PAS Excellence in Science Department and Oxford University European Office kindly invite researchers for a workshop devoted to the ERC grants in Humanities and Social Sciences. The Workshop will take place on September 14-15th 2017 in Warsaw.

[Registration open]

September 14th 2017

ERC  Workshop

The workshop on the first day will take place at the Institute of History of PAS (Rynek Starego Miasta 29/31). The meeting (for up to 80 participants) will open with the introductory workshop by the experts from the Oxford University European Office. For the next part we invited members of the ERC Scientific Council as well as ERC laureates and panellists to give presentations and share their stories, experiences and advice with the audience.

Individual consultations

The second part of the first day will involve a more individual approach: about 15 participants who are preparing their ERC applications, will have an opportunity to present and discuss their proposals and research ideas with the British scholars during a series of one-on-one consultations.

September 15th 2017

„Breakfast with Oxford”

In the morning of the second day, we invite participants to join us for a networking event with the invited scholars and administrative staff from the Oxford University. The meeting aims at establishing new, stimulating research contacts, hopefully resulting in a subsequent collaboration between British and Polish researchers.

The „ERC proposal step by step” Workshop (in Polish)

In the early afternoon we invite the selected participants for a detailed workshop on the proposal preparation – „ERC application step by step” in the palace of Culture and Science (pl. Defilad 1), which will cover the practical aspects of the application. The „ERC proposal step by step” workshops are regularly organized by the Excellence in Science Department. Because of their character only 12 places will be available.

Registration for all the events is possible through the application form available on-line: https://goo.gl/forms/zLqkP4FRun3xFFaA3. Deadline for the registration is September 1^st, due to the limited number of places, the organisers reserve the right to select the participants for each part of the workshop. Short bios of the invited experts from the Oxford University are listed below.

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Helena Hamerow is Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on the archaeology of rural communities in early medieval Europe.
Professor Hamerow is currently the PI of a four-year ERC-funded project: “Feeding Anglo-Saxon England. The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution” (FeedSax).  The aim of the project is to trace the emergence and spread of a package of three key innovations that enabled the farmers of early medieval England dramatically to increase cereal yields.  

Dariusz Wójcik is Professor at the School of Geography and the Environment and Fellow of St Peter's College Oxford. His research focuses on economic geography, corporate governance, and finance. Dariusz Wójcik holds a Master's Degree in Geography from Jagiellonian University (1997), and Master's Degree in Economics from Cracow University of Economics (1996).
Professor Wójcik is the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project “Cities in Global Financial Networks: Finance and Development in the 21st Century” (CityNet), investigating how financial and business services, including law, accounting, and business consulting, have been affected by the global financial crisis and the Eurozone crisis.

Natalia Nowakowska is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Oxford. Focusing on late medieval and early modern Europe, her particular research interests concentrate on the history of Poland. She has worked on the fifteenth-century Polish monarchy, the early Reformation and printing revolution.
In 2013 Professor Nowakowska has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project: “The Jagiellonians: Dynasty, Memory and Identity in Central Europe” (JAGEUROPE).  

Karl Kügle is Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Music as well as Professor of Musicology (History of Music before 1800) at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Professor Kügle is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Advanced Grant project entitled: “Music and Late Medieval European Court Cultures: Towards a Trans-Disciplinary and Post-National Cultural Poetics of the Performative Arts” (MALMECC).

Cristina Dondi is ERC Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln at the University of Oxford.  She holds a degree in Medieval History from Università Cattolica of Milan, and a PhD, also in Medieval History, from King's College, London. Her research focused on the liturgy of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades, and its adoption by the Military Religious Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers.
Professor Dondi is the Principal Investigator of an ERC Consolidator grant project entitled: “The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance” (15CBOOKTRADE).