43Rd Joint Sessions of Workshops University of Warsaw 29 March – 2 April 2015
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43rd Joint Sessions of Workshops University of Warsaw 29 March – 2 April 2015 Contents Welcome from the ECPR Chair and the local organising committee ...................................................... 2 The University of Warsaw ................................................................................................................................. 4 The Institute of Political Science ..................................................................................................................... 5 About the City of Warsaw ............................................................................................................................... 6 Membership benefits ....................................................................................................................................... 7 The European Consortium for Political Research ......................................................................................... 8 Executive Committee ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Jean Blondel PhD Prize .................................................................................................................................. 10 Rudolf Wildenmann Prize .............................................................................................................................. 11 Hans Daalder Prize ......................................................................................................................................... 11 Stein Rokkan Lecture ..................................................................................................................................... 12 Roundtable ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 Day-by-day schedule of activities ............................................................................................................... 13 Practical information ..................................................................................................................................... 14 Overview of Workshops and rooms ............................................................................................................. 15 Map of Warsaw city centre ......................................................................................................................... 16 Campus map showing locations ................................................................................................................ 17 Workshops and participants ......................................................................................................................... 18 Book exhibition ............................................................................................................................................... 51 Index of participants ...................................................................................................................................... 58 Welcome to the Joint Sessions of Workshops Dear Participants 1983. Food was rationed, surveillance was invasive, political science was not It is my pleasure to welcome you to taught at the university! The 1980s rd the 43 Joint Sessions in this, Poland’s Solidarność strikes were still fresh in largest university. It is the first time the everyone’s mind, and the iconic leader Sessions have been hosted in Eastern of those strikes and future President Europe, something about which of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, had recently we are particularly happy. I would been released from prison. like to thank Janusz Adamowski, Tension was palpable and, on the eve Stanisław Sulowski, Anna Sroka and of the anniversary of the August 1981 Manuel Sánchez de Dios of our own Gdańsk strikes, tanks surrounded the Executive Committee, who have dorm in which we lodged. pursued this objective with great determination. Many difficulties had Of course, this was nothing compared to be overcome but, to quote an to what the shipyard workers had had expression I learnt in Poland many to endure, but it still gave me a vivid years ago, Wszystko jest możliwe, nic nie understanding of what it means to jest proste – ‘Everything is possible, fight for democracy. It probably also nothing is easy’. contributed to my pursuing political science later in my graduate studies! It is a particular pleasure for me to Allow me then to welcome you all to return, after more than twenty years, Warsaw and to wish you all a most to a radically transformed Poland and fruitful and intense four days of to an even more beautiful Warsaw. discussion and socialisation. Intense memories from my youth are associated with this country. As an Simona Piattoni Economics undergraduate I visited Chair, ECPR Executive Poland on an internship in summer Committee, 2012 – 2015 Dear Participants research. Apart from conducting ten independent fields of study in Polish, On behalf of the Faculty of we therefore also offer five fields of Journalism and Political Science, study in English and one in Russian. I would like to welcome participants in the Joint Sessions of Workshops Undertaking the organisation of the to the University of Warsaw. It is Joint Sessions of Workshops reflects a great honour and pleasure for our interest in strengthening scientific our institution to play host to such cooperation on an international scale. an activity. I would like to wish you a productive The Faculty was established in and pleasant stay in Warsaw. 1975, and consists of five institutes: Janusz Adamowski Political Science, Journalism, International Relations, Social Policy Dean of the Faculty and most recently established, the of Journalism and Institute of European Studies. Political Science One of our Faculty’s priorities is to internationalise, in the field of education as well as in scientific 2 WELCOME Ladies and gentlemen students while the oldest is the Faculty of Law and Administration with 5,500 It is an honour for the University of students. The University also includes Warsaw to host the Joint Sessions and 30 other academic and research units. it is with great personal pleasure that I welcome all the participants. In its almost 200-year history, the University’s purpose and aim has The University is one of the best and always been to raise awareness largest among the 400 institutions and promote debate for a better of higher education in Poland. The understanding of the social and number of people who comprise political changes occurring around our community (students, doctoral the world. Without doubt, organising students and staff) exceeds 60,000. the Joint Sessions with the ECPR Among the 46,000 students, 1,500 are brings a unique opportunity to foreign students, attending full-time further this long-held goal. studies at our University. The same number of students arrives annually Let me, finally, wish you all effective under the Erasmus and Erasmus and productive work at the Joint Mundus programmes. Sessions of Workshops, and may your stay at the University of The University of Warsaw, which is Warsaw be truly inspiring. made up of 20 faculties, cooperates with over 1,100 foreign partner Alojzy Z Nowak universities from 64 countries. One of Vice-Rector for the largest is the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science with 5,800 Research and Liaison The local organising team, left to right: Małgorzata Kaczorowska, Agnieszka Bejma, Daniel Przastek, Anna Sroka, Filip Ilkowski and Renata Mieńkowska-Norkiene Main campus entrance The University of Warsaw Now just shy of its 200th birthday, Poland’s biggest University has nurtured the talents of no less than five Nobel prizewinners. Encompassing 20 faculties and almost 30 research units, it has also grown to become one of the region’s major employers he University of Warsaw was classes in secret, in private houses founded by a decree issued in and religious spaces across the city. T1816 by Tsar Alexander I, and The University’s buildings, facilities its history is inextricably linked with and precious collections suffered the history of Warsaw itself. colossal wartime damage. A plaque Closed following the November on the site of a former museum uprising of 1830, it reopened in commemorates the students and 1862. Following another uprising, employees of the University and in January 1869, the University Home Army killed in combat. was replaced by the Russian Still stifled after the war under language Imperial University of the imposed cult of Stalin, the thaw Warsaw, which continued until of 1956 saw a re-emergence of July 1915, when the German authentic academic life. authorities permitted it to reopen as Today, the University community a Polish-language institution under consists of 46,000 students, its original emblem. 3,200 doctoral students and 4,000 When Hitler seized Warsaw in 1939, post-diploma students. Scholars the University was, like many others, participate in more than 150 projects closed down. But many of its staff financed by European and other risked their lives to continue their international funds and organisations. Old Library Building UNIVERSITY The Institute of Political Science Founded in 1967, and from 1975 a part of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, the Institute is the oldest and largest political science centre in Poland s one of the few academic (the so-called double diploma) centres on the eastern side with the University of