Series:Uniwersytet Łódzki

Financing of Theatre Academies in Poland

Finansowanie uczelni teatralnych w Polsce

Author(s): Agnieszka Orankiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: theatre academies; financing of culture; culture economy

The main reason for taking up the subject of this book was the need to identify the possibility of financing cultural activities of theatrical public universities. Determining the effective method of obtaining extra-budgetary resources is important from the point of view of the development of both the surveyed entities and the broadly understood theater art. The activity undertaken by the theatrical schools has an impact on the implementation of cultural policy in the country and region, contributes to the broadening of the artistic offer and creates the opportunity to assimilate society with culture. The book is also theoretical and empirical. It retains a high degree of theoretical conceptualizations, and also contains a lot of detailed, practical information, in many places becoming a handbook that facilitates orientation in the possibilities of financing cultural projects. The empirical part may also have a source value for future researchers in cultural economics. The book is addressed to representatives of a wide range of academic disciplines: economics, cultural studies, theater studies, management, but also to cultural managers, decision makers associated with the public and private sector of financing culture, and students of economics and humanities.

The Social Policy and Labor Law – Selected Issues

Polityka społeczna a prawo pracy. Wybrane problemy

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: social policy; health policy; employment protection; people with disabilities; corporate social responsibility; occupational burnout; discrimination; family policy; temporary work agency; ageing; job placement; people with disabilities; unemployment

Scientific conferences entitled “ Szubert Seminars”, organised at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Lodz, have a long tradition. These meetings have two main goals. The first, is to show the multifaceted achievements of an outstanding and recognized researcher of social policy and labour law – Wacław Szubert. The second, is to pay attention to the universality and timelessness of the observations made by this author. His opinions can be an important hint for all researchers currently dealing with employment issues, counteracting unemployment, social insurance, health care and social economy. The variety of topics covered in this book shows the complexity of the relationship between labour law and social policy. Both areas of science benefit from the fact that their representatives conduct research in close cooperation. Thanks to this, social policy becomes the basis for building the axiological assumptions of labour law institutions. Labour law, in turn, provides tools for verifying the objectives and tasks defined by social policy, as well as the ways of their implementation.

Hostages of History. The Polish Minority in Post-Soviet Lithuania

Zakładnicy historii. Mniejszość polska w postradzieckiej Litwie

Author(s): Barbara Jundo-Kaliszewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Vilnius region; nationality policy; Polish-Lithuanian conflict; Polish minority in Lithuania; association of Poles in Lithuania

The author presents a historical approach to the issue of the Polish national revival in the contemporary Vilnius region in the late 1980s and early 1990s, paying particular attention to the efforts aimed at establishing an autonomous Polish-speaking administrative unit within Lithuania. The theme of nationality policy in the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is continually returning in the international public sphere. For political reasons, the events described in the book have historically been controversial and continue to affect bilateral relations between Poland and Lithuania; their origin is therefore well worth learning about.

Barriers in the Cooperation of Local Government Units of Functional Urban Areas. The Case of Łódź Voivodeship

Bariery we współpracy jednostek samorządu terytorialnego miejskich obszarów funkcjonalnych. Przykład województwa łódzkiego

Author(s): Małgorzata Żak-Skwierczyńska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: functional urban areas;local authority;local government units;non-governmental organizations;local action groups;public administration

Representatives of science and practicians have for years been looking for ways to shape durable competitive advantages of the country's economy. Their goal has been to find out what actions taken under development policy lead to increasing the competitiveness of individual territories.The territorial and integrated approach to development is increasingly breaking through, which in practice has been reduced to functional areas, including urban functional areas, consisting of the central city and its surroundings, which is the area for the interactive spread of phenomena and processes occurring in the centre.Unfortunately, blockades within urban functional areas have a negative impact on building competitive advantages based on modern factors which rely on human and territorial capital.The publication discusses the cooperation of local government units in Łódź Voivodeship with various partners within urban functional areas, with particular regard to barriers which translate into joint actions for the development of cities and their surroundings.The assessment of the phenomena occurring in this area has made it possible to formulate recommendations for further intervention aimed at improving the cooperation.The results of the research undertaken show particular utility for social and economic development of various territories and can be a starting point for the formulation and implementation of solutions to build relationships between various entities participating in the development processes.

