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Who was this man and what was the purpose of this diplomatic mission?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em><strong>A Polish Envoy in England \u2013 Five Hundredth Anniversary of Ioannes Danticus\u2019s Visit to \u2018a very dear Island\u2019<\/strong><\/em>, a project of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London together with The Warburg Institute, aims to address these questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">By convening a distinguished group of scholars, this project hopes to bring to the wider public the story of the Renaissance scholar, humanist and diplomat Ioannes Dantiscus (1485 \u2013 1548) to mark the five hundredth anniversary of Dantiscus\u2019s diplomatic mission to England and to discuss the wider value and importance of diplomacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The project will run from 16 to 30 November and features a social media campaign, a publication and a panel discussion on Ioannes Dantiscus and his trip to England. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It will be launched on 16 November, Poland\u2019s Foreign Service Day, as a tribute to the invaluable work of diplomats.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><strong><em>The Panel Discussion (29 November 17.30-19.00, in person &amp; online)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A distinguished diplomat at the Polish court, bishop of Che\u0142mno and of Warmia, Ioannes Dantiscus (1485-1548) was an acclaimed author of Neo-Latin poetic compositions who maintained contact with numerous prominent personalities of his times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He corresponded, among many others, with the \u2018Prince of the Humanists\u2019, Desiderius Erasmus, the Spanish conquistador Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s, the Praeceptor\u00a0 Germaniae Philip Melanchthon, and Nicolaus Copernicus, who formulated the heliocentric model of the Solar System. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Dantiscus\u2019s correspondence, of which more than 6,100 letters are extant, alongside his other texts, has been researched and systematically published online as part of the project titled\u00a0<em>Corpus of Ioannes Dantiscus\u2019 Texts and Correspondence<\/em>, carried out at the University of Warsaw over the past thirty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This panel aims to present the structure of this digital repository and discuss the possibilities of how to explore this valuable resource.\u00a0<em><br><\/em><br><em><strong>The Speakers:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ambassador\u00a0<strong>Piotr Wilczek\u00a0<\/strong>is a diplomat and literary historian and translator. He received his MA, PhD and Habilitation (postdoctoral) degrees from the University of Silesia in Katowice and conducted his postgraduate research at the University of Oxford (St Anne\u2019s College), University of East Anglia (The British Centre for Literary Translation) and the University of London (The Warburg Institute). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Before joining the foreign service, he worked as a professor of Polish literature at the Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia, and later at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His research focuses on early modern Polish intellectual history and he has published widely on the Polish Renaissance and Reformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His works include<em>\u00a0Polonia Reformata: Essays on the Polish Reformation(s)\u00a0<\/em>(G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht, 2016). In 2006, he was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Piotr Wilczek joined the Polish foreign service in 2016, serving as Poland\u2019s Ambassador to the United States of America in the years 2016-2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On 22 December 2021, he was appointed Poland\u2019s Ambassador to the Court of St James\u2019s, a mission he officially commenced on 15 February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Norman Davies\u00a0<\/strong>is an historian and author of several books on the history of Poland and Central Europe. His early books \u2013\u00a0<em>White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20<\/em>\u00a0(1972),\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Playground: a History of Poland<\/em>\u00a0(1981), and\u00a0<em>Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland\u2019s Present\u00a0<\/em>(1984) \u2013 were banned in the Soviet Bloc and long unavailable to Polish readers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Norman\u2019s academic career has centred on the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, where he has successively been Lecturer, Reader and Professor. A quarter of a century in London was supplemented by regular assignments abroad at Columbia, McGill, Hokkaido, Stanford, Harvard, Adelaide and the ANU in Canberra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He was supernumerary fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and Peterhouse in Cambridge from 2006 to 2008, and later Honorary Fellow at St Antony\u2019s College, Oxford. He also holds the UNESCO Chair of Translation Studies in Krak\u00f3w. Elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1997, he was awarded the CMG by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001 for 'services to history&#8217;, and has collected several Polish distinctions, including the Orders of Polonia Restituta, Merit, and the White Eagle.\u00a0<em><br><\/em><br><strong>Anna Skolimowska<\/strong>\u00a0is a literary scholar and classical philologist. She completed her MA in Classical Philology at the Institute of Classical Philology, University of Warsaw, and completed her PhD at the Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw. In 2015, she defended her habilitation at the Faculty of &#8222;Artes Liberales&#8221;, University of Warsaw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She is currently director of the Laboratory of Source Editing and Digital Humanities, Faculty of &#8222;Artes Liberales&#8221;, University of Warsaw. 