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- Lehrt in: IES-M2 Soziologische Theorien, IES-M7 Länder- und Area-Studies: Ostmitteleuropa, WP1-Praxismodule Öffentlichkeit und Kommunikation
- Verantwortlich für die Module IES-M2, IES-M7M, IES-M10, IES-M13, Praktika (IES M11-Öffentlichkeit und Kommunikation)
- Zuständigkeiten in IES: Vorsitzender der BA-Studienkommission
EDUCATION:
1972-76 Sociology and Philosophy at University of Warsaw
1976 M. A. in Sociology, University of Warsaw
1979-81 Study of Philosophy and Social Theory at Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, West Germany
1984 Ph. D. in Sociology, University of Warsaw
1991 "Habilitation" at University of Warsaw
EMPLOYMENT:
1975– 1991 Instructor to Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw, Institute of Sociology
1991-1992 Professor of Sociology (“Allgemeine Soziologie”) at University of Kassel (temporary position)
1992-1993 Visiting Professor at University of Bremen (Cultural History of Eastern and Central Europe)
1995 -1994 Professor at University of Bremen (temporary position)
From 1995 Tenured Professor (ordentlicher Professor) - Cultural History of Eastern and Central Europe and Polish Studies
1995 Honorary position at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
1997 Head of the Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at University of Bremen.
Ordinary visiting professor at the Catholic University of America, Faculty of Sociology
1998 Head of Seminar für Ost- und Mitteleuropäische Studien at University of Bremen
1998-1999 Ordinary visiting professor at the Catholic University of America, Faculty of Sociology
2003-2004 Ordinary visiting professor at the Catholic University of America, Faculty of Sociology
2006-2007 Distinguished visiting professor a the Columbia University
SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS:
1980-81 Scholarship of Fritz Thyssen-Foundation in Germany (West)
1985 Research in England (Oxford, London)
1985-1986 Visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, Austria
1987-86 Research at the University in Bielefeld in West Germany
1989 Visiting scholar in Nuffield-College, Oxford
1990-1991 Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Germany
1991 Visiting scholar at Clare Hall, Cambridge - 2 months
1993-1994 Visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (U.K.)
2001 Research visit at Institute of European Studies at Cornell University
2006- 2007 Distinguished visiting professor, Columbia University
RESEARCH:
1985-86 Research project on "intellectuals and politics" (Institut für Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna)
1986-1987 Research project on Florian Znaniecki and his sociological Theory, University of Bielefeld
1997-98 International research project on new business elites in Eastern Europe, head of German research group (Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Bremen)
1998-2002 Research project on Polish migration to Germany (head, (University of Bremen)
2000-2001 Survey: Germans attitudes to Poland and enlargement of the EU
2000-2001 Polish-German project on local democracy (general Coordinator) - joint project Polish Academy of Sciences
and University of Bremen
2003 -2006 Historical discourses and political culture in East Central Europe, financed by Volkswagen-Stiftung
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1976-90 University of Warsaw courses in sociological theory and social philosophy
1991-92 University of Kassel courses in sociology and culture of Central Europe
University of Bremen courses on Polish history and culture, on Eastern Europe, in sociology and philosophy
1998-99 Catholic University of America Seminar for Postgraduated and Faculty on Critical Theory (1 semester)
2001 Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University – courses in sociology of contemporary Polish society and social philosophy
2003 Catholic University of America, Course Social Problems (1 semester)
2006-2007 Columbia University, teaching in Polish Studies Program
SELECTED GUEST LECTURES:
2008
European Parlament, Strassburg, 16 January Lecture for Polish Memebers of EP: Polish foreign policy in the changed international context.
2007
Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin 23 November, Panel Disskussion: Poland after the elections.
Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej, 24 October, Conference: Chairs of Polish Studies Abroad, Lecture: Polish Studies in Germany
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 19 April, Lecture: Problems in Polish-German Relations
Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego & Niemiecki Instytut Historyczny, Conference: Warsaw Rising in the Context of Contemporary German-Polish Relation, Participation in the panel discussion
Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, February 23. Annual Milewski Lecture: “The End of Reconciliation? Problems in Polish-German Relations.”
2006
XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban. RPA 23-29 July, Lecture: Postcommunist democracy and dealing with communist past.
Katholikentag, Saarbrücken: 24-27 May, Lecture; Gewinner und Verlierer in Ostmitteleuropa.
Conference with the President of Polish Repiblick, Lucień 21 April, Lecture: On European Identity.
