Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe

International Conference

Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu (UAM) April 7–8, 2022

The conference is being organized to inaugurate a new monographic series, Brill’s

Research Perspectives in Early Modern Cultures of the Younger Europe (RPYES).

7th April

Coffee/Tee: 8.30–9.00

Welcome: Vice-Rector Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk and Dean Tomasz

Mizerkiewicz, UAM

Introduction: Robert A. Maryks, UAM 9.00-9.15

Session 1: Political and Cultural Identity of the Younger Europe

Char: Igor Kraszewski, UAM 9.15-12.00

The Younger Europe – or Rather – the Older?: Visions of Politics in the Polish– Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–18th Centuries

Paul Shore, University of Regina

The Battle of Mohács, Re-remembered History and Hungary’s “Christian” Identity

Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, University College Dublin

The Younger Europe from a Papal Perspective, 1580–1640

Piotr Chmiel, Uniwersytet Warszawski

Younger but How?: Heterochrony of Premodern European Divisions in the Discourse on Central Europe

Discussion

Invited participants: Maciej Forycki, UAM, Wojciech Sajkowski, UAM

Lunch break 12.00-14.00

Sessions 2: Religious and Cultural Identity of the Younger Europe

Chair, Vice-Rector Rafał Witkowski, UAM 14.00-17.00

Maciej Ptaszyński, Uniwersytet Warszawski

Words and Silence of the Reformation: Testimony of Protestant Preachers in Stralsund in 1525 against the Background of the Baltic Reformation

Liudmyla Sharipova, University of Nottingham

Writing the History of Eastern Orthodox Female Monasticism: Promises and Challenges

Piotr Urbański, UAM, and Michał Gronowski, O.S.B.

Medieval Tradition and Modern Humanism: The Benedictines and Benedictine Nuns in Poland–Lithuania in the Early Modern Period

László Kontler, Central European University

Shades of Light: The Enlightenment in Central Europe

Discussion Chair: Andrea Mariani, UAM

Mini-Concert Paweł Drozdowski, Viola 17.30-18.00

  8th April

Session 3: Literary and Cultural Identity of the Younger Europe

Chair:Dean Tomasz Mizerkiewcz, UAM 9.00-12.00

Migratio Musarum: Building Cultural Identity in 17th-Century Sweden

Giovanna Siedina, Università degli Studi di Firenze

The Epigram in Kyiv-Mohylanian Manuals of Poetics

Stephan Javors’kyj’s Sermons in the Historical, Social, and Political Context of the Late Seventeenth Century

Discussion

Chair: Robert A. Maryks, UAM

Invited participants: Katarzyna Meller (UAM), Dainora Pociūtė (Vilniaus universiteto), and Jakub Niedźwiedź (Uniwersytet Jagielloński)

Lunch break: 12.00–14.00

Brill Publications, Arjan van Dijk, 14.00-15.00

Keynote Address: 15.00–17.00

Frank Sysyn, University of Alberta

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Birth of Modern Ukraine: A Reappraisal of the Khmelnytsky “Revolution”

Response: Amelia Glaser, University of California, San Diego

Coffee/Tea break 17.00-17.30

Final Remarks 17.30–18.00

Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski

Conference Closing 18.00-18.30

Mateusz Stróżyński, UAM