Autumn Humanities School

The Doctoral School of the University of the Commission of National Education, Krakow
invites you to the AUTUMN HUMANITIES SCHOOL

Time: 23rd October (4 p.m. – 8 p.m.) and 24th October 2024 (10 a.m.-2 p.m.)

Place:  AUDITORIUM

The main interest of the seminar lays in the issue of thinking, understood as an intellectual grasping of the reality, at the intersection of three positions: postmodernism, Bourdieu and Foucault. We want to look at the humanities from each of these three perspectives and their interconnectedness and differences.

Keynote speakers:

prof. Johan Heilbron: “Thinking with Pierre Bourdieu”

prof. Michiel Leezenberg: “Thinking with Michel Foucault”

prof. Paweł Dybel: “The World, Art and Technology. Notes on the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger”

PhD students:

Sebastian Segura Espinel: “Play and Practice: Toys in Contemporary Material Culture”.

Bartłomiej Kossakowski-Kisiel: „The Case of Private Property in the Light of Foucauldian theory”;

Agata Mysona “The Debate on the Feminine Subject in Psychoanalysis: The Not-All, Fluidity, Overflowing. Feminine Libidinal Economy and the Ethics of Fluidity.”;

Kamil Rajkowski: „Art and the Possibility of Surpassing Anthropocentrism”;

Katarzyna Żabicka: “The meaning of suffering in the philosophical thought of Simone Weil”;

Johan Heilbron

prof. Johan Heilbron

Johan Heilbron is a historical sociologist, trained at the University of Amsterdam and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Currently guest professor at the Centre for Higher Education and Research as Objects of Study (HERO) and the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, he is a member of the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP-CNRS-EHESS) in Paris, the centre which was directed by Pierre Bourdieu for a long time.

Areas of research are the development of the social and human sciences, economic organizations and institutions, and transnational exchange and cultural globalization.

Book publications include: The Rise of Social Theory (1995, also in French, Dutch, and Portuguese), The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity (co-edited, 2001), Pour une histoire des sciences sociales (co-edited, 2004), Transnational Cultural Exchange and Globalization (2010), French Sociology (2015, also in French), Nederlandse kunst in de wereld (co-authored, 2015), De zaak Organon (co-authored, 2018), New Directions in Elite Studies (co-edited, 2018), The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations (co-edited 2018), Dictionnaire International Bourdieu (co-edited, 2020), and Pierre Bourdieu et l’art de l’invention scientifique (co-authored,2022). 

Michiel Leezenberg

prof. Michiel Leezenberg

Michiel Leezenberg teaches in the departments of philosophy and classics at the University of Amsterdam. He has held visiting positions at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, INALCO-Sorbonne in Paris, and the universities of Ghent and Leiden. He specializes in the history and philosophy of the humanities; the cultural and intellectual history of the Middle East; comparative and non-Western philosophy; and Foucault.

Among his publications in book form are Islamic Philosophy: A History (2nd edition 2008; Socrates award for the best Dutch-language philosophy book); History and Philosophy of the Humanities: An Introduction (with G. de Vries; 3rd edition 2018); Sexuality and Politics in the Islamic World (2017); and Foucault (2021). With A.-M. de Korte and M.v. Bruinessen, he has edited the volume Gestures: Religion qua Performance (2022). He has also published Dutch translations of al-Farabi’s The Virtuous City; (2022); of Nagarjuna’s Fundamental Verses of the Middle Path (2024); and of the letters and fragments of ancient Greek woman philosophers (with M. de Vos, 2024).

Pawel Dybel

prof. Paweł Dybel

Philosopher, literary critics, historian. Main areas of interest: modern philosophy (hermeneutics, phenomenology, poststructuralism), psychoanalytic theories, theory of literature and art, history of Polish psychoanalysis. Scholarships: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Thyssen Stiftung, DAAD, DFG, The British Academy, The Mellon Foundation, The Kosciuszko Foundation a. o. Visiting Professor at: University of Bremen; Humboldt University Berlin; University Siegen; University at Buffalo; Institute of Sciences of Man, Vienna; Manchester Metropolitan University; University of Dublin, University in Goeteborg a.o.  From 2020 member of Scientific Council at “Sigmund Freud Institute” in Frankfurt am Main. From 2021 Honorary Professor of International Institute of Hermeneutics Book publications include: Painting with a Body. The Philosophy of Painting by Merleau-Ponty Gdańsk 2012 (Pol.), The Faces of Hermeneutics, Universitas Krakow 2012 (Pol.) Gadamers Thought on Art., Akademia Sztuk Pięknych, Gdańsk 2014) (Pol.); Dilemmas of Democracy, Universitas, Krakow 2015 (Pol.); Psychoanalytische Brocken. Philosophische Essays, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016 (Ger.)

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