Conference Presentations
Conference papers, panel contributions, discussions and related academic presentations, listed in reverse chronological order.
2023
“Do the Humanities Need Big Science? The ‘Research University’ Project in Semi-Peripheral Central Europe.”
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 8–11 November.
“Copernicus Glocalized: Remembering the 1973 Anniversary Celebrations.”
World Copernican Congress, Toruń, Poland, 12–15 September.
“Utopias of the Past in Millennium Celebrations: Narratives on the Origins of the State, Nation and Religion as a Response to Social Crisis.”
Council for European Studies Conference, Europe’s Past, Present and Future: Utopias and Dystopias, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland, 27–29 June.
“Intellectuals as Memory Generators: Forging the Origins of Nations, States, Religions and Peoples.”
Panel organisation and introduction, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 31 March–2 April.
2022
“Archaeology and History Serving State and Church: The Celebration of the Millennium of Poland’s Christianity and Statehood in the Perspective of the History of the Humanities.”
The Making of the Humanities X, Pittsburgh, United States, 3–5 November. Online presentation.
“Complexity and the Humanities.”
Complex System Approaches in the Sciences and the Humanities, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 13–14 September.
“Anniversary Celebrations in Central and Eastern Europe.”
Panel organisation and introduction, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 8–10 April.
2021
“What Does It Mean to Be a Translingual Writer in Eastern and Central Europe?”
20th Annual Aleksanteri Conference, Eurasia and Global Migration, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland, 27–29 October. Online presentation.
“Millennium of Christianity among the Slavs: Celebrations in Central and Eastern Europe as a Response to Social Crisis.”
23rd Annual Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop, University of Chicago, United States, 7 May. Online presentation.
“Memories and Memorials: On Polish–Czech Material Reciprocity in Chicago.”
What They Brought, What They Changed: Material Culture and Polish Chicago, University of Chicago, United States, 4–5 February. Online presentation.
2019
“Semi/Peripheral Connection: Socialist Postcolonialism and the Vietnam Wars.”
Social Change in Asia and Europe, Part 2, Warsaw, Poland, 4–5 October.
“Anti-Empire as Method: War in Polish and Vietnamese Semi-Peripheral Literature and Visual Arts.”
22nd World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Macau SAR, China, 29 July–2 August.
“Selling Sites of Memory in the Czech Republic.”
Presented within the panel “The Commodification of Memory in East-Central Europe,” Third Annual Memory Studies Association Conference, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 25–29 June.
Travelling Memory: How Memories Move in the Age of Globalisation.
Discussion with Professor Astrid Erll, German Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland, 6 March.
2018
“Is There Anything Like a Second World Postcolonialism? The History of Socialist Postcolonialism in Postwar Poland.”
The Making of the Humanities VII, Society for the History of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 15–17 November.
“Grotowski–Haiti–Halka/Haiti: Glocal Contexts and Universal History.”
From Jerzy Grotowski to Krystian Lupa: On the Influence of Polish Theatre in the World, Shanghai Theatre Academy, in cooperation with the Faculty of Languages at Nicolaus Copernicus University and the International Theatre Institute UNESCO, Shanghai, China, 13–14 October.
“The Core–Peripheral Model à Rebours, with Some Remarks on Another World Literature: The Case of the Czech–Chinese Novel On the River.”
Archives of Resistance: Cosmopolitanism, Memory and World Literature, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, 20–22 June.
“Between Success and Failure: A History of Left-Wing East-Central European Intellectuals in the United States.”
International Society for Intellectual History Conference, Borders, Boundaries, Limits, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom, 10–13 June.
2016
“The Romantic Mytho-Logic of Memory: The Battle of Kosovo and Modern Serbian Identity.”
Romantic Legacies, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, 18–19 November.
“Małowist, Braudel, Wallerstein: Between World History and World Literature.”
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Vienna, Austria, 21–27 July.
“Unexpected Literary Transfer: The Case of the Czech–Chinese Novel On the River.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 17–20 March.
