HOST LECTURERS

Aleksandra Boroń

prof. AMU dr hab. (Associate Professor)

Represented university / institution
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Title of the course/talk
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Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Boroń Aleksandra, Polityka językowa i tożsamość kulturowa mniejszości, Studia edukacyjne, 2021, nr 61, s.7-30. DOI:10.14746/se.2021.60.1
2) Boroń Aleksandra, Polonia portugalska i procesy (re)konstrukcji kulturowej tożsamości W: Polonia i Polacy za granicą – kulturowe i edukacyjne obszary badań i doświadczeń / , (red.) Boroń Aleksandra [i in.] (red.), 2020, Poznań, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, s.241-252, ISBN 978-83-232-3857-7
3) Boroń Aleksandra, Pedagogika (p)o Holocauście. Pamięć. Tożsamość. Edukacja, 2013, Poznań, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 268 s., ISBN 978-83-232-2531-7

Research interests
Comparative Education, Intercultural Education

Jarema Drozdowicz

Associate Professor

Represented university / institution
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Title of the course/talk
Ethnographic research in social sciences

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Antropologia edukacji, Poznań 2019, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Nauk Społecznych UAM
2) The Symbolic Dimension. Anthropological Studies in Culture, Religion and Education, Zurich, Munster 2018, Lit Verlag
3) Symbole w działaniu. Akademickie konteksty nurtu symbolicznego w antropologii, Poznań 2009, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM

Research interests
theory of education, sociology and anthropology of education, intercultural and multicultural education, contemporary theory of culture

Marcin Gierczyk

PhD 

Represented university / institution
University of Silesia Institute of Pedagogy

Title of the course/talk
Analysis of qualitative data. Atlas

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Uczeń zdolny w polskiej i angielskiej przestrzeni szkolnej : studium komparatystyczne. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. Gierczyk M (2019)
2) The effects of gender on the ethical decision-making of teachers, doctors and lawyers. New Educ. Rev. – 2019, no. 1, s. 147-159, Gierczyk M, Harrison T. (2019)
3) Edukacja i społeczeństwo : dynamika socjopedagogicznych konstrukcji / red. nauk. Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik, Emilia Grzesiak, Jarema Drozdowicz, Marcin Gierczyk – Poznań : Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, (2018)

Research interests
His interests include Gifted and Talented Education, Physical and Relational Aggression as well as issues related to the functions of degrees from prestigious universities. He has published articles related to studying societal issues, methodology,  gifted and talented education and gender politics; these articles often have a comparative nature and are related to social mobility and multiculturalism. He gained valuable academic knowledge during his time at the University of Birmingham (England), University of Oslo (Norway) and Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). From 2017 he is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham (England). 

Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik

Professor

Represented university / institution
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Title of the course/talk
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Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Edukacja i (nie)równość społeczna kobiet. Studium dynamiki dostępu (Eng., Education and social (in)equality of women. A study of the dynamics of access), Impuls, Kraków 2011, pp. 516 
2) Elitarne szkolnictwo średnie. Między reprodukcją społeczno-kulturową a ruchliwością konkurencyjną, (Elite secondary schooling. Between sociocultural reproduction and contest mobility), AMU Press, Poznań 2015, pp. 475
3) Testy edukacyjne. Studium dynamiki selekcji i socjalizacji, ( Educational Tests. Dynamics of Selection and Socialization), AMU Press, 2017)Poznań 2017,   pp.   198.

Research interests
Sociology of education, sociology of culture, gender studies 

Bartosz Hordecki

Associate Professor

Represented university / institution
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Title of the course/talk
Lost in translation

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) B. Hordecki, Language Policies as an Instrument of Shaping and Rhetoricizing Mutual Relations in the Post-Soviet Region, “Przegląd Politologiczny” 2019, no. 2. 
2) B. Hordecki, „Freedom of speech” and „wolność słowa” – around some conceptual differences between the terms, J. Sobczak, J. Skrzypczak, K. Kakareko (eds.), “Media Law in the time of liquid modernity. Hot Topics in the European and Polish Media Law”, Berlin 2017. 
3) B. Hordecki, Contemporary research on hate speech in news websites’ comments from the perspective of Jürgen Habermas’s theory of knowledge, “Annales – Ser. hist. sociol.” 2014, no. 3.

Research interests
political philosophy, rhetoric, language policies and politics of language, changes of the contemporary socio-political discourses (especially in Central and Eastern Europe), evolution of political and legal cultures, transformations of key-concepts and methodological approaches in political and media studies

Paulina Pospieszna

 PhD,  Associate Professor

Represented university / institution
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Title of the course/talk
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Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Consensus against All Odds: Explaining the Persistence of EU Sanctions on Russia Clara Portela, Paulina Pospieszna, Joanna Skrzypczyńska and Dawid Walentek. 2020. Journal of European Integration. DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2020.1803854
2) Amplifying and Nullifying the Impact of Democratic Sanctions through Aid to Civil Society Pospieszna, Paulina, and Patrick Weber. 2020. International Interactions. DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2020.1791108
3) Promoting Active Youth: Evidence from Polish NGO’s Civic Education Program in Eastern EuropePospieszna, Paulina, Aleksandra Galus. 2020. Journal of International Relations & Development 23 pp. 210-236, DOI 10.1057/s41268-018-0134-4.

Research interests

Anna Sakson-Boulet

PhD, Assistant Professor

Represented university / institution
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Title of the course/talk
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Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Anna Sakson-Boulet (2020), Ambient Air Pollution as a Human Security Challenge in Poland, “Security. Theory and Practice”, No. 1 (XXXVIII), DOI: 10.34697/2451-0718-btip-2020-1-006.
2) Anna Sakson-Boulet (2020) The “Clean Air” Priority Programme – Evaluation and Perspectives, “Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne”, No. 1/2020, https://doi.org/10.14746/ssp.2020.1.9.
3) A. Sakson-Boulet (2019), Selected Aspects of Iran’s Hydrological Security, “Przegląd Strategiczny”, Vol. 12, https://doi.org/10.14746/ps.2019.1.21.

Research interests
political ecology, environmental security, global issues – especially hunger and malnutrition

Tomasz R. Szymczyński

prof. AMU dr hab. (Associate Professor) 

Represented university / institution
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Title of the course/talk
Lost in translation

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Polityka drogi okrężnej jako strategia sensu w chińskim obszarze kulturowym z perspektywy hermeneutyki wielojęzykowości, (En. Politics of detour as a strategy of meaning in Chinese cultural area from the perspective of hermeneutics of multilinguisticality) Forthcoming book.
2) Rhetoric and hermeneutics of the democratic deficit in the European Union, (in:) Stosunki Międzynarodowe w Procesie Zmian. International Relations in the Process of Changes. Księga Jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesorowi Zdzisławowi W. Puśleckiemu (eds.) Andrzej Stelmach, Tomasz R. Szymczyński, Maciej Walkowski, Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM, Poznań 2018, pp. 633-642.
3) Pytanie o miejsce retoryki w hermeneutyce filozoficznej Hansa-Georga Gadamera, (in:) Powinowactwa retoryki, (ed.) Barbara Sobczak, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Seria Filologia Polska Nr 170, Poznań 2017, pp. 219-232. (En.: Considering the position of rhetoric within the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer).

Research interests
Political philosophy, history of Chinese philosophy, questions on cultural collective identities and intercultural communication viewed from the methodological perspective of the hermeneutics of multilinguisticality