Bzdawka Marcin - Instytut Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych

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Marcin Bzdawka, Ph.D.

Marcin Bzdawka, Ph.D.

position: Graduate Assistant
tel.: +48 12 663 25 92
room: 211/1
e-mail:  marcin.bzdawka@uj.edu.pl
courses and office hours: USOSWeb

PhD in History (Adam Mickiewicz University, 2022); Master's Degree in Law (Adam Mickiewicz University, 2005); Socrates-Erasmus Law Studies at the University of Pisa (2004); Bachelor of Arts in History (Adam Mickiewicz University, 2015). Member of the Poznań Bar Association (since 2011). Member of the Legislative Committee of the Poznań Bar Association (2016-2024). Member of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies (since 2017).

Research Interests:

  • Canadian history
  • French colonization of the Americas
  • geographical discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries – especially in the context of French exploration of the Americas
  • state and legal institutions in France's American colonies 

Publications

2024, New France: the periphery of an absolute power, [in:] Inclusion & Exclusion in/au Canada, ed. Dagmara Drewniak, Ewelina Feldman-Kolodziejuk, Piotr Sadkowski, Joanna Warmuzinska-Rogóz, Göttingen, Brill | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 141-148.

2024, L’entreprise du Nort. Different Perspectives on Hudson Bay in Late 17th- and Early 18th-Century French Accounts, [in:] Le Canada Imaginaire du Nord/ Canada and the Imagined North, ed. M. Obszyński, M. Sokołowicz, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 71-83.

2019, Allemands, protestants et citoyens de Poznań. Quelques réflexions sur la communauté des bourgeois protestants posnaniens dans « La Chronique de la communauté évangélique de Poznań 1767-1793 », [in:] Les marques du voisinage. L'Alsace et la Posnanie dans l'ombre des influences germaniques, ed. Maciej Forycki, Agnieszka Jakuboszczak, E. Hassler, P. Werly, Uniwersytet im. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań-Strasbourg, pp. 125-130.

2016, Establishment of the two-headed administration in New France during the first government of Count Frontenac, [in:] The Dynamics of Change in Europe's Lumières, ed. Maciej Forycki, Agnieszka Jakuboszczak, Teresa Malinowska, Polish Academy of Sciences (Scientific Station in Paris), pp. 271-277. 

2019, The Road to the Union of Lublin, "Bibliographic and Methodological Guide", no. 2/2019, WBPiCAK Poznań.

2018, The Treaty of Versailles – Bargaining Over the Borders of the Second Polish Republic, "Bibliographic and Methodological Guide", no. 3/2018, WBPiCAK Poznań.

2010, Local Government Supports the Club, "SportPlus", no. 2/2010 (co-authored with M. Gniatkowski). 

2022, September 9, "« L’entreprise du Nort ». Different Views of Hudson Bay in Late 17th/Early 18th Century French Accounts," conference "Canada et l'Imaginaire du Nord/Canada and the Imagined North," University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

2022, September 22, "New France: a periphery of absolute power?", 9th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, University of Białystok, Poland.

2019, September 27, "« En ce peu de mots consiste le fruit et la fin de toute votre application ». La Nouvelle-France d'après les lettres de Jean-Baptiste Colbert à ses subordonnés", 8th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland.

2018, October 11, "Un citoyen de Poznań : allemand, protestant. Quelques réflexions sur la communauté des bourgeois protestants posnaniens basées sur « La Chronique de la communauté évangélique de Poznań 1767-1793 »", XXe colloque international conference Poznań-Strasbourg, Paris, France.

2016, September 20, "Établissement de l'administration bicéphale en Nouvelle-France durant le premier gouvernement de comte de Frontenac", international conference Rencontre Franco-Polonaise des Dixhuitiémistes, University of Adama Mickiewicza, Poznań, Poland. 

2022, May 11, "From Verrazzano to La Vérendrye. French Traces on the American Map," lecture at the Brittany House – a French cultural center in Poznań – as part of the Days of French Culture and the Francophonie dedicated to the USA.

2022, March 21, "Not Only Louisiana. Former French Colonies in the Present-Day United States," lecture at the Brittany House – a French cultural center in Poznań – as part of the Days of French Culture and the Francophonie dedicated to the USA.

2017, April 4, "Canada of the Sun King," Canada Week at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.

2016, May 19, "The Franco-Portuguese (and other) Discovery of America: Why Portuguese Isn't the language of Today’s Canada and Rio de Janeiro Isn't Called Montreal," the Brittany House – a French cultural center in Poznań, Poznań. 

Media

Author of the weekly radio show about alternative Canadian music: "Canada Fragrant with Music", Radio Afera 98.6 FM, Poznań (since 2009).