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Keynote or Plenary Addresses
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"Illiberal Common Sense and Anti-Liberal Art: Symbolic Politics of Exclusion," CEMFOR General Conference 2023: Studying Racism, Discrimination and Exclusion: Historical Contingencies, Troubled Contemporary Terrains, and Future Challenges, Uppsala University, Sweden, August 14-15, 2023.
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"Illiberalism as a Culture." Workshop on Researching Illiberalism: Rights, Roles and Responsibilities of a Researcher, Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, University of Amsterdam, June 16, 2023.
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"How to explain the rise of right-wing populism? Culture, economy, something else?" Plenary session on Democracy and Radical Politics in Central Eastern Europe, Polish Sociological Association, Annual Convention (online), Warsaw, September 14-17, 2022.
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“Poland: Rebellious Civil Society a Quarter of a Century Later” (with Grzegorz Ekiert), Modalities of Resistance: Polish Social Protest Across the Generations. Polish Studies Association Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago via Zoom, April 4, 2021.
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"Vectors of contentious mobilization: from below, from above, sideways?" Conference, From below: Reasserting or transcending the democratic paradigm? Zentrum für Osteuropa und Internationale Studien (ZOiS) Conference 2020, Berlin, January 27, 2021.
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"The Mythologized Populist Imagination, Carnival Rebellion, and the Fate of Liberal Democracy," Master Lectures in Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, November 19, 2020.
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Presidential address, "Rightward Populist Rebellion in East Central Europe: Anxieties, Proselytization, and the Rebirth of Mythical Thinking." Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Annual Convention (online), November 7, 2020.
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"A cultural turn in the study of populism: legacies and mobilising discourses" (with Marta Kotwas), University of Kent, Brussels, Belgium, January 16, 2020.
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“The Importance of Anniversaries and Commemorations,” The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, Seventh World Congress on Polish Studies, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, June 14-16, 2019.
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“Contextual holism, culture and historicism: searching for a novel approach to (post-communist) transformations,” Inauguration of the Research Cluster for the Study of East Central Europe and the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna, Vienna, April 18, 2018.
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Workshop on “The New Left and the New Right. Continuity, Rupture and the Politics of Emotion in Europe,” LSE European Institute, 12 November 2018
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"Rebellious students, revolutionary hippies and persecuted Jews: 1968 in Poland." British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies, 2018 Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College – Churchill College, University of Cambridge, 13-15 April, 2018.
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"Polish symbolic wars: from unity in diversity of the Solidarity era to the polarization of 'the Fourth Republic'." (with Marta Kotwas), Poland's Wars of Symbols. Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Bremen, Germany, May 15-16, 2017.
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"Beyond Populist Politics: Communities of Despair, Rudderless Lives, and Cultures of Redemption" (with Marta Kotwas), The End of the Liberal Order? Central, East, and Southeast European Populism in Comparative Perspective, International Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich / University of Regensburg / University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Regensburg, Germany, June 1-3, 2017.
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Roundtable "Do Memory Scholars Matter in Memory Politics? Thinking through the Future of Memory," Inaugural Conference of the Memory Studies Association, Amsterdam, 3 December, 2016.
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"East European Mnemonic Wars: The Politics of Historical Memory Versus Historical Politics," Dealing With A Difficult Past, Looking Into the Future: Poland’s Transitional Justice in a Comparative Perspective, International Conference, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, May 31 - June 1, 2016.
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"Politics of History. What does it stand for"? The Contemporary Interpretation of Historical Legacies in East Central Europe, POLIN, Museum the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, 20-21 May, 2016.
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"The Role of Civil Society in Democratization. Inaugural Professorial Lecture," University College London, 21 January 2016.
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"Memory and Commemoration After Communism," Discussing & Understanding Europe. European Narratives – Europe and the European Union in the 21st Century as Political, Social and Cultural Constructions, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 24 September 2015.
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“The Politics of Memory and Commemoration in Post-communist Europe,” 25 Years after The Baltic Way and the Collapse of Totalitarian Communism: European Memory and Political Inspiration, International Conference, Riga, Latvia, August 21-22, 2014.
