The planned meeting of contributors (and collaborators) of the project in the form of a conference will take place in Lublin on 15-17 October 2014. The detailed program of the conference will be announced in the spring of 2014. We ask each of the project participants: 1/ to prepare a draft of conference speech before 30 April, 2014 (1000 -1500 characters), 2/ to participate in October meeting, and 3/ to deliver a ready to publish article not later than 15 December 2014.
The planned subjects of the conference papers:
- Prof. Dániel Bagi, The genealogical fictions in traditions of the Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Ruthenian dynasties in the 11th-13th centuries;
- Dr Mariusz Bartnicki, Describing the Ruthenian ethnos and foreign people in Kievian and Galichian-Volodimir chronicles in the 12th-13th centuries;
- Prof. Zbigniew Dalewski, Strategies of creating dynastic identity in Central Europe in the 10th-13th centuries;
- Dr Georg Jostkleigrewe, The role of the expression ‘rex imperator in regno suo’ in creating the identity of the political elite in late medieval France;
- Dr Bartosz Klusek, Law as a form of expressing ethnic identity in Wales and Ireland in the 13th-14th centuries;
- Prof. Paweł Kras, The image of heretics in Catholic writings in the late 15th century;
- Dr Wojciech Michalski, The narrative structures about the origins of noble families in Britain, northern France, Brittony and Wallonia;
- Dr Martin Nodl, The national conflicts at Praque University in the late 15th century;
- Prof. Andrzej Pleszczyński, The identity of self-government groups (guilds and communes) in the Middle Ages;
- Prof. Huw Pryce, Dynastic Identity in XIIth- and XIIIth-century Wales;
- Dr. Euryn Rhys Roberts, A surfeit of identity? Regional solidarities, Welsh identity and the idea of Britain;
- Dr Joanna Sobiesiak, Czechs and Germans – natives and foreigners in the Czech chronicles from Cosmas of Prague (12th c.) to Dalimil (14th c.);
- MA Karol Szejgiec, The identity of the secular elites in the late Middle Ages based on the example of ‘Gesta consulum Andegavorum’ (from the mid 12th c.);
- MA Tomasz Tarczyński, The King and the Saint against the Scots. The shaping of English national identity in the XIIth-century narrative of king Athelstan’s victory over his northern neighbours. (Miracula s. Johannis episcopi Eboracensis)
- Dr Michał Tomaszek, Things and places as a means of building identity in Benedictine monastic communities in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Europe in the 9th-10th centuries;
- Dr hab. Przemysław Tyszka, Defining masculinity and feminity in penitence books from the 6th until the 11th century.;
- Dr Tatiana Vilkul, The perception of relations between the rulers and assemblies in Ruthenian sources from the 10th to the 13th century.