2005
Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej, Conference: Success in Science, Kraków 21October, Lecture: Success in Humanities
Fundacja im Stefana Batorego, Warsaw Conference: Pamięć i polityka zagraniczna, 28 July
Evangelische Bildungsstätte Schwanenwerder, Berlin, Conference Spaltet uns Geschichte? Zum Wandeln der kollektiven Erinnerung in Polen, Tschechien und Deutschland., 4-5. 02..
Italienisches Kulturinstitut & Technische Universität Berlin, Conference: Lebenswelten und Technologien, 3-4. 02., Berlin. Lecture: Lebenswelt, Rationalisierung und Religion
2004
Hanse Kolleg, Delmenhorst, Conference: Handlungsfähiger und demokratischer? Die Verfassung Europas nach der Regierungskonferenz, 2-3 April, Paper: European Constitution and Christianity.
2003
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 31 Mai, Discussion on European Identity with Jürgen Habermas et al.
Studium Generale Europa, Warszawa, 27 May, Lecture: Polska między Ameryka a Europą.
Philosophical Anthropology, Politics and Society - II International Helmuth Plessner Congress, Kraków, 27-29 March, Paper: Body and Discourse - Helmuth Plesser as a critic of Liberalism
2002
St. Mary’s College, Orchard Lake, October 24-26, Seventh Biennial Conference on East Central and Polish Affairs, Paper: Polish Studies at German Universities
Catholic University of America, Washington D. C., 23ed October, Lecture: Habermas, Vattimo and Taylor on Religion in Post-Secular Society
Greiswald, Conference: Political Culture in the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe,October 10th to 14th, Paper: Poland’s Civil Religion and its Liberal Critics
Budapest, Collegium Budapest. Institute for Advanced Study, Conference: Three Social Science Disciplines in Central and Eastern Europe- Handbook on Economics, Political Science and Sociology, 23-26 January, Paper: Polish sociology since 1989
2001
Dickinson College PA, 17 September, Lecture the EU and the East Central Europe
University of Warwick, Conference "The Shape of the New Europe", 5-6 May, Lecture: What can Europe learn from its East?
2000
Deutsches Polen-Institut Darmstadt, "Aleksander Wat und >>sein<< Jahrhundert",
15-18. October, Lecture: „Aleksander Wat i pokusa komunizmu“
Der 9 Deutsch-Polnische Kongress, Bremen, 5-7 maja, Lecture: "Historische Verantwortung von Deutschen und Polen in Gegenwart und Zukunft".
Rice University Houston, USA 17 March. Lecture: Changing social and political realities in Central Europe
1999
Technical University of Berlin; Conference: Biographies and the Division of Europe, 17-20 February, Berlin; Lecture: "Dilemmas of the collective and individual memory in East Central Europe"
1998
The Catholic University of America, Washington D. C. Inter-Departmental Seminar: "Jürgen Habermas s sociological theory", September-January,
Central European University, Bremen-Warsaw Seminar, 13-19 July. Bremen, Lecture: "Overcoming of the communist legacy"
Polnisches Kulturinstitut in Düsseldorf, Conference: Polen-Bild in der deutschen Geschichtsschreibung" , 23-26 June, Würzburg, Lecture: "Was die Deutschen über polnische Geschichte wissen und warum sie mehr wissen sollen?"
Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft Bremen, 26 Mai, Lecture: "Die Aufbau der Demokratie in Polen"
1997
German Sociological Association and the Polish Academy of Science, Conference: Ethnicity and national culture, 6th-20th May Jablonna; Lecture: "Nationalism in East Central Europe."
University of Kiel, 11 Juli, Kiel; Lecture: "Streit der Kulturen in Polen".
University of Siegen, Conference.:Theorie als kulturelles Erreignis, 17-19 September, Weilburg/Lahn; Lecture: "Helmuth Plessner´s Philosophische Anthropologie".
Polish Academy of Science, Conference Structuring of Identities in 20th Century Europe: East/West Convergencies and Divergencies, 20-23 November Konstancin, Lecture: "Disenchantment of democracy of Poland"
1996
Sektion Ost-und Ostmitteleuropa der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Conference: Max Weber und Osteuropa-Forschung, 29 April-2 . May Tutzing; Lecture: "Max Weber´s Protestantismus-These und die Rolle der Religion in Ostmitteleuropa".
Royal Holloway University, Max Weber Study Group, Conference: Max Weber´s Political Sociology, 17-18 June, London, Lecture: "Back to 'Mitteleuropa'. Weber, Germany, and the Contemporary Central Europe."
