Dr. Uladzimir Kananovich

• History of the Middle Ages
• History of Diplomacy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• History of Warfare in Medieval Europe
• Social and Cultural History of Nobility
• History of Memory
• Environmental History
• Urban History
• Historical Geography

2015 - 2017
Visiting Professor, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, United States

2012 - 2013
Associate Professor, Institute of Contemporary Science, Minsk 

2007 - 2012
Associate Professor, Belarusian State Pedagogical University 

2005 - 2007
Senior Archivist, National Historical Archives of Belarus

1997 - 2004
Researcher, Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

1994 - 1997
Junior Researcher, Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

1990 - 1991
Research Assistant at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Hrodna

1997
PhD, (Doctor of Historical Sciences) Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk
Dissertation title: “The Diplomacy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Relations with the Russian State and the Khanat of Crimea. 1480 -– First Quarter of the Sixteenth Century”
Supervisors: Prof. Mikhail Tkachov and Prof. Georgi Halenchanka

1996
Master of Arts in Medieval History
Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies, Budapest
Thesis title: “The Making of International Relations in the Late Medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania”
Supervisor: Prof. Janos M. Bak

1994
Postgraduate studies at the Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

1991
Student at the History Department of the Hrodna State University
State Diploma in History (with honors), University of Hrodna
Thesis title: “Kletsk: Socio-Economic Inquiry”
Supervisor: Prof. Jakov N. Maroš

2025 -  
Research fellow at Academy in Exile at the TU Dortmund in Germany.

2022 - 2024
Programme PAUSE-Collège de France

2019
Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Visiting Researcher, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France)

2015 - 2017
Institute of International Education – Scholar Rescue Fund (New York, USA)

2009
Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Visiting Researcher, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France)

2008
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Visiting Scholar, Institute of History, Christian-Albrechts-University (Kiel, Germany)

2006
Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Visiting Researcher, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

2004
Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Visiting Researcher, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

2003
Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte Fellowship, Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte (Göttingen, Germany)

2001
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy, Westfälische Wilhelms-University (Münster, Germany)

1998
Stephen Bathory Foundation, Postdoctoral Student, Department of Liberal Arts, University of Warsaw, Poland

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

• Seminar “Collective Memory and Social Space in the Middle Ages,” Novembrer 2023 -  February 2024.

Trinity College, Hartford, CT

• Lecture course “Belarus and Ukraine in Historical Perspective,” Department of History, Fall 2015, Fall 2016
• Lecture course “History of Urbanism in Eastern Europe,” Department of History, Fall 2015, Fall 2016

Institute of Modern Knowledge

• Lecture course “Belarusian Ethnography, Mythology, and Folklore,” Faculty of Humanities, 2012/2013
• Lecture course “Cultural Studies,” Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Arts, 2012/2013

Belarusian State Pedagogical University

• Lecture course “History of Belarusian Socio-Political Thought,” Faculty of Belarusian Philology and Culture, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012
• Lecture course “Sociology of Culture,” Faculty of Belarusian Philology and Culture, 2007/2008
• Lecture course “Cultural Studies,” Faculty of Mathematics, 2007-2008; Faculty of Psychology, 2009/2010; Faculty of Pedagogy, 2010/2011
• Lecture course “History of Belarusian Culture,” Faculty of Belarusian Philology and Culture, 2006-2007, 2007/2008, 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012

Belarusian State Academy of Arts

• Lecture course “History of Religions,” Faculty of Humanities, 1993/1994

2018
International Congress of Belarusian Studies Award for the best book on the history of Belarus

2016
International Congress of Belarusian Studies Award for the best article on the history of Belarus

Belarusian State Pedagogical University

• Member of the State Examination Committee, Faculty of Belarusian Philology and Culture (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)

State University of Hrodna

• Head of the Students’ Scientific-Research Society, Faculty of History (1988 - 1990)
• Member of the Historical Research Group, Faculty of History (1986 - 1991)

