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A Talk by: Dariusz Kołodziejczyk (University of Warsaw)
The presentation will be related to Professor Kołodziejczyk’s current project, entitled “Tracing the Great and Little Divergence Through Corporate Lenses” and devoted to Central-Eastern Europeans in Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially those who served in two “multinational corporations,” the Jesuit Order and the Dutch East India Company (VOC). One of the research questions addresses the issue whether the presence of Central and Eastern Europeans in the colonial networks contributed towards sharpening a dividing line between “Europe/Europeans” and “Asia/Asians” or rather towards blurring this distinction.
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of War-saw and at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on the Otto-man Empire, the Crimean Khanate, Christian-Muslim relations, and imperial frontiers. He is currently President of the Comité International des Études Pré-ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIEPO), member of the Academia Europaea, and honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Hokkaido University and Collège de France. Among his recent publications are The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania: International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (15th-18th Century) (Brill, 2011), Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History (co-ed. with Peter Bang, CUP, 2012) and The Relations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with Safavid Iran and the Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin in the light of archival documents (co-ed. with Stanisław Jaśkowski and Piruz Mnatsakanyan, Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych, 2017).