Participants

 

Oskar Amiri
architect and PhD student at Poznan University of Technology, since 2013 teaching assistant at the Faculty of Architecture. He is also involved in the Interdepartmental Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He develops interdisciplinary research interests between the fields of architecture, urban design, environmental psychology, and sociology. In particular, he explores the psychological impact of architectural forms and urban structures, and their possible use as tools of social engineering. He is currently working on doctoral thesis, which touches on the problem of the urban border structures in river-side cities.

Anna Barcz
PhD at The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. She is the leader of the project The Meaning of the animal studies in the context of studies on the Polish culture. The author of articles published in “Teksty Drugie”, “Brno Studies in English”, “Anthropos?” and “Artmix”. Her main fields of interest are: ecocriticism, animal studies and posthumanism.

Elżbieta Błotnicka-Mazur
She completed her PhD in 2010, supervised by prof. Lechosław Lameński, with thesis Bohdan Kelles-Krauze (1885-1945) – between profession and passion. Life and work of the forgotten Lublin architect and painter (in polish) – published monograph (2010) and a complete catalogue of architectural projects by Kelles-Krauze (2012). Her research interests include sculpture and architecture of the 20th century. She is currently pursuing a project focusing on the sculpture and phenomena on the sculpture's edge in the 1960's in Poland.

Ewa Domanska
Associate Professor of theory and history of historiography in the Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan, Poland and since 2002 Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. Her teaching and research interests include comparative theory of the human and social sciences, history and theory of historiography, posthumanities and ecological humanities. She recently published: Existential History (2012, in Polish); History and the Contemporary Humanities (2012, in Ukrainian);  French Theory in Poland (ed. with Miroslaw Loba, 2010, in Polish); Theory of Knowledge of the Past and the Contemporary Humanities and Social Sciences (2010, in Polish) and History-Today (ed. with Rafal Stobiecki i Tomasz Wislicz, 2014, in Polish).

Mischa Gabowitsch
historian and sociologist, born in 1977. He studied at Oxford University and the ENS in Paris and holds a PhD from the School of Advanced Social Research (EHESS) in Paris. He has taught at Princeton University, edited the journals “NZ” (Moscow) and “Laboratorium” (Saint Petersburg), and is currently a research fellow at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany. He is interested in the study of commemorative practices and the social role of material objects, from protest posters to bronze soldiers. He is currently writing a collective biography of Soviet war memorials and co-directing an international project that studies what happens around these memorials on and around Victory Day.

Jarosław Jaworek
historian and musician-instrumentalist; PhD student at the Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. He studied history at the Department of History, Wroclaw University, historical anthropology at the Sorbonne-Paris IV in Paris, as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Music in Wroclaw. In 1999-2001, vice-president of the Film Arts Lovers Company and a member of the Academy of Music Senate in 2002 in Wroclaw. His field of interests are anthropology of the senses and sound studies. His dissertation focuses on the role played by sound and soundscapes in the historical research.

Hollyamber Kennedy
doctoral candidate in Architectural History and Theory at Columbia University, at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Drawing on the work of Roberto Esposito and Phillip Sarasin, her study traces the unfolding of an aesthetic and technical paradigm of immunity, and examines its influence on the disciplines and techniques of infrastructural systems building, urban planning, ethnographic display and public health management. Her most recent article is due out this fall, in the forthcoming book Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! A Paul Scheerbart Reader, published by the University of Chicago Press, edited by Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin. A second article A Secure Interior: The Atlantropa Plan, Herman Sörgel’s Infrastructural Imaginary is forthcoming in a special issue of “Architectural Theory Review”, in December 2015.

Kazimierz S. Ożóg
art historian, assistant professor at Arts Institute in Opole University. Doctoral degree in art history at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, supervisor: prof. dr hab. Lechosław Lameński. Author of 3 books: Pomniki Lublina [The monuments of Lublin] (2013), Orzeł biały na tle mroków nocy. Ikonografia Piotra Skargi (2012) and Miedziany Pielgrzym. Pomniki Jana Pawła II w Polsce w latach 1980-2005 [The Copper Pilgrim. The monuments of Pope John Paul II in Poland (1980-2005)] (2007).

