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Jan Blonski
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Historian. I summon the spirits from #earlymodern taverns
PhD Researcher at the European University Institute
https://pan-pl.academia.edu/JanBlonski
#NaborowskiLetters Project
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Hello and welcome everyone!

I have (finally) decided to join the 🔵 platform - I'm here mainly for academic networking and football news (esp. @ekstraklasapl.bsky.social ;)

In this thread you'll find a snapshot of my research and academic interests:
Es kommt der Herbst 🍁🍂🎃

#Merano #Alps
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In the beatiful alpine Castel Trauttmansdorff in Merano we immersed in the world of early moderns inns, travels, and transmountain connections

Check more about the project and the conference:
alpinnkonnect.univie.ac.at

#earlymodern #history #skystorians
October 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Globalizing the Baltic in the Early Modern Period:

Conference CfP
'The Baltic Sea and Global Currents: 400 Years After the Battle of Oliwa. Maritime Expansion, Domination, and Water Spaces in a Globalizing World'

networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#earlymodern #History
October 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Porto 🐉🇵🇹
September 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In Coimbra 🇵🇹 for the EURHO Rural #History Conference - our panel was dedicated to the violence in Central and Eastern Europe
September 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
JUST PUBLISHED!

In my chapter I explore how miraculous tales of divine intervention during the Khmelnytsky Uprising were narrated, ritualized, and embedded in the collective memory of early modern communities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

#history

www.academia.edu/143652666/Mi...
Miraculous Defences and Collective Memory Divine Interventions in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Khmelnytsky Uprising
During the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648-1657), some of the Polish towns were reportedly saved from the Cossack army by divine intervention. This chapter presents an analysis of three exemplary cases of ...
www.academia.edu
August 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Warsaw 1944 🇵🇱
Gaza 2025 🇵🇸 (by @Heidiphotos)

#Powstanie1944
August 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Summer in #Warsaw
July 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
2 years together 😻🎂
July 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Freiburg im Breisgau 🇩🇪
July 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Reposted by Jan Blonski
🍻 Karczmy jako dawny Facebook?

W najnowszym odcinku podcastu Muzeum Historii Polski niespiesznie opowiadam:
- w czym karczmy były podobne do social mediów
- o niskim standardzie lokali i zorganizowanej przestępczości
- rozprawiam się z tytułowym mitem rozpitego chłopa

Linki ⬇️
July 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Reposted by Jan Blonski
What are the 'Key Concepts in #GlobalHistory' and how to productively use them?

We discussed it this weekend in #Freiburg during the Balzan-FRIAS lecture and Masterclass with Sebastian Conrad, organized by Jurgen Osterhammel and Stephanie Ganger
July 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
What are the 'Key Concepts in #GlobalHistory' and how to productively use them?

We discussed it this weekend in #Freiburg during the Balzan-FRIAS lecture and Masterclass with Sebastian Conrad, organized by Jurgen Osterhammel and Stephanie Ganger
July 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🍻 Karczmy jako dawny Facebook?

W najnowszym odcinku podcastu Muzeum Historii Polski niespiesznie opowiadam:
- w czym karczmy były podobne do social mediów
- o niskim standardzie lokali i zorganizowanej przestępczości
- rozprawiam się z tytułowym mitem rozpitego chłopa

Linki ⬇️
July 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Reposted by Jan Blonski
We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter.

Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️
July 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Dear #AcademicTwitter,
The time has come, and I'm switching from my PC to Apple. It's gonna be my first time with Mac software - do you have any must-haves and must-nots?
How to effectively organize and use mac for academic work?

#phdlife #AcademicChatter
June 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Jan Blonski
Post-doctoral Fellowship @drinkingstudies.bsky.social in @ncn.gov.pl founded project www.boundariesofdrinking.pl
May 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
For the first time a voting committee was opened in Florence - so we went there to check it out ;)

#Wybory2025
May 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#Roma citta aperta 🇮🇹
May 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Roman fauna and mythical creatures

#Rome 🇮🇹
May 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Here the baroque has begun
Here everything has begun

Chiesa Del Gesu, Roma 🇮🇹
May 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Capitoline seagulls
May 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
W Rzymie na Campo di Fiori
Kosze oliwek i cytryn,
Bruk opryskany winem
I odłamkami kwiatów

🇵🇸
May 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
😺😇
May 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reposted by Jan Blonski
Just before I turned 30, I received the "Start Scholarship" from the Foundation for Polish Science - a recognition for scientific accomplishments before reaching this magical milestone... 🥳

www.fnp.org.pl/znamy-laurea...
Wyniki konkursu START 2025 ogłoszone - Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej
Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej ogłosiła listę stu najzdolniejszych polskich naukowców przed trzydziestką. Są to laureaci i laureatki konkursu w programie START (konkurs 2025), w którym Fundacja już od ponad 30 lat nagradza wybitnych przedstawicieli młodego pokolenia badaczy. W tym roku … Kontynuuj
www.fnp.org.pl
May 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM