Date: September 12-13, 2013
Host Institution: the Institute of Society of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University
Organizers: the Institute of Society of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University jointly with the Institute of History of Jagellonian University.
On the 12-13th of October the first joint international conference on the questions of the early modern history was held in our University. Well-known historians in the field of early modern epoch from five Ukrainian and three Polish cities took part in the Conference. The Conference was opened with a greeting word by Viktor Ogneviuk, Rector of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University.
The first plenary session was dedicated to the diplomatic contacts and to the achievements and tasks of the early modern history in Ukraine.
Andrian Yusupovych (Warsaw University) presented his observations about the Embassy of Lev Sapega to Moscow in 1600 – 16001 years; Tetiana Hrygorieva (Kyiv-Mogyla Academy) showed new ways of interpretation of Wojciech Myaskovskys' diary. Dariusz Dombrowski (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz) made the presentation about Romanovychi in the polish historiography of the XVI-XVIII c. that raised an active discussion. Adam Perlakovskyi (Jagellonian University) presented the activities of the Belz sejmic province in 1734-1744.
The next part of the Conference started with the report of the well-known Ukrainian historian Natalia Jakovenko (Kyiv-Mogyla Academy) about early modern history in Ukraine.
After the discussion, the participants started a new plenary session of the Conference, which was dedicated to the rebellion led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky and his successors. Pjotr Borek (the Pedagogical Institute, Krakow) showed a new view on the rebellion on the basis of the poetic work of Samuel Tvardovskiy «Wojna Domowa». The report of Myroslava Nagelskogo (Warsaw University) was dedicated to the contacts with Sweden in 1648-1657. Arthur Hoshchynsky (Jagellonian University) showed the activities of Adam Kazanovsky during the rebellion. The plenary session was ended with the overview of the Ostrog Commission in 1670 as the last attempt for mutual understanding between the Commonwealth and Cossacks.
The last plenary session of the Conference was dedicated to the history of parliamentarism in the Polish Kingdom and the Commonwealth in the XV – XVIII c. The participants of the Conference were honored to hear the reports made by Jaroslav Stolitsky (Jagellonian University), Vitaliy Myhailovsky (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University), Oleksiy Vinnychenko (Lviv University), Petr Kulakovsky (Ostrog Academy).
The second day of the Conference started with the plenary session about the history of the cities. Myron Kapral (Institute of the Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies named after M. Hrushevsky of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) demonstrated the development historical consciousness of in Ukrainian and Russian middle class in Lviv at the end of the XVI c. beginning of the XVII c.
Natalia Bilous (the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) made the collective portrait of the city of Lutsk officers in the XVI-XVII centuries. The peculiarities of the inheritance by a will in the Armenian community in Lviv in the second part of the XVII c. and the first part of the XVIII c. were the theme of Oksana Vinnychenkos' report (Ukrainian Catholic University). Yuriy Voloshyn (Poltava University named after V. Korolenko) showed the demographic pecularities of servants' nsocial group in the housekeeping in Poltava in the second part of the XVIII c.
The next plenary session was covered the theme of the «yard (courtyard)». Volodymyr Alexandrovych (the Institute of the Ukrainian Studies named after I. Krypiakevych of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) shared with his ideas regarding the role of the yard painters in western Ukrainian region in the XVI c. Igor Teslenko (Kyiv-Mogyla Academy) described the origin and career of marshalkiv of the Princes yard in Ostrog in the XVI - first half of the XVII century. Olexiy Sokyrko (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University) showed the features of the yard and the Cossacks petty officers in the middle of the XVII-XVIII centuries.
The last plenary session was dedicated to the events of the XVIII c. Igor Skochylias (Ukrainian Catholic University) said a few words about the examples of the cooperation between the nobles and the fraternities of the middle class in the sacred space of the Slavia Orthodoxa/Slavia Unita. Ludmila Posokhova (Kharkov University named after V.Karazin) in her report showed the real and virtual tours of the students and academics of the Ukrainian Orthodox colegiums of the XVIII c. and the pecularities of the geographical studies at this institutions.
Arsen Zinchenko (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University) showed the ways of the ethic and national identification of the Slobozhanshchina residents in the second third part of the XVIII c. Maxim Yaremenko (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) made the report about the role of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the process of unity of the Ukrainian territories in the XVIII c.
At the end of the Conference participants had an opportunity to communicate with the famous historians and to discuss their further ideas on topics discussed at the plenary sessions.