Mazheika, Hanna
Dr. Hanna Mazheika
University of Turku, Finland
Country of origin: Belarus
Duration of the scholarship
24.11.2023-23.01.2024
Short Vita
09.2023 – Present: Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Turku Intersectoral Excellence Scheme Fellow at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of European and World History, University of Turku, Finland
04.2023 – 08.2023: Assistant Professor, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, Poland
11.2020 – 11.2022: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
12.2018 – 10.2020: Leading Researcher, Department of Research and Publication, National Historical Archives of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
05.2013 – 09.2013: Acting Head of the Department of Automated Archival Technologies, National Historical Archives of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
12. 2010 – 05.2013: Leading Researcher, Department of Documents Publication, National Historical Archives of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
2013 –2018: PhD in History, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
2008 –2009: MA in History, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
2008: BA in History and English, Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank, Minsk, Belarus
Research Project
Intellectual networks and cross-cultural knowledge exchange between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Europe in the age of Enlightenment
By focusing on the intellectual networks of nobles, scholars and intellectuals from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the project presents a holistic view of knowledge exchange between Eastern and Western Europe in the age of Enlightenment. I will argue that the intellectuals of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the period developed formal and informal networks which transcended political and linguistic boundaries, and spanned an area from the eastern fringes of Europe to the core centres of the Enlightenment. The project aims to revise traditional scholarship on knowledge exchange that has long downplayed the significance of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within broader European intellectual networks and to reconsider the current circulationist approaches to the Enlightenment that tend to underplay contributions from Eastern Europe.
Publications from the field of Enlightenment research
Mazheika H., ‘The Radziwiłł Cousins, Prophecies and False News in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Europe’, Wschodni Rocznik Humanistyczny, Vol. XVII No 3, 2020, pp. 137-154
Mazheika H. ‘Delo Larki Krovososa: suieveriia i predrassudki belorusskogo krestianstva v XIX v.’ [The Case of Larka the Bloodsucker: Superstitions and Prejudices of the Belarusian Peasantry in the Nineteenth Century], Arkhivarius, 11 (2014), pp. 114-123