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Keywords: Yiddish; teaching Yiddish; Yiddish in academia; jidysz; nauczanie języka i kultury jidisz; badania nad językiem jidysz
In spite of the large number of literary works that were written and printed in Yiddish throughout the centuries, it was not considered as a valid language up to the beginning of the twentieth century. Due to a pioneering group of a few Jewish scholars, for whom Yiddish and Yiddishism became an ideological mission, new academic approaches were implemented into the study of Yiddish language, literature and culture. In the second half of the twentieth century a new generation of scholars broadened the range of research while developing new methods of work and training the next generation of experts. At the present time Yiddish studies are a respected academic field in various countries, including Poland, and cannot be overlooked anymore in the context of Jewish studies.
More...Keywords: International scientific symposium; Internet; Church
The International Scientific Symposium took place at Catholic University in Ruzomberok on 12 May 2014 under the title: “The Church on The Internet-The Internet in The Church”. Academics and doctoral candidates of the Journalism Cathedral at Catholic University in Ruzomberok and the New Forms of Belief Transfer Cathedral of the media education specialty at Catholic University of Lublin were the organisers of the symposium as the new means of the social communication and the tool in advocating Good News.
More...Keywords: university; intellect; apostolate; Western civilization
The article presents a peculiar mission of the University of Navarra – an ambitious program carried out for over 50 years, outlined by its founder – St. Josemaría Escrivá, a program which reflects a logic of the thinking and the work, whose primary objective is to sanctify by working in the world. It deserves a special attention on account of its “interdisciplinarity” (in the sciences and the humanities) as its own feature of projects implemented by the UN, its internationalization, and such modeling of the culture, which reflects the authentic values.
More...Keywords: university; America; Western civilization
The Author describes and explains the present culture of the American university. He focuses on such issues as: prominent status of the physical sciences in curricula, influential role of the social sciences in the campus, affinity of the university and the “baby boom” generation, po-litical affiliation of “baby boomers”, and tolerance as a species of relativism. He concludes that the American university is awash in ideology, especially in the Left-Wing ideology that spawns many corruptions.
More...Kaja Kazimierska, Katarzyna Waniek, Agata Zysiak, Opowiedzieć uniwersytet, Wydawnictwo UŁ, Łódź 2015
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More...Keywords: Lomonosov Moscow State University; research; recreation system; recreation economy; polarized landscape;
The author discusses the tourism geography research which has been undertaken at Lomonosov State University in Moscow over many years. This academic institution is one of the most famous research centres dealing with spatial recreation systems. At first (from the 1960’s), research was mainly on geographical and technical issues, but the research area was gradually enlarged for example to include social and humanistic elements. The best known research has been done on ‘spatial recreation systems’, ‘polarized landscapes’, the ‘recreational economy spatial complex’, and the ‘environmental model of a spatial system’.
More...Keywords: Conference; Iconologies; Global Unity or/and Local Diversities in Art History; 2019;
Conference Report: Iconologies. Global Unity or/and Local Diversities in Art History, 23–25 maja 2019, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków (Kamila Dworniczak)
More...Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; academy; neoliberal governmentality; late capitalism; regimes of productivity; fast science; information society; ICT technologies
The goal of the article is to answer the following question: what does the pandemic of COVID -19 reveal in the context of the discussion dedicated to the ways of the functioning of the academy today? Therefore the subject of the analysis is not the disease itself nor its cultural meanings, but the phenomena that, although present before the pandemic outbreak, became far more clear, perceptible and acutely experienced. In the article, our interest is focused on the increase of the pace of virtual social interactions, the speed of information transfer, the enhancement of academic regimes of productivity, the surplus of knowledge generated within the fields of humanities and social sciences and the role of information and communications technologies played in these processes. The main argument is that, the pandemic of COVID-19 shows how, in the context of the academy, the entire logics of late capitalist social relations and neoliberal governing of social subjects is focused.
More...Keywords: university; university rankings; The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU); Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE); CWTS Leiden Ranking; The Perspektywy University Ranking;
The author of the article focuses on a critical assessment of university rankings existing in general, not only in academic, space. Three different rankings with an inter- national reach: (1) The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) also known as the Shanghai Ranking, (2) Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE), (3) CWTS Leiden Ranking and one Polish ranking: The Perspektywy University Ranking have been subjected to a detailed critical evaluation. The main objection raised against the discussed international rankings is disregarding by them scientific works published in national languages of the authors. This decision of rankings’ creators is particularly detrimental to universities with scientifically strong faculties in the field of humanities and social sciences. The fact that monographs are ignored is difficult to comprehend (e.g. CWTS Leiden Ranking). Moreover, favouring publications in two journals: “Science” and “Nature” as well as the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal (mathematics) has no deeper justification. The author calls for recognition of monographs and also academic textbooks which shape the culture of university. The percentage proportion of particular criteria in the total assessment leading to ranking results – which, in fact, boils down to marginalis- ing scientific achievements of representatives of humanities and, partly, social sciences – raises the author’s reservations. Finally, if we look at our Polish local “backyard” where universities were fragmented after the Second World War and rebuilt according to the Soviet model of higher education with smaller higher education entities of a narrower pro- file (medical, agricultural, economic, sports) functioning alongside standard universities which had been stripped of these sections, we will notice that these classic, “full” univer- sities have no chance of competing for a scientifically decent position in world rankings.
More...Keywords: France; Germany; nationalism; patriotism; I World War;
World War I (1914–1918) was one of two wars in Europe which Germany sought. One of the participants of the war was a German soldier and writer Ernst Jünger, who described his experiences in Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern). His diaries are a valuable source of knowledge of the Great War. Sincere confessions of a German soldier who during the war was promoted through the ranks is also a story of a daily life on the front of both Jünger and the subordinates of the German Emperor – Wilhelm II. The diary holds a special place among books about war due to their origins – written by a German fluent in French and passionate about French literature and culture. Jünger’s dairy was translated into Polish by a soldier Janusz Gaładyk and given the title Książe piechoty. Through such a title, Gaładyk paid his respects to the German comrade. The book has a didactic character because it shows the multidimensionality of the atmosphere in the German army.
More...Keywords: thinking; intellect; reason; good; evil; humanities; university
If, as Hannah Arendt stated in Eichmann in Jerusalem, evil is thoughtless, canthinking protect us from evil? In the first part of the article, I make a distinction betweenintellect (which follows the logic of thinking) and reason (which follows the ethics ofthinking). I put forward the thesis that if the ethics of thinking (reason) does not guidethe logic of thinking (intellect), it breeds evil and fanaticism. In the second part of thistext, I address causes of contemporary thoughtlessness, including mediocrity, pragmatism,measurability, and the dominance of the mercantile mentality. The final part of this essayemphasizes the responsibility of universities (especially in the area of the humanities)and, in broader perspective, of culture, for the education of reason.
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