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Medieval Chronicle Society (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
• Academic Network of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Scholars (Hrodna, Belarus)
• Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (University of Pittsburgh, United States)

Television appearances

• “The Radziwills ‒ Origins and Myths of a Family,”, Belarusian TV II, documentary film The Radziwills ‒ Secrets of the Family (producer Michal Ravucki), part I, December 2012 “Martin Radziwill ‒ a Silly Genius?,” Belarusian TV II, Pra kulturu, February 2010

Modern Languages

• Belarusian: maternal language
• Polish: fluent speaking, reading, and writing
• Russian: fluent speaking, reading, and writing
• German: fluent speaking, reading, and writing
• French: fluent speaking, reading, and writing
• English: fluent speaking, reading, and writing
• Italian: reading
• Spanish: reading
• Lithuanian: beginner level
• Hungarian: survival level
• Yiddish: beginner

Ancient Languages

• Latin: academic level
• Greek: academic level
• Old Church Slavonic: academic level
• Early New High German (Frühneuhochdeutsch): academic level

Ancient Land of Navahrudak and the Social Memory Process in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (in preparation).

The Chronicle of Bychowiec: Routing around the Memory Palace (in preparation).

Kniaź Michal Glinski: Rytsar na poli bitvy. Kletsk, žniveń 1506. Historyka-Antrapalahichnaje Dasledavanne [Duke Michael Glinski: Knight at the Battlefield. Kletsk, August 1506. Historical and Anthrological Inquiry] (Smalensk: Inbelkult, 2017), 410 p. 2018.

"A Foreigner in the Early Sixteenth-Century Muscovy: Duke Mikhail Glinskii at the Muscovite Court." In Foreigners in Muscovy: Western Immigrants in Sixteenth-Century Russia, edited by Simon Dreher and Wolfgang Mueller. London and New York: Routledge, 2022.

"In the Signs of the End Days: Eschatological Concerns of the Ruthenian Printer Francis Skaryna on the Threshold of the Early Modern Period." Slovensky Prehled, forthcoming.

"Foundational Myth of Vilnius: Social Memory and Public Space." Lietuvos Istorijos Metraštis, forthcoming.

"Chanting the Bison in the Renaissance Europe: Between a Naturalist Representation and Chivalric Ideology." In Human and Nonhuman Relations and Imageries in the Middle Ages, edited by Polina Ignatova and Emelie Faiton. Environmental History series. Budapest: Trivent Medieval, forthcoming.

"Making Grand Duke Gedimin a Great Conqueror: Social and Cultural Tools of Memory Formation in the Sixteenth-Century Chivalric Society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania." Rocznik Lituanistyczny, forthcoming.

"Liagenda pra Litpho i Gartho: niekalki rysaǔ da palitychnaj idealogii ǔ Pruskim herzahstve u epokhu Adradzhennia" [The Legend of Litpho and Gartho: An Inquiry into Political Ideology in the Duchy of Prussia in the Epoch of Renaissance]. In Haradzenski Palimpsest, 80–93. Hrodna: Haradzenskaja biblijateka, 2013.

"Kapylskaje kniastva Uladzimira Algerdavicha: vytoki i tradytsyja" [The Duchy of Kapyij of Uladzimir Algerdavich: Sources and Tradition]. In Kapyij: Historyja horada i rehijona. Da 360-hoddzia nadannia Kapyliu Mahdeburskaha prava, edited by Anastasija Skepjan, Aliaksandr DoǕnar, and Ina Sorkina, 34–48. Minsk: Belaruskaja navuka, 2013.

"Kapylskaje kniastva Uladzimira Algerdavicha: vytoki i tradytsyja" [The Duchy of Kapyl of Uladzimir Algerdavich: Sources and Tradition]. In Kapyl i Mahdeburgskaje prava: Narysy historyji horada XIV–XIX stst., edited by Ina Sorkina, 54–67. Hrodna: Jursaprint, 2012.

