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College: Fitzwilliam College听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
Email: sb2427@cam.ac.uk听听听听听听听听听听听听听
Supervisor: Dr Olenka Z. Pevny听听听听
Research Topic: 鈥淭he Kingdom of Books: The Making of a Global University Library in the Early Modern Zamoyski Academy鈥� 听
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About Me
Stepan Blinder is a PhD student in Slavonic Studies at the Fitzwilliam College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录. His academic interests overlap late medieval and early modern Central and Eastern European social, intellectual, and cultural history. He specializes in the global history of book circulation and knowledge exchange, urban history with an accent on spatial communications, and Jewish social history.
Stepan received his Bachelor (2016) and Master (2018) degrees (with honours) in history at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine). Both his theses on the 17th-century patterns of borderland communications between educational institutions of Polish Crown and Ruthenian voivodeships were awarded the prestigious Jerzy Giedroyc International Contest in Polish-Ukrainian History. In 2018-2019, Stepan was a fellow student at the University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) where he researched political culture of Polish-Lithuanian cities.
Before coming to 澳门六合彩开奖记录, Stepan received a set of research scholarships and took part in internships, fellowship programs, summer schools, and workshops in the theory and practice of medieval and early modern history in Western Europe and Northern America.
Languages: Ukrainian (Native), English (Fluent), Polish (Fluent), Latin (fluent), Russian (fluent), Belarusian (Upper-Intermediate), Italian (Intermediate), Czech (Intermediate), Spanish (Intermediate), French (Pre-Intermediate), German (Pre-Intermediate). 听
Research
Stepan鈥檚 鈥淭he Kingdom of Books鈥︹�� is the global microhistorical research on the social logic of intellectual transfers in early modern Eastern Europe. It traces the nature of university library construction and examines the transmission of the Western European book management practices to the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Zamoyski Academy 鈥� founded in 1594 easternmost classical Western European studium generale 鈥� is in the center of this research. On the one hand, Stepan traces sources of the Zamoyski library construction taking into account local book supply and demand, access to Italian and German book markets, and social need for reading. On the other hand, he investigates the adaptation of Italian and Holy Roman technologies of libraries organization to the local needs of the Zamoyski Academy. At the same time, Stepan attempts to reveal whether the Zamoyski librarians invented any extraordinary technique of book exchange management compared with existing samples in Western European universities.
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Prizes
12th Jerzy Giedroyc International Contest in Polish-Ukrainian History, 1st Place [Nomination for the Best MA Thesis], Embassy of Poland in Kyiv (Poland-Ukraine, 2018).
17th Kowalski Student Research Contest in Ukrainian Studies, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada, 2017).
10th Jerzy Giedroyc International Contest in Polish-Ukrainian History,1st Place [Nomination for the Best BA Thesis], Embassy of Poland in Kyiv (Poland-Ukraine, 2016).
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Scholarships
Academic Scholarship of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange for the Faculty of 鈥淎rtes Liberales鈥� (University of Warsaw, Poland, 2019).
Scholarship of the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies: Building Academic Networks (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2019).
Scholarship Program of the Government of the Republic of Poland for Young Academicians (Poland, 2018-2019).
Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development Cooperation Scholarship for the International Summer University Programs (Estonia, 2017).
Scholarship of the Foundation of Gregory and Rosalia Smolarchuks for the Best Term Paper on the History of Ukraine (Canada, 2016).
Grant of the Foundation of Dioniza and Mykola Nenadkevychs for the Best Term Paper on the History of Ukraine (USA, 2015).
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Fellowships
Fellowship in Early Modern Urban History, University of Warsaw, Faculty of 鈥淎rtes Liberales鈥� (Poland, December 2019).
Internship in Early Modern Religious History, Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute of Eastern Christian Studies (Netherlands, May-June 2019).
Fellowship in Early Modern Social History, University of Warsaw, Institute of History, Department of Early Modern History (Poland, September 2018 鈥� June 2019).
Jewish Studies Internship for the Advanced Students and Junior Faculty, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization (Israel, August 2018).
Certificate Program 鈥淗istory of Diplomacy,鈥� National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Department of History (Ukraine, September 2012 鈥� June 2016).
