drMichał Wenderski

Michał Wenderski
Assistant professor

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • M.A.Sc. in Architecture and Urban Planning, Poznań University of Technology, 2010
  • B.A. in Dutch Studies, AMU Poznań, 2012
  • Ph.D. in Dutch and Flemish Literature, AMU Poznań, 2017

Research interests

  • Polish-Dutch cultural diplomacy, relationships and exchange
  • Polish, Dutch and Flemish twentieth century aesthetic avant-garde
  • Cultural mobility between Poland and the Low Countries
  • Theory and history of modern literature, art and architecture

Teaching experience

  • Practical Dutch
  • Technical translation
  • Modern art and architecture in the Low Countries
  • Cultural History of the Netherlands since 1940
  • Cultural History of Flanders since 1940

Guest lectures

  • “Are 'isms' a burden for modern art historiography?”, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2020
  • “Interwar Avant-Garde: a supranational network of artists, magazines and formations”, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2020
  • “Ma, De Stijl, Blok and others: on the supranational network of avant-garde magazines and formations”, Kassák Múzeum, Budapest, 2018
  • “Historische avant-garde in de Lage Landen en Centraal-Europa – contacten, parallellen en invloeden”, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2018
  • “Hoe ga je aan de slag met archiefonderzoek?”, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2018
  • “Au-delà de De Stijl. L’avant-garde néerlandaise et belge de l'entre-deux-guerres dans le contexte européen”, Faculté des Lettres, Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2018
  • “Awangarda niczym Facebook, Twitter i Instagram – o polsko-holenderskich relacjach w ramach międzywojennej sieci awangardowych czasopism i artystów”, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2018
  • “Czym jest Dada, czym było i jak powstało?”, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2015
  • “STIJL west – oost BLOK. Wisselwerkingen in het Europese avant-gardenetwerk”, University of Utrecht, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication (visiting researcher), 2014

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • Poetry & Painting: Conversations, University of Oxford, Oxford 2020
  • The 44th STP&A Conference, Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts, University of New Orleans, LA, 2019
  • Art in the Periphery: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2019
  • Regionaal Colloquium Neerlandicum, Comenius Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek in Centraal-Europa, Bratislava, 2019
  • Relational Forms IV: Literature and the Arts Since the 1960s: Protest, Identity and the Imagination, University of Porto, 2018
  • The Sixth EAM Conference; European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, University of Münster, 2018
  • Trefpunt Praag: zesde doctorandi- en habilitandicolloquium; Charles University, Prague, 2018
  • The Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Strategies and Participatory Art; Centre for Avant-Garde Studies, Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow​, 2017
  • Invisible Republic. Music, Lettrism, Avant-Gardes; Centre for English Studies, University of Lisbon, 2017
  • Global Avant-Gardes: Visual and Verbal (ACLA Conference 2016); Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2016
  • Avant-garde Migrations; Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2015
  • Local Contexts / International Networks. Avant-Garde Magazines in Central Europe (1910–1935); Kassák Múzeum, Budapest, 2015
  • Negentiende Colloquium Neerlandicum; Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek, Leiden, 2015
  • Regionaal Colloquium Neerlandicum; Comenius Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek in Centraal-Europa, Brno/Olomouc, 2015
  • Cross-Over. Regionaal, (trans)nationaal, globaal. Definities en methodologieën, grenzen en gemeenschappelijke ruimtes, schrijvers en erfgoed; Poznań, 2015
  • Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Avant-Garde and Modernism: The Impact of WWI; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, 2014
  • The Fourth EAM Conference; European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Helsinki, 2014
  • Neerlandistische Ontmoetingen; Comenius Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek in Centraal-Europa, Budapest, 2014
  • The European Artistic Avant-Garde c. 1910-30: Formations, Networks and Trans-National Strategies; Södertörn University, Stockholm, 2013
  • Time and Temporality in European Modernism and the Avant-Gardes (1900-1950); Modernism Research Group of the Catholic University in Leuven, 2013
  • Regionaal Colloquium Neerlandicum; Comenius Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek in Centraal-Europa, Poznań, 2013

Research grants

  • 2019-2022: NCN/Opus 16: Art and politics: Polish-Dutch cultural transfer during the Cold War in the face of international policy (2018/31/B/HS2/00121)
  • 2015-2019: NCN/Preludium 7: Mutual relations and cultural exchange within the constructivist avant-garde network in Poland, Flanders and the Netherlands in the 1920s. A case study in European modernist mobility in the interwar period (ID: 252607)
  • 2016 & 2014 (two grants): Dutch Language Union / Nederlandse Taalunie: Wisselwerkingen tussen de constructivistische groeperingen uit Polen en de Lage Landen in het netwerk van de Europese historische avant-garde.
  • 2015: Visegrad Fund (WA participant; grant awarded to Kassák Múzeum in Budapest): Local Contexts / International Networks. Avant-Garde Magazines in Central Europe (1910–1935).

Conference/Congress organisation

  • Assistant to the Organising Committee: Regionaal Colloquium Neerlandicum, Poznań, 2013
  • Assistant to the Organising Committee: Cross-Over. Regionaal, (trans)nationaal, globaal. Definities en methodologieën, grenzen en gemeenschappelijke ruimtes, schrijvers en erfgoed, Poznań, 2015

Professional organisations

  • Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek
  • Comenius Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek in Centraal-Europa
  • European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies
  • Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts

Other professional experience

  • Member of the National Science Center (NCN) panel of experts
  • Seminar "The International Position of Dutch Language and Culture", Utrecht University (August 2019)
  • WA Open Lecture: "Awangarda niczym Facebook, Twitter i Instagram - o polsko-niderlandzkich relacjach w ramach międzywojennej sieci awangardowych czasopism i artystów." (April 2019)
  • Contribution to the exhibition Organizatorzy życia. De Stijl, polska awangarda i design / Organizers of Life. De Stijl, the Polish Avant-garde and Design held at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź (November 2017 – February 2018)
  • WA Friday Lunch Talk: Międzywojenna awangarda w Polsce i Niderlandach – wzajemne wpływy oraz kontakty (February 2016)
  • Chairing a discussion panel with Belgian painter Luc Tuymans (Poznań, November 2014) and writer Annelies Verbeke (Neerlandicidag, Wroclaw, April 2014)
  • Practicing translator and interpreter
  • Assistant to the Organising Committee: BELOW Kultura Flandrii i Holandii w Poznaniu i Wielkopolsce, maj 2013

Scholarships

  • Scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young researchers (2019-2022)
  • Erasmus+ programme, Staff Mobility for Teaching, 2017/2018, 2019/2020
  • AMU Rector’s Scholarship for outstanding PhD Students, 2015/2016
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation Scholarship for 2015/2016
  • Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Strasbourg, France, 2008-09
  • Strasbourg City Council 'Club de Strasbourg' Scholarship, France, 2008-09