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About the Congress
The Congress of History Researchers PL-LT-UA-BY: ” The Historical Commonwealth of Four Nations the Legacy of the Idea, and Future Prospects” will be held in Warsaw from September 13-16, 2024.
For the participants of the Congress, it is an opportunity to speak at thematic panel discussions and find potential partners for new joint research, as the event will bring together over 200 historians from various countries around the world.
The aim of the conference is to present the history, political culture, and shared heritage of the 4 nations: Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus in the narrative of the history of the entire Central and Eastern European region.
Participation in the Congress is an opportunity to take part in thematic panel discussions and find potential partners for new joint research.
We plan to discuss, among others, the following issues:
– What new approaches to studying social history can be proposed for a deeper understanding of interactions between the nations of the region?
– What place does the “Russian question” occupy in the history of the four nations and how should it be interpreted today?
– How can we rethink the interpretation of conflicts in the region, considering new historical data and approaches?
– What new perspectives open up for the study of liberation movements in Central and Eastern Europe?
– How can the influence of Russian communism and imperialism be rethought in the contemporary historical context?
– How can we rethink national policies and cultures of memory in the Ukraine-Lithuania-Belarus-Poland region to make them more transnational?
The event program is planned for 3 days of discussions. The working languages of the Congress: Polish, and English for general panels; the languages of thematic panels will be determined in due course.
Program
Registration
(main hall)
1. Official inauguration of the 2nd Congress of History Researchers PL-LT-UA-BY: ”The Historical Commonwealth of Four Nations the Legacy of the Idea and Future Prospects”
(aula)
Panel: 2. War Seen Through the Eyes of a Historian on the Frontline
Moderator: Oleg Odnorozhenko
Participants: Borys Czerkas (online), Dmytro Kaiuk (online), Ivan Homeniuk (online), Oleksandr Alfiorov (online)
(room 111)
Panel: 3. Migrations – an opportunity or a threat to our region?
Moderator: Mariusz Kowalski
Participants: Viktoryia Pantyley, Aleksander Kuczabski, Andrzej Korkus, Mariusz Łakomy
(room 112)
Panel: 4. Historical and Contemporary Polish-Ukrainian Relations in University Teaching
Moderator: Aleksandra Kuligowska
Participants: Andrii Portnov (online), Julia Buyskykh, Katarzyna Jędraszczyk, Elżbieta Kwiecińska, Bozhena Kozakevych (online)
(room 113)
Panel: 5. Sugar and Modernization in the ULB Zone: A Bitter-Sweet Story
Moderator: Michał Kopczyński
Participants: Jolanta Sikorska-Kulesza, Wojciech Morawski, Olga Gaidai, Iryna Shandra, Olga Barvinok, Liliia Tsyganenko
(room 114)
Panel: 6. Public Diplomacy of the Lublin Triangle (Quadrilateral?): Past and Future
Moderator: Iryna Matiash
Participants: Serhiy Troyan, Stepan Vidnianskyi, Michaił Zasławski, Natalya Yakovenko, Oleksandr Ruzevych, Vitaut Siwczyk, Mykola Yarmoliuk, Katarzyna Pasternak, Siarhej Chareuski
(room 115)
Panel: 7. Eurasianism, deportations and the eradication of the heritage of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the newly conquered Soviet territories: surely a forgotten history?
Moderator: Aliaksandr Paharely
Participants: Jerzy Rohoziński, Ian Garner, Jakub Wojtkowiak
(room 116)
Panel: 8. Eastern European Emigration in Western Europe in the 20th century: status, peculiarities of integration in the countries of residence
Moderator: Valentyna Piskun, Polina Barvinska
Participants: Inna Starovoitenko, Olha Zubko (online), Oleksandr Kucheruk (online), Dmytro Burim, Jerzy Grzybowski
(room 211)
Panel: 9. For Your Freedom and Ours
Moderator: Grzegorz Nowik
Participants: Marek Kornat, Yuryj Hrybouski, Karol Olejnik
(room 212)
Panel: 10. Russian aggression in Ukraine. Outcome, comparisons, refugees
Moderator: Maxim Rust
Participants: Nataliia Hirna, Giedrė Barkauskaite, Vitaliy Masnenko
(room 215)
11. Jadwiga and Zbigniew Kruszewski Award – laudation by Prof. Beata Halicka
(aula)
12. Debate on borders
Moderator: Leszek Zasztowt
Participants: Hubert Łaszkiewicz, Iryna Matiash, Anton Saifullayeu, Beata Halicka
(aula)
13. Inaugural lecture – prof. Robert I. Frost
(aula)
The Welcome dinner
(main hall)
Panel: 14. Memory Culture in Contemporary Ukraine. Decolonization of Historical Knowledge, Cultural Space, Memory Practices
Moderator: Jurij Szapował
Participants: Magda Telus, Olga Kovalevska, Nadiia Honcharenko, Andriy Kohut, Pawel Dobrosielski, Oleksandr Maievskyi, Vlada Sabadash, Antonina Berezovenko.
