We are pleased to announce that the European Commission’s Innovation Radar has identified the University of Warsaw as a Key Innovator in the GuestXR project, funded under Horizon 2020. The project involved a team from the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw, led by Professor Andrzej Nowak. The recognised innovation is a computer simulation algorithm for turn-taking in extended reality (XR) environments. Based on assessments […]
During the General Assembly of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) (International Social Survey Program), held in late April and early May 2026 in Prague, Dr. Marcin W. Zieliński was re-elected to the project’s Methodological Committee. In a secret ballot, he received the support of a majority of representatives from over 40 countries. This will be his third term on this committee.
Congratulations to Tomasz Zarycki on being elected to Academia Europaea! Academia Europaea is a non-governmental association acting as a pan-European academy to promote learning, education and research. Membership is by invitation only and includes “leading experts from the physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics, the letters and humanities, social and cognitive sciences, economics and the law.”
15-16th of June 2026, Warsaw Second Conference on Parliamentary Junctures in Continental Europe. Organizers: Wiktor Marzec, Naum Trajanovski, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk, Piotr Kuligowski The years 1905-1908 brought about shockwaves that challenged the imperial order in Central and Eastern Europe. Among possible solutions to the new political dislocation were the formation of representative bodies for entire imperial realms and the extension of suffrage for elections to existing parliaments. The former path was […]
Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies is pleased to announce that two of the ISS researchers, members of the Patchwork Parliaments team, Wiktor Marzec and Naum Trajanovski, have been selected as fellows for the 2025/2026 Visiting Fellowship program at the Institute of Contemporary History (Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino – INZ) in Ljubljana. The Institute of Contemporary History is a research institution with a sixty-year tradition of uninterrupted research and publishing […]
The Volume “Transnational Working-Class Literatures: Canons and Connections in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” focuses on the interplay of the national, international and transnational contexts of working-class literatures from the nineteenth century to the present across 13 countries. Exploring the relationship between a working-class literature and its national ‘canon,’ it features articles by ISS affiliates, Wiktor Marzec (serving also as a co-editor) and Risto Turunen.
Polski For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Konkurs na stanowisko adiunkta (ISS-KONKURS-2/2025) Dyrektor Instytutu Studiów Społecznych im. Profesora Roberta Zajonca, za zgodą Rektora Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, ogłasza konkurs na stanowisko adiunkta (w grupie pracowników badawczo-dydaktycznych). Ogłoszenie Wyniki
Zajonc Institute Seminar, May 30th, Eleonora Montuschi “Scientific knowledge and local knowledge: friends or foes?” It is our pleasure to invite you to the upcoming session of the Interdisciplinary Seminar, hosted by the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw. This time, our guests will be Professor Eleonora Montuschi from the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, who will give a presentation titled “Scientific knowledge and local […]
The director of Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, with the consent of the Rector of the University of Warsaw, invites applications for a post-doctoral research position in the project “Patchwork Parliaments. Post-Imperial Field of Power in The New Republic Of Poland, Greater Romania and The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War” funded by the Polish National Science Center.
It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of Prof. Janusz Grzelak, co-founder of the Prof. Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at Warsaw University, on April 24, 2025. Professor Robert Zajonc Institute of Social Studies at the University of Warsaw, its former director and long-time member of the Scientific Council, an outstanding social psychologist and a distinguished social activist supporting in particular with dedication generations of young […]