Notes on Contributors
Piotr Badyna
is a historian. He works in Department of Economic History, Demography and Statistics, Institute of History, University of Wroclaw in Poland. His scientific interests include: culture, mentality, economy, ethics, ethos, axiology and spiritual culture of the Old Polish period, as well as the perception of nature and methods of its conceptualization, the state of knowledge of natural science and farming from the 16th to the 18th century. Co-creator and technical editor of the scientific journal Culture-History-Globalization. Author of over fifty scientific articles, editor and co-editor of collective works, author of two scientific books: Model człowieka w polskim piśmiennictwie parenetycznym XVIII w. (do 1773 r.) (The Human Model in Polish Parenetic Literature of the 18th Century Until 1773) and Obraz rodzimej przyrody dzikiej w kulturze staropolskiej. Wybrane zwierzęta łowne w dziełach ks. Krzysztofa Kluka i Jakuba K. Haura (The Image of Native Wild Nature in Old Polish Culture. Selected Game Animals in the Works of Priest Krzysztof Kluk and Jakub K. Haur). One of his latest works is the co-author article “Testing the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis on Polish Kings and Dukes” published in the Anthropological Review in 2019.
Magdalena Barbaruk
is an Assistant Professor of Institute of Cultural Studies at Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences at University of Wroclaw. Barbaruk specializes in a cultural potential of literature, the literary “mapping” of space in Spain and Latin America. Barbaruk is the author of three books and numerous articles in Polish, also in Spanish and English, including the monograph The Long Shadow of Don Quixote (Peter Lang Publishing, 2015) and Sensy błądzenia. La Mancha i jej peryferie (Meanings of Wandering. La Mancha and Its Peripheries, 2018). In 2012–2014 at Jagiellonian University (Poland), she carried out the project “La Mancha as a land of literature. The cultural status of literary routes” (National Science Center, Poland). One of the result was a documentary “Błędne mapy” (“The Errant Maps”). From 2018 Magdalena Barbaruk is conducting the scientific project “Trajectory of the word. The cultural impact of Amereida” (National Science Center, Poland). The research are carried out in Chile, Bolivia and Argentina in cooperation with the School of Architecture and Design at Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso.
Daniel Boćowski
is a Professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University in Bialystok; Head of Department of Sociology Politics and Security. He also works at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Daniel Boćkowski specializes in the terrorism, religious fundamentalism, international security issues, social cyber security, as well as the political situation in the mena region. Boćkowski is the author and editor of a few books and numerous articles in Polish and English, including: Na zawsze razem. Białostocczyzna i Łomżyńskie w polityce radzieckiej w czasie II wojny światowej (IX 1939–VIII 1944) (Neriton 2005), “Between the East and the West: The Penetration of Contemporary Islam into Poland,” Limes, vol. 2, no. 1, “Big Shopping Centers as an Objects of a Potential Terrorist Attacks,” Securitologia, no. 2, 2017. He is the deputy editor of Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wchodniej.
Franciszek Czech
is a sociologist and political scientist at the Department of Intercultural Studies of Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Franciszek Czech specializes in research on political culture (globalization discourses, popular understanding of politics, conspiracy theories) and area studies of South-East Asia (the Philippines). He is the author of two books: Koszmarne scenariusze. Socjologiczne stadium konstruowania lęku w dyskursie globalizacyjnym (Nightmare Scenarios. Sociological Study of Construction of Anxiety In a Globalization Discourse, 2010) and Spiskowe narracje i metanarracje (Conspiracy Narratives and Metanarratives, 2015).
Piotr Jakub Fereński
is a cultural researcher and historian of ideas. He works at the University of Wroclaw. He also teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. He is an art critic and exhibition curator. Author of nearly 115 publications, including books like: O pochodzeniu idei. Relatywizm w amerykańskiej antropologii kulturowej (The Origins of Ideas. Relativism in the American Cultural Anthropology, 2011), Kierunek eksperymentalny. Początki pierwszych w Polsce studiów kulturoznawczych (The Experimental Studies. The Beginnings of the First Cultural Studies in Poland, 2012), Materie kultury. Heteronomie życia mieszkańców współczesnych miast (The Matter of the Culture. Heteronomies of the Life of Inhabitants of Modern Cities, 2018). Piotr J. Fereński is the co-editor of ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics, Culture-History-Globalization and Format. He has completed many scientific, social and artistic projects. He conducts research in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, as well as in South and North America. He is interested in the relationship between aesthetics, ethics and classicism in the aspect of economic disputes about the shape of modern cities. He also analyzes utopian urban and architectural concepts. Currently he is conducting a research on strategies for dealing with the memory of the 20th century regimes in Chile, Spain, Poland and Ukraine.