Human Freedom and Its Limits. An Anthology of the Concept in Political and Legal Doctrines. From Antiquity to Montesquieu

Wolność człowieka i jej granice. Antologia pojęcia w doktrynach polityczno-prawnych. Od Starożytności do Monteskiusza

Author(s): Michał Bizoń,Olgierd Górecki,Janina Gajda-Krynicka,Romuald Piekarski,Jacek Salij,Marek Tracz-Tryniecki,Tomasz Szczech,Bogdan Szlachta,Jakub Skomiał,Andrzej Sylwestrzak,Zbigniew Rau,Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves,Dawid Nowakowski,Jacek Malczewski,Iwona Barwicka-Tylek,Artur Andrzejuk / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: philosophy of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance;ancient thinkers;ancient philosophers;constitutionalism;political and legal doctrines;human freedom;reformation

The three-volume monograph offers a comprehensive study of the category of freedom which was used in the legal and political doctrines by representatives of the western civilization since antiquity up to the present. The publication reviews concepts put forward by ancient thinkers (Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Cicero, St. Augustine), propositions of philosophers active in the Middle Ages (St. Thomas, William of Ockham) and the most prominent theories of the Renaissance (Machiavelli, the Renaissance utopias, Reformation, the School of Salamanca). The Polish Renaissance thought has also been presented. It ushered in an antiquity tradition revival which manifested itself in treatises in 16th-century republican discourse and, in a developed form, in the works of Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro. The monograph also includes interpretations of Thomas Hobbes’s, Algernon Sidney’s and John Locke’s propositions as well as a study of the thought of Montesquieu together with a discussion of the theory of the separation of powers, especially with regard to the trias politica model from the perspective of constitutionalism. The review of numerous philosophical positions reveals a range of discrepancies in the perception of the concept of freedom not only in different historical periods but also among the representatives of the main political doctrines. The plethora of cited approaches unequivocally points to the interdisciplinary character of research on freedom as a philosophical category. Therefore, a presentation of the spectrum of differences through the application of scientific analysis seems a fundamental prerequisite for any attempt at arriving at a comprehensive and multilevel understanding of the idea of freedom.

Human Freedom and Its Limits. An Anthology of the Concept in Political and Legal Doctrines. From Nietzsche to the Present Day

Wolność człowieka i jej granice. Antologia pojęcia w doktrynach polityczno-prawnych. Od Nietzschego do współczesności

Author(s): Marta Baranowska,Jacek Bartyzel,Ilona Balcerczyk,Adam Bosiacki,Adam Chmielewski,Lech Dubel,Stanisław Filipowicz,Olgierd Górecki,Elżbieta Jung,Jan Kłos,Miłowit Kuniński,Maciej Maciejewski,Jacek Malczewski,Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska,Magdalena Modrzejewska,Marcin Niemczyk,Beata Polanowska-Sygulska,Piotr Ptak,Michał Rupniewski,Agnieszka Walecka-Rynduch,Paweł Sydor,Jerzy Zajadło,Maria Zmierczak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: political philosophy;individual freedom;democracy;John Paul II;Nietzsche;national socialism;Trotsky