"Le Grand-Duché de Lituanie imaginé : pays et la noblesse." In Construction d’un imaginaire collectif européen: Du Moyen Âge aux débuts des Lumières, 179–204. Paris: Collège des Bernardins, Lethielleux, 2012.

"Vialikaja Pruskaja vajna ǔ histarychnaj sviadomaśtsi rytsarskaha sasloǕja Litvy i Rusi ǔ epokhu Renesansu" [The Great Prussian War in the Historical Consciousness of the Chivalric Society in Lithuania and Ruś in the Renaissance Period]. In Vialikaje Kniastva LitoǕskaje i jaho susedzi u XIV–XV stst.: sapernitstva, supratsoŭnitstva, uroki, edited by Aliaksandr Kavalenia, 140–150. Minsk: Belaruskaja navuka, 2011.

"Arystakratychnyj rod i satsyjalnaja pamiats’ u Vialikim Kniastvie LitoǕskim u poźnim siaredniaviechchy" [The Aristocratic Kin and Its Social Memory in Late Medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania]. In Silva Rerum Nova. Shtudyji ǔ honar 70-hoddzia Heorhija J. Halenchanki, edited by Aleh Dziarnovich and Albina Siemianchuk, 133–145. Vilnius and Minsk: AIDAI-Athaeneum, 2009.

"Litovskije i polskije informatory Sigizmunda Gerbershtejna" [Polish and Lithuanian Informators of Sigismund von Herberstein]. In Sigizmund Gerbershtejn. Zapiski o Moskovii, vol. 2, edited by Anna Horoshkevich, 167–170. Moscow: Pamiatniki istoricheskij mysli, 2008.

"The International Trade Routes in the Sixteenth-Century Europe." In Vialiki Histarychny Atlas Belarusi, vol. 1, 74. Warsaw: Efekt, 2008.

"The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crimean Khanat, 1475–1550." In Vialiki Histarychny Atlas Belarusi, vol. 1, 71. Warsaw: Efekt, 2008.

"Kletskaja bitva 1506 hoda ǔ histarychnaj pamiatsi Vialikaha Kniastva LitoǕskaha XVI stahoddzia" [The Battle of Kletsk in 1506 in the Historical Memory in the Sixteenth-Century Grand Duchy of Lithuania]. In Kletsk u historyji Belarusi, edited by Aliaksandr Kavalenia and Viachaslaŭ Danilovich, 68–76. Minsk, 2007.

"Kulturnaja pamiats’ u rodzie Gedymina" [Cultural Memory and the Dynasty of Grand Duke Gedimin]. In Kanstruktsyja i Dekanstruktsyja Vialikaha Kniastva Litoŭvskaha, edited by Natallia Slizh, 84–95. Minsk: Limarius, 2007.

"Histarychnaja antrapalohija: historyja, stan i perspektyvy" [Historical Anthropology: History, Contemporary State and Perspectives]. In Vialikaje Kniastva Litoŭvskaje: Metadalohija i Metady Dasledavannia, edited by Siarhej Kaun, 61–71. Minsk, 2003.

"Vosprijatie proshlogo kak modeli nastojashchego v srednevekovom soznanii" [The Perception of the Past as a Model for the Present in the Medieval Consciousness]. In Atmiņa Kultūrvēsturiskā Kontekstā, vol. 1, 61–67. Daugavpils: Saule, 2002.

"Instytut pasloǕ u Vialikim Kniastvie LitoǕskim u požnim siaredniavchchy" [The Diplomatic Service in the Late Medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania]. In Vneshniaja politika Belarusi v istoricheskoj perspektivie, 38–46. Minsk: Belarusian State University, 2002.

"Infarmacyjna-vyvednaja sluzhba ǔ Vialikim Kniastvie LitoǕskim u požnim siaredniavechchy" [The Intelligence-Gathering Service in the Late Medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania]. In Castrum, Urbs et Bellum, edited by Henadź Siemianchuk and Andrej Miatselski, 195–218. Baranavičy, 2002.

