W dniach 10-11 października 2025 roku na Wydziale Nauk Historycznych UMK odbędzie się międzynarodowa konferencja Group Identity - Social Structures - Diversity in Premodern Europe, organizowana wspólnie przez nasz Wydział i Uniwersytet w Swansea (Prifysgol Abertawe).
Konferencji, odbywającej się co dwa lata, począwszy od 2021 roku, będą towarzyszyły dwa wykłady otwarte - po jednym każdego dnia.
PROGRAM
Środa, 10 października 2025 roku
9.00 welcome, coffee & opening
9.15-11.00 Shifting grounds I
Przemysław Wiszewski
(Wrocław University, Poland)
Blurred borders? Political, ethnic, national identities: the case of pre-conquest Island
Roman Czaja
(Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Group identity of ruling and merchant elites in Hanseatic cities - uniformity or diversity?
Emma Lingaard Smed
(University of Southern Denmark)
Segmentation of the Danish clergy, 1245-1274
11.00-11.10 coffee break
11.10-12.35 Shifting grounds II
Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu
(Universitatea „1 Decembrie 1918" din Alba Iulia, Romania)
Aspects regarding the interactions of groups with different ethnic and social identities in the 15th-and 16th-c. Transylvania
Dawid Wojdylo
(Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Rulers of Kievan Rus and Scandinavia. Ideas and discourse in postcolonial approach
Wojciech Jóźwiak
(Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Conflict of the law and tradition and it's influence on the social structures in medieval Europe
12.45-14.00 Chasing unity I
Andrea Bernier
(Universita degli studi di Parma / Nicolaus Copernicus University / NAWA fellow)
General laws and regional identities in the Later Roman Empire: The evidence of the Theodosian Code I
Mateusz Wyżga
(University of the National Education Commission, Poland)
The power from below? Local identity and agency of early modern Polish peasants
14.00-15.30 lunch break
15.30-16.30 Chasing unity II
Rita Regina Trimoniene
(Vilniaus universitetas, Lithuania)
The problem of local community identity in the early modern period (the case of the royal economy of Šiauliai in the 17th c.)
Maria Strzałkowska
(Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
The peasentry as a key social class in Stanisław Staszic's work
16.30-17.00 coffee break
17.00-18.15 Keynote speaker
Prof. dr. Cordelia Heß
(Aarhus University, Denmark)
Were medieval people racist? Social practices in colonial contact zones
Czwartek, 11 października 2025 roku
10.00-11.00 Chasing unity III
Indrė Bočkutė
(Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
Imperial Ambitions and rural realities: The implementation of Russian primary education policies in Kaunas Governorate in the second half of the 19th c.
Mateusz Maleszka
(Kuyavian-Pomeranian Heritage Center in Toruń, Poland)
The Gothic past as a tool of Nazi researchers to create Pangermanic identity
11.00-11.10 coffee break
11.10-12.25 Keeping apart I
Patrycja Godlewska
(Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Could „professional activity” have been a form of exclusion or merely isolation? Identifying a weaver, ceramic craftsman, sheepherder, or shepherd from archaeological sources. Selected examples
Michał Haufa
(Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
The complicated relations of the Ostrogoths with the Roman population of Italy
Ryan Michlmayr
(Swansea University, the United Kingdom)
Space, urbanism and the other: Constructing alterity in the writings of Henry of Livonia, Nicholas von Jeroschin and Gerald of Wales
12.25-12.35 coffee break
12.35-14.00 Keeping apart II
Michał Gniadek-Zieliński
(Warsaw University, Poland)
Vincentius of Cracow and Sven Aggesen. Two antyimperial myths of community (12/13th c.)
Gustavs Strenga
(Latvijas Kultūras akadēmija, Latvia)
Hybrid groups: Constructing and sustaining collective identities among transport workers' brotherhoods in Late Medieval Riga
Dorota Gapska
(Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Does heresy run in the family? Polish hussites and their families
14.00-15.30 lunch break
15.30-17.05 Keeping apart III
Rafał Simiński
(Szczecin University, Poland)
Between hostility and acceptance. Chivalry towards the towns of Western Pomerania in the late Middle Ages
Ana Roda Sánchez
(Queen Mary University of London, the United Kingdom)
Conversos in Castile during the second half of the 15th c.
Andrii Bovgyria
(Institute of History of Ukraine NASU)
The image of the other in Ukrainian texts of the 17th and 18th c: Identity formation through religious and ethnic difference
17.05-17.15 coffee break
17.15-18.15 Keynote speaker
Prof. dr. Rosa Smurra
(Università di Bologna, Italy)
Affiliations in medieval Bologna
Organisers:
Dr Anna Maleszka, NCU
Prof. Dr Matthew Stevens, Prifysgol Abertawe / Swansea University
Secretaries:
Michal Rejner, NCU
Igor Waraksa, NCU