The three-volume monograph offers a comprehensive study of the category of freedom as it has been used in the legal and political doctrines by representatives of the western civilization since antiquity up to the present. The third volume contains analyses of political thought from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The publication reviews concepts put forward by Friedrich Nietzsche, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky as well as interpretations of various aspects of freedom expressed in the propositions of Spanish traditionalist (Carlist) thought, German revolutionary conservatives and the doctrine of national socialism. The present volume also includes studies concerned with the idea of liberalism (Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich August von Hayek, Milton Friedman, Isaiah Berlin, James M. Buchanan, John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin), socialism (the history and ideas of the Prague Spring, the New Left movement), Catholic social teaching (John Paul II), libertarianism (Robert Nozick), republicanism (Quentin Skinner), feminism and communitarianism. Moreover, the reader will find here a cross-sectional analysis of the importance of the concept of freedom in contemporary democracy and two articles on the methodology and typology of the category of freedom. The comparison of the presented views reveals the scale of discrepancies in the perception of the issue of freedom not only in different periods, but also between representatives of the main political doctrines. The plethora of cited approaches unequivocally points to the interdisciplinary character of research on freedom as a philosophical category. Therefore, a presentation of the spectrum of differences through the application of scientific analysis seems a fundamental prerequisite for any attempt at arriving at a comprehensive and multilevel understanding of the idea of freedom.

Private Lives of Poles in the Nineteenth Century. Volume 8. About Men – (Un)usually

Życie prywatne Polaków w XIX wieku. Tom VIII. O mężczyźnie (nie)zwyczajnie

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Polish nobility;aristocracy;Polish intelligentsia;Romaticism

The leitmotif of the eighth volume of Private Lives of Poles in the Nineteenth Century is the world of a nineteenth-century man approached from the angle of privacy. The issue of masculinity has become the subject of research in Polish humanities relatively recently. The historiography on the era usually portrays men from the perspective of public activity, paid work, participation in military campaigns and national uprisings, as well as through the roles set in social consciousness, augmented by the standards and canons observed at the time. The authors of the publication present men in an (un)usual way – from the perspective of their everyday life, private relations, inner emotions, their childhood, physical and mental identity, perception of civilizational, cultural and social changes and reactions to the empowerment of women. The main characters in the volume are Polish men from different social milieux, at various stages in life, with diverse educational background, living within the historical Polish territory as well as dispersed over other parts of Europe. These are men not only playing important roles in the society, men whose biographies are commonly known, but also actors completely unknown.

Language Creativity in Internet Messages

Kreatywność językowa w przekazach internetowych

Author(s): Raissa Ellis,Bartłomiej Cieśla,Justyna Majchrowska,Magdalena Nowakowska,Sylwia Folgert,Katarzyna Furmaniak,Małgorzata Klauze,Martyna Szczepaniak,Justyna Groblińska,Aleksandra Tokarek,Alicja Kiełczewska,Weronika Kortas,Adrianna Walkowska,Magdalena Wołoszyn / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: emoticons;sociolect;hashtag;internet communication;blogs;memes

This volume is a continuation of deliberations published in previous books in the series on verbal originality. The present collection relates to broadly defined cyberculture viewed from the perspective of language, text and genology, i.e. literary genre analysis. It is preceded by an article introducing the problem of creativity, pointing to different ways of understanding it in contemporary linguistic discourse. The inspiration for the publication was a conviction that the internet is a hugely diversified information exchange platform, a medium of styles, content and forms of message transfer incorporated into various types of discourse space.

Standards for Combating Human Trafficking in International Law

Standardy zwalczania handlu ludźmi w prawie międzynarodowym

Author(s): Anna Głogowska-Balcerzak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: crime against humanity; organ trafficking; organized crime; trafficking in women; child labor; forced labor; slavery; human trafficking; trafficking in human beings

The publication is a comprehensive study on the issue of human trafficking in international law. The topic is complex and multi-faceted, which is why it can be analyzed from a number of legal perspectives, including public international law, international criminal law, transnational criminal law, national law and international human rights law. Human trafficking takes on many forms and affects almost all countries, regardless of whether they are the victims' places of origin, transit or destination countries. This is the third most profitable type of organized crime in the world, after drug and arms trafficking.

