#UniLodz Podcasts

Historians in Conversation”, episode 36: Prof. Lieve TeugelsThe podcast "Historians in Conversation" is produced by Michael Green, prof. of the University of Lodz in Poland.How do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Prof. Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.   Episode 36: Lieve M. Teugels is Full Professor of Jewish Studies at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht. From 2000-2002 she was visiting scholar at JTSA in New York. Before that she had lectured at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on rabbinic literature, mainly midrash. She has been studying midrash from all phases of the rabbinic spectrum, from early, tannaitic, Midrashim, to later, post-classical Midrashim, and has focused in particular on the study of parables in midrash. Her work on midrash includes Aggadat Bereshit. Translated from the Hebrew with an Introduction and Notes (Jewish and Christian Perspectives, 4), Brill, Leiden 2001; Bible and Midrash. The Story of ‘The Wooing of Rebekah’ (Gen. 24) (Biblical Exegesis and Theology, 35), Peeters, Leuven;The Meshalim in the Mekhiltot. An Annotated Edition and Translation of the Parables in Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael and Mekhilta de Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai (TSAJ 176), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2019; and many articles. In 2024 Lieve was Marco Feingold Distinguished Fellow at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. This led to publications and a new research line on Christian anti-Jewish rhetoric and iconography, as well as its link with contemporary conspiracy theories. Some initial publications in this field are “The Judensau. A Christian Antisemitic Concept with Ancient Roots,” Biblische Notizen 203 (2024) 107-144 , “Solomon Schechter's Higher Criticism-Higher Antisemitism and Wellhausen's Prolegomena. A Historical Examination,” NTT/JSTR 79/3 (2025) 279-299. Her inaugural lecture at the PThU, “From Theological Jew to Jewish Theology On the Importance of Jewish Studies at the Protestant Theological University,” also related to this topic and can be read here.

Historians in Conversation”, episode 35: Prof. Erla Hulda HalldórsdóttirThe podcast "Historians in Conversation" is produced by Michael Green, prof. of the University of Lodz in Poland.How do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Prof. Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.   Episode 35: Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir is professor of Women's and Gender History at the University of Iceland. Her research focuses on personal narratives in Iceland. The conversation focuses on how the environment shapes the scholar – from family to physical surroundings, and how one pursues an academic career, when the decision has been made already at a later stage in life. Erla Hulda depicts her fascinating journey from rural Iceland to the university professorship, while critically but lovingly assessing the realities of her academic life.Her English language publications include:“The stroke of my pen: On transferring the past into the present”, Coresource, 4 (2026): 129-142.Beyond the Centre: women in nineteenth-century Iceland and the grand narratives of European women’s and gender history, Women's History Review, 27, 2 (2018): 154-175.

“Historians in Conversation”, episode 34: Michael MascuchThe podcast "Historians in Conversation" is produced by Michael Green, prof. of the University of Lodz in Poland.How do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Prof. Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.   Episode 34: Michael Mascuch is associate professor at the University of California in Berkeley. He specialises on early modern history, while working at the Department of Rhetoric, with keen interest in egodocuments. He also serves as co-editor at the Brill series Egodocuments and History. The conversation revolves around the questions of personal and academic choices that shaped his career, and the specificities of American academia and the changes it underwent in recent years. He is the author and editor of several books, and numerous articles, among them:Origins of the Individualist Self: Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591-1791, Stanford, 1997.Controlling Time and Shaping the Self, edited together with Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker, Leiden, 2011.

Historians in ConversationEpisode 33: Prof. Ignasi Fernandez TerricabrasHow do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Prof. Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.  Ignasi Fernandez Terricabras is professor of history at the Autonomous University in Barcelona, Spain. He was educated in Spain and France. The conversation revolves around questions of historian's formation in Spain and abroad, the importance of internationalisation of science, mastering of foreign languages and personal reflections. His recent publications in English include: "No King for a Palace: Royal Palaces and Chapels in Barcelona in the Seventeenth Century", in Politics and piety at the royal sites of the Spanish monarchy in the seventeenth century, J.E. Hortal Muñoz (ed.). 2021, 99-116. 

