Dorota Dias-Lewandowska
@dorotadias.bsky.social
anthropologist/historian: alcohol, drinking culture, excess, addiction, gender. PI in the NCN_PL funded projects www.womenandalcohol.net and www.boundariesofdrinking.pl Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS Warsaw
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Hi! I'm an anthropologist researching the history of sobriety, drunkenness and alcohol in the 18th-19th centuries. I began my academic adventure with early modern Polish cookbooks, through the history of wine, taste and distinction, to drinking culture, medical humanities and the history of emotions
Post-doc position in Boundaries of Drinking project: 2 years, full time, research only. Closing date 1 September 2025. #academicjobs
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August 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Post-doc position in Boundaries of Drinking project: 2 years, full time, research only. Closing date 1 September 2025. #academicjobs
iaepan.edu.pl/konkurs-na-s...
iaepan.edu.pl/konkurs-na-s...
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'Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies?' | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies? - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies?
www.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
'Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies?' | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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'The language of alcohol: Similarities and differences in how drinkers and policymakers frame alcohol consumption' | @dremmadavies.bsky.social @jamesmorris24.bsky.social et al for Drug & Alcohol Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The language of alcohol: Similarities and differences in how drinkers and policymakers frame alcohol consumption
Introduction The primary objective of the paper was to compare semantic domains reported by drinkers and policymakers in their alcohol consumption narratives. The research question was ‘How do drink...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
'The language of alcohol: Similarities and differences in how drinkers and policymakers frame alcohol consumption' | @dremmadavies.bsky.social @jamesmorris24.bsky.social et al for Drug & Alcohol Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Of course my favourite representation of the drunkard's progress is this cracker, from (I think) the US in 1887
June 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Of course my favourite representation of the drunkard's progress is this cracker, from (I think) the US in 1887
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Dorota Dias Lewandowska's examination of visual representations of drinking women in Poland collected an amazing set of images of different kinds, asking if we can ever come to close to actually-existing historical drinkers @dorotadias.bsky.social 2/3
June 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Dorota Dias Lewandowska's examination of visual representations of drinking women in Poland collected an amazing set of images of different kinds, asking if we can ever come to close to actually-existing historical drinkers @dorotadias.bsky.social 2/3
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Second paper for the visualizing pleasures panel of #dangerouspleasures features one of our organisers, @dorotadias.bsky.social talking about how important it is to piece together different historical perspectives left to us by our predecessors to get a slightly more accurate picture
June 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Second paper for the visualizing pleasures panel of #dangerouspleasures features one of our organisers, @dorotadias.bsky.social talking about how important it is to piece together different historical perspectives left to us by our predecessors to get a slightly more accurate picture
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🚨Calling all #police historians. Come in, police historians🚨
#CfP 'Policing and Public #Health' history workshop, London, 17/09/2025!
Unsure if your work fits? Get in touch. We welcome all career stages, independent researchers, #GLAM and police sector folks. Hybrid is an option.
#HistSTM
#CfP 'Policing and Public #Health' history workshop, London, 17/09/2025!
Unsure if your work fits? Get in touch. We welcome all career stages, independent researchers, #GLAM and police sector folks. Hybrid is an option.
#HistSTM
Workshop Call for Papers: Policing and Public Health, c.1800-2000 | LSHTM
Workshop Call for Papers: Policing and Public Health, c.1800-2000 | LSHTM
www.lshtm.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Thanks to @kellygcb.bsky.social and @victoriabates.bsky.social for my first introduction to podcast recording. So fun to chat about our Think While You Drink talks series in local pubs and all the other great stuff that we are doing together with Prof Sam Goodman. Link to recording to follow.
May 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Thanks to @kellygcb.bsky.social and @victoriabates.bsky.social for my first introduction to podcast recording. So fun to chat about our Think While You Drink talks series in local pubs and all the other great stuff that we are doing together with Prof Sam Goodman. Link to recording to follow.
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Delighted to see @drinkingstudies.bsky.social stalwart David Beckingham explaining Victorian/Edwardian laws on licensing and drunkenness to Ross Kemp on 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
Ross's story further strengthened my belief that drink runs through many family histories, not always in a good way..
Ross's story further strengthened my belief that drink runs through many family histories, not always in a good way..
