Iryna Klymenko (PhD in History 2018, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) is a postdoctoral researcher at LMU within the DFG-funded Cultures of Vigilance Collaborative Research Centre. She publishes on discursive semantics of social transformation in early modern Europe, synergies between historiographies of Western and Eastern Europe, and historical theory and method. With the POLY fellowship, she was pursuing two closely-related book projects. The first investigates the cultural histories of abstinence and fasting in the ethnically diverse and multi-confessional cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1540–1648). The second studies early modern Jewish body practices and administrative self-regulation in multi-confessional Polish-Lithuanian cities.