INSTITUTE FOR 1/3 ADVANCED STUDY WARSAW

The Stanislaw Brzozowski Association spheres; permanent fellows, who, established the Institute for Advanced along with a group of coordinators, Study in Warsaw dedicated to conducting plan research actions and supervise academic research and didactic activity the development of the institution; and on the most crucial and timely problems visiting fellows, who work on their own of contemporary culture and society. The research projects, which constitute founders of the Institute are motivated by independent research, seminars and a desire to create a friendly environment, lectures, debates with invited guests, conducive to searching for answers publications of segments of their research regarding the current crisis in liberal results, and conclude with a book democracy, resulting from a breakedown compilation. The Institute also offers in social bonds and social imagination. scholarships for inviting international Taking into account that no reflection can researchers to Poland, as well as sending replace action and direct engagement Poles abroad for research purposes. motivated by society’s needs, we also understand the necessity of a space for contemplation free from any direct THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES obligations or practical dimensions. Prof. Zygmunt Bauman (Leeds University)

The Institute means to align itself with Prof. Andrzej Friszke (Polish Academy of Sciences) traditions of similar research outposts Prof. Irena Grudzińska-Gross (other Institutes for Advanced Study) (Princeton University) that are not affiliated with any political Prof. Jarosław Hrycak parties, or party organizations; that take (Ivan Franko University, Lvov) advantage financial support only on Agnieszka Holland (film director) the condition of preserving autonomy Ivan Krastev in the sphere of actual research and (Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia) research interests; that anticipate long- Prof. Krzysztof Michalski term research objectives, breaking the (Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna) pre-ordained boundaries of traditional Andrzej Przywara (Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw) disciplines; and that collaborate Prof. Marci Shore with other research institutes and (Yale University) organizations, as equal partners. Prof.Timothy Snyder (Yale University)

The Institute is composed of: A board Olga Tokarczuk (writer) of Trustees, comprised of designated Prof. Michael Walzer members of the Academic or Cultural (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) 2/3

PERMANENT FELLOWS Commissioner for Social Security Reform. He was charged with developing an implementation Prof. Agata BIELIK-ROBSON (1966) – Polish timetable for social security reform, the philosopher, working in the Department of operational establishing principles of pension Theology and Religious Studies at the University funds, as well as with an ex-ante evaluation of Nottingham. A member of the the Institute of the implementation costs of the new social of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish security system, and with designing a financing Academy of Sciences. Multi-year associate of scheme. He specializes in political economy, Stanislaw Brzozowski Association, published economics and public administration. Hausner by Krytyka Polityczna Publishing House and is an author or co-author of over 300 academic „Krytyka Polityczna” journal. Author of books: publications. Romantyzm, niedokończony projekt. Eseje (Universitas 2008), „Na pustyni” – kryptoteologie późnej nowoczesności (Universitas 2008), The The Institute commenced on October Saving Lie: Harold Bloom and Deconstruction 11, 2012. The opening lecture on the (Northwestern University Press, 2011), Erros. Mesjański witalizm i filozofia(Universitas 2012). ‘Challenges for the Century’ was delivered by Prof. Zygmunt Bauman. In the fall Katarzyna SZYMIELEWICZ (1981) – human rights lawyer and activist. Co-founder and executive 2012 we also host, among others, director of the Panoptykon Foundation—a Prof. Claus Offe (talking about the idea Polish NGO defending human rights in the context of modern surveillance and a board of progress in 21st century), Prof. Irena member of European Digital Rights. A graduate Grudzinska-Gross, Prof. Boris Kagarlitsky of the University of Warsaw (Law) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (Development and Prof. Slavoj Žižek. Our guests Studies). Member of the advisory board of the also take part in discussion panels in Ministry of Administration and Digitization, Poland; legal advisor to the Islandic New Media several cities throughout Poland. Events Initiative and International Commission of Jurists in Moscow and Kiev are currently (Polish Section). planned. Dr. Maciej GDULA (1977) – sociologist at the There are 14 projects currently carried Institute of Sociology of the University of Warsaw. Areas of research: social theory and class systems. out in the first semester of the Institute’s Researcher of P. Bourdieu, N. Luhmann and B. operations, including seminars, Latour. In his research on social classes, Gdula concentrates on the increasing importance of research projects, workshops and the middle class in contemporary society and publishing projects. We cooperate the relations of middle class, state and public institutions. Between 2005–2010 board member with well-acknowledged academics and of Stanislaw Brzozowski Association. Author of intellectuals, who are often also engaged books: Trzy dyskursy miłosne (2009), Style życia i porządek klasowy w Polsce (2012, with P. Sadura). in social projects and public activities.

Apart from the group of Permanent Fellows, there is a permanent associate with the Institute for Advanced Study,

Prof. Jerzy HAUSNER (1949) – Polish economist, lecturer at Cracow University of Economics. From 1994 to 1996 Hausner served as Director-General of the Prime Minister’s Office. In that capacity, he was in charge of a group of advisers to Grzegorz Kołodko—then the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for the economy. In February 1997, in the Government of Prime Minister Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, he was appointed Undersecretary of State at the

Director of the Institute:Director Sierakowski Sławomir Coordinators: Sutowski Michał Jasińska, Izabela Prime Minister’s Chancery and Government’s 3/3

FALL 2012–2013 SEMESTER CLASSES Prof. Andrzej Leder Prof. Jerzy Hausner Dreamed Revolution. Culture and Development Psychoanalytic Critical Theory and Prof. Agata Bielik-Robson the Understanding of Polish History The Identity of Spirit: Ruach? Dr. Vasyl Cherepanyn Spiritus? Geist? Spectre? Art/ Knowledge/ Politics: Dr. Maciej Gdula Culture and Society in Outside of Certainty and Contemporary Ukraine Convention. Establishment and Igor Stokfiszewski

FALL SEMESTER 2012–2013 FALL Critique of Values in Social Worlds Art as a Tool for Reality Change Katarzyna Szymielewicz Dr. Bartosz Kuźniarz From „Electronic Eye” to „Fluid Terry Eagleton and Late Marxism Supervision”—Conversations about Dr. Przemysław Sadura, Joanna Erbel Surveillance Society City/ Space/ Property Dr. Agnieszka Graff Dr. Michał Polakowski What Happened to the Second Wave? Contemporary Social Policy: Dr. Maciej Sosnowski, Jacek Schodowski Concepts and Conditions Slicing Hegel FALL 2012 –2013 OPEN LECTURES Dr. Adam Lipszyc Dr. Kamil Sipowicz Paul Celan: Language and Psychedelics in Anthropology, Destruction Culture, Medicine and Philosophy

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