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

  • International cultural diplomacy, relations and exchanges
  • 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 Low Countries

Guest lectures

  • Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, 2024
  • Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2020, 2023
  • Faculté des Lettres, Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2018
  • Kassák Múzeum, Budapest, 2018
  • Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2018
  • Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2018, 2015
  • Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, University of Utrecht 2014

Selected international conferences and congresses

  • L’exposition à l’ouvrage. Histoire, formes et enjeux du catalogue d’exposition, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, 2023
  • V Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Historiadores da Arte, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2023
  • 21st Interdisciplinary Conference for Netherlandic Studies, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison (WI), 2023
  • The 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, University of Antwerp, 2022
  • The 8th European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Conference, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2022
  • 21e Colloquium Neerlandicum, Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 2022
  • The 44th Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts Conference, University of New Orleans (LA), 2019
  • The 6th European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Conference, University of Münster, 2018
  • Global Avant-Gardes: Visual and Verbal (ACLA Conference 2016); Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), 2016
  • 19e Colloquium Neerlandicum; Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek, Leiden University, 2015
  • The 4th European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Conference, University of Helsinki, 2014

Research grants

  • 2024-2027: NCN/Sonata 19: Cultural Relations between ‘Smaller Players’ of the Cold War Conflict. Case Study of Poland and Belgium (2023/51/D/HS2/00091)
  • 2019-2023: 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).

Other

  • Member of the National Science Center (NCN) panel of experts
  • Scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young researchers (2019-2022)
  • 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)