"Kniaź Mikhail Glinskij: tragedija inakovosti" [Duke Michael Glinski: The Tragedy of Otherness]. In "Nashi" i "chuzhie" v rossijskom istoriceskom soznanii, edited by Sergej Poltorak, 115–117. Sankt Petersburg: Nestor, 2001.

"Kniaź-pilihrym Vojshalk" [A Prince-Pilgrim Vojšalk]. In Proceedings of the Conference on Belarusan-Greek Relations, 107–113. Minsk: Depolis, 2001.

"Grand Duchess Elena Ivanovna and Duke Michael Glinski: Aspects of Rulership at the Jagiellonian Court." In Zamek i dwór w średniowieczu, edited by Jacek Wiesiolowski and Jacek Kowalski, 161–165. Poznań: Poznanskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciol Nauk, 2000.

"Appellatio i dyplamatychny pratakol Vialikaha Kniastva LitoǕskaha u chasy VitaǕta Vialikaha (1392–1430)" [Appellatio in the Diplomatic Protocol of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Reign of Vitovt the Great (1392–1430)]. In Belarus i svet, vol. 1, 12–18. Minsk: Belarusian State University, 2000.

"Michal Bohush Bahavitynavich: vialikakniaski dyplamat karala Sihizmunda Staroha" [Michal Bohush Bahavitynavich as a Grand Ducal Envoy of King Sigismund the Elder]. Shtohodnik Instytuta Historyi Akademii Navuk Belarusi, vol. 1 (1999): 31–40.

"Convivium Ducale ili Moskva nachala 16 veka glazami polaka" [Convivium ducale or the Early Sixteenth-Century Muscovy as Viewed by a Pole]. In Slaviaine i ikh sosedi, 67–73. Moscow: Nauka, 1999.

"Ityneraryi krymskich pasloǕ i hantsoǕ u Vialikim Kniastvie LitoǕskim (1480–1505)" [The Itinerary of Crimean Ambassadors and Envoys Sent to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1480–1505]. In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Islamic Culture, 16–26. Minsk, 1996.

"Tatary na dyplamatychnaj sluzhbe Vialikaha Kniastva LitoǕskaha" [Tatars at the Diplomatic Service of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Tatars-Muslims, 99–111. Minsk, 1994.

"Tatarskija nabehi na ziemli Belarusi" [The Incursions of the Crimean Tatars into Belarus in the Middle Ages]. In Historyka-arkhealahichny zbornik, vol. 1, 135–156. 1993.

“Honor, Justice, and Emotions at the Court of Jagiellonians: The Case of Michael Glinski,” in Zbozhzha, vol. 2 (2020):, p. 252–268.

“Doctor Francis Skaryna and the Heavens: Astrology in the Life of a Sixteenth-Century Printer,” Journal of Belarusian Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (2017): 47–68.

“Heroes and Villains: Politics and Historical Memory in Medieval East Europe: The Case Study of the Land of Navahrudak,” Russian History, vol. 43, no. 1 (2016): 22–67.

“Radavod kniaziou Hlinskikh: Pamiats’ pra minulaje jak zbroja palitychnaj barats’by” [Genealogy of the Hlinsky Dukes: Memory of the Past as an Instrument of Political Struggle], in: ARCHE, vol. IX 9 (2015): 195–218. 2016 International Congress of Belarusian Studies Award for the best article on the history of Belarus.

“Blizhaishij zapadnyj sosed Moskovii, ili Velikoe Kniazhestvo Litovskoe glazami nemetskogo diplomata Sigizmunda von Gerbershtejna” [Muscovy’s Closest Neighbor, or the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as Viewed by the German Ambassador Sigimund von Herberstein], Palaeoslavica, vol. XXIII 23, no. 1 (2015): 37–71.

