The City and Social Mobilization: Rights, Actors and Fields in times of Urban Crisis

Call for contributions to Special Issue of Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations „The City and Social Mobilization: Rights, Actors and Fields in times of Urban Crisis” Special Issue Editors: Anna Domaradzka (ISS UW), David Dueñas i Cid (Univ Rovira i Virgili / ISS UW), Camilo Tamayo Gómez (Univ EAFIT) With this special issue of Voluntas we focus on urban areas and urban conflicts as the specific contexts […]

Centrum Wyzwań Społecznych częścią ISS UW

„Centrum Wyzwań Społecznych” działające w ISS UW od 2014 roku stało się obecnie jednym formalnych ośrodków Instututu. Jego główną misją jest włączanie zasobów Uniwersytetu w rozwiązywanie kluczowych wyzwań społecznych w partnerstwie z instytucjami różnego typu. Więcej na stronie www.cws.uw.edu.pl oraz w tym miejscu

Lecture „The Globalization of Inequality” by prof. Salvatore Babones (June 9, 5.30 pm)

ISS invites you to an open lecture entitled „The Globalization of Inequality” by Salvatore Babones, associate professor at the University of Sydney, which will take place at Brudzinskie Hall (Sala Brudzińskiego) in Kazimierzowski Palace (Pałacu Kazimierzowski) (Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw) on June 9, 2015 (Tuesday) at 5.30 pm. The lecture will be devoted to mechanism and effects of diffusion of a US model of social inequalities. The Facebook […]

Bogdan Cichomski passed away

We are deeply saddened to inform you that on May 2nd, 2015, our colleague Bogdan Cichomski passed away. Bogdan was a co-founder of the Institute for Social Studies and its long-time faculty member. He served as a head of the Center for Sociological Studies and was the forefather of the Polish General Survey Program (PGSS). Bogdan’s funeral will take place on May 11th, at 10:30 am at the Bródnowski Cemetery […]

Book Panel Discussion on M.Kennedy’s „Globalizing Knowledge” – March 24, 2015

ISS UW cordially invites you for a Book Panel Discussion on Michael Kennedy’s (Brown University) new book „Globalizing Knowledge: Intellectuals, Universities and Publics in Transformation” http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24607 (Stanford University Press, 2014). The panel will take place in the Brudziński Hall (Sala Brudzińskiego) at the Kazimierz Palace (Pałac Kazimierzowski), ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warszawa, March 24, 2015 r. (Tuesday) at 5:30 m. Participants: Marta Bucholc (Instytut Socjologii UW), Edwin Bendyk (Polityka & DELab/ISS UW), Michał Sutowski (Krytyka Polityczna). The book will be introduced by Tomasz Zarycki (ISS UW),  while the discussion will be led […]

Conferene of the „”Enabling the flourishing and evolution of social entrepreneurship for innovative and inclusive societies” (EFESEIIS) project

On February 17, 2015 a conference of the project „Enabling the flourishing and evolution of social entrepreneurship for innovative and inclusive societies” (EFESEIIS)  took place. Program of the conference available at Stakeholders-workshop-program-Warsaw-17th-February-2015 Picutres avaliable at: https://www.facebook.com/InstytutStudiowSpolecznych/posts/844190945629143

ISR establised „University of Warsaw Social Science Scholars Exchange Fund”

Eugene Burnstein, a social psychologist and senior research scientist emeritus at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR), and Martha Burnstein, longtime friends of the ISS, have funded the „University of Warsaw Social Science Scholars Exchange Fund” which will bring Polish students to Michigan to study at one of ISR’s two summer programs. Burnstein hopes the fund will “stabilize and institutionalize” the relationship between the two schools. Read more

Warsaw School of Data Analysis (WSAD)

The Warsaw School of Data Analysis (WSAD) is a joint project of COME UW, ICM UW and ISS UW. Registration for courses is now open. Participation in the WSAD project is fully free of charge and the University of Warsaw PhD students might be additionally granted by the ECTS. Classes will be held in English. More at  www.wsad.uw.edu.pl/en/

PTSD

W dniu 4 lipca 2013 w godzinach 9.00 – 22.00 w ramach programu Maestro3 „PTSD: Diagnoza Terapia Profilaktyka” Instytut Studiów Społecznych im. Roberta Zajonca organizuje konferencję naukową, poświęconą realizowanemu projektowi badawczemu (miejsce: Uniwersytet Warszawski, kampus centralny UW, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Stary BUW, s. 207). Program