Monika Rogowska-Stangret is a theorist and researcher in the fields of philosophy, gender studies and animal studies. She collaborates with the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. Monika received scholarships from the Kosciuszko Foundation, ERSTE Stiftung and WUS Austria (in the frames of PATTERNS Lectures programme) and from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. She is a Member of Management Committee of European network: “New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’”, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). She collaborates with “Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki,” has translated Naomi Wolf’s “The Beauty Myth” (Czarna Owca 2014) and works by, among others, Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz, and Susan Sontag. She is the author of Ciało – poza Innością i Tożsamością. Trzy figury ciała w filozofii współczesnej” (Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, Gdańsk 2016, English title: “The Body – Beyond Otherness and Sameness. Three Figures of the Body in Contemporary Philosophy”).
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Monika Rogowska- Stangret
Monika Rogowska-Stangret is a theorist and researcher in the fields of philosophy, gender studies and animal studies. She collaborates with the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. Monika received scholarships from the Kosciuszko Foundation, ERSTE Stiftung and WUS Austria (in the frames of PATTERNS Lectures programme) and from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. She is a Member of Management Committee of European network: “New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’”, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). She collaborates with “Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki,” has translated Naomi Wolf’s “The Beauty Myth” (2014) and works by, among others, Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz, and Susan Sontag. She is the author of “Ciało – poza Innością i Tożsamością. Trzy figury ciała w filozofii współczesnej” (2016), English title: “The Body – Beyond Otherness and Sameness. Three Figures of the Body in Contemporary Philosophy”).
Michał Łuczewski
Polish sociologist Michał Szymon Łuczewski has been focusing on the relationship between Polish identity and catholicism, on which he published his 2012 book Odwieczny naród. Polak i katolik w Żmiącej. A member of the “apocalyptical” magazine 44 / Czterdzieści i Cztery, he is a regular contributor to various Polish magazines, such as Wprost and Arcana. A member since 2015 of the Polish National Development Council, he currently works at the Institute of sociology of the Warsaw University.
Étienne Tassin
Is the political sphere condemned to failure? This was the core question French philosopher Étienne Tamsin explored in one of his last books ( Le maléfice de la vie à plusieurs – La politique est-elle vouée à l’échec? 2012). A specialist of Hannah Arendt to whom he dedicated several books (among which Le trésor perdu. Hannah Arendt et l’intelligence de l’action politique, 1999 ), Étienne Tassin writes mainly on political action, interrogating today’s forms of cosmopolitism and experiences of migration (see Un monde commun. Pour une cosmopolitique des conflits, 2003). A member of the Institute of Humanities in Paris, he currently teaches at Paris Diderot University.
Listen to Étienne Tassin on France Culture.
Gáspár Miklós Tamás
Born in Cluj, Romania, Gáspár Miklós Tamás—also known as TGM—emigrated to Hungary after encountering political difficulties with the authorities as an assistant editor of a literary weekly in Transylvania. He taught at the University of Budapest (ELTE) until he was sacked for political reasons once more, and became famous as a dissident intellectual. From 1986 to 1988, he taught in the United States, Britain and France, and studied at Oxford. A former representative of the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) from 1989 to 1994 in the Hungarian Parliament, he became President of the extra-parliamentary Green Left between 2010 and 2011. He was recently granted the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Soros Foundation Hungary. He published books on political philosophy and social theory. His works, among which, have been translated into 12 languages.
See his synthesis on his concept of “post-fascism” on openDemocracy.
Petr Kouba
Petr Kouba teaches at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, Prague and works at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Phenomenon of Mental Disorder (2006 in Czech, 2011 in German, 2015 in English) and Exodus without Moses. Roma emigration as a Political Problem (2015, in Czech). He also co-edited Dynamic Structure (2007 in English), Medicine in the Context of the Western Thought (2008 in Czech) and Franz Kafka: Minority Report (2010 in Czech and 2011 in English).
Michał Kozłowski
Michał Kozłowski is a philosopher and a sociologist, specialized in the so-called French theory (Foucault, Bourdieu, Derrida). He teaches modern philosophy at Warsaw University. He is the co-founder of the magazine Bez Dogmatu (Without Dogma) and is a member of the REASOPO (Réseau européen d’analyse des sociétés politiques / European Network of Analysis of Political Societies).
Read his latest article on “Youngsters and refugees, or how exile changes eastern Europe” in Open Democracy online.
Éric Fassin
Éric Fassin is a prominent sociologist. After teaching at Brandeis University and the NYU until 1994, then at École normale supérieure in Paris until 2014, he has become a Professor of sociology and gender studies at Paris 8 University. His work focuses on sexual and racial politics in France and the United States, with special emphasis on immigration. He published L’Inversion de la question homosexuelle (2005), Droit conjugal et unions de même sexe: mariage, partenariat et concubinage dans neuf pays européens (with Kees Waaldijk, 2008) and Le sexe politique. Genre et sexualité au miroir transatlantique (2009), and Roms & riverains. Une politique municipale de la race (2014). A part of his work investigates the fate of the left wing, as in his last book entitled Gauche, l’avenir d’une désillusion (2014).
See one of his latest articles here.
Jan Bierhanzl
Jan Bierhanzl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of contemporary philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and assistant professor of philosophy and french language at Charles University (Prague). His main focus is contemporary French philosophy, especially Emmanuel Levinas, whose ethical thought he explored in his book La rupture du sens. Corps, langage et non-sens dans la pensée de la signifiance éthique d’Emmanuel Levinas (2014), and the relationship between ethics and politics—as in his last article, “Uprchlík, člověk a občan” (Protestant 1/2016).
Pavel Barša
Pavel Barša combines approaches from philosophy, sociology and political science to think on immigration policies and multiculturalism in Western countries and has published many articles and books about Islam in Western Europe, the Middle Eastern conflict or the American foreign policy, as shown by his last book on the paths to emancipation (Cesty k emancipaci, 2015) .
See his interview in Salon in 2015 here (in Czech).
Bio-Politics Today (2): Race, Gender, Identity, Populations
Faculty of Arts – Aula
Bio-Politics and their Diversity
Who: Étienne Balibar, Roberto Esposito and Antonio Negri
What: Debate
When: 7-8:15 PM
Language: French, with simultaneous translation in Czech
The Philosophy of the Migrant Condition
Who: Étienne Tassin and Étienne Balibar
What: Big Lecture
When: 8:30-9:30 PM
Language: French, with simultaneous translation in Czech
Faculty of Arts – room 217
Performing Race. On the Representation and Under-Representation of Minorities
Who: Éric Fassin
What: Short Lecture
When: 7 PM
Language: English
The Ends of Multiculturalism
Who: Pavel Barša
What: Short Lecture
When: 7:30 PM
Language: Czech
In search for ethics in times of crises. The attitudes towards others and selves
Who: Monika Rogowska-Stangret
What: Short Lecture
When: 8 PM
Language: English
The Refugee and the Bare Life
Who: Jan Bierhanzl
What: Short Lecture
When: 8:30 PM
Language: Czech
Bio-Politics and Class Politics
Who: Tamás Gáspár Miklós
What: Short Lecture
When: 9 PM
Language: English
The Foreigner As a Need
Who: Petr Kouba
What: Short Lecture
When: 10:15 PM
Language: Czech
Eternal Nations
Who: Michał Łuczewski
What: Short Lecture
When: 10:45 PM
Language: English