Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

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The history of Old Polish culture. Studies presented to Urszula Augustyniak

Z historii kultury staropolskiej. Studia ofiarowane Urszuli Augustyniak

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Urszula Augustyniak; early modern history; early modern culture; history of religion; nobility; Radziwiłł family; reformation

Anniversary publication for Professor Urszula Augustyniak, affiliated with the Institute of History of the University of Warsaw, a renowned cultural historian specialized in the early modern period. Articles collected in the book are concerned with the broadly understood early modern history of culture, politics, and religion.

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New Address Wrocław 1946−1948. The Correspondence of Ryszard and Zofia Gansiniec

Nowy adres Wrocław 1946-1948. Korespondencja Ryszarda i Zofii Gansińców

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Ryszard Gansiniec; Zofia Gansiniec; classical philology; correspondence; Wrocław after WWII; ancient history

The publication contains voluminous correspondence from the years 1946−1948 between professor Ryszard Gansiniec and his wife, Zofia Gansiniec, who was at the start of her academic career in post-war Poland. The book contains numerous letters, which professor Gansiniec and his wife received in Wrocław from their friends, acquaintances, former and present colleagues and former students.

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Self-destruction. Border Situations in Contemporary Culture

Autodestrukcja. Sytuacje graniczne we współczesnej kulturze

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: self-destruction; border situations; suicidology; suicide; crisis; sociology; psychology

A collection of articles devoted to self-destruction in culture. The authors analyse suicidal acts in terms of culture, taking into account contemporary culture (literature, press, film) in which such attempts become objects of reflexion. The book has a novel structure: each part consists of two articles, in which the authors observe the title problem from different perspectives, entering into an intriguing dialogue and showing arguments which are often debatable in terms of interpretation.

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Higher education costs

Koszty kształcenia wyższego

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: higher education; education costs; educational services market

Costs related to undertaking studies are one of the less studied aspects of the growing interest in higher education in Poland. Every year, hundreds of thousands of households in Poland allocate considerable funds for this purpose. In order to continue their education, young people not only invest heavily, but also often postpone the decision to enter the labor market, and thus lose the income from work that they could obtain by becoming professionally active after graduating from secondary school. At the same time, significant funds for higher education are allocated by the state. The presented results of the analyzes were prepared as part of the research project "Social and economic determinants of study choices of people aged 19–30", carried out by a team from the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw on behalf of the Educational Research Institute.The authors identify the mechanisms involved in contacts between the four main stakeholders of the higher education process: public and private universities, students (and their households) and the state. Using the latest methodological approaches in the field of experimental economics and conditional choice, they attempt to measure the size, structure and differentiation of higher education costs from the perspective of both the student and the university.

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Between Conflict and Coexistence. Natal and Zululand in 1824–1856

Między konfliktem a koegzystencją. Natal i Zululand w latach 1824–1856

Author(s): Michał Leśniewski / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: South Africa; history; KwaZulu-Natal; Zulu; Boer; British

The book depicts the history of Southern Africa in a transition period, after the arrival of Europeans but before they became a dominant power in the region. It is a history in which Africans are still partners, not victims, and shape local realities not less than the newcomers. At the same time, it is a presentation of the process which led to the rise of the colonial order, albeit not yet in its final form. It shows the transformation of mutual relations but also of the regional balance of power.

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The Polish Language for Foreigners – Locality and Regionalism

Polszczyzna dla cudzoziemców – lokalność i regionalizm

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: glottodidactics; Polish as a foreign language; cultural linguistics; linguistics; cultural studies

The first monography which analyzes issues related to selected cities and regions in the context of teaching Polish to foreigners. The authors are considering the possibilities of using local topics, their influence on the learning of culture in a national sense and the way in which it shapes the perception of the country as a cohesive “cultural creation” and a diverse collection of regional cultures. They also point out the possibilities of taking up local topics in the lessons of Polish as a foreign language while sharing their personal experience and didactic suggestions.