Anne Peschken
artist, co-founder (with Marek Pisarsky) of the artistic group Urban Art and the Urban Art Gallery in Berlin (1985). Under the name of Urban Art they collaborate as artists since 1988 and initiate art projects, such as Dialog rzeczy/Dialog of things/Dialog der Dinge (2001) or transRobota (2007). Selectet exhibitions: Void (Nowy Sącz, Poland, 2012), My Berlinczycy! (Märkisches Museum, Berlin, 2011), Dialog Loci (Kostrzyn, Poland, 2004).

Piotr Piotrowski
Professor Ordinarius at the Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan. He was the director of the National Museum in Warsaw (2009-2010). Piotrowski has written extensively on Central European art and culture. He is the author of a dozen books including Meanings of Modernism (1999); Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (2012); Avant-Garde in the Shadow of Yalta. Art in Central-Eastern Europe, 1945–1989 (2009); Art after Politics (2007); Grenzen überwinded [Conquered Borders], co-edited with Katja Bernhardt (2006); and Meanings of Modernism. Towards a History of Polish Art after 1945 (1999).

Małgorzata Praczyk
Historian, an assistant professor at the Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan, Poland. In 2011 she defended her doctoral thesis entitled „Materiality – Politics - Emotions. Comparative Study of Memorials of Poznan and Strasbourg (XIX-XX century).” Awarded by the American-Polish Fellowship Program at the University of Notre Dame, USA (2009-2010). The author of numerous publications concerning issues of memory, anthropology of the city, affect, postcolonialism and theory of history. Currently her research interests focus on biohumanities, environmental history and postcolonial studies.

Roma Sendyka
assistant Professor at the Center for Anthropology of Literature and Culture Studies (Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University). Author of The Modern Essay (2006), co-edited Od pamięci biodziedzicznej do postpamięci (2013). Editor of a book series “Nowa Humanistyka” (New Humanities, IBL PAN). Visiting professor at the University of Chicago (2011 - Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Program), recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation Grant (2011), awarded in the Patterns Program (Erste Stiftung, Vienna, 2010) for the project (In)visible Loss. The Holocaust and the Everyday Visual Experience in Contemporary Poland and Central Europe; EHRI research fellow at NIOD (Amsterdam, 2013). Her work combines elements drawn from three major disciplines: literature, cultural studies, and visual studies. She works on a project on non-sites of memory in Central and Eastern Europe.

Marta Smolińska
art historian, art critic and curator; assistant Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Faculty of Modern and Contemporary Art.); awarded Foundation for Polish Science grant three times; member of Polish Section of AICA; author of numerous publications on modern and contemporary art, including three books The pulse of art (Poznań 2010), Young Mehoffer (Kraków 2004), Opening the painting. De(con)struction of universal seeing mechanisms in non-representational easel painting of the 2nd half of the 20th century (Toruń 2012) and articles. Until 2010 vice-editor-in-chief of magazine on contemporary art “artluk”.

Agata Stolarz
assistant Professor of History at Institute of Central and Eastern Europe, Lublin, Poland. Doctor of History (with distinction) at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (dissertation: Sharing a memory. Between theory and practice of oral history). Her research interests focus on: oral history, memory studies in aspect of oblivion, social history after World Word II in Poland and gender history.

Małgorzata Wosińska
ethnologist and psychotraumatologist. Ph.D. student of the final year at the Faculty of History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Her research  interests include Holocaust and Genocide Studies, anthropology of memory, modern curatorial and museum studies. She also works with the witnesses of traumatic events. Currently she works on the doctorial thesis concerning the identity of genocide survivors in Rwanda, where she has conducted regular field researches since 2009. She is an expert advising on the management of memorial sites and trauma for both governmental and non-governmental organizations of preventive character in Rwanda (i.e. National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide Rwanda, Aegis Trust). Curator of exhibitions for the former concentration camps (including ex.: KL Stutthof, Gross  Rosen) in Poland. The youngest winner of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Award „Museum Event of the Year Sybilla 2011” for individual project “Sztutowo or Stutthof? The taming of the cultural landscape” submitted for the competition by Museum Stuthoff in Sztutowo.Author of 27 publications in scientific journals, co-editor of 3 books and 1 collection of Reportages.