Our third, in-person workshop was generously hosted by the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History in Warsaw, and it included a joint seminar with the institute’s intellectual history research team.

Head of the Institute Maciej Janowski with members of the BeNaSta team (Kościuszko Room at Old Town Square, photo by Marcin Jarząbek)

On the first day, the workshop kicked off with a talk by Maciej Janowski (the director of the institute) on early modern peasant political activity in the Carpathians, with examples ranging from Transylvania through the Bucovina to Galicia. Over the next two days, those members of the team who had been on board since January 2024 presented preliminary conclusions based on their first archival experiences, Dorota laid out her archival research plan and Oliver gave an introductory lecture on the Orthodox population of the Croatian Military Frontier. The second day, László and Ágoston introduced the project and summarized their presentations for the Institute’s researchers. This was followed by an invited lecture by Tomasz Hen-Konarski (research fellow at the Manteuffel Institute) on 19th-century Ukrainian Narodnyk historians and their concept of the Ukrainian nation.

 

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