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She is a member of the Polish Historical Society, the Polish Philological Society and the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS), where she represents the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Tradition of the Faculty &#8222;Artes Liberales&#8221; on the advisory board of IANLS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Howard Hotson&nbsp;<\/strong>is a historian and professor of intellectual modern history at the University of Oxford with a speciality in the intellectual history of central Europe and the international Reformed world c.1550-1660. Two of his monographs have been published by the Oxford-Warburg Studies:&nbsp;<em>Commonplace Learning: Ramism and its German Ramifications, 1543-1630<\/em>&nbsp;(Oxford: OUP, 2007), and its sequel:&nbsp;<em>The Reformation of Common Learning: Post-Ramist-Method and the Reception of the New Philosophy, 1618-c.1670<\/em>&nbsp;(Oxford: OUP, 2020). Howard has directed several digital humanities projects using data analysis to understand shifting patterns of intellectual activity. Since 2009, he has directed the collaborative research project in Oxford, \u2018Cultures of Knowledge: Networking the Republic of Letters, 1550-1750\u2019, and is an architect of the Oxford Cabinet Project, developing a digital infrastructure for teaching with objects and images. 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Who was this man and what was the purpose of this diplomatic mission?\\nA Polish Envoy in England \u2013 Five Hundredth Anniversary of Ioannes Danticus\u2019s Visit to \u2018a very dear Island\u2019, a project of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London together with The Warburg Institute, aims to address these questions. \\nBy convening a distinguished group of scholars, this project hopes to bring to the wider public the story of the Renaissance scholar, humanist and diplomat Ioannes Dantiscus (1485 \u2013 1548) to mark the five hundredth anniversary of Dantiscus\u2019s diplomatic mission to England and to discuss the wider value and importance of diplomacy. \\nThe project will run from 16 to 30 November and features a social media campaign, a publication and a panel discussion on Ioannes Dantiscus and his trip to England. \\nIt will be launched on 16 November, Poland\u2019s Foreign Service Day, as a tribute to the invaluable work of diplomats.\u00a0\u00a0\\nThe Panel Discussion (29 November 17.30-19.00, in person &amp; online)\u00a0\\nA distinguished diplomat at the Polish court, bishop of Che\u0142mno and of Warmia, Ioannes Dantiscus (1485-1548) was an acclaimed author of Neo-Latin poetic compositions who maintained contact with numerous prominent personalities of his times. \\nHe corresponded, among many others, with the \u2018Prince of the Humanists\u2019, Desiderius Erasmus, the Spanish conquistador Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s, the Praeceptor\u00a0 Germaniae Philip Melanchthon, and Nicolaus Copernicus, who formulated the heliocentric model of the Solar System. \\nDantiscus\u2019s correspondence, of which more than 6,100 letters are extant, alongside his other texts, has been researched and systematically published online as part of the project titled\u00a0Corpus of Ioannes Dantiscus\u2019 Texts and Correspondence, carried out at the University of Warsaw over the past thirty years.\\nThis panel aims to present the structure of this digital repository and discuss the possibilities of how to explore this valuable resource.\u00a0The Speakers:\u00a0\\nAmbassador\u00a0Piotr Wilczek\u00a0is a diplomat and literary historian and translator. He received his MA, PhD and Habilitation (postdoctoral) degrees from the University of Silesia in Katowice and conducted his postgraduate research at the University of Oxford (St Anne\u2019s College), University of East Anglia (The British Centre for Literary Translation) and the University of London (The Warburg Institute). \\nBefore joining the foreign service, he worked as a professor of Polish literature at the Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia, and later at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. \\nHis research focuses on early modern Polish intellectual history and he has published widely on the Polish Renaissance and Reformation. \\nHis works include\u00a0Polonia Reformata: Essays on the Polish Reformation(s)\u00a0(G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht, 2016). In 2006, he was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. \\nPiotr Wilczek joined the Polish foreign service in 2016, serving as Poland\u2019s Ambassador to the United States of America in the years 2016-2021. \\nOn 22 December 2021, he was appointed Poland\u2019s Ambassador to the Court of St James\u2019s, a mission he officially commenced on 15 February 2022.\\nNorman Davies\u00a0is an historian and author of several books on the history of Poland and Central Europe. His early books \u2013\u00a0White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20\u00a0(1972),\u00a0God\u2019s Playground: a History of Poland\u00a0(1981), and\u00a0Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland\u2019s Present\u00a0(1984) \u2013 were banned in the Soviet Bloc and long unavailable to Polish readers. \\nNorman\u2019s academic career has centred on the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, where he has successively been Lecturer, Reader and Professor. 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Who was this man and what was the purpose of this diplomatic mission?\nA Polish Envoy in England \u2013 Five Hundredth Anniversary of Ioannes Danticus\u2019s Visit to \u2018a very dear Island\u2019, a project of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London together with The Warburg Institute, aims to address these questions. \nBy convening a distinguished group of scholars, this project hopes to bring to the wider public the story of the Renaissance scholar, humanist and diplomat Ioannes Dantiscus (1485 \u2013 1548) to mark the five hundredth anniversary of Dantiscus\u2019s diplomatic mission to England and to discuss the wider value and importance of diplomacy. \nThe project will run from 16 to 30 November and features a social media campaign, a publication and a panel discussion on Ioannes Dantiscus and his trip to England. \nIt will be launched on 16 November, Poland\u2019s Foreign Service Day, as a tribute to the invaluable work of diplomats.