Gender History Seminar – 24 February 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the next meeting of the Gender History Seminar, during which Dr Dorota Dias-Lewandowska (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences) will deliver a lecture entitled Prodigal Wives. Women, Alcohol and Legal Incapacitation in Nineteenth-century Poland. The talk will be commented on by Professor David Clemis (Mount Royal University).

 

• The meeting will take place on 24 February 2026 (Tuesday) at 18:00 at the Faculty of History (Former Museum Building), Room A, and online.
• The link to the online meeting can be obtained by contacting us by email at: historia.gender@uw.edu.pl

 

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Dorota Dias-Lewandowska is an anthropologist and historian, holds a PhD from the Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland) and University Bordeaux Montaigne (France), where she examined the cultural history of French wine in early modern Poland. Co-editor of the series „Studia z historii wina w Polsce” and co-lead of the Drinking Studies Network „Women and Alcohol” research cluster. Currently she is Principal investigator on the „Between the drunken ‘mother of destruction’ and the sober ‘angel of the house’. Hidden representations of women’s drinking in Polish and British public discourses in the second half of the 19th century” and “Alcohol, Sobriety and Drunkenness: Discourses on the Boundaries of Drinking in the 19th century Post-Partition Poland” projects where she leads an interdisciplinary research team. More on the website: https://www.boundariesofdrinking.pl

 

David Celmis is the Academic Director of Liberal Education and an Associate Professor of Early Modern European History at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His current research focuses on understandings of the nature and character of intoxication and chronic drug and alcohol use in medical, legal, moralistic and popular writings in England from about 1500 to 1830.