm:听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听Coffee
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3:30pm 鈥� 5:00pm:听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
Kristina Sabaliauskait臈:听 听 听 Reconstructing 17th- and 18th-Century Wilno in a Novel:听Silva Rerum听as a Multilingual Chorus of Cultures and Narratives.
Simon Lewis:听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Belarus and the Commonwealth: Between Diversity and Difference.
Norman Davies:听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听National Perspectives on a Multinational Commonwealth.
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5:00pm 鈥� 5:30pm:听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听Final Discussion
