Presented By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies
The Matter of Memory: Politics and Materiality in Poland
Ewa Klekot, Senior Widzinski Visiting Fellow, SWPS University Design Institute and Małgorzata Łukianow, Senior Widzinski Visiting Fellow, University of Warsaw
The Dianne Widzinski Visiting Fellowship at the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies is made possible by a generous gift intended to extend knowledge of contemporary Polish society and politics and provide Polish scholars with opportunities to conduct and share their research at the University of Michigan.
The inaugural Widzinski Senior Fellows, Ewa Klekot and Małgorzata Łukianow, will join CCPS Director Geneviève Zubrzycki for a conversation on their research.
Ewa Klekot is a cultural anthropologist, translator, and curator. Currently assistant professor at SWPS University’s Design Institute, she previously lectured at the School of Form and the University of Warsaw. She earned M.A.s in archaeology and ethnology and holds a Ph.D. in art studies. She is interested in an interdisciplinary combination of liberal arts and social sciences with design and artistic projects, both in research as well as in education. Her current area of research concerns the anthropology of manufacturing and related cognition modes—skills, embodied knowledge, materials, and processes—as well as manufacturing traditions versus intangible heritage. She also practices anthropological reflection on art, especially the social construction of folk art and heritagization through monuments and museum exhibits. She serves as a member of the City of Warsaw’s Council of Intangible Heritage, as well as on the Council of Monuments at the city’s historic monuments preservation office.
Małgorzata Łukianow works as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw and at the Center for Research on Social Memory. She previously was an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a research assistant at Chemnitz University of Technology. She serves as co-chair of the Polish regional group of the Memory Studies Association. She is co-editor (with Anna Wylegała and Sabine Rutar) of the volume No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and the monograph on personal documents from the pandemic, Pamiętniki Pandemii [Pandemic Diaries] (Krytyka Polityczna, 2022). She is interested in memory studies, and sociology of knowledge and culture.
Light refreshments will be served.
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
The inaugural Widzinski Senior Fellows, Ewa Klekot and Małgorzata Łukianow, will join CCPS Director Geneviève Zubrzycki for a conversation on their research.
Ewa Klekot is a cultural anthropologist, translator, and curator. Currently assistant professor at SWPS University’s Design Institute, she previously lectured at the School of Form and the University of Warsaw. She earned M.A.s in archaeology and ethnology and holds a Ph.D. in art studies. She is interested in an interdisciplinary combination of liberal arts and social sciences with design and artistic projects, both in research as well as in education. Her current area of research concerns the anthropology of manufacturing and related cognition modes—skills, embodied knowledge, materials, and processes—as well as manufacturing traditions versus intangible heritage. She also practices anthropological reflection on art, especially the social construction of folk art and heritagization through monuments and museum exhibits. She serves as a member of the City of Warsaw’s Council of Intangible Heritage, as well as on the Council of Monuments at the city’s historic monuments preservation office.
Małgorzata Łukianow works as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw and at the Center for Research on Social Memory. She previously was an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a research assistant at Chemnitz University of Technology. She serves as co-chair of the Polish regional group of the Memory Studies Association. She is co-editor (with Anna Wylegała and Sabine Rutar) of the volume No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and the monograph on personal documents from the pandemic, Pamiętniki Pandemii [Pandemic Diaries] (Krytyka Polityczna, 2022). She is interested in memory studies, and sociology of knowledge and culture.
Light refreshments will be served.
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
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