Warsaw Spatial Humanities seminar no. 14 with Maciej Janowski
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Title: The Carpathians: a Challenge for a Historian
Abstract: Having published a history of the Carpathian Mountains from the late Paleolite to the present, I would like to share some reflections of what it means to write a history of a mountain range. What should be principles of selection of material? Is there a justification of treating a mountain range as if it were a separate historical entity, across nations and states? I assume that mountains by their physical features create a specific type of economy, society and culture, but is this assumption tenable? How should one balance between human and natural factors? How should the author tackle his own ingnorance? I do not pretend I have answers, but reflection on these issues seems to me important and interesting.
Bio: Maciej Janowski is a professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. Field of expertise: 18-20th Century Poland and East Central Europe. Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Central European University, 1999-2020. Publications: Polish Liberal Thought before 1918 (CEU Press, 2004), Birth of the Intelligentsia, 1750-1830 (Peter Lang 2014; first vol. of a 3-volume History of the Polish Intelligentsia ed. by Jerzy Jedlicki) co-author (with Balazs Trencsenyi, Michal Kopecek, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic, Maria Falina, Monika Baar), A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, 3 vols, Oxford 2016-2018.
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Abstract: Having published a history of the Carpathian Mountains from the late Paleolite to the present, I would like to share some reflections of what it means to write a history of a mountain range. What should be principles of selection of material? Is there a justification of treating a mountain range as if it were a separate historical entity, across nations and states? I assume that mountains by their physical features create a specific type of economy, society and culture, but is this assumption tenable? How should one balance between human and natural factors? How should the author tackle his own ingnorance? I do not pretend I have answers, but reflection on these issues seems to me important and interesting.
Bio: Maciej Janowski is a professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. Field of expertise: 18-20th Century Poland and East Central Europe. Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Central European University, 1999-2020. Publications: Polish Liberal Thought before 1918 (CEU Press, 2004), Birth of the Intelligentsia, 1750-1830 (Peter Lang 2014; first vol. of a 3-volume History of the Polish Intelligentsia ed. by Jerzy Jedlicki) co-author (with Balazs Trencsenyi, Michal Kopecek, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic, Maria Falina, Monika Baar), A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, 3 vols, Oxford 2016-2018.
Registration form: https://forms.gle/2Vb2qwJwfd8GnKop6
#WarSHum
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Rynek Starego Miasta 31, 00-272 Warsaw, Poland, rynek Starego Miasta 31, 00-272 Śródmieście, Polska, Warsaw, Poland
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