Adam F. Kola
My personal webpage: https://adamkola.eu/
I am an assistant professor in the Laboratory for the Study of Collective Memory in Post-Communist Europe – POSTCOMER and the Laboratory for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, both at the Faculty of Languages (Nicolaus Copernicus University). As of September 2016, I am also Deputy Dean for Management and Development at my Faculty.
EDUCATION: I hold a BA and MA in Slavonic Philology and a PhD in Literary Studies from Nicolaus Copernicus University. I studied at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Intercultural Relations at the University of Warsaw, and at the Institute of Culture, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. I have also held positions at the Baltic University and Uppsala University in Sweden, as well as in the Department of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. In 2011, I participated in a program at the Institute for World Literature (Beijing, PRC), organized by Harvard University and Peking University.
SCHOLARSHIPS: I am the recipient of numerous scholarships, including a postdoctoral scholarship in the US from the Foundation for Polish Science [FPS]. In America I worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute of Columbia doing archival research in the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture (Butler Library). I have also done research in the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library and in the Roman Jakobson Archive at MIT, in the Czech Republic (Prague, České Budějovice – postdoctoral fellowship), and in Slovenia and Croatia. I was awarded a START stipend for young researchers by the FPS in 2009 and 2010, the fellowship KWERENDA [FPS] for archival research in the US in 2012, and took part in the FPS MENTORING Program, working with mentor Professor Haun Saussy, University of Chicago (2012-2014). I have also held a fellowship for outstanding young scholars from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland (2012-2015), and received the academic award of the "Polityka" weekly newsmagazine (2014). Starting from 2016, I am a visiting researcher at the Stavanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago.
PUBLICATIONS: In 2018, I published the book "Socialist postcolonialism. Memory Reconsolidation", in 2011 "Europe in Polish, Czech and Croatian Discourse: Critical Reconfiguration" , and in 2004 "Czech and Russian Slavophilism in Comparison" (all in Polish). Together with co-editor Andrzej Szahaj I published "Philosophy and Ethics of Interpretation" in 2007, with Marcin Kafar "Ethical and Moral Aspects of the ‘Humanities’ Practices’" in 2015, and with Marcin Wołk, a special issue of the academic journal "Litteraria Copernicana" 2/2015 [ISSN 1899–315X] titled "Advantages of Comparison". I am the author of about 100 papers in the Polish, Czech, Russian, German and English, and do translations from Czech and English into Polish.
EDITORIAL BOARDS: I am a member of the editorial board of the journal "Archiwum Emigracji" and of the book series "Projekty Komparatystyki" (Universitas Publishing House, Kraków, Poland).
ACADEMIC INTERESTS: My research has focused primarily on East and Central European intellectual history, the history of ideas and comparative literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. One of my major research themes is (transatlantic) knowledge transfer during and after WWII with a focus on two particular aspects of the migrations of East and Central European intellectuals: (1) the condition of public intellectuals in changing contexts; and (2) the translingualism that occurred in the process. The frame of reference is provided by the institutional circumstances of the migrants and the biographies of migrant intellectuals (literary scholars, linguists, translators and writers; all of them language-oriented) which remain largely forgotten, suppressed or plainly unknown (sociology of intellectual life as a framework for this project, based on archival research). The initial stage of my first project on knowledge transfer began in 2007 and ended in 2015. During that time I conducted archival research in Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and the United States.
My other field of interest is the issue of (re)construction of supra/national identities in post/socialist East and Central European countries in the wider context of 19th- and 20th-century socio-political thought. The project is rooted in my earlier research concerning Slavophilism and “Europe.” I rely on everyday life archival materials and my own visual studies (e.g. sociology and anthropology in the context of lieux de mémoire and cultural studies in investigations of comic books and modern film).
In both projects intellectual or political history is understood as a cultural and comparative history of ideas, and examined based on archival research.
Phone: +48/56 611 35 95
Address: The Laboratory for the Study
of Collective Memory in Post-communist Europe – POSTCOMER
Nicolaus Copernicus University [NCU]
ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3
87-100 Toruń
Poland
I am an assistant professor in the Laboratory for the Study of Collective Memory in Post-Communist Europe – POSTCOMER and the Laboratory for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, both at the Faculty of Languages (Nicolaus Copernicus University). As of September 2016, I am also Deputy Dean for Management and Development at my Faculty.