The Reform of Contract Law in France: Deliberations by European Lawyers

La réforme du droit des contrats en France – réflexions de juristes européens

Author(s): / Language(s): French

Keywords: Abusive clauses; civil law; contract law; contract theory; French Civil Code; contractual obligations; collective labour agreements

The monograph, inspired by the reform of contract law in France, is a collection of texts written by outstanding academics from France, Germany, Poland and Switzerland. The first part of the book sets the stage by presenting the most important changes introduced into the French Civil Code. Those modifications become the starting point for subsequent deliberations regarding their influence on the development of both German and Polish contract law. The second part of the publication contains an analysis of the French concept of ‘imprévision’, followed by a presentation of the aforementioned doctrine in the German and Swiss law as well as of the corresponding concept of clausula rebus sic stantibus in Polish law. The third part of the book contains considerations on the application of contract theory in other areas of law, which is of vital importance in legal practice.

Sibi, suisque et Patriae ornamento. Artistic foundations of Koniecpolski family in the 15th-17th centuries

Sibi, suisque et Patriae ornamento. Fundacje artystyczne Koniecpolskich w XV – XVII wieku

Author(s): Zbigniew Bania / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: sacral architecture; residences; fortifications; Koniecpolski; Baroque art; Polish art

The subject of the book is a study of the artistic patronage, with emphasis on architectural investments, of the Koniecpolski family. Published studies of the magnate's patronage of old Poland were usually limited to selected individuals, such as Elżbieta Sieniawska or Jan Klemens Branicki, or to members of one generation of the magnates, such as the Pacas family in the 17th century or the Radziwiłłs in the 18th century. The activities of the representatives of the Koniecpolski family are presented, with an extensive presentation of the undertakings of their most prominent figures at the time: Przedbor and Jan Koniecpolski, Chancellor of the Polish Kingdom in the mid-15th century. The history of the family in the sixteenth century provides an introduction to a discussion of the patronage of Anna Koniecpolska and, above all, the numerous undertakings, both in Central Poland and in the Borderlands, of the most eminent representative of the family in the seventeenth century, Grand Crown Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski. The book ends by presenting the artistic realisations of the last representatives of the family, whose history is closed by the death of Jan Aleksander Koniecpolski in 1719. The artistic foundations discussed in the book have been subjected to a detailed formal analysis, and the history of these undertakings has been presented in the context of the political, social and economic changes in the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish Nobility from the early fifteenth to the late seventeenth century.

Analitic and Algebraic Geometry 4

Analitic and Algebraic Geometry 4

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: algebraic Geometry; Analitic Geometry

This volume (the fourth in the series) is dedicated to two mathematicians: Wojciech Kucharz, who celebrates 70th anniversary in 2022 and Tadeusz Winiarski who celebrated the 80th anniversary in 2020. These people were closely associated with our conferences Analytic and Algebraic Geometry. The first one is an active participant of the conferences since 2009 and the second one is a leading figure of the conferences almost from the beginning (1983). Thanks to their mathematical vigor and stimulation the conferences become more interesting and fruitful.

Essays on Shakespeare

Eseje o Szekspirze

Author(s): Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Shakespeare; reception; culture; theater; literature

The book examines the reception of Shakespeare and his works in Poland and worldwide in the context of literature, theater, cinema, culture, history, and politics. It draws attention to the significance of national sources of his works, the sixteenth-century cult of Lucrece in Poland and in Europe, and selected aspects of Shakespeare’s presence in Poland during World War II and under the communist regime. Some space is devoted to Ira Aldridge and Helena Modrzejewska, two eminent performers, who greatly contributed to Shakespeare’s promotion in the 19th century and who built their careers upon his fame. The work also presents the question of the authorship of his works in the context of ongoing debates over centuries. The book demonstrates the poet’s relevance to contemporary cultural and socio-political issues, ranging widely across his plays and poems, and their presentations in the theater. It points toward new directions in Shakespeare’s studies while uniting human experiences in various places, spaces, and times.