(room 111)
Panel: 15. The Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – Controversial Concepts: Occidentalization, Tolerance, Polonization/Borderlands, Catholicization, Oppression, Betrayal of Elites.
Moderator: Larysa Dovga, Wojciech Kriegseisen, Natalia Starchenko.
Participants: Urszula Augustyniak, Piotr Guzowski, Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė, Henryk Litwin, Tomasz Kempa, Piotr Kroll
(room 112)
Panel: 16. A Commonwealth of Two or Many Nations?
Moderator: Henadz Siemianchuk
Participants: Aliaksandr Krautsevich, Aliaksej Szalanda, Henadz Sahanovich, Siargei Tokts
(room 113)
Panel: 17. Brothers in Misfortune: Totalitarianism in the Fates of Four Nations (Methodological Challenges, Reflections, Narratives, Contemporary Threats)
Moderator: Larysa Yakubova
Participants: Olesia Isaiuk, Anna Yanenko, Tetiana Boriak, Oleksandr Androshchuk, Tatsiana Astrouskaya, Mykola Bryvko (online)
(room 114)
Panel: 18. Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe during World War I Part I
Moderator: Roman Wysocki
Participants: Mariusz Korzeniowski, Kamil Ruszała, Krzysztof Latawiec, Dariusz Tarasiuk, Lubow Żwanko, Iryna Irchak, Andrii Rukkas
(room 115)
Panel: 19. Nationality versus National Idea: Biographical Session
Moderator: Aleksander Smalianczuk
Participants: Rimantas Miknys, Roman Jurkowski, Wolga Łabaczewska, Olga Mastianica, Siarhej Chareuski, Vadzim Glinnik, Alena Leshkevich
(room 116)
Panel: 20. Kyiv Christianity
Moderator: Hubert Łaszkiewicz,
Participants: Laurent Tatarenko, Yurii Voloshyn, Dzianis Lisiejczykau, Maksym Jarenenko, Ekatarina Czencowa
(room 211)
Panel: 21. Women in the diplomacy of the Lublin Triangle (four?): yesterday, today and tomorrow
Moderator: Iryna Matiash
Participants: Helena Głogowska, Urszula Doroszewska, Olha Harasymiuk, Alina Koushyk, Maria Górska
(room 212)
Panel: 22. “Polish Operation”, The Great Terror in Belarus in the collective consciousness of today’s Ukrainians, Poles and Belarusians
Moderator: Nikolai Iwanow
Participants: Bogdan Hud, Henryk Stroński, Tadeusz Gawin
(room 215)
Panel: 23. Historiography During the Wartime: Professional and Worldview Challenges
Moderator: Olena Liubovets
Participants: Julita Komosa, Serhii Shkabko (online), Yuliya Yurchuk, Oleksandr Zaitsev, Katarzyna Jędraszczyk, Alla Kyrydon
(room 111)
Panel: 24. Rzeczpospolita vs. Cossack Rzeczpospolita (Hetmanate) – from a multinational state to a nation state?