EDUCATION: I hold a BA and MA in Slavonic Philology and a PhD in Literary Studies from Nicolaus Copernicus University. I studied at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Intercultural Relations at the University of Warsaw, and at the Institute of Culture, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. I have also held positions at the Baltic University and Uppsala University in Sweden, as well as in the Department of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. In 2011, I participated in a program at the Institute for World Literature (Beijing, PRC), organized by Harvard University and Peking University.
SCHOLARSHIPS: I am the recipient of numerous scholarships, including a postdoctoral scholarship in the US from the Foundation for Polish Science [FPS]. In America I worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute of Columbia doing archival research in the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture (Butler Library). I have also done research in the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library and in the Roman Jakobson Archive at MIT, in the Czech Republic (Prague, České Budějovice – postdoctoral fellowship), and in Slovenia and Croatia. I was awarded a START stipend for young researchers by the FPS in 2009 and 2010, the fellowship KWERENDA [FPS] for archival research in the US in 2012, and took part in the FPS MENTORING Program, working with mentor Professor Haun Saussy, University of Chicago (2012-2014). I have also held a fellowship for outstanding young scholars from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland (2012-2015), and received the academic award of the "Polityka" weekly newsmagazine (2014). Starting from 2016, I am a visiting researcher at the Stavanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago.
PUBLICATIONS: In 2018, I published the book "Socialist postcolonialism. Memory Reconsolidation", in 2011 "Europe in Polish, Czech and Croatian Discourse: Critical Reconfiguration" , and in 2004 "Czech and Russian Slavophilism in Comparison" (all in Polish). Together with co-editor Andrzej Szahaj I published "Philosophy and Ethics of Interpretation" in 2007, with Marcin Kafar "Ethical and Moral Aspects of the ‘Humanities’ Practices’" in 2015, and with Marcin Wołk, a special issue of the academic journal "Litteraria Copernicana" 2/2015 [ISSN 1899–315X] titled "Advantages of Comparison". I am the author of about 100 papers in the Polish, Czech, Russian, German and English, and do translations from Czech and English into Polish.
EDITORIAL BOARDS: I am a member of the editorial board of the journal "Archiwum Emigracji" and of the book series "Projekty Komparatystyki" (Universitas Publishing House, Kraków, Poland).
ACADEMIC INTERESTS: My research has focused primarily on East and Central European intellectual history, the history of ideas and comparative literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. One of my major research themes is (transatlantic) knowledge transfer during and after WWII with a focus on two particular aspects of the migrations of East and Central European intellectuals: (1) the condition of public intellectuals in changing contexts; and (2) the translingualism that occurred in the process. The frame of reference is provided by the institutional circumstances of the migrants and the biographies of migrant intellectuals (literary scholars, linguists, translators and writers; all of them language-oriented) which remain largely forgotten, suppressed or plainly unknown (sociology of intellectual life as a framework for this project, based on archival research). The initial stage of my first project on knowledge transfer began in 2007 and ended in 2015. During that time I conducted archival research in Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and the United States.
My other field of interest is the issue of (re)construction of supra/national identities in post/socialist East and Central European countries in the wider context of 19th- and 20th-century socio-political thought. The project is rooted in my earlier research concerning Slavophilism and “Europe.” I rely on everyday life archival materials and my own visual studies (e.g. sociology and anthropology in the context of lieux de mémoire and cultural studies in investigations of comic books and modern film).
In both projects intellectual or political history is understood as a cultural and comparative history of ideas, and examined based on archival research.
Phone: +48/56 611 35 95
Address: The Laboratory for the Study
of Collective Memory in Post-communist Europe – POSTCOMER
Nicolaus Copernicus University [NCU]
ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3
87-100 Toruń
Poland
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The main topic of our interest at this conference is e/migrations as an object of comparative studies within different traditions, schools, and approaches, as well as migrations as a comparative and comparatists’ experience. We seek the answer to the following questions: What is the relevance of earlier theoretical concepts and approaches, such as postcolonialism and decoloniality, roots and routes, diasporic, cosmopolitan and transnational identities in the 21st century? How does migration change our thinking about home, belonging, language and self in an age of globalization but also defensive fundamentalism and conservative backlash? What is the effect of analyzing migratory itineraries in a comparative framework? How do migrations reconfigure our understanding of the legacies of violence?
