Events, Panels & Organisation
Selected conferences, panels, workshops, lectures and public debates that I have organised, convened, chaired, moderated or hosted.
2026
YERUN Autumn General Assembly and Leadership Meeting.
Host and local co-organiser, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 13–15 October. Forthcoming.
The Making of the Humanities XII: The Structure of Humanistic Revolution: A Critical Examination of Transformations in the History of the Humanities.
Conference Chair and lead organiser, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 7–9 October. Forthcoming.
Conference website
“Science–Business Cooperation: New Models of Collaboration.”
Panel moderator, 18th TIME Economic Forum, Technological Sovereignty of Poland and Europe 2030, Warsaw, Poland, 9–10 March.
Forum website
2025
Inaugural Polish Dual Use Tech Hub Meeting.
Host, Astronomical Observatory of Nicolaus Copernicus University, Piwnice near Toruń, Poland, 7 November.
Event report
European Flagship Conference on Research Security.
Contribution to two high-level panels, including the opening plenary, representing Nicolaus Copernicus University and YERUN, Brussels, Belgium, 28–30 October.
Conference programme
Academic Entrepreneurship Forum: “Funds for Science.”
Opening lecturer; event co-organised by Nicolaus Copernicus University and the European Innovation Foundation, Toruń, Poland, 27 October.
Event programme
2023
World Copernican Congress — “Nicolaus Copernicus and the Culture of Remembrance.”
Member of the International Programme Committee and the Organizing Committee of the Cultural Studies section, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 12–16 September. The section brought together research on cultural memory, literature and the history of art.
Congress section website
“Intellectuals as Memory Generators: Forging the Origins of Nations, States, Religions and Peoples.”
Panel organiser and introductory speaker, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 31 March–2 April.
2022
“Anniversary Celebrations in Central and Eastern Europe.”
Panel organiser and introductory speaker, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 8–10 April.
2021
Fifth Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association: Convergences.
Member of the Organising Committee and the proposal-selection committee, Warsaw, Poland, 5–9 July. Online conference.
2017
“Emigration Cultures of Intellectuals” (Emigracyjne kultury intelektualistów).
Panel co-organiser with Dr Agata Domachowska, Third Congress of the Polish Association for Cultural Studies, Poznań, Poland, 21–23 September.
2016
“(Collective) Memory of Communism in Post-Communist Europe: Social Practices, Research and Communication.”
Workshop co-organiser with R. Halili, Ł. Gemziak and M. Głuszkowski, POSTCOMER – Laboratory for Research on Collective Memory in Post-Communist Europe, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 20–21 May.
2014
Theory in the Humanities – the Humanities in Theory (Teoria w humanistyce – humanistyka w teorii).
Conference co-organiser with J. Kowalewski, Humanistics Forum, Pluski, Poland, 27–29 October.
Situating Solidarities: Social Challenges for Science and Technology Studies.
Member of the Organising Committee, international conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 17–19 September.
2013
Lecture and seminar by Dr Branislav Radeljić, University of East London.
Organiser, Institute of Slavonic Philology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 30 October.
Ethical and Moral Aspects of “Humanities Practices” (Etyczno-moralne aspekty „praktyk humanistycznych”).
Conference co-organiser with M. Kafar, Humanistics Forum, Pluski, Poland, 16–17 October.
Lecture by Professor David Damrosch, Harvard University.
Organiser, Institute of Slavonic Philology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 16 September.
2011
Humanities of the (Semi-)Peripheries (Humanistyka (pół)peryferii).
Conference co-organiser with K. Abriszewski, Humanistics Forum, Olsztyn–Pluski, Poland, 21–22 October.
2010
Convergence and Divergence within the Balkan Keg: Language, Culture, Literature and History—Ten Years of Balkan Studies in Toruń.
Conference co-organiser, Institute of Slavonic Philology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 2–4 December.
“Excluded by Transformation: Poverty in Poland after 1989” (Wykluczeni przez transformację, czyli o biedzie w Polsce po 1989 roku).
Introduction and moderation of a panel discussion with Tomasz Rakowski, International Center for Information Management Systems and Services, Toruń, Poland, 19 May.
2009
“Innovations in Science and Education and the Knowledge Society” (Innowacje w nauce i edukacji a społeczeństwo wiedzy).
Introduction and moderation of a panel discussion with Dominik Antonowicz and Krzysztof Abriszewski, International Center for Information Management Systems and Services, Toruń, Poland, 9 November.
2005
Philosophy and Ethics of Interpretation (Filozofia i etyka interpretacji).
Conference co-organiser with Professor Andrzej Szahaj, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 16–18 May.