Moderators: Natalia Starchenko, Karin Friedrich
Participants: Henryk Litwin, Viktor Horobets, Maksym Yaremenko, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski
(room 112)
Panel: 25. The legacy of the Rzeczpospolita in modern history
Moderator: Henadz Semianchuk
Participants: Tadeusz Gawin, Ina Sorkina (online) , Tatsiana Kasataya (online), Kaciaryna Kryvichanina
(room 113)
Panel: 26. Models of Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Ukrainian Discourse of the Second Half of the 18th Century. The Case of Hryhoriy Skovoroda
Moderator: Larysa Dovga
Participants: Volodymyr Masliychuk (online), Liudmyla Posokhova, Denys Pilipovich, Ihor Isichenko
(room 114)
Panel: 27. Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe during World War I” Part II
Moderator: Mariusz Korzeniowski
Participants: Valentyna Shevchenko, Valentyna Shandra, Olga Bilobrovets, Oleh Razyhrayev, Halyna Basara-Tylishchak, Andrii Rukkas, Iryna Irchak
(room 115)
Panel: 28. Ruthenia vs. Lithuania vs. Poland. Identities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 16th-18th Centuries: Sources, Historical Roots, Tradition
Moderator: Myroslav Voloshchuk
Participants: Andrij Stasiuk, Andriy Blanutsa, Seliska Edwards, Margarita Kasyanenko
(room 116)
Dinner
(main hall)
Panel: 29. Decolonization of the Cultural Space: Toponyms, Museums, Memorials
Moderator: Polina Barvinska
Participants: Valentyna Bochkovska, Leonid Machulin, Natalia Teres, Yevhen Zakharchenko, Victoriia Kolesnikova
(room 111)
Panel: 30. The Long Duration of the Eighteenth Century: Early Modern Ideas, Structures and Spaces in the Ukrainian Nineteenth Century
Moderators: Marian Mudryi (online) , Ostap Sereda
Participants: Olena Arkusha, Olena Bachynska, Viktoriia Venherska, Oksana Karlina, Svetlana Lougovtsova, Volodymyr Sklokin (online)
(room 112)
Panel: 31. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: State, People, Culture
Moderator: Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė
Participants: Igor Teslenko, Andrzej Zakrzewski, Andrei Radaman, Andrei Matsuk, Asta Vaškelienė, Adam Stankevič
(room 113)
Panel: 32. Modern technologies in the context of humanities research
Moderator: Helena Krasowska
Participants: Magdalena Pokrzyńska, Dominik Purchała, Aneta Wysztygiel, Krzysztof Zarecki, Kamelia Penkowska
(room 114)
Panel: 33. The Holodomor as an International Phenomenon
Moderators: Olga Ryabchenko, Hennadii Yefimenko
Participants: Tetiana Boriak, Natalia Kuzovova, Serhii Humennyi, Tetiana Perga
(room 115)
Panel: 34. Litvinism: an old and new apple of contention in the relations between Belarusians and Lithuanians. Perspectives for dialogue
Moderator: Piotr Rudkouski
Participants: Alvydas Nikžentaitis, Anastasiya Ilyina, Valer Bulhakau, Dawid Arsin
(room 116)
Panel: 35. Shared Heritage and Places of Memory. Honoring and Forgetting
Moderator: Ihor Zhaloba
Participants: Iryna Matiash, Larysa Levchenko, Aleksiej Szalanda, Stepan Vidnianskyi
(room 211)
Panel: 36. Cities and urban communities in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Moderator: Mikola Volkau
Participants: Nina Skepyan, Natalia Bilous, Maksim Makarau (online)
(room 212)
Panel: 37. Keeping in memory. Museums, digitalization and beyond
Moderator: Helena Krasowska
Participants: Anton Shynkaruk, Dmytro Maslov, Tetiana Samsoniuk, Rafał Miśta, Olena Mozghovenko
(room 111)
Panel: 38. Preserving memory – A.I., digitalization, and traditional print
Moderator: Witold Rodkiewicz
Participants: Nina Petrukha, Oksana Yurkova
(room 112)
Panel: 39. Culture and art of borderland groups. History and present day
Moderator: Katarzyna Chrudzimska-Uhera
Participants: Michał Myśliński, Michał Janocha, Maria Bikont, Łukasz Gorczyca, Wojciech Szymański
(room 113)
Panel: 40. Polish Jews on the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian border
Moderator: Andrzej Żbikowski
Participants: Agnieszka Żółkiewska, Anna Rosner, Ihar Huszczyński
(room 114)
Panel: 41. Images and perceptions of Europe, Russia and national divisions in Ukrainian and Polish political thought in the 20th century
Moderator: Shahla Kazimova
Participants: Gennadii Korolov, Marek Wojnar, Wojciech Łysek
(room 115)
Panel: 42. People and Their Borders. Aspects of Multiculturalism of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Its Successors
Moderators: Michał Kopczyński, Volodymyr Masliychuk (online), Liudmyla Posokhova
Participants: Vitali Byl, Stepan Blinder, Vladyslav Hrybovskyi, Natallia Slizh, Marharyta Stafiichuk, Viktar Yakubau
(room 116)
Panel: 43. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukrainian Early modern cities 17-18 cc.