“Pakhvala kniazia Kanstancina Astrogskaha jak krynica dla vyvuchennia identychnaści pravaslaŭnaj elity Vialikaha Kniastva Litoŭskaha na pachatku 16 stahoddzia” [The Praise of Duke Constantine Ostrogski as a Historical Source for the Study of Identity of Orthodox Nobility in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Early Sixteenth Century], ARCHE: Bitva pad Orshaj: miestsa pamiatsi i kanflikt interpretacyï [(Battle of Orsha as lieu de mémoire and as a Conflict of Interpretations)], no. 12 (2014), 736–753.

“Histarychnaja rekanstruktsyja bitvy pad Kleckam 1506 hoda” [Historical Reconstruction of the Battle of Kletsk, 1506], ARCHE: Bitva pad Oršaj: miesca pamiaci i kanflikt interpretacyï [(Battle of Orsha as lieu de mémoire and as a Conflict of Interpretations)], №no. 12 (2014), 140–237.

“Vobraz bitvy pad Orshaj 1514 hoda u ‘Natatkakh pra Maskoviju’ barona von Herberstejna” [The Image of the Battle of Orsha in the Notes of Muscovy of Baron von Herberstein], Herold Litherland, № no. 20 (2014): 40–56.

“Studium na karaleǔskim dvary: rasklad zaniatkaǔ karalevichaǔ Aliaksandra i Kanstantsina Sabieskikh, skladzeny Janam III Sabeskim u Piliashkavichakh 16 vierasnia 1685 hoda” [Studium at the Royal Court, or Timetable for the Princes Alexander and Constantine Sobieski, Composed by Jan III Sobieski in Piliaškavičy, September 16, 1685], Archyvaryus, no. 4 (2006): 51–57.

“Following the Ancestors’ Way, or Mythological Time as Reflected in the Letopisets Vielikoho Kniazstva Litovskoho i Zomoicskoho,”, Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae, vol.IX 9 (Warsaw, 2004),: 297–307.

Abramowicz, Maciej;, Marc Belissa, Marc; Marek Derwicz, Marek; Wanda Dressler, Wanda; Bruno Dumezil, Bruno; Leszek Kanczugowski, Leszek; Uladzimir Kananovich, Uladzimir; Malgorzata Kowalska, Malgorzata; Hubert Laszkiewicz, Hubert; Nicolas Reveyron, Nicolas; Denyse Riche, Denyse; Peter Schuster, Peter; Martial Staub, Martial; Ephraim Teitelbaum, Ephraim; André Vauchez, André; Jacques Verger, Jacques; and Ludovic Viallet, Ludovic (eds.), “Construction d’un imaginaire collective européen: Du Moyen Âge aux débuts des Lumières, Allemagne, France, Pologne: unité et diversité, Actes du Colloque international, 18–19 décembre 2009, organisé par L’université de Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défence, le Collège des Bernardins et l’association européenne Lubliniana (Paris,: Collège des Bernardins, Lethielleux, 2012). See also articles in scholarly journals and contributions to books.

Žukoŭski, Alexander; Lilia Mialeška, Lilia; Andrej Blinets, Andrej; Zoya Dziahtsiarova, Zoya; Maryja Drabatovich, Maryja; Uladzimir Kananovich, Uladzimir; Piotr Muraška, Piotr; Valery Pazniakoǔ, Valery; Andrey Rybakoǔ, Andrey; and Uladzimir Sazanovich, Uladzimir (eds.), Kletsk i Kletski rajon. Historyka- dakumentalnaja chronika “Pamiats” [Kletsk and Its District: Historical-Documentary Chronicle “Memory”] (Minsk: Mastatskaja Litaratura, 1999).

(with Anatol Litvinovich), “Niametskaia factoryia ǔ Polatsku” [A German Trade Colony in Polotsk], in Encyklapedyia historyi Belarusi [Encyclopedia of the History of Belarus], vol. V5, (Minsk, Vydavectva Belaruskaja Encyklapedyja, 1999), 340.

