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Organizer: prof. Mateusz Stróżyński (AMU Institute of Classical Philology; matstroz@amu.edu.pl)
Cary J. Nedermann is a professor of political science at the Texas A&M University. He’s published several monographs, among them: Religion, Power and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries: Playing the Heresy Card (Macmillan, 2015). He is the author of a book on Niccolo Machiavelli (OUP, 2009), edited his Prince (New York, 2007), and wrote an entry about him for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Nederman wrote numerous articles in journals devoted to political theory, history, medieval and Renaissance studies.
George Bernard is emeritus professor of history at the University of Southampton. He published a monograph on Henry VIII (Yale University Press, 2005) as well as books on Anne Boleyn (Yale UP, 2010). His most recent publication is Who Ruled Tudor England? An essay in the paradoxes of power (Bloomsbury, 2022). He is interested in late medieval and early modern history of English kingdom and church. He’s been awarded Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for two years from August 2021, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship (2003-2004) and he is associate member of Faculty of History of the University of Oxford from 2018.
Juan Antonio Senent de Frutos is professor of the Loyola University in Seville, working in the field of the philosophy of law and political philosophy. He is interested in early modern period and Jesuit thought. A visiting professor at different universities in Spain, Europe and Latin America. Senent de Frutos published several books, e.g. Ellacuría y los derechos humanos (Desclée, 1998) or, more recently, Francisco Suárez: Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity (Brill, 2019). He coordinates the international research group PEMOSJ Jesuit Thought and Tradition in Modernity, associated with The Renaissance Society of America (at Fordham University, New York), composed of 36 researchers. He is the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.
Andrzej Nowak is professor of the Jagiellonian University and the head of the History of Russia and Eastern Europe Section at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He lectured as a visiting professor at several universities in the United States (Columbia University, Harvard University), Great Britain (University of Cambridge, University College of London), and Canada (University of Toronto, McGill University and University of Alberta), and Japan (University of Tokyo). His main research interests include imperial studies, cultural and political history and political thought in East-Central Europe. The author of more than 30 books, among them: a multivolume History of Poland and Imperiological Studies. A Polish Perspective (2011).
Ronald G. Asch, professor of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, has held a research fellowship at the German Historical Institute London (1985-88) and a lectureship at the University of Münster in Germany (1988-1996), where he submitted his Habiliationsschrift (The Court of Charles I) in 1991. From autumn 1996 to spring 2003 he held the chair of early modern history at the University of Osnabrück and has been teaching at the university of Freiburg for the last 13 years. He has also held visiting fellowships at Frankfurt and Konstanz universities over the last couple of years. He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Academia Europaea. He published several monographs, among them Europäischer Adel in der frühen Neuzeit. Eine Einführung (Cologne, 2008) and Sacral Kingship between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment. The French and English Monarchies c. 1587-1688 (Oxford, 2014).
19th February 2024, 7.00 p.m. – panel discussion
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