\u00a0\u00a0\nThe Panel Discussion (29 November 17.30-19.00, in person &amp; online)\u00a0\nA distinguished diplomat at the Polish court, bishop of Che\u0142mno and of Warmia, Ioannes Dantiscus (1485-1548) was an acclaimed author of Neo-Latin poetic compositions who maintained contact with numerous prominent personalities of his times. \nHe corresponded, among many others, with the \u2018Prince of the Humanists\u2019, Desiderius Erasmus, the Spanish conquistador Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s, the Praeceptor\u00a0 Germaniae Philip Melanchthon, and Nicolaus Copernicus, who formulated the heliocentric model of the Solar System. \nDantiscus\u2019s correspondence, of which more than 6,100 letters are extant, alongside his other texts, has been researched and systematically published online as part of the project titled\u00a0Corpus of Ioannes Dantiscus\u2019 Texts and Correspondence, carried out at the University of Warsaw over the past thirty years.\nThis panel aims to present the structure of this digital repository and discuss the possibilities of how to explore this valuable resource.\u00a0The Speakers:\u00a0\nAmbassador\u00a0Piotr Wilczek\u00a0is a diplomat and literary historian and translator. He received his MA, PhD and Habilitation (postdoctoral) degrees from the University of Silesia in Katowice and conducted his postgraduate research at the University of Oxford (St Anne\u2019s College), University of East Anglia (The British Centre for Literary Translation) and the University of London (The Warburg Institute). \nBefore joining the foreign service, he worked as a professor of Polish literature at the Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia, and later at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. \nHis research focuses on early modern Polish intellectual history and he has published widely on the Polish Renaissance and Reformation. \nHis works include\u00a0Polonia Reformata: Essays on the Polish Reformation(s)\u00a0(G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht, 2016). In 2006, he was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. \nPiotr Wilczek joined the Polish foreign service in 2016, serving as Poland\u2019s Ambassador to the United States of America in the years 2016-2021. \nOn 22 December 2021, he was appointed Poland\u2019s Ambassador to the Court of St James\u2019s, a mission he officially commenced on 15 February 2022.\nNorman Davies\u00a0is an historian and author of several books on the history of Poland and Central Europe. His early books \u2013\u00a0White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20\u00a0(1972),\u00a0God\u2019s Playground: a History of Poland\u00a0(1981), and\u00a0Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland\u2019s Present\u00a0(1984) \u2013 were banned in the Soviet Bloc and long unavailable to Polish readers. \nNorman\u2019s academic career has centred on the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, where he has successively been Lecturer, Reader and Professor. A quarter of a century in London was supplemented by regular assignments abroad at Columbia, McGill, Hokkaido, Stanford, Harvard, Adelaide and the ANU in Canberra. \nHe was supernumerary fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and Peterhouse in Cambridge from 2006 to 2008, and later Honorary Fellow at St Antony\u2019s College, Oxford. He also holds the UNESCO Chair of Translation Studies in Krak\u00f3w. Elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1997, he was awarded the CMG by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001 for 'services to history', and has collected several Polish distinctions, including the Orders of Polonia Restituta, Merit, and the White Eagle.\u00a0Anna Skolimowska\u00a0is a literary scholar and classical philologist. She completed her MA in Classical Philology at the Institute of Classical Philology, University of Warsaw, and completed her PhD at the Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw. In 2015, she defended her habilitation at the Faculty of \"Artes Liberales\", University of Warsaw. \nShe is currently director of the Laboratory of Source Editing and Digital Humanities, Faculty of \"Artes Liberales\", University of Warsaw. Anna specialises in Latin palaeography, source studies, and scientific editing, both traditional and with the use of modern digital tools, and has for many years been conducting editorial and interpretative work on the correspondence and literary legacy of Ioannes Dantiscus. Her research interests include the language and literary craftsmanship of the Renaissance Respublica Litteraria, book history and book collecting. She teaches palaeography and scientific editing with elements of digital humanities. She is a member of the Polish Historical Society, the Polish Philological Society and the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS), where she represents the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Tradition of the Faculty \"Artes Liberales\" on the advisory board of IANLS.\nHoward Hotson is a historian and professor of intellectual modern history at the University of Oxford with a speciality in the intellectual history of central Europe and the international Reformed world c.1550-1660. Two of his monographs have been published by the Oxford-Warburg Studies: Commonplace Learning: Ramism and its German Ramifications, 1543-1630 (Oxford: OUP, 2007), and its sequel: The Reformation of Common Learning: Post-Ramist-Method and the Reception of the New Philosophy, 1618-c.1670 (Oxford: OUP, 2020). Howard has directed several digital humanities projects using data analysis to understand shifting patterns of intellectual activity. 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