Karolina Golinowska
is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Culture Studies at Kazimierz Wielki University. Karolina Golinowska specializes in the cultural theory that refers to the problems of the cultural memory, heritage and practices of its institutionalization, as well as cultural politics with an emphasis on art and cultural institutions’ practices. She is the author of two books – Narracje sztuki w kulturze płynności (Art Narratives in the Culture of Liquidity, 2014), Polityki kultury (Politics of culture, 2017) and co-author of two another ones: Feminizm po polsku (Feminism in Polish, 2018) and Przeobrażenia pamięci. Przeobrażenia kanonu (Transformation of memory. Transformation of canon, 2019). She is the author of numerous articles in Polish and English language such as “Nostalgia for the prl in contemporary Poland,” in: Twentieth Century Communism, 2016; “Between the Global, National, and Peripheral. The Case of Art Museums in Poland,” in: Stedelijk Studies, 2014; “New Lanark: idee, utopie, dziedzictwo,” (“New Lanark: Ideas, Utopias, Heritage”), Culture-History-Globalization, 2018.
Mirosław Kocur
is Professor of Performing Arts and Theatre Anthropology at the University of Wrocław (UWr) and Professor of Acting and Directing at the Stanisław Wyspiański National Academy of Theatre Arts (nata). He holds the Chair of Cultural Studies at UWr. During the 70-ties, he participated in Jerzy Grotowski’s paratheatrical projects and his Theatre of Sources. In 1984, he graduated from the Faculty of Theatre Directing at nata, where he took classes with Tadeusz Kantor and Andrzej Wajda. Later he served as Artistic Director of the Second Studio of Wroclaw, a company established in place of the Laboratory Theatre, after Grotowski left Poland. Kocur has made significant contributions to performing studies and the advancement of theatre education. His research, based on his rich theatrical experience and inspired by Grotowski’s anthropology, focuses on reconstructing the origins of performing practices and on performance-as-research. He also studies the modern acting techniques and travels extensively to research cultural performances in Asia and Africa. His main theatre productions include: “Elijah by Buber” (Switzerland 1989), “Bacchae by Euripides” (Italy 1990), “Second Coming” (UK 1991), “Waiting for Godot by Beckett” (USA 1992), “The Metamorphosis by Kafka” (USA 1994), “Asinaria by Plautus” (Greece 2003), “Women at the Thesmophoria” (USA 2005), “Hamlet, First Quarto by Shakespeare” (Poland 2010). His main scholar publications in English include: (Polish) Theatre as a Rhizome of Echoes: The Case of Acropolis (2015), On the Origins of Theater (2016), The Second Birth of Theatre: Performances of Anglo-Saxon Monks (2017) and The Power of Theater: Actors and Spectators in Ancient Rome (2018). He is also the chief editor of the series „Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance” at Peter Lang Publishing House.
Leszek Koczanowicz
is a Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Faculty of Psychology at the swps University of Social Sciences and Humanities. Leszek Koczanowicz specializes in theory of culture, social theory, and cultural aspects of politics. His previous appointments include inter alia Wroclaw University, suny/Buffalo (1998–1999 and 2000–2001), Columbia University (2004–2005), and suny/Geneseo (2013), Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2015–2016). Leszek Koczanowicz is the author and editor of twelve books and numerous articles in Polish and English, including Politics of Time: Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland (Berghahn Books, 2008), Lęk nowoczesny. Eseje o demokracji i jej adwersarzach (Modern Fear: Essays on Democracy and its Adversaries, 2011), and Politics of Dialogue. Non-Consensual Democracy and Critical Community (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). Recently his was an editor (with Idit Alaphandry) Democracy, Dialogue, Memory: Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus (Routledge, 2018). His recent publication is Anxiety and Lucidity: Reflections on Culture in Times of Unrest (Routledge, 2020).
Leszek Kopciuch
is a Professor of Philosophy at Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at the Maria Curie Skłodowska, University in Lublin. Leszek Kopciuch specializes in a history of philosophy, ethics, theory of values, philosophy of culture, and philosophy of human creativity. He is the author and editor of ten books and numerous articles, including Wolność a wartości. Max Scheler, Nicolai Hartmann, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Hans Reiner (Freedom and Values. Max Scheler, Nicolai Hartmann, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Hans Reiner, 2010), Studia nad filozofią Nicolaia Hartmanna z bibliografią polskich przekładów i opracowań po roku 1945 (Studies on Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann with Bibliography of Polish Translations and Research after 1945, 2013), Szkice systematyczne z filozofii dziejów (Systematic Essays in Philosophy of History, 2014), and Kryzysy, kreatywność i wartości (Crisis, Creativity, and Values, 2015). His recent publication is Kreatywność a wartości (Creativity and Values, 2020).