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International Expert Seminar "Solidarity: A Universal Ideal. Truth and Reconciliation,” the Centre for Thought of John Paul II, Warsaw, May 27, 2014.
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"Twenty Years After: The Commemoration of the End of Communism,"Beyond Transition? New Directions in Eastern and Central European Studies, an interdisciplinary Nordic conference in Eastern and Central European Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, October 2-4, 2013.
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“Twenty Years After: Commemorations of the Fall of State Socialism. A Theory of Postcommunist Memory Politics,” International Interdisciplinary Conference ”Still Postsocialism? Cultural Memory and Social Transformations” at the Center for Cultural Studies of Postsocialism in the Institute for the Comparative Studies of Modernity, Kazan Federal University, Russia, April 19-20, 2013.
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"From Transitology to Contextual Holism: A Theoretical Trajectory of Post-Communist studies: Preliminary Remarks" (in Polish), Conference at the Department of Sociology, University of Wroclaw, Poland, June 23, 2010.
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'Twenty Years of Post-communism: Assessments and Debates in Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology,' Conference on Central Europe 1989: Lessons and Legacies, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA, October 18, 2009.
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"The 1989 Round Table Agreement," Plenary Panel: 1989 ‘Annus Mirabilis:’ Poland’s Road to Independence, 67th Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Jersey City, June 13, 2009.
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"Post-communism as a Rorschach Test: Sources and Consequences of Various Models of Post-1989 Transformations," The Donald Treadgold Memorial Lecture, Ellison Center, University of Washington, Seattle, April 14, 2008.
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"Nations, States, and Identities in East Central Europe," keynote address, 14th Annual Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Nations, Sates, and Identities in Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Portland State University, Portland, OR, April 12, 2008.
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"Symbolic Politics: Patterns of Mobilization and Demobilization in Communism and Post-communism," Seminar: The Cold War: Politics and Culture Behind the Iron Curtain, The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University, Oxford, OH, November 5, 2007.
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"Twenty Years of Post-communism (Almost): Preliminary Assessment," plenary lecture at Summer School, Center for East European Studies, the University of Warsaw, July 12, 2007.
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"Ameryka – Rosja – Europa Srodkowa: stereotypy i rzeczywistosc" ("America – Russia – Central Europe: stereotypes and the reality"), the Lviv Scientific Library, Lviv, Ukraine, March 26, 2007.
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"Postkomunistyczne Transformacje: Rozbiezne Wizje w Naukach Spolecznych" ("Post-communist transformations: divergent vision in the social sciences"), Keynote Address, Winter School, Center for East European Studies, Warsaw University and the Ossolineum, Wroclaw, March 1, 2007.
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"Political (De)Mobilization and the Prospects of Civil Society in Post-Transitional Countries," keynote address, interdisciplinary workshop: Political Demobilization, Managed Democracy, and the Prospects for Civil Society in Russia, Kazan University, Kazan, Russia, November 18, 2005.
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"Civil Society: Remarks on Its Definition, Measurement, and Relevance," keynote address, Breaking Down Walls: New Directions in Development Studies, Center for Developing Area Studies, McGill University, Montreal, October 6, 2005.
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"Cultures of Resistance and Cultures of Protest: Linkages and Barriers," Keynote address at the 2004 Graduate Student Conference, Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, March 5-6, 2004.
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"Civil Society: Universal and Portable?" Opening Plenary Session, Civil Society Partnerships for Democracy, International Civil Society Forum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, September 8-9, 2003.
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Invited Addresses
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"Illiberalism, Culture Wars and the Fate of Liberal Democracy." Invisible University for Ukraine. 2nd Summer School, Budapest, July 2-10, 2023.
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"Solidarity in Poland and Anti-Authoritarianism in Belarus: What can a 21st Century Social Movement for Democratization Learn from a 20th Century one?" (with Tatsiana Kulakevich), European Sociological Association, 15 Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain (online), September 2, 2021.
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"Is the Rise of Populism a Symptom or a Driver of Democratic Backsliding? A Socio-Cultural Perspective Eastern Europe 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” Conference Eastern Europe 30 years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, EUI, Florence, November 8-9, 2019.
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Panel Participant, "Festival of Freedom and Solidarity," Gdańsk, Poland, June 3-5, 2019.
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“Was Communist Europe Totalitarian,” Totalitarianism in Communist-Era Europe Reconsidered, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, April 10-11, 2019.
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"PiS's Populist Rebellion Against Modernity: Neo-traditional Reinvention of Polish National Identity and Its Consequences," International Conference, A Year that shook the world: European and Eurasian Responses to America’s Withdrawal, Princeton Institute for Regional and International Studies, Princeton University, 11-13 May 2018.
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"Polarizing symbolism of 'thin' and 'thick' populism in Poland: from Solidarity to 'the Fourth Republic'" (prepared with Marta Kotwas), The Crossroads Between Authoritarianism and Democracy, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 24, 2017.
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"Civilisations and their Mobilisation Today: Western Civilisation," Panelist, The British Museum, London, June 6, 2017.
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"SSEES 100: Russia's Future and Europe - Discussion Panel at the House of Commons," House of Commons, London, March 10, 2015.
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“Memory, Commemoration, and Postcommunism in Eastern Europe,” the NYU Eastern Europe Workshop, New York City, September 17, 2014.
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“Solidarity’s Afterlife: Amidst Forgetting and Bickering,” Research Group “New Approaches to the Solidarity Movement,” Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, June 5, 2014.
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“Conceptual Holism: a theoretical trajectory of Postcommunist Studies,” international conference (co-organizer) “Whither Eastern Europe? Changing Political Science Perspectives on the Region," University of Florida, January 9-11, 2014.
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"Civil society, protest politics, and the consolidation of democracy," Comparative Politics Workshop, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, November 8, 2013.
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“Twenty Years After. The Politics of Memory in the Celebration of the Fall of Communism in Seventeen Countries of Postcommunist Europe,” seminar on “Four Approaches to Social Change and Social Order, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, June 10, 2013.
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"Poland's transition from Communism," the Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City, July 1, 2013.
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Roundtable “On Myron J. Aronoff and Jan Kubik, Anthropology and Political Science: A Convergent Approach,” Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 10-13, 2013.
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Senior Faculty Advisor, 25th Annual Junior Scholars' Training Seminar, East European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, August 10-13, 2012.
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'The Polish Presidency of the EU: Who Cares?' Polish Lecture Series: Perspectives on the Polish Presidency of the EU, Florida International University, Miami, October 24, 2011.
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'Did homo Sovieticus Exist? An Anthropological Critique of Theories of Post-communist Transformations,' Seminar on Social Change and Tradition, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, May 30, 2011.
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'What Happened in 1989? A Comparative Study of Historical Memory in Post-communist Countries. Preliminary Conclusions,' Center for East European Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, May 23, 2011.
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'Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe,' Conference The Media, Democracy and Public Spheres in Europe, European Studies Centre, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, March 4-5, 2011.
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'Political Ethnography,' Comparative politics seminar, Department of Political Science, The University of Florida, February 3, 2011.
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'From Transitology to Contextual Holism: A Theoretical Trajectory of Post-communist Studies,' Comparative politics seminar, Department of Political Science, The University of Florida, September 24, 2010.
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'Religion and Post-communism: Sketches for a Theory,' Conference Religious Hegemony and Religious Diversity in Eastern Europe: Postsocialism vis-à-vis the Longue Durée, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 24-25 June 2010.
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National Science Foundation Workshop on Interpretive
Methodologies in Political Science, Faculty Member, University of Toronto, September
1-2, 2009.
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‘Solidarity’s Afterlife: Amidst Bickering and Forgetting,’ The Legacy of Polish Solidarity: Social Activism, Regime Collapse, and Building a New Society, a conference organized within the context of the Polish Year in Israel 2008-2009 (co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Graduate School for Social Research in Warsaw, Poland), Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, March 30-31, 2009.
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'Observations on Communist and Post-communist Citizenship,' 2009 Roundtable on Post-Communism: Citizenship and Post-Communism, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 3, 2009.
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'Three Lectures on the State of the Art in the Postcommunist Studies,' Center for East European Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, May 19-30, 2008.
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‘Europas Nya Demokratier – De Okända Grannar,’ Discussant in a debate, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, April 25, 2007.
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‘Models of Post-communist Transformations: An (Irresolvable?) Clash of Anthropological and Politological Perspectives,’ Sodertorns Hogskola, University College, Stockholm, April 23, 2007.
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‘Approaches to Comparative Political Analysis (and EE/postcommunist examples), Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, April 19, 2007.
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‘Defining and Measuring Democracy (in Eastern Europe): Definitional Shifts and Inter-disciplinary Quarrels,’ annual conference: Quality of Democracy in Eastern and Central European countries, the Institute of International Relations and Political Science (IIRPS) of Vilnius University and Lithuanian Political Science Association (LPSA), Vilnius, Lithuania, December 14-15, 2006.
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‘Cultural Framing: Beyond Common Understandings of Communication,’ conference: Public Diplomacy Project. Roundtable on the Nature of the U.S. Public Diplomacy Challenge, United States Military Academy, West Point, February 23-4, 2006.
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‘Identity Politics in Central Europe: Main Issues,’ conference on Redefining Europe, Meeting of Centers for the Study of Europe, East and West, NYU, New York, November 30, 2001.
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Papers, Abstracts, and Lectures
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"Political (and Economic) Winners and Losers Revisited," Workshop on Transitions to Democracy Revisited, Princeton University, September 29-30, 2023.
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"Social sciences - presenter and moderator." International Conference “The Future of Polish Studies,” The University of Warsaw, Warsaw, July 6-7, 2023.
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“Situational analysis as the primary method in the study of culture and power/politics: Malinowski’s study of the imponderabilia of actual life and beyond.” Conference on The Legacy of Bronisław Malinowski in Present-Day Social Sciences and Humanities, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, September 26-27, 2022.
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"Polexit: When and How, If at All?" Roundtable, Twenty-Eighth International Conference of Europeanists. The Environment of Democracy, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa | Lisbon, Portugal June 29-July 1, 2022.
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"Would Chantal Mouffe be comfortable in Jaroslav Hašek’s Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law? Democratic culture between agonism and moderation." The Nuffield College workshop on What is Democracy? Theories, Practices, Values. Oxford, June 16-17, 2022.
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"International Research Roundtable Everyday Activism in Central and Eastern Europe." Faculty of Arts, Vancouver Campus
Department of Political Science, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 12, 2022.
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"A political crisis or a tectonic cultural shift? The meaning of the current right-wing populist wave (and its legacies)." Conference on Still the Age of Populism, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 22-24, 2022.
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“The Role of Civil Society and Protest Politics in Democratic Consolidation (Hungary, Poland, South Korea and Taiwan) (co-authored with Grzegorz Ekiert and Michal Wenzel), Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 28 – September 2, 2014.
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“Twenty Years After: The Politics of Memory in Postcommunist Democracies” (with Michael Bernhard), Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 28 – September 2, 2014.
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“Civil Society in Poland after the fall of communism: A diachronic perspective” (with Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University and Michal Wenzel, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw), the 20th International Conference of Europeanists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 25-27, 2013.
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“Inside Politics: Studying States and Societies From Within” (discussant), Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 10-13, 2013.
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“The Cultures of Victimhood“ discussant, conference on “Complaints: Cultures of Grievances in Eastern Europe and Eurasia,” Princeton University, March 8-9, 2013.
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‘What Commemorations of 1989 and 1991 Teach Us About Memory and Politics,’ A Europe of Diversities, 19th International Conference of Europeanists, Boston, March 23, 2012, with M. Bernhard, University of Florida (Bernhard and I co-organized two-session panel).
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‘Culture, Political Culture and Post-communist Transformations: A Review of Theory and Empirical Findings,’ The Media, Democracy and Political Culture Workshop, Perugia, Perugia University, Italy, March 9, 2012.
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‘Collective Action and Political Change,’ Panelist, Round Table Discussion, New Brunswick, Rutgers University, March 5, 2012.
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‘Civil Society and Grassroots politics in Poland,’ Training program: Civil society and grassroots politics in new democracies, authoritarian and hybrid regimes, Seoul, Korea University, South Korea, January 10, 2012.
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‘State-Society Relations: Social Movements Theory and Research,’ Training program: Civil society and grassroots politics in new democracies, authoritarian and hybrid regimes, Seoul, Korea University, South Korea, January 8, 2012, with G. Ekiert, Harvard and M. Wenzel, Warsaw University.
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‘Illiberal Challenge to Liberal Democracy: The Case of Poland,’ Conference on A Liberal Challenge?: Civil Society and Grassroots Politics in New Democracies, Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes, Seoul, Korea University, South Korea, January 6, 2012.
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‘What's love (hate) got to do with it? Some observations on the social and cultural contexts of “emotional politics,"’ Interdisciplinary symposium on Politics and Emotions, Lund University, Sweden, December 16, 2011.
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'The Uses of History: The Contentious Legacy of 1989 Twenty Years After,' 18th International Conference of Europeanists, Barcelona, Spain, June 20-22, 2011, with M. Bernhard.
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'Theoretical Frame' and 'The Polish Case,' Conference: Twenty Years After: 1989 and the Politics of Memory, The University of Florida, February 4-6, 2011, with M. Bernhard.
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'Civil Society in New Democracies: Cross – Regional Comparisons.' Convener, participant, and table leader, table on Field Research II (Participant observation, political ethnography, etc.): “Overseas,” Methods Café, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, September 2-5, 2010.
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‘From Transitology to Contextual Holism: A Theoretical Trajectory of Post-Communist Studies: Preliminary Remarks’ (in Polish), Department of Sociology, University of Wroclaw, Poland, June 23, 2010.
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'Remarks on Polish politics after Smolensk,' 15th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, April 15-17, 2010.
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'Locating the Vernacular in Theories of Post-Communist Transformations,' Vernacular Epistemologies Seminar at the Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers, March 9, 2010, with A. Linch.
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'Roundtable on the 1989 Polish Roundtable: Legacies and Controversies Twenty Years After,' panel participant, 41st National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, MA, November 12-15, 2009.
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'East Central Europe 1999-2009 (some trends, a few worries),' symposium: Twenty Years of Transformations: East-Central Europe since 1989, Center for European Studies, Rutgers University, October 30, 2009.
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'Assessment of the 20 years of Post-communist Transformations in Poland,' seminar on Poland for Ambassador Lee Feinstein, the US Department of State, The University Club, Washington, D.C., October 6, 2009.
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'Ethnographic Methods in Political Science: What Difference Can They Make?' Panel participant and table leader, table on Field Research II (Participant observation, political ethnography, etc.): “Overseas,” Methods Café, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, September 3-6, 2009.
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'Civil Society in Poland: Case Study,' International Conference: The Logic of Civil Society in New Democracies: East Asia and East Europe, Academia Sinica, Taipei, June 6-7, 2009.
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'Communism and Post-communism: Their Conceptualizations and Assessments in Today’s Social Sciences,' anniversary conference History and Contemporary State of Eastern Studies, University of Warsaw, October 26-28, 2008.
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“McCain – Obama: A Breakthrough or Continuation in American Presidential Elections?” Participant, public debate, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Warsaw, October 30, 2008.
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'Politics of Memory in Europe,' session chair and discussant, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 27, 2008.
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'Political ethnography,' table leader, Methods Café, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 27, 2008.
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'Interpretive Methods,' panel participant, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 27, 2008.
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'The Cultural Legacies of the Socialist Past,' conference Post-accession Blues in Central and Eastern Europe, System Planning Corporation, US Department of State, Washington, DC, July 18, 2008.
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‘Learning from our Earlier Projects: How to Conceptualize and Measure Civil Society?’ workshop The Logic of Civil Society in New Democracies (Hungary, Poland, South Korea and Taiwan) Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May 2-4, 2008.
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‘Interpretation and Interpretivism in Political Science,’ Emerging Trends Seminar, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, March 10, 2008.
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‘Models of Post-Communist Transformations: Are Political Science and Cultural Anthropology Compatible,’ Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 9, 2007.
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‘The challenges to democracy in the post-communist world,’ panel moderator, International Warsaw East European Conference, Fourth Annual Session, Warsaw July 15-18, 2007, with D. Ost, R. Markowski, K. Bachman.
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‘Models of Post-Communist Transformations: Are Political Science and Cultural Anthropology Compatible,’ Polish Academy of Sciences, Prof. Kuczewska’s Seminar, Warsaw, June 18, 2007.
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‘Models of Post-Communist Transformations: Are Political Science and Cultural Anthropology Compatible,’ Warsaw School of Social Psychology (SWPS), Warsaw, June 12, 2007.
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'Post-komunizm po 20 latach: co badac (i jak?)’ (Post-communism after 20 years: what and how should we study?), Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, May 17, 2007.
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‘Models of Post-Communist Transformations: Are Political Science and Cultural Anthropology Compatible,’ Department of Sociology, the University of Warsaw, May 10, 2007;
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‘Models of Post-Communist Transformations: Are Political Science and Cultural Anthropology Compatible,’ Department of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, May 7, 2007.
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‘Models of Post-Communist Transformations: Are Political Science and Cultural Anthropology Compatible,’ Sodertorns Hogskola, University College, Stockholm, April 23, 2007;
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‘How to Study Social Movements,’ seminar at ISNS (Institute of Applied Social Sciences), the University of Warsaw, April 20, 2007.
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‘Justice, Hegemony and Social Movements: Views from East/Central Europe and Eurasia,’ a background paper for the SSRC workshop (organized together with the center for East European Studies, Warsaw University), Warsaw, April 13-15, 2007.
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‘Models of Post-Communist Transformations: Are Political Science and Cultural Anthropology Compatible,’ Department of Anthropology, the University of Warsaw, April 18, 2007;
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‘Models of Post-Communist Transformations: Are Political Science and Cultural Anthropology Compatible,’ Department of Sociology, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, February 28, 2007;
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‘East Central Europe: Political Trends after the Last Round of Elections,’ conference: Future of the political scene in Central Europe, the Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, December 12, 2006.
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‘Ethnography after Post-modern (de)construction: Is It Still Useful for Political Science?’ conference: Political Ethnography: What Insider Perspectives Contribute to the Study of Power, University of Toronto, October 26-28, 2006.
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‘Growth to Limits?’ panel discussant, conference: New Europe and Its Growth to Limits? Third Mokrzycki Symposium, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, October 21, 2006.
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‘The Humanism of Feliks Gross’s Social Science,’ session: Feliks Gross, the Enlightened Pluralist (co-organizer), 64th Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, New York, June 3-4, 2006.
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‘State and Civil Society. Traditions and New Forms of Governing,’ conference: Staat und Zivilgesellschaft/State and Civil Society, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Vienna, May 8-9, 2006.
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‘Avant-garde Theater Contra State Socialism: What was Global before the Era of Globalization (in Tadeusz Kantor’s Theater)?’ conference: Samizdat and Underground Culture in the Soviet Bloc Countries, The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 6-7, 2006.
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‘The Political Afterlife of ‘Solidarity’ and the Polish Round Table: from Symbolic Hegemony to Failed Mnemonic Reconciliation,’ East Central Europe, Soviet Union and Russia, Post-Soviet and Post-Communist Countries since 1980: Warsaw East European Conference, Warsaw University, July 20-22, 2005.
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‘Civil Society: Universal and Portable?’ Building Democracy and Civil Society in ‘New Europe,’ The Second Edmund Mokrzycki Symposium, The Center for Social Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, November 19-20, 2004.
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‘Solidarity: From Symbolic Hegemony to Symbolic Capitulation,’ Gdansk – Warsaw – Copenhagen – Athens: Stages on the Road to a United Europe, conference on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the relegalization of Solidarity, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, June 4-6, 2004.
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‘Avant-garde Artists as Unintentional Dissidents: Reflections on Partial Openings of the Political Opportunity Structure and Their Unintended Consequences under State Socialism,’ Workshop on Protest Politics and Social Movements (convened by me), Center for Comparative European Studies, Rutgers University, April 30, 2004.
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'Classical Theories and Enduring Problems of Democracy in European Politics,' discussant and chair, 14th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 11-13, 2004.
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'The Changing Worlds of Eastern Europe and the Middle East: contrasting pictures from political anthropology and political science,' American Anthropological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, November, 20-23, 2003, with M. Aronoff.
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'Between Romanticism and Censorship: Visions of Polish History in Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema,' Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, November 23, 2003.
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‘The EU Accession Process and Domestic Reaction,’ a Symposium on Polish Foreign Policy Challenges and Domestic Reactions, a Gala Opening of the Polish Studies Program at Columbia University, October 31, 2003.
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‘Political Imagination, Political Culture, Transcultural Currents: Creating a Movement and its Cultures,’ commentator, Workshop on Protest 1960s and 1980s: Trans- and Intercultural Perspectives, Rutgers, October 13, 2003.
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‘European Union in the 21st century: Enlargement, Governance, Identity,’ a Rutgers University workshop sponsored by the Teach Europe program for high school teachers of French and German language, as well as any other EU language, Social Studies, and History, October 3, 2003.
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Workshop on East European politics, Discussant, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, April 25, 2003.
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‘Constructing ‘Europeanness’ Behind the Iron Curtain,’ Art in Context: Multi-disciplinary Investigations of the Zimmerli Collection, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers, February 13, 2003.
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‘Civil Society and the Postcommunist Transformations,’ a public lecture at the Baltic Forum Club, Riga, Latvia, October 10, 2002.
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Workshop discussion on Empire’s New Clothes. Unveiling EU Enlargement, E-book, edited by Jozsef Borocz and Melinda Kovacs, commentator Department of Sociology, Rutgers, October 30, 2002.
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‘Newest Trends in the Study of Civil Society in Eastern Europe,’ Department of Political Science, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, October 14, 2002.
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A Lecture Series on Teaching Courses on Political Culture, Social Movements, and Civil Society, within the program: The development of new curricula and courses for the Department of Sociology, the Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, July 2002.
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‘Civil Society as a Discourse and a Form of Social Organization,’ Polish Academy of Sciences, Seminar on postcommunist transformations, May 21, 2002.
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‘Four Socialisms and Their Postcommunist Afterlives,’ Rethinking Socialism Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, April 26, 2002.
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‘The Pope and the Black Madonna: The Icons of the Solidarity Revolution,’ Symposia: Religion, Repression, Revolution: The Churches in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union Before and During the Upheavals of 1989‑1991, The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, April 19, 2002.
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‘Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania: the arts of resistance and rebellion,’ lecture at the Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, January 15, 2002.
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'Political Science Research in Eastern Europe: European Integration,' panel chair and discussant, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, November 9-10, 2001.
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‘Poland: Perspectives on Progress,’ panelist, The Elon Series on Central and Eastern Europe, Elon Center for Public Affairs, Elon College, North Carolina, September 24, 2001.
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‘Eastern Europe,’ session on ‘Social Capital and Community in Europe and Beyond: Should We Be Worried?’ at the conference on Community and Citizenship in an Era of Globalization, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Tufts University European Center, Talloires, France, June 22-24, 2001.
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‘Negotiating European Identity on the margins of a Nation,' keynote speaker, conference on European Identity and Nationalism, Rutgers University, May 1-13, 2001.
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‘Conceptualizing the Post-communist State,’ discussant and chair, conference on State-Building in Post-communist States: Toward Comparative Analysis, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, April 27-28, 2001.
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‘The Power of Symbols: What was it Good for?’ conference From Peaceful Revolution to Success in a New Europe: Poland, 1980-2000, Columbia University, New York, December 1, 2000.
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'Solidarity – Twenty Years Later,' panelist, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Denver, November 19, 2000.
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'Authoritarian Legacies and Good Democracy: Southern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective,' Commentator, 96th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, August 31 - September 3, 2000.
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'Civil Society in Postcommunism as a Discourse and as a Mode of Social Organization,' the 6th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Krakow, Poland, July 26-29, 2000.
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‘Contentious Politics in East Central Europe,’ Workshop on ‘Contentious Politics in the Developing World,’ Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, October 13-15, 2000, with G. Ekiert.
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‘Silences of the Countryside and Provinces,’ moderator and commentator, conference on ‘The Silences of Solidarity,’ The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 21-23, 2000.
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‘Malinowski and Central Europe,’ ad hoc remarks at the Plenary Session, ‘Crossing Categorical Boundaries: ‘Central Europe’ as ‘the Periphery’,’ 6th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Krakow, Poland, July 26-29, 2000.
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'Cultural Legacies of State Socialism: Of History-making and Cultural-political Entrepreneurship in Postcommunist Poland and Russia.' Twelfth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 30 - April 1, 2000.
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‘Cultural Legacies of State Socialism: Of History-making and Cultural-political Entrepreneurship in Postcommunism,’ Conference on ‘Postcommunist Transitions a Decade Later: How Far East Can Western Europe Go?,’ The Program for The Study of Germany and Europe, Harvard University, Cambridge, October 15-17, 1999.
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‘Political Conflict in Contemporary Central Europe,’ Harriet Elliott Social Science Symposium on ‘Managing Political Conflict in Divided Societies,’ The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, February 24-25, 1999.
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'Does Culture Matter in Postcommunist Transformations? Bipolar Cultural Frames in Polish Post-1989 Politics,' Workshop "Ideas, Culture, Political Analysis," Princeton University, Princeton, May 15-16, 1998.
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'Civil Society in Postcommunism as a Discourse and as a Mode of Social Organization. Preliminary Remarks,' Conference "Vocabularies of Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe," The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 3-4, 1998.
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'Rebeliousness and Civility: Protest Politics in Poland under Communism and Postcommunism,' Conference "Poland: Social and Cultural Paradigms," Centre Marc Bloch and WZB, Berlin, November 6-8, 1997.
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'Totalitarian Legacies, Civil Legacies, Civil Society and Democracy in East Central Europe,' 92nd Annual Meeting of APSA, San Francisco, August 29-September 1, 1996, with G. Ekiert.
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'Strategies of Collective Protest in Democratizing Societies, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Former East Germany, 1989-97,' Mellon Workshop on Democratication School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, March 13, 1997.
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"Contentious Institutionalization: The Politics of Protest in East Central Europe," 28th National Convention of the AAASS, 14-17, November 1996.
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'Central Europe or a Habsburg Legacy,' Workshop on Central Europe, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, February 20, 1997.
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'Between the State and Networks of 'Cousins,'' Civil Society and the Fall of State Socialism in Central Europe Conference on Civil Society Before Democracy, Department of Politics and Department of History, Princeton University, October 6-7, 1996.
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'Strategies of Collective Protest in Democratizing Societies,' Princeton University, Princeton, March 29, 1996, with G. Ekiert.
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'Strategies of Collective Protest in Democratizing Societies,' Tenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 1996, with G. Ekiert.
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'Rebellious Civil Society and Consolidation of Democracy in Poland, 1989-93,' Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, February 1996.
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'Collective Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-93,' International Conference on Democracy, Markets, and Civil Societies in Post 1989 East Central Europe, Harvard University, Cambridge, May 17-19, 1996, with G. Ekiert.
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'Institutionalization of Protest During Democratic Consolidation,' Conference on Movement Societies or the Institutionalization of Protest, Cornell University, Ithaca, March 1996.
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'Understanding and Explaining Post-Communist Consolidation: Does Culture Matter,' 27th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, October 1995.
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'Rebellious Civil Society and the Consolidation of Democracy in Poland, 1989-93,' International Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October, 1995.
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'Politics of Protest in Post-Communist Poland,' Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, Poland, August 1995, with G. Ekiert.
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'Conservative Motifs in Polish Post-Communist Politics,' The CSST Colloquium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1995.
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