Historians in ConversationEpisode 32: dr hab. Kazimierz BemHow do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Prof. Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.  Kazimierz Bem is a doctor of Law (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and habilitated doctor of history (Polish Academy of Science), who was born in Lodz, Poland. His interest in history was sparked during his childhood, which was divided between three countries, yet despite numerous publications already early during his academic education, he only became “professional” historian at the later stage of it. He is an Evangelical-Reformed pastor, living in the United States, and also an author of numerous historical works on the subject of Protestantism in Poland. His publications include:K. Bem, Calvinism in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1548-1648: The Churches and the Faithful (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History), Leiden: Brill, 2020.K. Bem, Słownik biograficzny duchownych ewangelicko-reformowanych. Pastorzy i diakonisy Jednoty Małopolskiej i Jednoty Warszawskiej 1815-1939, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, 2015.

Historians in Conversation Episode 31 – Dr Kiriakos PapoulidisHow do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Prof. Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories. Dr Kyriakos Papoulidis is a historian working on a range of topics related to Modern History and History of Modern Greek literature at the Adam Mickiewicz  University  in Poznań. The conversation focuses on the questions of historical heritage and its impact on a growing up child’s perception of the world and his own future, the university study in France and the career path that led a Greek scholar to Poland.

Historians in Conversation Episode 30 – Dr Edyta GawronHow do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Prof. Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.    Dr Edyta Gawron works at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She specializes on Jewish history in recent times and fulfils several functions outside the academia, with her activities mostly dedicated to Jewish life and Holocaust commemoration in Poland and abroad. The conversation revolves around the questions of career building, identity and personal development within the field of Jewish history.

Dr hab. Emilia Kledzik jest finalistką X edycji konkursu o Nagrodę im. Prof. Tadeusza Kotarbińskiego. Pracuje na Wydziale Filologii Polskiej i Klasycznej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu."Humanistyka w dobie dezinformacji", to prelekcja poświęcona dezinformacji w literaturze i szerzej w naukach humanistycznych. Została wygłoszona jako wystąpienie główne podczas spotkania Kolegium Refleksji Humanistycznej. Wydarzenie odbyło się 29 listopada w Łodzi, gromadziło finalistów i kapitułę Nagrody im. Prof. Tadeusza Kotarbińskiego."(...) Literatura stanowi, w moim przekonaniu, doskonały materiał do nauki krytycznego czytania. Żeby umieścić ją w tej roli trzeba wykonać jednak metodologiczny zwrot i przede wszystkim porzucić dawną poststrukturalistyczną wykładnię (...) Potrzebujemy powrotu autora, jego głosu rozumianego jako wypowiedzi humanisty o otaczającym świecie. Potrzebujemy powrotu rzeczywistości w świecie przedstawionym, która nie będzie tylko kwestią interpretacji, a umiejętnością czytania kontekstowego, w splocie różnych dyskursów. I wreszcie, to powiem za Ryszardem Koziołkiem, potrzebujemy "agonu" w którym będziemy mogli uważnie monitorować wpływ literatury na dawne i przede wszystkim współczesne życie społeczne i polityczne. Może się okazać, że literatura bywała źródłem tego, co dziś nazywamy dezinformacją. Jeśli uda nam się to udowodnić, to tym lepiej dla literatury i naszej umiejętności jej krytycznej lektury."

"Humanistyka w dobie dezinformacji", to krótka prelekcja poświęcona dezinformacji i emocjom w polityce. Została wygłoszona jako wystąpienie wprowadzające w spotkanie Kolegium Refleksji Humanistycznej. Wydarzenie odbyło się 29 listopada w Łodzi, gromadziło finalistów i kapitułę Nagrody im. Prof. Tadeusza Kotarbińskiego."Złożoność deiznformacji, jej konotacji historycznych oraz jej ścisły związek ze sferą afektywną człowieka , to jak mniemam jedno z ważniejszych zadań humanistyki i nauk społecznych"  – uważa prelegent.Dr Przemysław Piotr Damski bada emocje w stosunkach międzynarodowych i polityce, z wykształcenia historyk, adiunkt na Wydziale Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politologicznych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.Czym w ogóle jest pojęcie deiznformacji? Posłuchajmy...

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