Barbara Bienias, PhD, Assistant Professor
04.02.2026 | 05.03.2026
Assistant Professor Old and Rare Book Studies Research Unit Room: A16 Phone: +48 22 65 72 836 Office hours: Wednesday, 10:30am–12:30pm; Thursday, 10:00am-12:00 E-mail: bbienias@ihnpan.pl ORCID: 0000-0002-1294-7846 Academia.edu Academic interests Science and culture in 16th– and 17th-century England History of astronomy and astrology Epistemology in the early modern period Semiotics of culture History of […]
Marcin Wilczek, Ph.D.
30.01.2026 | 05.03.2026
Assistant Professor History of Technology Research Unit room A02 phone: +48 22 657 28 36 office hours: Thursdays 2pm-4pm, Fridays 2pm-4pm email: marcin.wilczek@ihnpan.pl ORCID: 0000-0003-3062-6912 Main academic interests Military history History of military technology and the arms industry Twentieth-century history, with particular emphasis on the Cold War period Education 2022 – Ph.D. in History […]
Tracing a Forgotten Discipline: IHN PAN Doctoral Student Presented the History of Sozology Abroad [NCN Sonata Bis Project: History of Science for Sustainable Development]
29.09.2025 | 26.01.2026
Jan Możdżyński, a doctoral student at the Anthropos doctoral school affiliated with the Institute of History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, participated this summer in two prestigious international summer schools for doctoral students and early-career researchers. The first event took place from August 18-23 at Södertörn University in Stockholm. Organized by the […]
MEDEP Research Seminar, 11th March, 10:00-11:30
10.03.2025 | 26.01.2026
I would like to invite you to the MEDEP Research Seminar (held as part of the seminars of the History of Technology Research Unit) on 11 March from 10:00-11:30, where I will give a lecture entitled ‘Health, Ideology, Media. Polish Medical Assistance to North Korea in the 1950s’. The MEDEP Research Seminars are jointly organised […]
The Eighth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education: First Announcement
08.11.2023 | 26.01.2026
The International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education (ICHME) is the only conference entirely devoted to the history of mathematics education. The first ICHME was held in Iceland (2009), followed by others in Portugal (2011), Sweden (2013), Italy (2015), the Netherlands (2017), France (2019) and Germany (2022). The Eighth International Conference on the History […]
CFP: International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science
04.10.2023 | 26.01.2026
For 2024, the annual conferences of the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) and the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu), together with the biennial conference of the Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit), will be combined into a single meeting. This will be the first time that these three societies […]
CFP Being a Minority in Medieval and Early-Modern Sciences
22.09.2023 | 26.01.2026
Dear colleagues, This is a reminder of a call for papers for the workshop BEING A MINORITY IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY-MODERN SCIENCES (Warsaw, 25-26 January 2024). I would appreciate it if you spread the word. I call your attention to the fact that there are scholarships (to cover the round trip to Warsaw and hotel […]
The international scientific conference organized by the Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the Finale of the World Copernican Congress in Toruń
| 26.01.2026
On 11–16 September 2023, the Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences organized an international conference entitled Copernicus and Astronomy: Continuity, Reform, and Dissemination as part of the Toruń celebrations at the World Copernican Congress, commemorating the 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus. The Congress, which concluded on […]
CFP Being a Minority in Medieval and Early-Modern Sciences
02.08.2023 | 26.01.2026
Call for papers for the final workshop Being a Minority in Medieval and Early-Modern Sciences [PDF]
Copernican Astronomy in Shakespeare’s London
02.05.2023 | 26.01.2026
Dr. Barbara Bienias talks about the latest research conducted at the Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw under the supervision of Prof. Jarosław Włodarczyk on the early reception of Nicolaus Copernicus’s heliocentric theory in England in Shakespeare’s time. The story revolves around the figure of Edward Gresham […]