We hope that the conference will open up a discussion on new forms and new understandings of e/migrations and migrant experience; it will also enable us to face emerging questions about the place of migrants, immigrants, emigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons in the contemporary world and beyond. We are interested in all topics and problems related to e/migration in the context of cultural production: literature, film, music, and all other forms of artistic production. We encourage you to consider both linear narratives of migration and more experimental ways of representing migration traumas and crises.
Call for Papers by Adam F. Kola
The main topic of our interest at this conference is e/migrations as an object of comparative studies within different traditions, schools, and approaches, as well as migrations as a comparative and comparatists’ experience. We seek the answer to the following questions: What is the relevance of earlier theoretical concepts and approaches, such as postcolonialism and decoloniality, roots and routes, diasporic, cosmopolitan and transnational identities in the 21st century? How does migration change our thinking about home, belonging, language and self in an age of globalization but also defensive fundamentalism and conservative backlash? What is the effect of analyzing migratory itineraries in a comparative framework? How do migrations reconfigure our understanding of the legacies of violence?
We hope that the conference will open up a discussion on new forms and new understandings of e/migrations and migrant experience; it will also enable us to face emerging questions about the place of migrants, immigrants, emigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons in the contemporary world and beyond. We are interested in all topics and problems related to e/migration in the context of cultural production: literature, film, music, and all other forms of artistic production. We encourage you to consider both linear narratives of migration and more experimental ways of representing migration traumas and crises.
We would like to invite scholars form different fields of the humanities and social sciences who will share their ideas on the following topics:
• The history and tradition of e/migrations;
• Post/memory of e/migrations, i.e. including experience of the first, second and third generations of migrants;
• The representation of diasporas and diasporic identities today; gender and sexuality in the context of migration and diasporic experience
• The problem of translingualism as a challenge to national (literary) canon formation;
• Cosmopolitanism, global citizenship, statelessness and expatriatism;
• Migrations hubs and non-places as cultural intersections on travel routes;
• Capitalist expansion, labor migrations (both forced and voluntary) and the post/colonial condition;
• Migrations genres and artistic manifestations;
• Traveling theories and theorists;
• Nature and landscape, climate migrations, environmental refugees,
• Migrations and violence (changing borders, wars, population transfers or resettlements, deportation and ethnic cleansing).
The conference will be held in Toruń, Poland, on April 24-26 2019, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Faculty of Languages at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The conference is organized jointly with the Polish Comparative Literature Association.
Confirmed keynotes and invited speakers:
• Stanley Bill, Cambridge University
• Dagmara Drewniak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
• Dorota Kołodziejczyk, University of Wrocław
• Haun Saussy, University of Chicago.
• Roma Sendyka, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
• Bożena Shallcross, University of Chicago
• Olga Solovieva, University of Chicago
• Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary University of London
Deadline for the submission of proposals (300 words) and a short CV (150 words): 5 January 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the mid of January 2019.
All correspondence, including the submission of proposals and a short CV, should be addressed to: [email protected]
We encourage you to submit:
1) Individual proposals for 20-minute presentations,
2) Panel proposals (consisting of at least three papers),
3) Poster session proposals.
The conference language will be English.
Conference fee
Conference fee for affiliated academics is 500 PLN or 125 Euros and for PhD and MA students 350 PLN or 80 Euros. It covers the costs of conference materials, coffee breaks, lunches and opening banquet. It does not cover accommodation and travel expenses. Account number for bank transfer will be provided upon the acceptance of proposal. Further details will be provided in the second circular.