Selected sources of financing for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland

Wybrane źródła finansowania mikro, małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw w Polsce

Author(s): Joanna Fila,Elżbieta Grzegorczyk,Marta Paduszyńska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: MSMEs; funding; microfinance; crowdfunding; mortgage loan

The enterprises operate in a competitive and unstable environment, which is considered a normal phenomenon in a free-competitive economy. They constantly look for better and better solutions for the effective functioning of their business. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are a key element of any market economy. These entities are perceived as a group facing numerous barriers, both at the time of their creation and further operation. One of the key limitations, often conditioning the establishment or continuation of operations, is the difficult access to financing sources. Therefore, this publication focused on selected methods of raising capital that are currently convenient for the MSME sector. The following instruments were analyzed and assessed: crowdfunding aimed at enterprises, loans and credits, considered from the perspective of microfinance, as well as a mortgage loan as a way to finance investment projects. All these forms share a common idea - financial support for the MSME sector in accessing capital. The main aim of the study was to broaden the knowledge of the indicated financial instruments, to present their functioning in Poland in a compact manner and to verify their current structure and availability for enterprises. It should also be emphasized that all the discussed instruments can be used successfully in the booming economy, but they are of particular importance in a downturn. The period covered by the analysis is the perspective of the last dozen or so years, and the geographical scope covers Poland, with reference to examples occurring in other countries.

Visual metaphors in children's discourse

Smaki życia razem. Metafory wizualne w dyskursie dziecięcym

Author(s): Aleksander Gemel,Monika Wiśniewska-Kin / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: theory of metaphor; cognitive linguistics; education; conceptualization

The aim of the work is to create theoretical space for activities in the field of critical revision of the currently dominant education system. The first part is theoretical and is devoted to discussing the main assumptions and paths of the development of cognitive linguistics from which the cognitive theory of metaphor grows. The first chapter introduces the problem of metaphors. The second chapter introduces the assumptions of cognitive linguistics and the process of its development on the background of two great schools of language philosophy: Bloomfield's behaviorism and Chomsky's generativist theory. The third chapter discusses the main assumptions and basic problems of the cognitive theory of metaphor, which is later used as a theoretical paradigm of conducted research. The second part is empirical. Its main goal is to analyze children's metaphorical predispositions, especially the processes of understanding, recognizing, and creating metaphors of community. The reconstruction of children's idealized cognitive models undertaken in the research is aimed to recognize the culturally conditioned patterns of conceptualization of community experience, that are implicitly contained in metaphorical linguistic structures. These models determine - usually in addition to the speaker's consciousness - ways of thinking and acting. The reconstruction of these socio-cultural symbolic forms aimed to their further juxtaposition with the natural and spontaneous methods of metaphorical creativity of children. The goal of the fourth chapter of the work is to define the methodological assumptions of obtaining research material, including the definition of methods, techniques, and research tools, as well as the development of the organization and course of the research. The fifth chapter is devoted to the research itself.

Industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe

Stosunki przemysłowe w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej

Author(s): Katarzyna Skorupińska-Cieślak / Language(s): Polish

The purpose of this book is to identify changes in industrial relations in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the area of representative employee participation. The structure of the work was subordinated to the implementation of the above objective. Chapter 1 discusses the most important stages of the process of creating a European dimension of industrial relations and presents the main models of industrial relations existing in Europe. An analysis of selected components of labor relations in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) before and several years after accession to the EU was also carried out. Chapter 2 is devoted to the two main forms of representative employee participation in the CEE countries. The first part of this chapter presents the difficult process of "formation" of works councils in Central and Eastern Europe and the principles of operation of these institutions of employee participation. The next part of the chapter, based on the results of research conducted as part of the NCN project, presents the main sources of weakness of works councils in Polish enterprises. The last part of this chapter focuses on discussing employee representation in corporate governance bodies, both at the national and European level. Chapter 3 of the book analyzes the impact of the following three phenomena on industrial relations: globalization, the 2008 economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.

