Melis Laebens (CEU and IFiS PAN), Ewelina Nowakowska (postdoc, IFiS PAN), Kamil Sowa (PhD student, Jagiellonian University) Thursday, December 18, 2025, 14:30 – 16:00 Staszic Palace, Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland, Room 268 Abstract The largest parties that dominate Polish electoral politics today, PiS and PO, appeared in 2005. While the major […]
Dorota Woroniecka (IFiS PAN), Aleksandra Wojtaszek (PhD student, GSSR) Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 15:30-16:30 Room 268, Staszic Palace, Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland Abstract: The “Made in Iraq” research project (https://madeiniraq.edu.pl/) explores architectural and urban transformations of Baghdad through the eyes of Iraqi professionals who worked in the city during international sanctions. […]
PhD Workshop on Methodological Issues in the Social Sciences in Cross-national Perspective December 15 – 18, 2025The Graduate School for Social Research, GSSRNowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland This four-day international event brings together faculty from The Ohio State University (OSU), USA and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), […]
We are proud to celebrate the successful doctoral defenses of Chun (June) Yeung and Szymon Mąka! Chun (June) Yeung defended her dissertation titled “Emotional Fabric of Society: Emotional Environments, Congruence, and Discrepancies from a Macro Perspective”, completed under the supervision of Prof. Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. The dissertation was reviewed by Prof. Keiko Ishii from Nagoya […]
The three-day English-language international event, “Empirical Research on Social Movements and Protest: New Voices” will take place December 3-5, 2025 at the Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, and feature PhD student research on their projects in political sociology. Major events around the world over the last two decades — financial crises, […]
We are pleased to announce the recipients of NAWA PROM international mobility scholarships. The grants were awarded to the following members of our community: GSSR PhD students: Julia Dybczyńska, Sociology Tamar Kalichava, Sociology Razmik Martirosyan, Sociology Joanna Wąsowicz, Psychology GSSR faculty: dr. hab. Rafał Smoczyński Congratulations! We wish you success in your upcoming research visits and conference participation!
We are proud to announce that members of our GSSR community have been awarded prestigious NCN grants for their outstanding research projects. Among NCN grant awardees are two of our exceptional PhD students. Wiktoria Morawska, a fourth-year Sociology student at IFiS PAN, received funding for her project “Work, success, relationships, and support? A qualitative study […]
We are delighted to announce that Stanisław Chankowski has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “The General Condition in the Philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel: The Institutionalization of Social Critique” (Polish: „Stan ogólny w filozofii G. W. F. Hegla. Instytucjonalizacja krytyki społecznej”). The dissertation was supervised by Prof. Andrzej Leder, with Dr Bartosz Wójcik […]
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 12:00 Daria Batychko (GSSR – IFiS PAN) will deliver a talk “Representation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Ukrainian Media Discourse. Stability and Transformation” Yaroslava Bukhta (University of Oxford) will deliver a talk “Mediating war: from newsrooms in Kyiv to communities in Oxford” Moderator: Katarzyna Andrejuk, IFiS PAN The meeting will […]
The POLPAN team at IFiS PAN seeks a PhD student in sociology, political science, psychology, economics, statistics, or another social science, to join as research assistant (RA) in the project “Structures and Futures: Polish Panel Study POLPAN 1988-2023.” This project is funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2022/45/B/HS6/04090). Number of scholarships: 1Deadline: December 3, […]
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