Conference webpage: https://www.fil.umk.pl/xx-lecie-wydzialu/
Social events include:
1) Guided tour of the Toruń Old Town and The Olender (settlers from the Netherlands and Friesland, members of the Protestant Mennonite group) Ethnographic Park
2) Additional trip to Gdańsk-Sopot-Gdynia on Saturday, April 27, 2019, with a guided tour of the Emigration Museum in Gdynia
Books and Journals by Adam F. Kola
Avaialbe on-line: https://apcz.pl/czasopisma//index.php/LC/issue/view/700
Polish with English summaries
Papers by Adam F. Kola
In this chapter, I will only focus on some of his ideas, mainly (but not only) those related to non-European worlds and to the basic ideas of world-systems theory which eventually inspired early perspectives in world history. This chapter has at least three aims: firstly, to reconstruct Małowist’s basic ideas; secondly, to compare them to Braudel’s and Wallerstein’s (but also others scholars from world(-)systems theory, widely understood); and thirdly, to apply Małowist’s concepts to the field of world literature, if possible.
Design/methodology/purpose: Elements analysed include: non/academic discourses, with particular emphasis on academic texts, media material and public debates concerning the topic in question.
Findings: Two related fields and levels ought to be distinguished: the descriptive level, focused on presenting non-mainstream educational institutions and initiatives, within the socioeconomic context of Poland’s post-socialist transformation; the normative level, with recommendations for policymakers, NGOs and educational activists.
Practical implications: Appreciation of systems parallel and alternative to the neoliberal and technocratic mainstream education system in Poland, with a view to encouraging both policymakers to recognise and develop such initiatives, and members of Polish civil society to create and participate in such forms of education.
Originality/value: Most scholars focus on mainstream education, with a number of exceptions, largely those engaged in the parallel models. This neoliberal model of education is accepted or critically examined, but its technocratic base is not recognised. This text is therefore ground-breaking in that it describes the real mechanisms of the Polish educational system in transition and provides a normative account and recommendations.
Keywords: Polish education, science and higher education, parallel models of education, non-mainstream educational institutions, post-socialist transition/transformation, neoliberalism.
Article Classification: research paper
The main topic of our interest at this conference is e/migrations as an object of comparative studies within different traditions, schools, and approaches, as well as migrations as a comparative and comparatists’ experience. We seek the answer to the following questions: What is the relevance of earlier theoretical concepts and approaches, such as postcolonialism and decoloniality, roots and routes, diasporic, cosmopolitan and transnational identities in the 21st century? How does migration change our thinking about home, belonging, language and self in an age of globalization but also defensive fundamentalism and conservative backlash? What is the effect of analyzing migratory itineraries in a comparative framework? How do migrations reconfigure our understanding of the legacies of violence?
We hope that the conference will open up a discussion on new forms and new understandings of e/migrations and migrant experience; it will also enable us to face emerging questions about the place of migrants, immigrants, emigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons in the contemporary world and beyond. We are interested in all topics and problems related to e/migration in the context of cultural production: literature, film, music, and all other forms of artistic production. We encourage you to consider both linear narratives of migration and more experimental ways of representing migration traumas and crises.
The main topic of our interest at this conference is e/migrations as an object of comparative studies within different traditions, schools, and approaches, as well as migrations as a comparative and comparatists’ experience. We seek the answer to the following questions: What is the relevance of earlier theoretical concepts and approaches, such as postcolonialism and decoloniality, roots and routes, diasporic, cosmopolitan and transnational identities in the 21st century? How does migration change our thinking about home, belonging, language and self in an age of globalization but also defensive fundamentalism and conservative backlash? What is the effect of analyzing migratory itineraries in a comparative framework? How do migrations reconfigure our understanding of the legacies of violence?
We hope that the conference will open up a discussion on new forms and new understandings of e/migrations and migrant experience; it will also enable us to face emerging questions about the place of migrants, immigrants, emigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons in the contemporary world and beyond. We are interested in all topics and problems related to e/migration in the context of cultural production: literature, film, music, and all other forms of artistic production. We encourage you to consider both linear narratives of migration and more experimental ways of representing migration traumas and crises.