Deutsches Polen Institut, Conference: Neue Kulturkämpfen in Polen und in Deutschland, 21-23 Juli, Bautzen; Lecture: "Die Wandlung der politischen Biographien in Polen und Deutschland"
University od Kassel, Conference: Die Modernität der Romantik. Zur Wiederkehr des Ungleichen, 12-14 December, Kassel; Lecture: "German and Polish Political Romanticism"
1995
Polnische Botschaft & Industrie und Handelskammer Köln, Conference: Polen und Deutschen in Europa von Morgen, 23-34 March, Köln: Lecture: "Hat die Revolution ihre Kinder gefressen?"
Sektion Ost-und Ostmitteleuropa der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Conference: Zusammenbruch des Sowjetssystems - Herausfordeung für die Soziologie, 81-21 September, Miskolc, Hungary; Lecture: "Polnische Soziologie seit 1989."
Regione Autonoma Trentino Alto-Adige, Forum Internazionale “La comunitá appartenenza ed identitá” 2 December, Trento, Italy, Lecture: "Regional Cultures in Central Europe, Changes and Dangers"
1994
XIIth World Congress of Sociology, 8-12 July, Bielefeld; Lecture: "Phenomenological Method in the Age of Deconstruction."
University in Erfurt, Max Weber-Symposium, 30 Juni, Erfurt; Lecture: "Max Weber und Osteuropa".
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Forschung, Conference: Antworten auf Edmund Husserls Freiburger Phänomenologie, 12-15 October, Freiburg; Lecture: "Der Streit um Lebenswelt. Alfred Schütz und die "soziologische" Aneignung der Phänomenologie"
1993
Evangelische Akademie Tutzig, Tagung: "Die Revolutionen entlassen ihre Kinder. Was ist aus den Demokratienbewegungen Polens, der CSSR und der DDR geworden?", 2-4 Juli 1993, Bad Alexandersbad; Lecture: "Das Erbe der Dissidenten als Herausforderung".
Universität Leipzig, Conference: "Zu einer Soziologie des Postkommunismus. Kritik, Theorie, Methodologie, 27-30 September Leipzig; Lecture: "Ost- und Ostmitteleuropäische Soziologie im Umbruch".
Assemble delle Regioni d´Europa, European Conference: Die regionale Unterschiede in Europa - die Rolle der verschiedenen Kulturen bei Aufbau der europäischen Union, 1.-2.10, Trento; Lecture: "Universalismus und Pluralismus in der europäischen Kultur und kulturelle Problematik in Mitteleuropa".
University of Trient, Italy, Conference: "Universality and Difference. Cosmopolitanism and Relativism in the Relation between Social Identities and Cultures", 2-3. December, Trento; Lecture: "Universalism, culture and civility".
1992
British Society for Phenomenology, Annual Conference, "Europa 1992, Philosophical Perspectives", 27-29. März, Oxford; Lecture: "Phenomenology and the Longing for Community".
Russian Academy of National Economy, International Conference: The World in Transition. Transformation in the System of Political and Economic Institutions, 25-29. Mai, Moscow, Lecture: "Cultural modernization in Eastern Europe"
26. Deutscher Soziologentag, Sektion Kultursoziologie, 29.9.-1.10. Düsseldorf, Lecture: "Polens 'Rückkehr nach Europa'"
Polish Academy of Sciences, East-Europen Cultures after Communism: Tradition, Modernity, Postmodernity, December, Radziejowice; Lecture: "Efforts toward a New Modernization in Eastern Europe and the Cultural Dilemmas of the Postmodern West".
Membership in professional organizations
Polish Sociological Association, Polish Philosophical Society,
German Sociological Association. Section of Sociology of Eastern Europe
International Sociological Institute, International Sociological Association.
German Society for Phenomenological Research
Founding member of the Helmuth-Plessner Society in Germany
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde
Memberships in Editorial Boards of Professional Journals
Polish Sociological Review
Ius et Lex
Polish Phenomenological Review
Awards
Stanisław Ossowski- Award of the Polish Sociological Association – 1984
Nomination for Józef Mackiewicz- Award - 2007
Memberships in Scientific Boards
Member of Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague - since 1994
Member of the Advisory Board of the German-Polish Society in Bremen - since 1998
Member of Sociological Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences - 1999-2007
Member of Jury of Hannah Arendt Award - 2003-2007
Member of Board of Patrons of Tischner European University at Krakow - since 2003
Chairman of Board, Foundation of Polish-German Cooperation – 2006-2008
Member of the Civil Service Council to Polish Prime Minister – since 2007
Member of the Advisory Board of the Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs - since 2007.