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Teaching
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy [Kyiv, Ukraine]
鈥淗istory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,鈥� Undergraduate Level, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years [in cooperation with Dr Tetiana Grygorieva];
鈥淗istory of Ukrainian Culture,鈥� Undergraduate Level, 2019-2020 academic year [in cooperation with Prof Larysa Dovha].
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Conference Papers
鈥溾�楤ibliothecam lustrauit鈥�: Why Apostolic Nuncio Francesco Martelli (1633-1717) Visited the Zamoyski Academy Library in 1678?鈥� The Kyiv Church Metropolia searching for its identity in the 16th 鈥� 18th centuries, Munich, Germany, November 5-6, 2021. 听
鈥淐onfessionalizing the Eastern European Roman Catholic Borderland: Educational Project of Collegium of Olyka (1630-1640s),鈥� 11th History of Education Doctoral Summer School, Lyon, France, June 4, 2021.
鈥淭he Making of a Global Libraries in Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,鈥� Slavonic Studies Graduate Symposium, 澳门六合彩开奖记录, UK, April 30, 2021.
鈥淲hy Do We 鈥業nventory鈥� Reality? The Zamoyski Academy Library in the 17th century,鈥� Fitzwilliam College Postgraduate Talks, 澳门六合彩开奖记录, UK, April 24, 2021.
鈥淯rbanization of the Ukrainian Borderland in the mid-17th Century (Private Cities Perspective),鈥� Research Seminar of the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 4, 2019.
鈥淐irculation of Books in the Eastern Europe in the 16-17th Centuries (case of the Zamoyski Academy Library),鈥� Methodological Seminar for Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Warsaw, Poland, May 14, 2019.
鈥淪tudent Metrics of the Early Modern European Universities: Theory and Practice (Case Study of the University of Basel),鈥� Methodological Seminar for Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Warsaw, Poland, December 4, 2018.
鈥淧osition of the Professors of the Collegium of Olyka in the City Society: Social Topography,鈥� International Conference 鈥淓xploring the Past: Methodological Renovations of the Ukrainian Historiography,鈥� Kyiv, Ukraine, April 20-21, 2017.
鈥淐ollegium of Olyka in the 1630s: Echo of the Roman Catholic Educational Reforms in the Territory of Volhynian Province,鈥� International Conference 鈥淧henomenon of Multiculturalism in the History of Ukraine and Poland,鈥� Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 18-19, 2016.
鈥淐orporate Identities of Professors of the Zamoyski Academy in the Second Half of the 17th century,鈥� International Conference 鈥淯kraine, Rus in the Modern Era. Institutions and Elites,鈥� Cracow, Poland, November 18-20, 2015.
鈥淎ge Structure of Academic Careers of Professors in the Zamoyski Academy (1655-1672),鈥� 8th International Conference 鈥淟ocal Communities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16-18th Centuries,鈥� Cracow, Poland, November 16-18, 2015.
鈥溾�橴niversity鈥� as a Model of Higher Studies: Zamoyski Academy and the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium,鈥� International Jubilee Conference 鈥淎d fontes鈥�, devoted to the 400-Anniversary of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, October 12-14, 2015.
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Publications:
Stepan Blinder, Polish Studies 13 (2021): 69-87. [second edition in the 2017 article in the collective volume, in Ukrainian].
Stepan Blinder, 鈥淭he Coexistence of Jews and Christians in the Private Cities of Volynia in the Second Half of 17th Century (on the example of the 1686 Year鈥檚 Ordination to the Jewish Quahal of the Olyka town),鈥� 8 (2019) (forthcoming) [in Ukrainian].
Stepan Blinder, Polish Studies 10 (2017): 28-51. [in Ukrainian].
Stepan Blinder, in Phenomenon of Multiculturalism in the History of Ukraine and Poland, ed. by Serhii Seriiakov (Kharkiv, 2016), 122-129. [in Ukrainian].
Stepan Blinder, Kyivan Academy 13 (2016): 88-108. [in Ukrainian].
Stepan Blinder, Magisterium. Historical Studies 54 (2015): 21-25. [in Ukrainian].
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Edited Books
Natalia Yakovenko, Stepan Blinder, eds., (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2020). [in Ukrainian]
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Other activities and roles
Founder and chair of the Methodological Workshop in East-Central European History.
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