2015
“Marian Małowist: World History on the Socialist Semi-Peripheries.”
Alternative Global Geographies, international conference of the AHRC project Socialism Goes Global, in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe and the Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig, Germany, 13–14 November.
“Women’s Global Migration during the Second World War: The Case of Halina Kridl.”
Ninth World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Makuhari, Japan, 3–8 August.
The Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Ideas.
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 28–30 May. Attendance without a paper.
“Double Authorship: Translingual Literature in East-Central Europe.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, United States, 26–29 March.
2014
“Manfred Kridl w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Casus Katedry Adama Mickiewicza na Uniwersytecie Columbia” [“Manfred Kridl in the United States: The Case of the Adam Mickiewicz Chair at Columbia University”].
Niekonwencjonalne historie instytucji slawistycznych [Alternative Histories of Slavic Studies Institutions], Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 23–25 October.
“Neoliberal Scapegoat: Technocratic Authoritarianism towards the University in Postsocialist Poland.”
Situating Solidarities: Social Challenges for Science and Technology Studies, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 17–19 September.
“Responding to Williams Responding to Latour.”
Respondent to Melanie Williams’s lecture “Responding to Latour: Law and Literature and the ‘Objecting Object’,” Writing Itself, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1–2 July.
“Against the Whole World: Polish Left-Wing Exile Intellectuals against Communism and the Emigrant Majority.”
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 5–7 April.
“Slavic-World Literature: Nineteenth-Century Pan-Slavic Movements in the Clash between German Ideology and the Russian Empire.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Capitals, New York, United States, 20–23 March.
Translingual Practice: Cross-Disciplinary Conversation.
Special session at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 9–12 January.
2013
“Always in the Minority: Polish Left-Wing Exile Intellectuals against Communism and the Emigrant Majority.”
Political Exile from Central and Eastern Europe: Motives, Strategies, Activities and Perceptions of East and West, 1945–1989, Bratislava, Slovakia, 19–20 November.
“Voices from the (Semi-)Peripheries: East-Central European Debates on European Identity.”
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe, Second Edition, Euroacademia, Prague, Czech Republic, 15–16 November.
“Polská asociace literární komparatistiky – institucionalizace disciplíny” [“The Polish Comparative Literature Association: The Institutionalisation of a Discipline”].
Fourth Congress of Czech Slavists, Telč, Czech Republic, 13–14 November.
“Materiality of Translingual Writing and Criticism: Transatlantic Knowledge Transfer.”
20th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Sorbonne, Paris, France, 18–24 July.
“The Primary Chronicle in the Light of World-System Theories and Social Constructivism.”
16th Annual Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 19 April.
2012
“Die kulturelle (Vor-)Geschichte der modernen polnischen Literaturtheorie / Kulturowa (pre)historia nowoczesnej polskiej teorii literatury” [“The Cultural (Pre)History of Modern Polish Literary Theory”].
Die polnische Literaturtheorie im Kontext der europäischen Literaturwissenschaften / Polska teoria literatury wśród europejskich Literaturwissenschaften, University of Tübingen, Germany, 26–27 October.
“Eastern, Central or East-Central Europe? Identity Dilemmas in Contemporary Poland.”
Re-Inventing Europe, Euroacademia, Vienna, Austria, 17–19 May.
“Literature and Other Social Systems: World(-)System Theories and Social Constructivism.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Collapse/Catastrophe/Change, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 29 March–1 April.
2011
“World Literature from a World(-)System Perspective: A Few Remarks on the Balkans.”
Institute for World Literature, Beijing, China, 7 July.
“A Genealogy of Comparative Literature in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards Slavic-World Literature.”
The Rise of World Literatures, First Congress of the World Literature Association, Institute of World Literature, Peking University, Beijing, China, 30 June–3 July.
2010
“Pre-Turkish Muslim Influence on the Balkan Peninsula: A World(-)System Perspective.”