Bożena Muszkalska
is a Professor of Musicology at the University of Wroclaw and at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She is also a head of the postgraduate studies “Sound and Soundscape”. She gave guest lectures in Germany, Austria and Russia. Muszkalska is the author and editor of 8 books and numerous articles in Polish, English and German, i.a. Traditionelle mehrstimmige Gesänge der Sarden (1985), Tradycyjna wielogłosowość wokalna w kulturach basenu Morza Śródziemnego (Traditional Polyvocality in Cultures of the Mediterranean Basin, 1999), „A jednak po całej ziemi słychać ich dźwięk”. Muzyka w życiu religijnym Żydów aszkenazyjskich (“And yet, their sound is heard all over the earth.” Music in the religious life of Ashkenazi Jews, 2013), (coed. with Regine Allgayer Kaufmann) BodyMusicEvent (2010), (ed.) The Kolbergs of Eastern Europe (2018). She has carried out numerous project associated with field research in Poland, Sardinia, Portugal, Belarus, Lithuania, Romania, Ukraine, Siberia, Brasilia, Turkey, Australia and Guatemala. Her research interests include: Jewish music, soundscape of Jewish Wroclaw, musical cultures of Polish diaspora, traditional multi-voice singing and methodological issues.
Rafał Nahirny
is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies at the University of Wroclaw. He wrote a book about Jeremy Bentham’s machinery of power. Interested in new technologies, with particular emphasis on surveillance and control, as well as the ethics and aesthetics of privacy. He conducts research on the world of Google Street View, drones and non-places of digital capitalism.
Adam Nobis
is a Professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies at the University of Wroclaw. He heads up the Global Studies Laboratory and is the editor-in-chief of Culture-History-Globalization. His research deals with various global phenomena and interactions between them. He focuses on the relationship between contemporary global phenomena and the past. He is the author of over 200 scientific papers published in Polish, English, German and Russian, including nine books. Among them: Zmiana kulturowa: między historią a ewolucją (Cultural Change: Between History and Evolution, 2006), Globalne procesy, globalne historie, globalny pieniądz (Global Processes, Global Histories, Global Money, 2014), Studia globalne (Global Studies, 2014), A Short Guide to the New Silk Road (2018, published also in Polish and Russian).
Tadeusz Paleczny
is a Professor of Sociology and Cultural Sciences at the Faculty of Political and International Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He is a head of the Chair of Theory and Researches of Intercultural Relation in the Institute of Intercultural Studies. His main field of academic studies and investigations are: multiculturalism, ethnic and international relations, intercultural relations. Visiting Professor at Minnesota State University (1986–1987), Free University (Berlin 1989), John Hopkin’s University (1990), researches in Brazil (2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009). Tadeusz Paleczny is the author of eighteen books and numerous articles in Polish, English and Portuguese, among them: Mit i ideologia powrotu wśród emigrantów polskich w Brazylii i Argentynie (Myth and Ideology of Return-migration among Polish Immigrants in Brazil and Argentina, 1992), Rasa, etniczność i religia w brazylijskim procesie narodowotwórczym. Wprowadzenie do badań latynoamerykańskich przemian społecznych (Race, Ethnicity and Religion in the Brazilian Process of Nationalism Creation. Introduction to Research on Latin-American Social Transitions, 2004), Stosunki międzykulturowe. Zarys problematyki (International Affairs. Outline of Issues, 2005), co-author: Sobre el estado de los estados latinoamericanos. En el umbral del Bicentenario (On the State of Latin American States. Approaching the Bicentenary, 2009), Socjologia tożsamości (Sociology of Identity, 2008), Nowe ruchy społeczne (The New Social Movements, 2010).
Joanna Panciuchin
is a PhD Candidate of Cultural Studies at the University of Wroclaw and a PhD Candidate of Pedagogy at the University of Lower Silesia. Currently, she is working on two doctoral dissertations: the first one concerns performances of resistance in Poland after 1989 (UWr), and the second one deals with the issues connected with the education, emancipation, democracy and Wroclaw’s community of Romanian Roma (uls). Panciuchin is a co-editor in scientific journal Culture-History-Globalization. She has published in Cultural Studies, Culture-History-Globalization, ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics, Lower Silesia, Le Monde Diplomatique. Polish Edition.
Stanisław Rosik
is a Professor, dr habil., historian, medievalist at the Institute of History at the University of Wroclaw, head of the Laboratory of Research on Early History of Central Europe. Stanisław Rosik since 2017 is the president of the Standing Committee of Polish Medievalists. His fields of research are: early Slavs and their religion, beginnings of Central Europe, esp. Poland, Silesia and Pomerania, German and Polish historiography and hagiography of 10–13th c. He is the author of over 250 publications, including several books, e.g.: Conversio gentis Pomeranorum. Studium świadectwa o wydarzeniu (XII wiek) (Chronicon 2010), Bolesław Krzywousty (Chronicon 2013), The Slavic Religion in the Light of 11th- and 12th-Century German Chronicles (Thietmar of Merseburg, Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau) (Brill, in print). Stanisław Rosik is the project manager in the International Research Project “Poland and Pomerania in shaping European civilization (from the Slavic tribes to the turn of 12th c.)” (2014–2020).