Moderator: Maryana Dolynska
Participants: Tetiana Hoshko, Yurii Voloshyn, Maryana Dolynska, Igor Serdiuk, Oksana Kovalenko, Natalya Saenko
(room 211)
Panel: 44. Lublin Triangle – Unrealized Opportunities
Moderator: Oleksandr Shevchenko
Participants: Serhiy Troyan, Siarhei Marozau (online), Antonina Kozyrska
(room 212)
Panel: 45. How to teach Ukrainian history in Poland and other EU countries – lessons from the full-scale war in Ukraine
Moderators: Marcin Wiatr, Igor Kąkolewski
Participants: Agnieszka Jaczyńska, Yuliia Kravchenko, Elżbieta Kwiecińska, Natalia Omelchuk, Tomasz Stryjek, Arūnas Vyšniauskas
(room 215)
Debate before the film screening
(main hall)
46. Film “WAR on education” / Discussion after the film
Piotr Witek, Serhii Shkabko (online), Borys Czerkas, Oleg Odnororzenko
(aula)
47. Expedition to new history museums:
– The Warsaw Rising Museum
– POLIN Museum
– Polish History Museum
– Battle of Warsaw Museum (Ossów)
– Józef Piłsudski Museum (Sulejówek)
Panel: 48. Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland facing challenges and threats from Russian imperialism (1991-2024)
Moderator: Ihor Hurak
Participants: Agnieszka Legucka, Yevhen Mahda, Jakub Olchowski, Yuriy Temirov
(room 111)
Panel: 49. The Russian disinformation as a challenge for Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine
Moderators: Olga Brusylovska, Volodymyr Dubovyk
Participants: Victor Shadurski, Agnieszka Legucka, Marianna Gladysh, Oksana Krayevska
(room 112)
Panel: 50. “Historia z polityką w tle. Współczesna Białoruś wobec dziedzictwa WKL”.
History with politics in the background. Contemporary Belarus in relation to the legacy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Moderator: Wojciech Konończuk
Participants: Alaksandr Kraucewicz, Šarūnas Liekis, Kamil Kłysiński, Ołeh Odnorożenko (tbc)
(room 113)
Panel: 51. The Heritage of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Contemporary Museums
Moderator: Michał Przeperski
Participants: Robert Kostro, Roman Czmełyk, Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė, Aliaksei Lastouski
(room 114)
Panel: 52. Legal – illegal rationale
Moderator: Leszek Zasztowt
Participants: Bohdan Horodnytskyi, Olena Sokalska, Nataliia Khomenko, Larysa Levchenko
(room 115)
Panel: 53. Armenians in the culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: status and heritage
Moderator: Krzysztof Stopka
Participants: Andrzej A. Zięba, Dzianis Liseichykau, Maksym Potapenko
(room 111)
Panel: 54. Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe 1914–1923: Ideas, Facts, People
Moderators: Stanisław Stępień, Vladyslav Verstiuk
Participants: Iryna Matiash, Oleh Pavlyshyn, Valentyna Piskun, Jan Pisuliński
(room 112)
Panel: 55. Neighbours – peaceful and beneficial coexistence?
