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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in Culture | Research by Dr. Ryan Denson

| Weronika Cygan-Adamczyk | Mermaids, the Kraken, dragons, phoenixes—fantastic creatures that have firmly taken root in our cultural consciousness. We read about them in books, see them in movies, and face them in video games. Without them, the worlds of Harry Potter and The Witcher—along with many other iconic stories—would not exist. These supernatural beings...

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Jolanta Wadowska-Król, holder of USil Honorary Doctorate Degree, will be the focus of a Netflix series

In the 1970s, Jolanta Wadowska-Król became interested in the children falling ill in Szopienice and publicised the scale of the problem of lead poisoning, which was rampant among the youngest residents of Katowice. The communist authorities, seeking to avoid controversy, hindered her work and prevented her from defending her doctorate. In 2021, as a recognition...

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Funding for 10 Projects in Humanities

The calls for applications under the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities (Universalia) have been resolved. The funding was awarded to 10 projects by employees of the USil Faculty of Humanities. The total value amounts to nearly PLN 2.9 million. List of funded projects Aleksander Kopka, PhD– ‘Translation and Scholarly Study of Jacques Derrida’s Politiques...

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Monika Glosowitz, PhD, in DePOT International Research Network

Monika Glosowitz, PhD, from the USil Faculty of Humanities has become a member of the international research network called DePOT – Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time; the network investigates the political responses to deindustrialisation processes, their historical contexts, and the daily experiences of communities around the world related to these changes. Its primary...

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Prof. Michał Krzykawski member of the Council of the National Programme for the Development of Humanities

The term of office of the new Council of the National Programme for the Development of Humanities (RNPRH) appointed by Dariusz Wieczorek, Minister of Science, will last from 2024 to 2028. Michał Krzykawski, PhD, Associate Professor of the University of Silesia, Director of the Centre for Critical Technology Studies (CCTS) of the University of Silesia,...

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