Convergence and Divergence within the Balkan Keg: Language, Culture, Literature and History—Ten Years of Balkan Studies in Toruń, Institute of Slavonic Philology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 2–4 December.
“Not Everything Is Postcolonial Studies: A Few Remarks on the Application of Edward W. Said’s Ideas to the Pre-Colonial World.”
Saidism in the Twenty-First Century, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 8–9 November.
“Czynniki ludzkie i pozaludzkie w tworzeniu szkoły badawczej (na przykładzie seminarium Manfreda Kridla w Wilnie)” [“Human and Non-Human Actors in the Creation of a Research School: The Example of Manfred Kridl’s Seminar in Vilnius”].
38th Literary-Theoretical Conference, Strukturalizm w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej. Wizje i rewizje [Structuralism in Central and Eastern Europe: Visions and Revisions], University of Warsaw and Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Świder, Poland, 16–19 September.
“Comparative Literature, Anti-Eurocentric Historiography and Literature in the World System.”
19th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature, Seoul, South Korea, 15–21 August.
“Universalising Language, or What Has Remained of Eastern European Structuralism in the United States.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 1–4 April.
2009
“Transformace, postkomunismus, postkolonialismus, postmodernismus. Paradigmata středoevropské literatury po roce 1989” [“Transformation, Post-Communism, Postcolonialism and Postmodernism: The Central European Literary Paradigm after 1989”].
Česko-slovenské kulturní vztahy po roce 1989: návaznost a změna [Czech–Slovak Cultural Relations after 1989: Continuity and Change], Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 9 December.
“Zwrot dokonany niedopełniony. Z dziejów nowoczesnego literaturoznawstwa polskiego okresu międzywojennego” [“The Turn Accomplished but Unfulfilled: From the History of Modern Polish Literary Studies during the Interwar Period”].
„Zwroty” badawcze w humanistyce. Konteksty poznawcze, kulturowe i społeczno-instytucjonalne [Research “Turns” in the Humanities: Cognitive, Cultural and Socio-Institutional Contexts], Humanistics Forum, Olsztyn–Pluski, Poland, 23–24 October.
2008
“O roce 1968 bychom měli vědět víc (co Poláci vědí o Československu roku 1968)” [“We Should Know More about 1968: What Poles Know about Czechoslovakia in 1968”].
Česko-slovenské reflexe: 1968 (jazyk – literatura – kultura) [Czech–Slovak Reflections: 1968—Language, Literature and Culture], Masaryk University and the Slovak Literary Centre, Brno, Czech Republic, 9 December.
2007
“Tyfus, wszy, klatki, karmiciele i II wojna światowa” [“Typhus, Lice, Cages, Feeders and the Second World War”].
Rzeczy i ludzie – ludzie i rzeczy. Humanistyka wobec materialności [Things and Humans—Humans and Things: The Humanities and Materiality], Humanistics Forum, Olsztyn–Pluski, Poland, 19–20 October.
2006
“Třináct let po rozpadu československé federace očima Poláka (v středoevropském kontextu)” [“Thirteen Years after the Dissolution of the Czechoslovak Federation through Polish Eyes: A Central European Perspective”].
Třináct let po… / Trinásť rokov po… [Thirteen Years After…], Masaryk University and the Slovak Literary Centre, Brno, Czech Republic, 7 December.
2005
With Olga Kwiatkowska, “O przywróceniu zachwianej równowagi w refleksji antropologicznej. Głos podwójny w sprawie przedmiotów” [“Restoring a Disturbed Balance in Anthropological Reflection: A Double Intervention on Objects”].
Kultura profesjonalna etnologów w Polsce [The Professional Culture of Ethnologists in Poland], University of Wrocław, Poland, 8–9 September.
“Dlaczego literaturoznawstwo polskie jest etycznie ślepe?” [“Why Are Polish Literary Studies Ethically Blind?”].
Filozofia i etyka interpretacji [The Philosophy and Ethics of Interpretation], Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 16–18 May.