Moderator: Leszek Zasztowt
Participants: Igor Kryvosheia, Aleh Dziarnovich, Rafał Andrzej Bieryło
(room 113)
Panel: 56. Rethinking the Past, Planning for the Future
Moderator: Alexander Motyl
Participants: Frank Sysyn (Online), Bob Scott, John Micgiel
(room 114)
Panel: 57. New research and dissemination projects on the history of ULB countries in Europe
Moderators: Igor Kąkolewski, Natalia Starczenko
Participants: Larysa Dovga, Svitlana Liakhovets, Olha Morozova, Inesa Kuryan, Olena Bachynska, Vladyslav Iatsenko, Vitalii Kotsur
(room 115)
Panel: 58. Museums and Their Collections in Times of War. 20th – 21st Centuries
Moderator: Łukasz Kamiński
Participants: Taras Woźniak, Roman Czmełyk, Simonas Jazavita, Joanna Błoch, Nataliia Zadziakouskaya
(room 116)
Panel: 59. Practical application of decolonization – case studies in Ukraine
Moderator: Anton Saifullayeu
Participants: Galyna Starodubets, Oksana Kostenko, Yehven Zakharchenko, Vlada Sabadash
(room 211)
Panel: 60. Tatars as part of the state and social community of Poland, Lithuania and Ruthenia in the 14th-20th centuries
Moderator: Andrzej Drozd
Participants: Tamara Bairašauskaitė, Oleksandr Halenko, Artur Konopacki
(room 212)
61. SEW UW – Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw – education, research, scholarships, international projects
Presentation: Jan Malicki, Helena Krasowska, Adam Eberhardt, John Micgiel
(aula)
62. Debate “History of the Four Nations – heritage and future”
Moderatorzy: Leszek Zasztowt, Natalia Starchenko
Participants: Wojciech Łysek (Poland) Mindaugas Norkevicius (Lithuania) Oksana Pukhonska (Ukraine) Maksim Makarau (Belarus)
(aula)
63. Presentation of the commemorative volume “Abiejų Tautų Respublika: naujas požiūris į bendrą naujųjų amžių pradžią Lenkijos ir Ukrainos istorijoje” from the 1st Congress, Vilnius, 2023
(aula)
64. Information on the preparation of the Commemorative Volume of the 2nd Congress
(aula)
65. Closing of the 2nd Congress
Mieszko Pawlak, Undersecretary of State – Head of the International Policy Office in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
Jan Malicki – Dyrektor SEW UW / Director SEW UW
(aula)
The program is in preparation and will be provided soon. Currently, we have an open list of panels (there will be about 30):
1. Memory Culture in Contemporary Ukraine: Decolonization of Historical Knowledge, Cultural Space, Memory Practices (moderation by Prof. Yuriy Shapoval)
2. The Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – Controversial Concepts: Occidentalization, Tolerance, Polonization/Borderlands, Catholicization, Oppression, Betrayal of Elites (moderation by Prof. Larysa Dowga, Prof. Natalia Starchenko)
3. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th and 18th Centuries – From a Multinational State to a National State? (Prof. Natalia Starchenko, Prof. Michał Kopczyński)
4. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Its Legacy in National Narratives – New Publications, New Projects, New Perspectives (moderation by Prof. Igor Kąkolewski)
5. The Long Duration of the 18th Century: Practices, Ideas, Early Modern Structures in 19th Century Ukraine (moderation by Prof. Maryan Mudryi, Dr. Ostap Sereda)
6. Brothers in Misfortune: Totalitarianism in the Fates of Four Nations (Methodological Challenges, Reflections, Narratives, Contemporary Threats) (moderation by Prof. Larysa Yakubova)
7. War Seen Through the Eyes of a Historian on the Frontline (moderation by Borys Czerkas)
8. How to Teach the History of Ukraine in Poland and Other EU Countries – Lessons from the Full-Scale War in Ukraine (moderation by Dr. Marcin Wiatr, Prof. Igor Kąkolewski)
9. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: State, People, Culture (Moderator: Ramunė Šmigelskytė)
10. Historical and Contemporary Polish-Ukrainian Relations in University Teaching (Moderator: Andrii Portnov)
11. Difficult Questions of the Shared History of the Nations of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: A View from Belarus (Moderator: dr Henadz Semianchuk)
12. Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe during World War I (Moderator: Dr Roman Wysocki)
13. Models of Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Ukrainian Discourse of the Second Half of the 18th Century: The Case of Hryhoriy Skovoroda (Moderator: Larysa Dovha)
14. Sugar and Modernization in the ULB Zone: A Bittersweet History (Michał Kopczyński, dr Olga Gaidai)
15. Modern Technologies in the Context of Humanities Research (Moderator: Helena Krasowska)
16. Krajovosc versus National Idea: Biographical Session (Moderator: Aleksander Smalianczuk)
17. Public Diplomacy of the Lublin Triangle (Quadrilateral?): Past and Future (Moderator: Iryna Matiash)
Keynote Speaker
Profesor Robert I. Frost
Department of History University of Aberdeen (UK)
Profesor Robert I. Frost born and brought up in Edinburgh, Robert I. Frost was educated at St Andrews University (1980), the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1981), and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London (1990).
He joined the History Department of Kings College London as a lecturer in 1987, became a Reader in 2000, and served for three years as Head of the Department of History from 2001. In 2004, Professor Frost was appointed to a chair in Early Modern History at the University of Aberdeen, and to the Headship of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (until 2009). Since 2013, Professor Frost has held the Burnett Fletcher Chair of History at Aberdeen.
