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Union and Its Legacies. Poland-Lithuania since 1386
A Symposium to mark the 450th anniversary of the Union of Lublin
Programme
Friday 31 January
5:30pm
Introduction (Robert Frost)
5:45: Formal Opening of the Centre
(speeches from ambassadors)
6:15 pm
Keynote Public Lecture
Chair: Robert Frost (Aberdeen)
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Norman Davies (Oxford) |
‘Polish’ Studies: Past, Present & Future. |
Reception and Buffet
Saturday 1 February
Keynote Lecture
9:30-10:30
Chair: Michael Brown (Aberdeen)
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Robert Frost (Aberdeen) |
Continuties and Discontinuities. The Polish-Lithuanian Union and its Legacy. |
10:30–11:00
Coffee
11–12:30
Session One: The Political Culture of the Union after 1569
Chair:Karin Friedrich (Aberdeen)
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Artūras Vasiliauskas (Vilnius) |
The Union and the Political Culture of the Lithuanian Nobility, 1569–1648. |
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Anna Kalinowska (Warsaw) |
British perceptions of the Polish-Lithuanian Union in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
12:30–1:15 Lunch
1:15–2:45 Session Two: Problems of Union
Chair: Olenka Pevny (Cambridge)
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Henryk Litwin (Warsaw) |
The szlachta of Volhynia, Kyiv and Bratslav and the unions of Lublin. |
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Mindaugas Šapoka (Vilnius) |
The Challenges of War: the Great Northern War (1700–1721) and the Polish-Lithuanian Union. |
2:45–3:30 Session Three: Forming the Legacy of the Union after the Partitions
Chair: Anna Bernhardt, Maison Lafitte, Paris
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Karin Friedrich (Aberdeen) |
From Perilous Liberty to Polnische Wirtschaft. Royal Prussians and the Legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Union. |
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Curtis Murphy (Kazakhstan) |
Who Would Return to the “Kingdom of Anarchy”? Imperialists, Liberals and Revolutionaries Debate the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Russian Empire. |
3:30–4:00: Coffee
4:00–5:30: Session Four: Competing Visions of a Common Past
Chair. Henryk Litwin (Warsaw)
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Tomas Balkelis (Vilnius) |
In Search of the Common Past: Political Alternatives to Lithuanian and Polish Nationalism, from the 1890s–1918. |
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Ola Hnatiuk (Warsaw/Kyiv) |
Representations of the 1920 Piłsudski-Petliura Alliance and Competing Visions of the common Polish and Ukrainian Past. |
5:45–7:30
Public Roundtable
Chair: Robert Frost
Confronting a Common Past: National Museums and the Presentation of Political Union.
Robert Kostro, Director, Museum of Polish History, Warsaw; Jolanta Karpavičienė, Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Vilnius;David Forsyth, National Museum of Scotland; William Blair National Museums, Northern Ireland
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/
8:00
Symposium Dinner Royal Northern & University Club
- Hosted by
- The Research Centre for Polish-Lithuanian Studies. University of Aberdeen
- Venue
- The Sir Duncan Rice Library
- Contact
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Craig Suite, 7th Floor, the Sir Duncan Rice Library