Talks & Lectures

2025 Oct 30-Nov 1 (scheduled), Portland, OR
“From Political Thought to Utopian History: Andrzej Wolan and his Vision for the New Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,” for panel “For a Better World: Utopianism, Reform, and Experiment.” The 2025 Sixteenth Century Conference.

2025 March 20-22, Boston, MA
Roundtable Organizer and Speaker for “Reimagining the Historiography of Philosophy.” the 2025 Renaissance Society of America(RSA) Conference.

2025 Feb 19-21, Munich, Germany
Roundtable discussant for “Translating and Introducing Primary Sources: A Roundtable Discussion,” at The MECERN Biennial Conference.

2024 Nov 21-24, Boston, MA
“Poland is Falling: Stanisław Orzechowski and his Utopian Anxiety.” Also as Panel Organizer for “Fear and Angst in Early Modern East Central Europe.” at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) convention.

2024 Oct.17-19, Tulum, Mexico
“Where did Utopianism and Historical Thinking Meet?”, at the Utopian Studies Conference.

2024 Oct.4, Baltimore, MD
“The Forgotten Goślicki: Ideal Senatorship and the Reception of Polish Renaissance Thought.” (Invited, lecture), at the Tudor & Stuart Society at the Johns Hopkins University.

2024 June 6-9, Warsaw, Poland
“Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and Renaissance Surveillance,” paper in the 9th PIASA Conference on the theme of “Poland and the World”.

2024 May 6-7, Oslo, Norway
“Renaissance as a Colligatory Concept: History, Epistemology, and Argumentation,” Invited Conference by University of Oslo entitled Past the Post: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism.

2024 March 21-23, Chicago, IL
“A Uchronian Dream: Futuristic Thinking in Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski’s Ideal Society,” at the 2024 Renaissance Society of America Conference (RSA).

2024 February 15-17, Las Vegas, NV
“Polish Literature in Latin: Premodernity, Pedagogy, and Slavic Studies,” at the 2024 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL).

2023 November 9-11, Austin, TX
“More and Frycz: Two Streams of Sixteenth-Century Utopian Desire,” at the 35th Utopian Studies Conference (SUS).

2023 October 26, Baltimore, MD
“Utopian Visions in the Raków Community: A Case of Sixteenth-Century Polish Socio- Religious Ideal” at the 2023 Sixteenth Century Society & Conference (SCSC).

2023 September. 30, Chapel Hill, NC
“Renaissance Utopia as Discourse: Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and his Dream Society,” at the 30th Southeastern Renaissance Conference.

2023 July 25, Baltimore, MD
“Passion and Suppression in Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski’s Utopian Society,”
“What is Historical Writing Today?”
Invited talks at Summer Humanities Collaboratory Program, Johns Hopkins University

2021 Nov.4, online
“The Polish Renaissance,” guest lecture for the European history survey course at University of Idaho (invited)

2020 Sept. 17, Baltimore, MD
“Fabula, Syuzhet and Dovod: The Postnarrativist Structure of Temporality in History Writing,” at the European Seminar in the Department of History (pre-circulated).

2020 Apr. 25, online
“The Coronavirus Year and History of Everyday Life,” at Vanguards Think Tank.

2020 Feb. 22, Baltimore, MD
“On ‘Renaissance’ Historiography: Practicing Colligatory Concepts and Postnarrativist Tropology,” at the European Seminar in the Department of History (pre-circulated).

2019 Oct.17-20, St. Louis, MO
“What Fire Sparked: Historiographical Experience of the Lublin Conflagrations in 1557 and 1575,” at the 50th Sixteenth Century Society & Conference.

2019 April 20, Baltimore, MD
“What Fire Sparked: Historiographical Experience in the Lublin Conflagrations of 1557 and 1575,” at the European Seminar in the Department of History (pre-circulated).

2019 March 31, New York City, NY
“Living in Kraków-Kazimierz: A Microhistory of Jewish Life before and after 1495,” at Northeastern Slavic Association Conference.

2019 Feb.16-17, Hamburg, Germany“Reconsidering the Historicity of Jacob of Bełżyce: Print Disputes between Marcin Czechowic and a Real Jew in Sixteenth Century Lublin,” at the 2nd Hopkins-Hamburg Jewish Workshop.

2017 April 15-16, St. Louis, MO
“Two Poles One City: History of Vyšehrad and Urban Morphology of Prague (1070- 1140),”at The Spatial Turn, 2017 Graduate History Association Conference at WUSTL.

2016 April 14-16, Champaign, IL
“Face Swap and Identity Switch: Medical and Social Transhumanism in Josef Nesvadba’s Sci-fi Story ‘Ztracená tvář’ and its 1965 Film Adaptation,” at Decentering Russia: Challenging the Boundaries, UIUC Graduate Conference in Slavic Studies.

2016 April 1, Pittsburgh, PA
“Zůstat, nebo Odjet: Bohemian Jewish Intellectuals in 1939 and Decisions on Emigration from Czechoslovakia,” at Europe: East and West, Pittsburgh University Undergraduate Research Symposium.