The Anthropos Doctoral School warmly invites you to attend the guest speakers and doctoral session:
Non-European Approaches in European Academia: Strategies for De-Europeanizing Research in Academia, taking place on 16 April 2026 at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.
The event will explore methodological and epistemological approaches to decentring Europe in academic research, focusing on non-European perspectives, archival practices, and new technological tools. It will bring together scholars working across history, literature, and digital humanities, as well as doctoral researchers whose projects engage critically with Eurocentric frameworks.
Date: 16 April 2026
Time: 10:00–15:00
Venue:
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Jaracza 1, 00-378 Warsaw
Conference Room (5th floor)
Programme
Guest Speakers Session (10:00–12:00)
Sources and Archives
Natalia Królikowska (Faculty of History, University of Warsaw)
The Human Landscape of the Black Sea–Caspian Region in European and Non-European Sources from the Early Modern Period.
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology, and Arts, University of Coimbra)
With, Along, Against? The Politics of Method in Colonial Archives.
Torsten dos Santos Arnold (Faculty of History, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Voyages of “Discoveries” – Europe and South East Asia in the Early Modern World.
Modern Technology
Guillaume Candela (College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
Mapping Enslavement and Forced Labour in Colonial Paraguay: Using AI to Unveil Hidden Slavery Sites and Experiences.
12:00–12:15 | Coffee break
Doctoral Session (12:15–13:15)
Non-European Perspectives across History and Literature in Doctoral Research
Paulina Chrząszcz
(Un)wanted History – From French Deportees to Nowadays Migrants.
Eduardo Sartoretto
Maritime Workers in the Portuguese Colonial Empire (18th–19th Centuries): A Cross-Archival Perspective from European and Non-European Sources.
Szymon Głąb
Acclimatisation in the Tropics from a Colonial Perspective: Germano Correia and Archibald Grenfell Price.
Apolonia Ambroziak
Poetic Prose: Rethinking Stylistic Concepts Through Arabic Lenses.
Piotr Wąsowicz-Kiryło
Brazilian YA Literature with Gay Protagonists: Themes and New Perspectives for the European Academic Context.
13:15–13:45 | Discussion
13:45–14:00 | Coffee break
Interactive Session (14:00–15:00)
Danai-Maria Kontou (Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Unlearning the Explorer: Decentring Europe Through Creative Geographies & Storywork.
This interactive talk examines how Eurocentric research traditions continue to shape fieldwork, interpretation, and knowledge production, even before researchers cross geographical borders. Drawing on case studies from Svalbard, Ecuador, Kenya, and Canada, it explores how academic habits of description, extraction, and authority are historically structured, and how they often reproduce Europe as the default centre of analysis.
Engaging with insights from Indigenous, African, and Andean epistemologies, the talk discusses concepts such as opacity, relational accountability, refusal, and community control of research. Participants will be invited to experiment with creative geographies and zine-based cartography to reflect on alternative map projections, positionality, and the possibilities of decentring Europe not through inclusion alone, but through transforming the underlying terms on which knowledge is made and legitimised.
Closing: 15:00
Organizer
Agata Błoch
on behalf of the Anthropos Doctoral School
Programme in PDF
