Stepan Blinder
Stepan Blinder is a PhD Candidate in Slavonic Studies at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (Fitzwilliam College | University of Cambridge). His research interests overlap the history of books and knowledge circulation, library management and book exchange, and intellectual transfers in early modern Eastern Europe.
Stepan's thesis "The Kingdom of Books: Making of a Global University Library in the Early Modern Zamoyski Academy" scrutinizes the polymorphic nature of the early modern Polish-Lithuanian public libraries.
Analysing practices of library management (cataloguing, ordering, accounting) between the late 16-17th centuries, Stepan challenges cornerstone intellectual history approaches that offer circulation of ideas to be determined primarily by reading. Stepan argues that the structure of libraries' organization and thus patterns of their accessibility for readers was a primary criterion of knowledge exchange effectivity in the early modern period. On the case study of the Zamoyski Academy Library - the easternmost Western European public university library - Stepan reveals how Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Armenian technologies of book management coexisted within one library management system shaping an extraordinary institutional model of book dissemination in the Eastern European borderland.
Stepan holds the highly prestigious Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship from the University of Cambridge. Since 2018, the Scholarship hosts academically excellent, innovative, and multidisciplinary scholars from around the world: https://www.hardingscholars.fund.cam.ac.uk/stepan-blinder-2020-cohort
Stepan took part in numerous highly ranked internships, fellowship programs, summer schools, and workshops in methodology and early modern history organized by the top Western European and American academic institutions.
In 2022, Stepan co-founded the Cambridge East European History Workshop - the only doctoral workshop in Eastern European history at Cambridge: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/east-european-history-workshop
Stepan is a co-founder of the Cambridge4Ukraine volunteering initiative that helps Ukrainian refugees in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire: https://www.cambridge4ukraine.uk/home
Supervisors: Olenka Z. Pevny
Address: Fitzwilliam College
Storey's Way
Cambridge
CB3 0DG
+44 (0)1223 332000
Stepan's thesis "The Kingdom of Books: Making of a Global University Library in the Early Modern Zamoyski Academy" scrutinizes the polymorphic nature of the early modern Polish-Lithuanian public libraries.
Analysing practices of library management (cataloguing, ordering, accounting) between the late 16-17th centuries, Stepan challenges cornerstone intellectual history approaches that offer circulation of ideas to be determined primarily by reading. Stepan argues that the structure of libraries' organization and thus patterns of their accessibility for readers was a primary criterion of knowledge exchange effectivity in the early modern period. On the case study of the Zamoyski Academy Library - the easternmost Western European public university library - Stepan reveals how Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Armenian technologies of book management coexisted within one library management system shaping an extraordinary institutional model of book dissemination in the Eastern European borderland.
Stepan holds the highly prestigious Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship from the University of Cambridge. Since 2018, the Scholarship hosts academically excellent, innovative, and multidisciplinary scholars from around the world: https://www.hardingscholars.fund.cam.ac.uk/stepan-blinder-2020-cohort
Stepan took part in numerous highly ranked internships, fellowship programs, summer schools, and workshops in methodology and early modern history organized by the top Western European and American academic institutions.
In 2022, Stepan co-founded the Cambridge East European History Workshop - the only doctoral workshop in Eastern European history at Cambridge: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/east-european-history-workshop
Stepan is a co-founder of the Cambridge4Ukraine volunteering initiative that helps Ukrainian refugees in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire: https://www.cambridge4ukraine.uk/home
Supervisors: Olenka Z. Pevny
Address: Fitzwilliam College
Storey's Way
Cambridge
CB3 0DG
+44 (0)1223 332000
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With this in mind, the proposed conference sets out to examine social infrastructures and transfer mechanisms in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between 1569 and 1795. A key concept for the conference is Giovanna Brogi Bercoff’s ‘polymorphism,’ or the multilayeredness, variability, and susceptibility of cultures to assimilative influences from the outside. The conference examines Polish-Lithuanian culture from the perspective of fluid communicative networks that linked the Commonwealth to the global world. It considers the adaptivity of external innovations to local needs and the exportation of local innovations beyond the borders of the Commonwealth. We invite submissions that will problematize the means, configurations, parameters, and limitations of cultural transmission that played out within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
With this in mind, the proposed conference sets out to examine social infrastructures and transfer mechanisms in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between 1569 and 1795. A key concept for the conference is Giovanna Brogi Bercoff’s ‘polymorphism,’ or the multilayeredness, variability, and susceptibility of cultures to assimilative influences from the outside. The conference examines Polish-Lithuanian culture from the perspective of fluid communicative networks that linked the Commonwealth to the global world. It considers the adaptivity of external innovations to local needs and the exportation of local innovations beyond the borders of the Commonwealth. We invite submissions that will problematize the means, configurations, parameters, and limitations of cultural transmission that played out within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth