RECORDING: Dr. Piotr KULIGOWSKI on Representation and Sovereignty (United Kingdom of the Netherlands - Belgium - Poland), 1814-1847 (Brussels: VUB, 15 OCT 2024)

 

The recording of yesterday's lecture by our guest dr. Piotr Kuligowski on 15 October 2024 is online on our Youtube-channel.

Abstract:

This presentation introduces a book project led by Piotr Kuligowski, aiming to elucidate how the intertwined concepts of sovereignty and representation were utilized and debated by representative assemblies in European interfaces during the turbulent period of social revolutions and national upheavals. Focusing on the cases of Belgian and Polish representative bodies from the Congress of Vienna to the Spring of Nations, the project explores how these concepts were adapted to post-Vienna and post-1830 arrangements. In both contexts, their political geography—being situated in-between empires and exposed to their influences and interventions—resonates in the perception of sovereignty and representation. Additionally, the accumulated historical experiences of political fragmentation and uncertainty about the future intersected with the aspirations of emerging liberal elites and their perceptions of statehood and political power.

On the speaker:

Dr. Piotr Kuligowski obtained his PhD in 2019 at the Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He is connected to the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and specialises in nineteenth-century history; intellectual history; history of concepts; methodology of history.