We would like to invite scholars form different fields of the humanities and social sciences who will share their ideas on the following topics:
• The history and tradition of e/migrations;
• Post/memory of e/migrations, i.e. including experience of the first, second and third generations of migrants;
• The representation of diasporas and diasporic identities today; gender and sexuality in the context of migration and diasporic experience
• The problem of translingualism as a challenge to national (literary) canon formation;
• Cosmopolitanism, global citizenship, statelessness and expatriatism;
• Migrations hubs and non-places as cultural intersections on travel routes;
• Capitalist expansion, labor migrations (both forced and voluntary) and the post/colonial condition;
• Migrations genres and artistic manifestations;
• Traveling theories and theorists;
• Nature and landscape, climate migrations, environmental refugees,
• Migrations and violence (changing borders, wars, population transfers or resettlements, deportation and ethnic cleansing).
The conference will be held in Toruń, Poland, on April 24-26 2019, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Faculty of Languages at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The conference is organized jointly with the Polish Comparative Literature Association.
Confirmed keynotes and invited speakers:
• Stanley Bill, Cambridge University
• Dagmara Drewniak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
• Dorota Kołodziejczyk, University of Wrocław
• Haun Saussy, University of Chicago.
• Roma Sendyka, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
• Bożena Shallcross, University of Chicago
• Olga Solovieva, University of Chicago
• Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary University of London
Deadline for the submission of proposals (300 words) and a short CV (150 words): 5 January 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the mid of January 2019.
All correspondence, including the submission of proposals and a short CV, should be addressed to: [email protected]
We encourage you to submit:
1) Individual proposals for 20-minute presentations,
2) Panel proposals (consisting of at least three papers),
3) Poster session proposals.
The conference language will be English.
Conference fee
Conference fee for affiliated academics is 500 PLN or 125 Euros and for PhD and MA students 350 PLN or 80 Euros. It covers the costs of conference materials, coffee breaks, lunches and opening banquet. It does not cover accommodation and travel expenses. Account number for bank transfer will be provided upon the acceptance of proposal. Further details will be provided in the second circular.
Conference webpage: https://www.fil.umk.pl/xx-lecie-wydzialu/
Social events include:
1) Guided tour of the Toruń Old Town and The Olender (settlers from the Netherlands and Friesland, members of the Protestant Mennonite group) Ethnographic Park
2) Additional trip to Gdańsk-Sopot-Gdynia on Saturday, April 27, 2019, with a guided tour of the Emigration Museum in Gdynia
Avaialbe on-line: https://apcz.pl/czasopisma//index.php/LC/issue/view/700
Polish with English summaries
In this chapter, I will only focus on some of his ideas, mainly (but not only) those related to non-European worlds and to the basic ideas of world-systems theory which eventually inspired early perspectives in world history. This chapter has at least three aims: firstly, to reconstruct Małowist’s basic ideas; secondly, to compare them to Braudel’s and Wallerstein’s (but also others scholars from world(-)systems theory, widely understood); and thirdly, to apply Małowist’s concepts to the field of world literature, if possible.
Design/methodology/purpose: Elements analysed include: non/academic discourses, with particular emphasis on academic texts, media material and public debates concerning the topic in question.
Findings: Two related fields and levels ought to be distinguished: the descriptive level, focused on presenting non-mainstream educational institutions and initiatives, within the socioeconomic context of Poland’s post-socialist transformation; the normative level, with recommendations for policymakers, NGOs and educational activists.
Practical implications: Appreciation of systems parallel and alternative to the neoliberal and technocratic mainstream education system in Poland, with a view to encouraging both policymakers to recognise and develop such initiatives, and members of Polish civil society to create and participate in such forms of education.
Originality/value: Most scholars focus on mainstream education, with a number of exceptions, largely those engaged in the parallel models. This neoliberal model of education is accepted or critically examined, but its technocratic base is not recognised. This text is therefore ground-breaking in that it describes the real mechanisms of the Polish educational system in transition and provides a normative account and recommendations.
Keywords: Polish education, science and higher education, parallel models of education, non-mainstream educational institutions, post-socialist transition/transformation, neoliberalism.