“Hrekaǔ Ihar Barysavich” [Grekov Igor Borisovich], in Encyklapedyia historyi Belarusi (Encyclopedia of the History of Belarus), vol. III3, (Minsk, 1Vydavectva Belaruskaja Encyklapedyja, 1996), 167.

(with Uladzimir Snapkoǔski), “Dyplamatyja” [Dyiplomacy], in Encyklapedyia historyi Belarusi, vol. III3, (Minsk, Vydavectva Belaruskaja Encyklapedyja, 1996), 324–327.

“Chuma ana belaruskikh zemliakh v poznim siaredniavechchy” [The Plague in Late Medieval Belarus]. Nasha Historyia, no. 5 (2020): 32–38.

“Spetsyialnyia aperatsyi i hibrydnyja vojny Teŭtonskaha ordena u Paniamonni” [Special Operations and Hybrid Wars of the Teutonic Order in the Niemen Area]. Nasha Historyia, no. 9 (2020): 68–76.

“Krymskij faktar u mizhnarodnaj palitytsy Vialikaha Kniastva Litoŭskaha” [The Role of the Khanate of Crimea in the International Policy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]. Belaruskaja Minuǔshchyna, no. 4 (1994): 15–18.

“Kletskija Radzivily” [The Radziwills of Kletsk]. Belaruskaja Minuǔshchyna, no. 4 (1994): 10–14.

“Shlakhetskaja demakratyja” [Democracy of a Lesser Nobility]. Belaruskaja Minuǔshchyna, no. 2 (1994): 20–22.

“Skazhy mne khto tvoj siabar, i ja skazhu, chto ty, abo jak skladvaŭsia khaŭrus Maskoŭskaha kniastva z Krymskim khanstvam” [Tell Me Who Your Friend Is and I Will Tell You Who You Are, or How the Politico-Military Union of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy and the Khanate of Crimea Was Formed]. Belaruskaja Minuǔshchyna, nos. 5–6 (1993): 36–40.

“Z ranniaj historyi vioski Hrycevitsy” [From the Earliest History of a Village Hrycevichy]. Da Novykh Peramoh, April 10, 1993.

“Kali Kletsk byŭ upershyniu zhadany ŭ histarychnych krynitsakh?” [When Was Kletsk First Mentioned in Historical Annals?]. Da Novykh Peramoh, September 1991.

Selart, Anti. Livland und die Ruß im 13. Jahrhundert. Quellen und Studien zur Baltischen Geschichte 21. Köln-Weimar-Wien: Böhlau, 2007. Besprechung in Medium Aevum Quotidianum 60 (2010): 56–58.

Rohdewald, Stefan, David Frick, und Stefan Wiederkehr, Hrsg. Litauen und Ruthenien. Studien zu einer transkulturellen Kommunikationsregion (15.–18. Jahrhundert). Forschungen zur Osteuropäischen Geschichte 71. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007. Besprechung in Belaruski histarychny ahlad 15, Bd. XV (2008): 387–396.

Geier, Wolfgang. Russische Kulturgeschichte in diplomatischen Reiseberichten aus vier Jahrhunderten. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004. Besprechung in Belaruski histarychny ahlad 11, Bd. XI (2004): 336–342.

Kämpfer, Franck, und Reinhardt Frötschner. 450 Jahre Sigismund von Herbersteins Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii 1549–1999. Jubiläumsvorträge. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002. Besprechung in Belaruski histarychny ahlad 9, Bd. IX (2002): 206–220.

Fügedi, Eric. The Elephanthy: The Hungarian Nobleman and His Kindred. Budapest: Central European University Press, 1998. Besprechung in Belaruski histarychny ahlad 6, Bd. VI (1999): 319–322.