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Folk and fairy tale and society

Märchen und Gesellschaft

Author(s): / Language(s): English,German

Keywords: folk tale; literary fairy tale; society; German literature; English literature

This volume contains 18 scholarly papers that analyse the relationships between folk and fairy tales and society using a broad range of cultural perspectives, research questions, methodological approaches, and source materials. The authors explore the treatment of social issues in folk and fairy tales on the one hand, and how these tales function in societies on the other. The analysis includes source texts rooted in Albanian, American, Burmese, German, Georgian, Austrian, and Polish cultural contexts. As such, the book showcases the richness and multi-layered quality of the “folk and fairy tales/society” thematic complex, providing inspiration for further research.

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Dhammapada or the Trace of Things

Ślad Rzeczy. Dhammapada

Author(s): Joanna Jurewicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Buddhism; Dhammapada; Pali Canon; ethics; translation

An original translation of Dhammapada, one of the most well-known Buddhist texts, believed by the followers to be words of Buddha himself. It contains teachings on good and noble life. The text is supplemented with the translator’s philological and cultural commentary.

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Young Teachers Leave Schools. The Report on the Diagnosis of the Circumstances of Leaving the Profession by the Teachers with Under Five-Year Work Experience in Warsaw

Młodzi nauczyciele odchodzą ze szkoły. Raport z diagnozy uwarunkowań odchodzenia z zawodu przez warszawskich nauczycieli o stażu pracy do 5 lat

Author(s): Joanna Dobkowska,Anna Zielińska,Małgorzata Żytko / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: leaving the profession; job burnout; young teachers; teacher education; resilience

In the report the authors show the key factors in motivating people to stay or leave the profession, isolated on the basis of the research conducted in a large group of teachers with little work experience who work in schools and kindergartens in Warsaw. They also present the recommendations for the education system and development of teachers regarding the prevention of leaving the profession early.

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Developing Digital Health in Estonia, Germany and Poland. An Analysis of Gradual Institutional Change

Tworzenie cyfrowej ochrony zdrowia w Estonii, Niemczech i Polsce. Analiza stopniowej zmiany instytucjonalnej

Author(s): Weronika Przecherska-Marchwińska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: data; datafication; public policies; healthcare; digital health; digital transformation

Are Estonia, Germany and Poland successful in their handling of digital transformation of healthcare? What challenges are they faced with while developing e-prescriptions, electronic health records, patient portals, among other systems? Why has the potential of digital tools and AI not been properly harnessed in combatting SARS-CoV-2? The author answers these and many other questions, as she describes what is one of the most important tasks ahead of states following the global pandemic – implementing new technologies to foster societal health and security.

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Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Writings and Documents. Minutes of Cabinet Meetings 1989–1991

Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Pisma i dokumenty. Protokoły posiedzeń rządu 1989–1991

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Tadeusz Mazowiecki; systemic transition; Third Polish Republic

Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927–2013), the first non-communist prime minister of Poland after the Second World War, was undoubtedly a major figure of Polish political life of the second half of the twentieth century. This has spurred the initiative to compile a multi-volume edition of Mazowiecki’s scattered writings and documents connected with him, which would encompass the entirety of his time as a social and political activist. The minutes of Tadeusz Mazowiecki’s cabinet meetings comprise the second volume in a series of writings and documents associated with this politician, being published since 2023 by the University of Warsaw Press in cooperation with the University of Warsaw’s Tadeusz Mazowiecki Chair and Faculty of Political Science and International Relations. The publication coincides with the thirty-fifth anniversary of the swearing in of the first non-communist cabinet in post-War World Two Poland. This is the first time the minutes are presented to the public. A matter-of-fact, minimalistic record of key tasks faced and decisions made captures the character of the government’s meetings and workings. The minutes document the scale and pace of the introduced changes, showing what and when most important at a time when everything was changing and every change mattered. They trace the emergence of a democratic state after decades of authoritarian rule and of a free-market economy replacing a communist economy of scarcity. They detail all major international dealings of the cabinet, and are a source of information about present-day institutions, then in the making. Mazowiecki’s government laid foundations for a new Polish statehood – in a country devastated economically and politically by almost half a century of communist rule. It transitioned Poland from authoritarianism to democracy, and its economy from inefficient systemic poverty to free market. These reforms were not perfect, but they were revolutionary, though implemented in an evolutionary fashion. The fifteen months of Mazowiecki’s government proved enough to begin strategic changes in all areas of Polish life, changes that would be continued afterwards. They were not enough, however, for all these changes to be completed under Mazowiecki’s government – even though it is this government that was blamed for the errors and mistakes of the systemic transition, not its critics and successors. Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a man who attached great importance to the world of values. He perceived politics as acting for the sake of the common good. Today this no longer is a feature associated with politicians. This is all the more reason to offer a reminder that there was a time when politics could be done differently, and that this time was not that long ago.

