Ordines Militares

Fundacja Nachwuchsforum / Foundation Youth Meeting

The 11^th Youth Meeting of the Researchers of the Military Orders within the framework of the 22^th “Conference Ordines. Militares Colloquia Torunensia Historica” will be held in Toruń on September 20, 2023.

(Program)

Regular meetings of young researchers dealing with the history of military orders have been taking place as part of the conference “Ordines Militares. Colloquia Torunensia Historica” every two years since 2003. The Forum of Young Researchers of Military Orders is organized one day before the session of the main conference (Thursday in the last week of September of an odd year). It contains both research projects (mainly dissertations) connected with the history of military orders and the first results of research which has already been done. Thus, The Forum of Young Researchers is intended to be the place to discuss research projects, and papers appearing in the forum are mainly announcements and reports. That is why, individual forums are not thematic conferences, and topics presented there do not concern only the history of military orders in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, but also their reception in subsequent years and their presence in contemporary culture.

The meetings constitute an opportunity for young researchers to meet and establish new academic contacts, which is facilitated by the international character of the forum. From the very beginning in the forum there have taken part not only junior researchers interested in the history of military orders, but also experienced academics, speakers and discussants of the main conference – visitors from Poland and abroad, as well as Toruń’s historians and representatives of other humanistic fields. In this way the Forum of Young Researchers is an attractive space for meetings of many generations of researchers who share common interests in both the history of military orders and their presence in contemporary culture. Through an academic dialogue young researchers have an opportunity to get precious guidelines from their older colleagues and masters, who possess a greater research experience and perceive the problem in a wider perspective. On the other hand, distinguished professors frequently meet in the forum young students writing their master’s or PhD theses, who present new ideas, and not infrequently continue the research of older colleagues.

The friendly ambience of the old, medieval city of Toruń creates favourable conditions for debates between younger and older researchers.

The list of the previous Forums of Young Researchers of Military Orders:

• 1^st Forum – September 25, 2003, Toruń
• 2^nd Forum – September 22, 2005, Toruń
• 3^rd Forum – September 27, 2007, Toruń
• 4^th Forum – September 24, 2009, Bierzgłowo.
• 5^th Forum – September 22, 2011, Toruń
• 6^th Forum – September 26, 2013, Toruń
• 7^th Forum – September 23, 2015, Toruń
• 8^th Forum – September 20, 2017, Toruń
• 9^th Forum – September 25, 2019, Toruń
• 10^th Forum– September 22, 2021, Toruń

You can find out more information about the conditions of participation from Krzysztof Kwiatkowski: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it