“Placing Lithuanian King Mendowe in Belarusian Navahrudak.: Aristocratic Memories in Contemporary Society,” Genealogies of Memory, 14th International Conference, Gentry, Nobility, Aristocracy: The Post-feudal Perspectives, Warsaw, Poland, September 25–27, 2024.

“Eschatological Myth of Vilnius: Social Memory and Public Space,” Vilnius ir jo bendruomenės XIII–XXI a.: septyni sugyvenimo mieste istorijos šimtmečiai (Wilno i jegowspólnoty w XIII–XXI w.: siedem stuleci historii współżycia w mieście), Vilnius, Lithuania, October 25–27, 2023.

“In the Signs of the End Days: Eschatological Concerns of Doctor Francis Skaryna,” Eschatology in Eastern and Western Europe in the Early Modern Period, Online Workshop (Zoom), Munich, Germany, March 5–6, 2021.

“Seeking Asylum with the Grand Duke: Western Refugees in the Early Sixteenth-Century Muscovy,” International Workshop “Foreign Communities in Early Modern Muscovite Cities (c. 1500–1725), University of Vienna, Institute for East European History, December 13–14, 2019.

“How Did Our Ancestors Remember?: Contemporary Medieval Studies and the Neuroscience of Memory,” International Open Seminar, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Artes Liberales, December 13, 2018.

“The Haunted Memories of Forgotten Kings,” King Mindowe of Lithuania and King Daniel of Galicia, 25th International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, July 2–5, 2018.

“Arena of Passions: Emotional Discourse of Justice in Late Medieval Eastern Europe,” International Workshop, “Approaches to Late Medieval Records,” University of Durham, United Kingdom, June 30, 2017.

“The Prague Slavonic Bible of 1517 by Doctor Francis Skaryna: Between the Market and Personal Devotion,” Second Annual Conference, Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century, School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London, London, United Kingdom, February 24–26, 2017.

“The Slavonic Bible of 1517 by Doctor Francis Skaryna as the Example of the Functional Print,” International Theology Conference, “Ad Fontes, Ad Futura: Erasmus’ Bible and the Impact of Scripture,” Houston Baptist University, Houston, Texas, United States, February 25–27, 2016.

“Favorite’ Anger or Emotions in the Early Renaissance Court Society,” Convention, Midwest Modern Linguistic Association, Columbus, Ohio, United States, November 12–14, 2015.

“Historical Memory and Political Power in Jagellonian Europe,” International Conference, “Constructing Memory in Pre-Modern East Central and Southeast Europe: Creation, Transformation, and Oblivion,” Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, March 8–10, 2012.

“Imaginaire du Grand-Duché de Lithuanie, le Grand-Duché de Lithuanie imaginé: pays et noblesse,” International Colloquium, “Construction d’un imaginaire collectif européen: Du Moyen Age aux débuts des Lumièrs, Allemagne, France, Pologne,” University of Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, Collège des Bernardins, European Association Lubliniana, Paris, France, December 18–19, 2009.

“Political Communication in the Chivalric Society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Late Middle Ages,” Tagung, “Das Grossfürstentum Litauen und die östliche Gebiete der polnischen Krone als interkulturelle Kommunikationsregion vom 15. bis 18. Jahrhundert,” University of Passau, Germany, March 10–12, 2005.

“Soziales Leben des Adeltums im Grossfürstentum Litauen,” public lecture, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, Germany, April 9, 2003.

“Reminiscentia and Propaganda in the Lithuanian-Ruthenian Annals: Political Consciousness and Vision of the Past in the Late Medieval Chivalric Society on the Banks of Neman and Wilija,” the Third Medieval Chronicle Conference, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, July 12–17, 2002.

“Mythological Time as Reflected in the Chronicler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Samogitia,” the Second Medieval Chronicle Conference, University of Utrecht, July 16–21, 1999.

“Ritual at the Court of the Jagiellonians,” Nineteenth Seminar of Medievalists, Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, Poznań, Poland, November 28–30, 1997.