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Changing the Point of View. From the Experiences of the German Historical Institute Warsaw

Perspektivwechsel. Aus Forschungserfahrungen am DHI Warschau

Author(s): / Language(s): German

Keywords: Poland; Germany; history; German Historical Institute Warsaw; Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau; anniversary; academic mobility

This anniversary volume offers personal accounts from 12 scholars from Germany, Poland as well as the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lithuania, employed at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw in various times over the period of the Institute’s 30 years of operation. The authors are unanimous: changing the point of view in the course of the research projects realized at the Institute was an enriching experience. They write about dialogical thinking, sharpening their intercultural competences, and new research contexts. Future involvements have often shown the Warsaw point of view to be both valid and fruitful.

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Jane Addams. Life and Work

Jane Addams. Życie i działalność

Author(s): Agnieszka Naumiuk / Language(s): English,Polish

Keywords: Jane Addams; Chicago; Hull-House settlement; education and work in the community; social activity; migrants

The publication focuses on the realms of social and educational work within the local community, highlighting the accomplishments of American social activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Jane Addams. The central figure in the book, who lived from 1860 to 1935, for over forty years helped the immigrants in Chicago, USA, and advocated for women's rights and global peace. Her legacy continues to inspire numerous generations of American activists and welfare professionals. The author, presenting the activist's biography, particularly underscores the importance of disseminating social values through education and action, stressing the necessity for critical reflection on educational practices within social contexts.

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The role of the Constitutional Tribunal in shaping the principles of the financing of local government in Poland in the light of the case law of the constitutional courts of selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe

Rola Trybunału Konstytucyjnego w kształtowaniu zasad finansowania samorządu terytorialnego w Polsce na tle orzecznictwa sądów konstytucyjnych wybranych państw Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej

Author(s): Bartłomiej Ślemp / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: local government; public finance; local government finance; decentralization of public authority; independence of local government

The author of the monograph discusses the jurisprudence of constitutional courts of selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe: the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Lithuania, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and the Republic of Croatia. He also undertakes an assessment of its impact on the formation of basic (constitutional) principles of financing local governments: the principle of financial independence and adequacy of the activities of local government units and the guarantees resulting from them. Particular attention is paid to the discussion of the role of constitutional courts in determining acceptable conditions for limiting the rules in question, the reasons for breaching the rules and the criteria used by courts to determine them.

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The Book about "Kultura"

Książka o „Kulturze”

Author(s): Andrzej Mencwel / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Jerzy Giedroyc; Juliusz Mieroszewski; Kultura; Literary Institute; émigré culture; iron curtain

The book about "Kultura" ("Culture") is a selection of the most important texts of Andrzej Mencwel, about the phenomenon of the "Kultura" monthly and its significance in Polish and world’s culture. The texts, written in the last decades, have been reviewed and re-edited. The publication consists of three parts: "Studium sukcesu. Przykład „Kultury” (1946-1956)" ("Study of Success. An Example of Kultura, 1946-1956"), "Świadectwa" ("Testimonies") (here, among others, the letters of Jerzy Giedroyc and an interview with him), "Nadal aktualne" ("Still Up-to-date"). The foreword was written by Krzysztof Pomian.

