Building closure and remote operation in ISS

In connection with the introduction of an epidemic emergency on 13 March 2020, work ar the ISS is carried out remotely. The building at 5/7 Stawki Street is closed until further notice. Detailed information about the work of the University of Warsaw during this period is provided in the Rector’s order: http://en.uw.edu.pl/rectors-statement-regulating-the-functioning-of-uw/

ISS coordinated project “”Social Space, Fields and Relationality (SSFR) in Contemporary and Historical Social Analysis” begins

From 1 December 2019 a project financed by the academic exchange agency NAWA, entitled “Social Space, Fields and Relationality (SSFR) in Contemporary and Historical Social Analysis. Research Network” begins. The project is being implemented at ISS UW in cooperation with the Institute of Sociology of UW in partnership with 5 research centres from France, Italy, Norway and Germany. Detailed information is available at the link.  

József Böröcz’s talk: “Post-Colonial Sensibility and the Post-State-Socialist Context”

ISS invites you to a lecture by József Böröcz (Professor of Sociology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,  Fulbright Visiting Professor at ISS, University of Warsaw)  “Post-Colonial Sensibility and the Post-State-Socialist Context: Considerations for World-Systems Aynalysts, Global Comparativists, and Other Critical World-Historical Sociologists” Discussants: Anna Sosnowska, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw and ISS UW Tomasz Warczok, Pedagogical University of Cracow and ISS UW. Tomasz Zarycki, ISS UW. […]

Conference invitation “”EQUAL BEFORE THE STATE?” Sept. 20, 2019.

ISS  with Center for French Cultural Studies, University of Warsaw (OKFiSF UW) and Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw (IS UW) invite you to participate in the French-Polish Conference: “EQUAL BEFORE THE STATE? CRITICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH OF PUBLIC POLICIES AND PUBLIC ACTION” to be held on 20 September 2019 (Friday) at the University of Warsaw, ul. Dobra 55, room 3.014. Please find the program and detailed description of the conference […]

Anna Domaradzka awarded an NCN grant

We congratulate Anna Domaradzka with wining a National Science Center (NCN) of Poland grant entitled “Right to an intelligent city: impact of new technologies on quality of life, social relations and urban policies”. More in Polish: https://ncn.gov.pl/…/…/2018-06-15/streszczenia/419149-pl.pdf

Conference “International Circulations of Knowledge and Culture” in Paris 29-30.Oct.2018

ISS UW  organizes a conference in Paris entitled ”Circulations internationales des savoirs et de la culture / International Circulations of Knowledge and Culture” on Oct 29-30, 2018.  In partnership with Center for the French Culture of the University of Warsaw and the Statioin of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Paris as well as the Center for Polish Culture at the Polskiej Sorbonne Université, Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP, UMR 8209 […]

Nowe granty NCN dla ISS

Polish 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. NCN przyznało finansowanie na realizację czterech nowych projektów badawczych w ISS. W tym dwu typu OPUS: dr Agnieszce Rychwalskiej „Jakość w społecznościach internetowych produkujących dobra intelektualne – wpływ struktury społecznej, procedur i zaangażowania uczestników” oraz dr Wiktorowi Marcowi „Rewolucja, której nie było. Mobilizacja polityczna […]