Article Classification: research paper
Wychodząc od etymologicznego rozumienia „kultury” jako uprawy, od zarówno potocznego, jak rolniczego znaczenia terminu „użytek” oraz pszczelarskiego i prawnego znaczenia „pożytku” redaktorzy zarysowują diagnozę stanu obecnego i perspektyw badań porównawczych. Współczesna komparatystyka nie absolutyzuje już na szczęście ani tego, co lokalne, regionalne, narodowe, ani tego, co uniwersalne czy światowe. Powinna jednak także (a czyni to rzadko) starać się zachować równowagę między poszukiwaniem nowych idei, pól badawczych czy teorii a zakorzenieniem w tradycji humanistyki. Prezentowany tom ma na celu przedstawienie możliwości osiągnięcia takiej równowagi.
Tom „Pożytki z porównania” jest efektem działalności Pracowni Komparatystyki Literacko-Kulturowej, funkcjonującej na Wydziale Filologicznym Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika od 2011 roku. Zgodnie z nazwą pracowni, a wbrew formułowanym z różnych stron obiekcjom, jesteśmy przekonani, że podejście kulturowe czy kulturoznawcze nie musi ani wykorzeniać praktyki literaturoznawczej, ani też unieważniać czy deprecjonować literatury jako takiej. Nastawienie kulturoznawcze otwiera jednak na nowe spojrzenie na literaturę, pozwala włączyć zjawiska literackie w kontekst całej kultury i ujmować je w szerszej niż dotąd perspektywie – jest to atut trudny do przecenienia.
Tom nie jest i nie miał być zwartą propozycją metodologiczną ani manifestem teoretycznym, lecz próbą zebrania różnych głosów wybrzmiewających w przestrzeni porównawczego namysłu nad literaturą i kulturą. Jednak sięganie do tradycji – na przekór tendencjom dominującym obecnie nie tylko w komparatystyce – i zderzanie jej z nowymi kierunkami myślowymi jest oczywiście pewnego rodzaju manifestacją. Dobór tekstów w prezentowanej publikacji wyraża bowiem przeświadczenie, że w dialogu z minionym można wciąż wiele odkryć i że warto trochę spowolnić spiralę zwrotów badawczych i pogoni za nowością, w którą wpadła współczesna humanistyka.
Artykuł prezentuje wiele ciekawych faktów z życia Manfreda Kridla.
Streszczenie: Pamięć o bitwie na Kosowym Polu z 1389 roku była i jest jedną z konstytutywnych cech serbskiej tożsamości, oddziałującą od XIX wieku zarówno na serbską i południowosłowiańską pamięć kulturową (w tym wyrażaną przez dzieła literackie), jak i na praktykę polityczną. Teza tego artykułu jest następująca: wszystkie teksty dotyczące Kosowego Pola, z kluczowymi pochodzącymi z XIX wieku, które poddano tu analizie, są wariantami tego samego mitu, nie tylko dlatego, że opierają się na mitycznych opowieściach ludowych (pieśniach epickich itd.), lecz raczej dlatego, iż re-konstruują zawartą w nich mito-logikę (nawiązując do formalistyczno-strukturalistycznych teoretyzacji W. Proppa, C. Lévi-Straussa, E. Leacha, lecz również do ustaleń społecznego konstruktywizmu). Co więcej – czego dowodzi przykład Górskiego wieńca Petara II Njegoša – wspomniane teksty konstruują ową mito-logikę. To znaczy projektują ją wstecz na minione wydarzenia, historię, literaturę itd., i na ich interpretacje, narzucając określoną, spójną, mito-logiczną ramę odniesienia, która zwrotnie oddziałuje na teraźniejszość i przyszłość.
Wydział Filologiczny UMK
In this paper I will focus on one particularly thing. That is Małowist’s focus on medieval social and economic structures all over the world. For him, the Middle Ages were not only a period in European history, but a set of features pertaining to different cultures and societies in specific stages of development (like renaissances in Jack Goody’s book; see Goody Renaissances). From this perspective, the history of Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, Tamerlane’s empire, Western African countries, etc. is always a history of similar socio-economic structures, with the phenomenon of economic colonization (for Małowist, all of Africa, except Angola, is a case of economic colonization from the fifteenth until nineteenth century; Europa a Afryka 10) responsible for consolidating the old social structures and inhibiting further economic and social development.
Otwarcie konferencji pt. Filozofia przypisów, 18-19 maja 2017 r.