Gamers in Culture

Gracze w kulturze

Author(s): Kamil Jędrasiak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: video games; gamers; players; video game culture; gamification; ludicity

This book is a proposal to identify and take a closer look at selected aspects of the functioning of modern culture, in which the growing importance of games (especially video games) and the broadly understood ludicity, or "game-like" qualities, are clearly manifested. The key point of reference for the considerations undertaken are gamers, understood as a specific type of cultural participants. As the foundation for the argument, the examples of an academic reflection on the subject-matter are recognized and the field of this reflection is outlined, highlithting mainly the links between games and culture. This is followed by a discussion of issues related to the specifics of experiencing video games (mainly in a technological context), but also to the competencies of gamers, and to the fact of their diverification as a group, including some taxonomies. Further on, the perspective broadens, turning to the culture of games/gamers (among other things: venues designed for gamers, specialized media, events and other phenomena shaping the "gaming culture"). The argument concludes with an attempt to look at culture (as a whole) through the prism of its "gamification". Thus, the manifestations of "game-likeness" beyond the core "gaming culture" itself are discussed – the influence of games on other branches of culture (including entertainment industries or the arts), cultural protocols, everyday life, etc., and therefore on the competencies desired for modern cultural participation.

Underground behind the wires. Informal youth movements in the selected Eastern Bloc countries in the 1980s

Underground za drutami. Nieformalne ruchy młodzieżowe w PRL i wybranych krajach bloku wschodniego (1980–1989)

Author(s): Andrzej Kobus / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: musical subcultures; anarchists; pacifists; Monar; Hare Krishna; Neo-Nazis

The monograph entitled Underground behind the Wires is devoted to informal youth movements active in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1980s. The author centres on the countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union. The monograph sketches the emergence and development of musical subcultures as well as pro-environmental and pacifist youth circles from the aforementioned countries. The progression of informal youth religious movements, both connected with Christianity and Eastern religions, is also described. Particular emphasis is placed on the issues of contacts and cooperation between the circles in question, especially during the crisis and erosion of the communist system in the countries of The Eastern Bloc. The work closes with the elaboration of the position of youth subcultures during the period of political transformations that took place in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. The content of the monograph is enriched by the visual material in a form of photographs depicting representatives of particular youth subcultures from the discussed Eastern Bloc countries. The security organs were interested in the activities of the circles under discussion, which is illustrated with the scans of the relevant documents.

Contrasts in humanities: literature, language, culture

Kontrasty w humanistyce: literatura, język, kultura / Les contrastes dans les humanités : littérature, langue, culture

Author(s): / Language(s): English,French,Polish

Keywords: literature; literary studies; language; linguistics; contrast

The publication is an attempt to describe (without the ambition to be exhaustive) the phenomenon of contrast in language, literature, and culture. Such a wide perspective allows a variety of possible interpretations and provides the topic with an interdisciplinary context. The scientific character of the publication is ensured by an organized choice of content aimed at analyzing the aforementioned points, based on a wide corpus of texts from various eras and countries, and the use of multiple methodologies supported by a carefully selected bibliography. Since the monograph addresses the needs of a wide range of readers (students, literary scholars, philologists, literature lovers and French language speakers), it has the potential to exert considerable social influence.

Outline of sport pedagogy

Zarys pedagogiki sportu. Wydanie II rozszerzone

Author(s): Arkadiusz Kaźmierczak,Piotr Kędzia,Jolanta Elżbieta Kowalska,Paweł Ławniczak,Anna Makarczuk,Anna Maszorek-Szymala / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: sport; education; social values of sport; health; Olympism; fair play

The textbook raises the issues of the field of sports pedagogy aimed at deepening the basic knowledge in this subject, useful especially for students of social and medical sciences, with particular emphasis on pedagogical and physical education departments specialties. The content of the first edition of the textbook referred to the issues of sports pedagogy in the context of its historical, socio-cultural, social rehabilitation and ethical conditions as well as the importance of the idea of Olympism and the principle of fair play in sport and social life. Consequently, the second edition of the textbook, developed by the author and his associates from the Center for Education of Sport Pedagogues at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Lodz, has been improved with the subjects related to the perspective of the historical development of sport in the context of changes in the environment of Lodz, the role of the trainer as a teacher / educator in the process of sports training, the social value of women's participation in sports activities, the health-related contexts of physical effort as well as its impact on the human body, and the social need for education enabling better understanding of sports events. The second edition of the textbook, extended with the indicated topics, will probably allow students to better understand the meaning of sport in the social space, with particular emphasis on its pedagogical values.