We would like to inform you about the results of the competition for the position of post-doc (1) in the project “Faces of smuggling in the Polish-Slovak borderland between 1918 and 1949” ref. no. 2023/51/D/HS3/01105 affiliated at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. After the evaluation of the submitted documents and the interview the competition committee decided to employ Dr Jolanta Kruszniewska in this position.
Job offer – 2× open competitions for the position of post-doc in the project “Faces of smuggling in the Polish-Slovak borderland between 1918 and 1949”
- Application deadline: 31.10.2024
- Announcement of recruitment results: 18.11.2024
- Employment begins: 1.12.2024
Details: Job offers
Two years of work by the ERC StG team
On the occasion of the second anniversary of the ERC Starting Grant project “Recycling the German Ghosts. Resettlement Cultures in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia after 1945 (SPECTRAL RECYCLING)” (no. 101041946), the research team has prepared a summary of the activities carried out to date.
Their research involves queries in national and local archives as well as ethnographic fieldwork in three selected regions, namely Pomerania in Poland, Northern Bohemia in Czechia, and Upper Nitra Basin in Slovakia. In the initial two years of the project, researchers successfully gathered nearly 200 interviews. This dataset encompasses both oral history interviews and ethnographic approaches. The research team spent many hours looking for the relevant documents in the archives, talking with interview partners, documenting the material objects being studied, and exploring the locations they investigated.
The team led by Dr Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska actively disseminates the results of its research through participation in radio shows, podcasts and open events, thus effectively reaching a wide audience, including those outside the academic community.
We invite you to visit the project website, where you can read more about the summary of the team’s work so far and follow the researchers’ activities on social media.
The project will last until 2027. We wish you good luck and keep our fingers crossed for further successes!
CFP: „Slavia Meridionalis”, vol. 25 | Extended deadline
We would like to invite you to submit your papers to 25th volume of the journal „Slavia Meridionalis”. The deadline has been extended until 30 Semptember 2024.
Topic: LANGUAGE OF POLITICS, LANGUAGE IN POLITICS: DISCURSIVE, MULTIMODAL AND VIRTUAL REALITIES
Planned date of publication: 2025.
More informations can be found here.
Dr Karolina Panz will realize NCN SONATA grant
We are pleased to announce that Dr Karolina Panz’s project, entitled “Faces of smuggling in the Polish-Slovak borderland between 1918 and 1949” has received funding under the SONATA 19 competition of the National Science Center.
The SONATA 19 competition, which is aimed at researchers with a doctoral degree obtained 2 to 7 years prior to the year of application, is designed to support those beginning their scientific careers in conducting innovative research. In this edition of the competition, 1148 applications were submitted to NCN, 218 projects were qualified for funding.
The ranking list is available on the NCN website: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/2024-05-24-485-projektow-w-konkursach-opus-26-i-sonata19
Congratulations!

MINIATURA grant for dr Olha Tkachenko
We are happy to inform that dr Olha Tkachenko was awarded a MINIATURA 8 grant from the National Science Centre (NCN). Dr Tkachenko received funding for a project „Decolonization Processes in Ukraine’s YouTube Segment after February 24, 2022”.
The aim of the MINIATURA call is to support scientific activities to prepare for a future research project that will take part in NCN competitions or other national and international calls.
The ranking list is available on the NCN website: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/2024-05-20-pierwsi-laureaci-konkursu-miniatura-8
Congratulations!
Курс польської мови для українців – рівня А1
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Invitation to read: Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, “Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom”, transl. by Ewa Wampuszyc
We are pleased to announce that the American publishing house Cornell University Press has just published an English translation of the book „Pod klątwą. Społeczny portret pogromu kieleckiego” (2018) by Prof. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir. The monograph has been translated by Ewa Wampuszyc and is published under the title “Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom”.
It is worth noting that the book by Prof. Tokarska-Bakir, after its publication, caused an international response and won several awards and nominations, including: Yad Vashem International Book Prize (2019), the Jan Długosz award for Poland’s best scientific publication (2019) as well as nominations for the NIKE Award (2019) and the Jerzy Giedroyc award (2019).
The translation is published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
The book can be ordered on the publisher’s website: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771484/cursed/#bookTabs=1
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom, transl. by Ewa Wampuszyc, Cornell University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781501771484.
Information about the competition for the position of scholarship grantee/student/PhD student in the project “Laughter During The War: Russian Aggression In Ukraine In Political Cartoons And Memes”
We would like to inform you about the results of the competition for the position of scholarship grantee/student/PhD student in the project “Laughter During The War: Russian Aggression In Ukraine In Political Cartoons And Memes” (ref. no. 2022/45/P/HS2/02536) realized at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. After the evaluation of the submitted documents and the interview, the competition committee decided not to employ anyone for this position. The competition has not been resolved.