May 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Delighted to see @drinkingstudies.bsky.social stalwart David Beckingham explaining Victorian/Edwardian laws on licensing and drunkenness to Ross Kemp on 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
Ross's story further strengthened my belief that drink runs through many family histories, not always in a good way..
Ross's story further strengthened my belief that drink runs through many family histories, not always in a good way..
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For @vinepair.com, I asked historians about tariffs, int’l politics & alcohol. Key takeaways: (1) there are lots of historic examples, and (2) they can create changes that last a long time, often w/ unexpected results. HT @brewedculture.org, @dorotadias.bsky.social, and @justinwolfers.bsky.social.
How Today’s Tariffs Echo the Long, Strange History of Alcohol and Politics
If you’re having trouble following the news about U.S. tariffs on wine, beer, and spirits from Europe, count yourself in good company: On MSNBC this week, University of Michigan economics professor an...
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May 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
For @vinepair.com, I asked historians about tariffs, int’l politics & alcohol. Key takeaways: (1) there are lots of historic examples, and (2) they can create changes that last a long time, often w/ unexpected results. HT @brewedculture.org, @dorotadias.bsky.social, and @justinwolfers.bsky.social.
Post-doctoral Fellowship @drinkingstudies.bsky.social in @ncn.gov.pl founded project www.boundariesofdrinking.pl
May 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Post-doctoral Fellowship @drinkingstudies.bsky.social in @ncn.gov.pl founded project www.boundariesofdrinking.pl
If you don't want to get drunk, grind a parsley seed into powder and pour it into your drink just before you take a sip. A 19th-century recipe for avoiding drunkenness – the result of our archive queries www.boundariesofdrinking.pl @ncn.gov.pl
May 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you don't want to get drunk, grind a parsley seed into powder and pour it into your drink just before you take a sip. A 19th-century recipe for avoiding drunkenness – the result of our archive queries www.boundariesofdrinking.pl @ncn.gov.pl
„Scientific institutions and universities are encouraged to apply for funding that supports researcher mobility between Poland and France. This initiative is open to all scientific disciplines.”
Call for applications PHC Polonium 2025 is now open! - Research in Poland
The programme aims to support the mobility of researchers cooperating with foreign institutions. The call is organized by NAWA and Ambassade de France en Pologne – Service de Coopération et […]
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May 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
„Scientific institutions and universities are encouraged to apply for funding that supports researcher mobility between Poland and France. This initiative is open to all scientific disciplines.”
May 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Our next @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
Women & Alcohol seminar will feature
@craigstafford.bsky.social talking about his newly contracted book on Female Offending & the Police Courts in Victorian Lancashire, online on 8 May at 12.00 UK time. More info here:
www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/03/dsn-...
Women & Alcohol seminar will feature
@craigstafford.bsky.social talking about his newly contracted book on Female Offending & the Police Courts in Victorian Lancashire, online on 8 May at 12.00 UK time. More info here:
www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/03/dsn-...
DSN Women and Alcohol Seminar: Female Offending and the Police Courts in Victorian Lancashire
Project: Between the drunken ‘mother of destruction’ and the sober ‘angel of the house’.
www.womenandalcohol.net
May 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Our next @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
Women & Alcohol seminar will feature
@craigstafford.bsky.social talking about his newly contracted book on Female Offending & the Police Courts in Victorian Lancashire, online on 8 May at 12.00 UK time. More info here:
www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/03/dsn-...
Women & Alcohol seminar will feature
@craigstafford.bsky.social talking about his newly contracted book on Female Offending & the Police Courts in Victorian Lancashire, online on 8 May at 12.00 UK time. More info here:
www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/03/dsn-...
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'The language of alcohol: Similarities and differences in how drinkers and policymakers frame alcohol consumption' | @dremmadavies.bsky.social @jamesmorris24.bsky.social et al @apsad-dar.bsky.social via @drugwise.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The language of alcohol: Similarities and differences in how drinkers and policymakers frame alcohol consumption
Introduction The primary objective of the paper was to compare semantic domains reported by drinkers and policymakers in their alcohol consumption narratives. The research question was ‘How do drink...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
'The language of alcohol: Similarities and differences in how drinkers and policymakers frame alcohol consumption' | @dremmadavies.bsky.social @jamesmorris24.bsky.social et al @apsad-dar.bsky.social via @drugwise.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Past and Present is launching an e-newsletter.