Wydział Filologiczny UMK, Toruń
Otwarcie konferencji naukowej, Wydział Filologiczny UMK, 25-26 maja 2017 r.
Haunted Cultures/ Haunting Cultures:
Spectres and Spectrality in Cultural Practices
Department of English
Nicolaus Copernicus University
22-23 September 2016
Collegium Maius
Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń
Ogólnopolskie Sympozjum Dydaktyków Komparatystyki
Program
Toruń, 30-31 marca 2016 roku
Sala im. Ludwika Kolankowskiego (s. 307)
Collegium Maius, Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika
ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3, 87-100 Toruń
Podstawowe pytania, które chcielibyśmy zatem postawić to:
• Jakie warunki muszą być spełnione, by w kulturze przyjmującej osiągnąć sukces?
• Kiedy język jest/może być barierą w adaptacji do nowych warunków?
• Jakie relacje wiążą emigranta-intelektualistę z: intelektualistami w kraju przyjmującym, własną emigracją, innymi grupami emigracyjnymi, środowiskami krajowymi, itd.?
• Czy można być intelektualistą publicznym (public intellectual) i na jakich zasadach?
Szczególnie zależy nam na zapoznaniu się z rezultatami oryginalnych badań (archiwalnych, wywiadach, itd.), odkrywających nieznane, zapomniane postaci oraz te ukazujące badane zjawiska w perspektywie komparatystycznej. Chcielibyśmy także zachować równowagę między doświadczonymi i młodymi badaczami (doktorantami).
Chcielibyśmy zaprosić Państwa do dyskusji o stanie akademickiej komparatystyki w Polsce. Proponujemy dyskusję nad własnymi doświadczeniami z prowadzenia kierunków czy specjalizacji komparatystycznych, dotyczącymi przede wszystkim ostatnich lat, ale przyjmujemy również głosy skupione na historii dydaktyki komparatystycznej.
Konferencja zostanie połączona z dorocznym Walnym Zebraniem członków PSKL, które odbędzie się 30 marca 2016 roku.
Zgłoszenia prosimy przesyłać do dnia 24 lutego 2016 roku na adres: adamkola [at] umk.pl
Łączę pozdrowienia
Adam Kola
Tematem tegorocznej konferencji uczyniliśmy zapomnianą w dzisiejszej Akademii instytucję intelektualnego Mistrza/mistrza i ściśle z nią powiązaną kategorię „mistrzostwa”.
Zapowiedzią konferencji było seminarium pt. Mistrzowie. Preliminaria, które odbyło się 12 grudnia 2015 roku w Toruniu (zob. https://forhum.uni.torun.pl/dzialalnosc/mistrzowie_seminarium.htm ) , jego podstawy merytoryczne zostały zaś przedstawione w tekście pt. "Mistrzowie – preliminaria. O założeniach pewnego projektu badawczego" (zob. https://www.czasopismo.naukiowychowaniu.uni.lodz.pl/fulltxt.php?ICID=1198757 ).
Obraliśmy trzy współbieżne ścieżki myślenia/mówienia/pisania o Mistrzach/mistrzach, które stanowić będą szkielet zarówno konferencji w Pluskach, jak i projektowanej książki. Są to: (1) Przykład-anie do teorii; (2) Przykład-anie do świata; (3) Przykład-anie do życia.
Więcej szczegółów na stronie Forum Humanistycznego:
https://forhum.uni.torun.pl/dzialalnosc/mistrzostwo.htm
Serdecznie zapraszamy!
In this presentation I will explore (transatlantic) knowledge transfer during and after World War II with a focus on two particular aspects of the migrations of East and Central European intellectuals: (1) knowledge transfer, (2) the condition of public intellectuals in changing contexts (mainly Roman Jakobson and Manfred Kridl); and (3) the translingualism that occurred in the process (Jakobson, Kridl, but also Józef Wittlin and Czesław Miłosz). The frame of reference is provided by the institutional circumstances and biographies of the migrant intellectuals (literary scholars, linguists, translators and writers; all of them concerned with language) which remain largely forgotten (like Kridl), suppressed, or plainly unknown (the framework for this project, based on archival research, comes from the sociology of intellectual life). The initial stage of my project on knowledge transfer began in 2007 and ended in 2015. During that time I conducted archival research in Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and the United States.
