The Institut De Republica launches the second edition of the scholarship program for young humanists. Financial support, a series of semester meetings and a summer school trip await participants. Submit your project – only until 20 November!
The Joseph Conrad Fellowship is a comprehensive scholarship program. It includes several elements:
-implementation by the participants of their own scientific and artistic projects;
monthly financial support in the amount of 1.200 gross PLN;
-a series of lectures and seminars with the participation of the most important Polish and foreign representatives of the world, culture and science
-summer school, in which participants will work on their projects in groups, on the workshop,led by tutors;
-the revised publication of the text prepared within the Program in the scientific publishing house of the Institut De Republica.
We invite all students and authors (to 35 years) interested in the humanities broadly understood. The main theme of the academic year 2022/2023 will be: THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE MODERN POLISH FORM.
In addition to regular financial support, participants will have the opportunity to attend closed lectures and seminars, during which they will learn about and then critique the ideas and phenomena that shape the paradigm shifts of the Polish form.
During the two semesters, the following thematic areas will be explored:
THE BODY OF DISMOZED POLAND. About the abyss of divisions and the ways that Polish culture used to get out of it. We will seek answers to the following questions: Constitution of 3 may have opened one such path? The national riots were an expression of abysmal awareness? Romantic literature was self-discovery? And what does that mean?: Demolished Poland? We have a vague idea of what the Polish spirit is – but what is the polish body? How to communicate with it, how it is controlled and protected?
CITY AND RURAL GHOSTS. About two heroes of the 19th century: the city and the village, or rather – the images we created of them. The city as a space of history – a landscape of onrushing technology, a scene of social life, an architectural model of modernity. In turn, rural environment, rediscovered by popular history, it is a space where the real and the fantastic mix more than ever. What the Polish village really is, who lives it and who tells about it?
THE POLISH SOUL LABORATORY. How the new Polish form was invented. How they became Paris, Rome and other European cities were laboratories where émigré artists experimented with the Polish soul? Why did they want to escape and what to save? What a future they dreamed of? What was modernity in such a perspective: trauma or therapy?
Specters and ghosts of modernity. So about what modernity has replaced. What elements did modernization fail to control?, what areas of human experience he failed to name and say? We will go in search of ghosts and ghosts that have been hidden by the project of modernity, about which he was silent, and when he discovered them – reacted to them with fear or violence.
In the new year, we return to the era in which Joseph Conrad was born and lived. This remarkable writer is for us, above all, one of the first witnesses and chroniclers of the modern world. Furthermore – We see Conrad as the inventor of a language capable of describing this new world. The task of the Joseph Conrad Fellowship is to follow the same path – to learn new languages, narratives and categories of description, to test them and thus better understand the reality around us.
We encourage all interested parties to readREGULATIONS scholarship program, and those who decide to participate, to complete and send APPLICATION FORM
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The Republic Institute was established pursuant to Regulation no. 12 of the Prime Minister of 16 February 2021. Its main purpose is to promote and popularize Polish science in the field of humanities and social sciences, to create mechanisms and social capital to organize around the idea of the state and the unlocking of the potential of Polish science in these fields.
In cooperation with universities in Poland and around the world, state administration units and research units, The Institut De Republica organizes scientific conferences and seminars which are to provide a platform for the exchange of views on the results of the scientific research papers presented there. The task of the Institute is, also, to popularize the most interesting achievements of Polish scientists in the form of publications and multimedia.
Finally, The Institut De Republica is to become a modern base of experts, of promotion and publication for the underappreciated in Poland and abroad, and so important to the correct understanding of our history, of social phenomena and the fields of our science.
Contact:
Alina Piekarz
Institute of the Republic
+48 609 605 083
media@iderepublica.pl
www.iderepublica.pl