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It will be published quaterly in-line with the journal's publishing schedule.
The first issue will be published in May 2025.
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The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press. Click to read Past and Present Society, a Su...
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April 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Past and Present is launching an e-newsletter.
It will be published quaterly in-line with the journal's publishing schedule.
The first issue will be published in May 2025.
Subscribe below, and please share with your network:
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It will be published quaterly in-line with the journal's publishing schedule.
The first issue will be published in May 2025.
Subscribe below, and please share with your network:
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Magnolias in Warsaw
April 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Magnolias in Warsaw
This is what a happy researcher looks like! Wandering through small villages and parish archives, preparing to write a book about women, alcohol and agency in 19th century Poland.
@ncn.gov.pl @womenandalcohol.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
@ncn.gov.pl @womenandalcohol.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what a happy researcher looks like! Wandering through small villages and parish archives, preparing to write a book about women, alcohol and agency in 19th century Poland.
@ncn.gov.pl @womenandalcohol.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
@ncn.gov.pl @womenandalcohol.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
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Już dziś o 18 zapraszam na premierę kolejnego odcinka "A o tym PAN słyszał?", w którym będę rozmawiał z @dorotadias.bsky.social o jej badaniach dotyczących historii kultury picia alkoholu! Zapowiada się świetnie, zapraszamy oczywiście do zadawania pytańw ramach Q&A! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuk...
"Pijany jak Polak"? Jak badać historię kultury picia alkoholu
YouTube video by Polska Akademia Nauk
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March 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Już dziś o 18 zapraszam na premierę kolejnego odcinka "A o tym PAN słyszał?", w którym będę rozmawiał z @dorotadias.bsky.social o jej badaniach dotyczących historii kultury picia alkoholu! Zapowiada się świetnie, zapraszamy oczywiście do zadawania pytańw ramach Q&A! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuk...
Praca dla doktoranta/ki w projekcie www.boundariesofdrinking.pl
March 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Praca dla doktoranta/ki w projekcie www.boundariesofdrinking.pl
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February 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Interested in researching migration and refugee narratives? This online research training session will introduce participants to a wealth of resources and is free to attend.
🗓 20 March 2025
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Register today via: https://buff.ly/3ZgvjdC
🗓 20 March 2025
🕰 14:00-15:30 BST
🖥 Online
Register today via: https://buff.ly/3ZgvjdC
‼️New article form our Wom and and Alcohol @ncngovpl.bsky.social project in @cultsochistory.bsky.social : Expulsion, Incarceration, Incapacitation. Policing Drinking Women in Poland and Britain in the Second Half of the 19th Century www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Expulsion, Incarceration, Incapacitation. Policing Drinking Women in Poland and Britain in the Second Half of the 19th Century
In Victorian Britain and post-partition Poland, despite cultural, political and economic differences, there was a shared belief that women’s drinking was more harmful than men’s which prompted form...
www.tandfonline.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
‼️New article form our Wom and and Alcohol @ncngovpl.bsky.social project in @cultsochistory.bsky.social : Expulsion, Incarceration, Incapacitation. Policing Drinking Women in Poland and Britain in the Second Half of the 19th Century www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Badania nad alkoholem uchodzą za kontrowersyjne. Zdarza mi się usłyszeć pytanie, czy to, co robimy, nie jest mało poważne. Jeśli skupiamy się, np. na przyjemności związanej z piciem, to pojawiają się zarzuty, że w ten sposób promujemy alkohol – mówi w wywiadzie dla FA @dorotadias.bsky.social
Strażniczki trzeźwości - Forum Akademickie
Badania nad alkoholem uchodzą za bardzo kontrowersyjne. W Anglii nikogo nie dziwi podejmowanie takiej tematyki, natomiast w Polsce zdarza mi się usłyszeć pytanie, czy to, co robimy nie jest zbyt mało ...
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January 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Badania nad alkoholem uchodzą za kontrowersyjne. Zdarza mi się usłyszeć pytanie, czy to, co robimy, nie jest mało poważne. Jeśli skupiamy się, np. na przyjemności związanej z piciem, to pojawiają się zarzuty, że w ten sposób promujemy alkohol – mówi w wywiadzie dla FA @dorotadias.bsky.social