In 2009, Robert I. Frost was awarded a three-year Research Chair by the British Academy and the Wolfson Foundation to write a history of the Polish-Lithuanian union. Oxford University Press published the first volume of this study in 2015: The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania, volume 1: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385–1569. Volume 1 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize in 2017 for the best work on Polish History published by a foreign author between 2012 and 2017. He was awarded a three-year Leverhulme Major Fellowship (2016–2019) to work on volume 2, The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Republic, 1569-1648, which is nearing completion.
In 2020, Robert I. Frost was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania, and in 2021 the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (2016), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2020), and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020).
He is interested in the history of eastern and northern Europe from the 14th to the 18th century. Apart from the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, his main research interests focus on the history of warfare in the Polish-Lithuanian monarchy under the Vasa dynasty (1587–1668), and in noble society and culture.
Professor Robert I. Frost | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen (abdn.ac.uk)
Robert I. Frost – Google Scholar
Profesor Robert I. Frost born and brought up in Edinburgh, Robert I. Frost was educated at St Andrews University (1980), the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1981), and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London (1990).
He joined the History Department of Kings College London as a lecturer in 1987, became a Reader in 2000, and served for three years as Head of the Department of History from 2001. In 2004, Professor Frost was appointed to a chair in Early Modern History at the University of Aberdeen, and to the Headship of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (until 2009). Since 2013, Professor Frost has held the Burnett Fletcher Chair of History at Aberdeen.
In 2009, Robert I. Frost was awarded a three-year Research Chair by the British Academy and the Wolfson Foundation to write a history of the Polish-Lithuanian union. Oxford University Press published the first volume of this study in 2015: The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania, volume 1: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385–1569. Volume 1 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize in 2017 for the best work on Polish History published by a foreign author between 2012 and 2017. He was awarded a three-year Leverhulme Major Fellowship (2016–2019) to work on volume 2, The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Republic, 1569-1648, which is nearing completion.
In 2020, Robert I. Frost was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania, and in 2021 the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (2016), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2020), and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020).
He is interested in the history of eastern and northern Europe from the 14th to the 18th century. Apart from the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, his main research interests focus on the history of warfare in the Polish-Lithuanian monarchy under the Vasa dynasty (1587–1668), and in noble society and culture.
Professor Robert I. Frost | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen (abdn.ac.uk)
Robert I. Frost – Google Scholar
The Past in the Present:
Rethinking Ukraine, Europe and the Role of the Nation-State in the Global Age.
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and the courageous resistance of the Ukrainian people in defence of their right of self-determination raise fundamental questions about the current direction of historical scholarship. Ukrainians are fighting not just for their homeland, but also to preserve the nationhood that Putin denies them. Their struggle reminds us of the continuing significance and popular resonance of the idea of the nation and national identity. That idea seems self-evident for the peoples of the successor-states of the Polish-Lithuanian Union. Long years of foreign rule after 1772/1795 and the traumatic experiences of the twentieth century in eastern Europe have ensured that belief in the fundamental significance of the nation is shared by Ukranians, Poles, Lithuanians, and, as the protests against Lukashenka’s dictatorship in 2020–2021 demonstrated, by Belarusians. Yet despite the obsession of modern scholarship with identity, nations are out of fashion. Instead, grand ideas of global history, transnational history, borderlands and liminality dominate the field. This lecture will consider the long history of the relationship between the nation and political forms in eastern Europe, the changing contexts in which nations have interacted, and ask if the age of the nation-state, once seen as the telos of political modernity, is passing.
Registration
(is available till 15.07.2024)
Call for proposals – International Congress “Rethinking Ukraine and Europe: New Challenges for Historians”
Dear potential participants,
We invite historians to apply for participation in the International Congress “Rethinking Ukraine and Europe: New Challenges for Historians”, which will be held on September 15-17, 2023, in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The main goal of the Congress is to discuss a new narrative of the history of Ukraine and the entire Central and Eastern European region. The two conference days will include thematic panel discussions, presentations of grant programmes for historical research, and networking.
For speakers of panel discussions, as well as participants from Ukraine, the organizers can cover the following expenses: accommodation (three nights in a hotel in Vilnius, September 15-17), travel (train and bus tickets), and meals during the congress. There is also a possibility of partial coverage of expenses for participants from other countries.
Please fill out the form by May 15, 2023 (inclusive). Participation in the Congress is on a competitive basis, and the results of the competition will be communicated to you by e-mail by June 1, 2023.
Organizers
University of Warsaw
Location - Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland
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