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Celebrations, Costumes and Insignia in the Ceremonial of the University of Warsaw 1816–1939

Uroczystości, stroje i insygnia w ceremoniale Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 1816–1939

Author(s): Adam Tyszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Warsaw University; ceremonial; rites; insignia; academic celebrations

The book is devoted to the customs of the University of Warsaw from its establishment in 1816 until the 20th century. It is the first monograph of this type concerning celebrations and ceremonial paraphernalia of the University. The author shows the role that academic rites played in many spheres of functioning of the University. He supplements his work with reproductions of archival photographs and documents, and numerous colour illustrations presenting the rich world of the university ceremonial. The starting point for the author’s considerations were the traditions of European research centres, such as Bologna, Paris, London and Berlin, as well as the oldest Polish universities in Cracow, Vilnius and Lviv.

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Diplomacy in the Eyes of Intelligence. The Origin, Course and Results of Hans-Dietrich Genscher’s Visit to the Polish People’s Republic in January 1988 in the Light of the Analytical and Operational Work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs – A Case

Dyplomacja w oczach wywiadu. Geneza, przebieg oraz efekty wizyty Hansa-Dietricha Genschera w PRL w styczniu 1988 r. w świetle pracy analitycznej i operacyjnej MSW – studium przypadku

Author(s): Tytus Jaskułowski / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Polish-German relations; diplomacy; intelligence; Hans-Dietrich Genscher

The publication discusses the diplomacy of the Polish People’s Republic in relations with the Federal Republic of Germany on the example of the visit of Vice-chancellor and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the FRG, Hans Dietrich Genscher. The author uses files hitherto unknown and declassified by the Institute of National Remembrance, which show analytical and operational work of the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the materials generated by the German side. He describes the process leading to the completion of the diplomatic mission, its course and the analysis of its effects presented in state materials and the press at the time.

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Determinants and Challenges in a Career of an Economic IT Specialist

Determinanty i wyzwania w karierze informatyka ekonomicznego

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: folk tale; literary fairy tale; society; German literature; English literature

This book results from research into the awareness and understanding of IT career opportunities in process and project management academia. It also restores the notion of the so-called economic IT specialist, operating mainly in the organisational analysis and logical design of IT solutions, followed by their testing and implementation, reflected in the methods and their implementation in process and project management. The publication provides an overview of the most important issues concerning the state and direction of the IT career, in various cross-sections, and the infrastructure environment associated with it.

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The Figures of Misfits in French and Francophone Literature from The Middle Ages to the 21st Century

Figury odmieńców w literaturze francuskiej i frankofońskiej od średniowiecza do XXI wieku

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: other; stranger; exclusion; marginality; peripheries; French literature; francophone literature

A collection of translations of French and francophone literary texts, showing different types of misfits from the Middle Ages to the 21st century and including both short stories and fragments of novels, as well as letters, fragments of journals or accounts of travels. The characters from the texts – both fictitious and real – represent religious, ethnic and sexual differences, resulting from an illness, social situation, lifestyle. Some of the authors themselves are different and through literature are able to find the opportunity to speak with their own voice, others use their voice to transmit exclusion. The texts, on the one hand, enable the reader to hear what is usually suppressed as it does not belong to the dominant discourse, and on the other hand, allow to capture the mechanism of creating otherness through discourse.

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(Non-)existent Places. The Landscape of Socialist Sofia as a Space of Bulgarian Artistic Practices after 1989

Miejsca (nie)istniejące. Krajobraz socjalistycznej Sofii jako przestrzeń bułgarskich praktyk artystycznych po 1989 roku

Author(s): Angelika Niewiadomska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Bulgaria; communism; architecture; contemporary art; visual culture

The book aims to present the artistic ways of problematising the (non-)existence of material manifestations of the communist past in the space of present-day Sofia. Using the tools of visual anthropology as well as cultural studies on art and the city, the author delves into recent history of Bulgarian culture, providing a detailed overview of the historical context, including the mechanism by which the city space was arranged in the second half of the 20th century, the spatial heterogeneity of today’s Sofia, and the present changes in ways of defining art and its meaning. The discussed artists consider art a way of articulating engagement – taking on an activist stance, they invite the audience to join in on an exciting game, whose field, object and stake is the city.

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