Finally, one more thing should be underlined: if at least the Polish emigration (perhaps this is a general rule) is perceived as conservative (which is easily explained e.g. by nostalgia, etc.), in this paper I will focus on left-wing intellectuals. The main reason for this decision is to restore the lost balance between the right and left-wing part of (Polish) emigration in the description of these internally differentiated groups, and to tell the story of those whose biographies are supposedly familiar, although this part of their activities is not widely known. The tension between shared political aims and the private world-view of each individual is one of the key problems encountered by all migrant communities. In this paper, I would like to concentrate on a minority group of Polish émigrés in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. Most Polish immigrants in this country were rather conservative, with right-wing sympathies, and staunchly Roman Catholic (and so it remains, as witnessed by their voting preferences). Some of them, however, supported the left side of the political scene.
Friday, April 10, 2015, 1-6PM
Columbia University
International Affairs Building 1512
420 W. 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
Please register here:
https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=77661®ISTER_SESSION_NAME=f3d563ee50bfbac528154b2e413bebcd&state=init
Teatr Baj Pomorski w Toruniu / Theatre Baj Pomorski in Toruń
21-23.11.2014
The editorial board of the Comparative Yearbook, the board of the Polish
Comparative Literature Association (Polskie Stowarzyszenie Komparatystyki
Literackiej) and the Institute for Polish and Culture Studies of the University
of Szczecin welcome all interested academics to the international conference
that will take place September 27-30, 2014 at the Szczecin University
Conference Center on the Baltic Sea.
The following subjects are planned to be discussed:
Definitions and methodologies
1. Literatures and discourses on literatures – localness vs. globality;
2. Supranational understanding of literature: are regions and continents useful
or troublesome categories?
3. Literatures of the world vs. world literature;
4. The transfer of thoughts, the flow of ideas – theories of comparative literature
and theories of contemporary literary and cultural studies;
5. République mondiale des lettres 15 years later;
6. Multiculturalism and globalization – mechanisms, gains, risks.
Borders, common places, places of exchange
7. Why compare and how to compare: the geopolitics of a comparison (from the
cognitive perspective to the ethical and political perspectives);
8. Political (and cultural) communities and their literatures. Is there a literature
of the European Union? How is it constructed? What happens to the literatures
of non-existing political communities, such as former Yugoslavia?
9. Common ideas, trans-border projects, international research grants – the
institutional possibilities and limitations of conducting research on European
literature;
10. The role of translation in the context of the most recent translation and
comparative studies theories;
11. The voices of “small literatures” – how and when do they become audible?
12. Cultural imperialism – overcome?
13. Translated from… The role of the English language in creating world
literature and knowledge about the literatures of the world;
Writers and their heritage
14. National writers, transnational writers, world writers – the historical variability
of these conceptions;
15. The author belonging to a national literature – a productive or anachronistic
notion?
16. Diasporas and the images of national literatures in the world;
17. Who is the Author in the age of the Internet?
The languages of the conference are Polish and English. Please send your proposal
(written in the language of the planned paper), a short summary (up to 500 words)
and a biographical note by the end of February 2014. We will send notifications of
acceptance along with organizational details by the end of March 2014. Accepted and
externally reviewed papers will be published in the 6th issue of the Comparative
Yearbook (2015). Proposals should be e-mailed to: [email protected]
The contemporary “messianic turn,” observable in numerous ways in the theologico-political thinking on culture and postsecular philosophy, is noteworthy in that it shows how different varieties of Messianism become vocal in the political (both liberal and conservative) agenda, as well as religious, philosophical and educational projects. The Logos of the West, in the sense of its complex history and ongoing transformation of its cultural codes and cognitive paradigms, makes researchers of different backgrounds and Weltanschauung pose again the question of the cognitive and axiological value of Messianism.
The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2014. Please send paper proposals of up to 200 words for 20-minute presentations together with your personal data and professional affiliation (see registration form attached) to [email protected]. More detailed information will be sent along with the notification of acceptance by 10 November 2014.