I am so happy to become a fellow of another major European initiative on Russia’s war against Ukraine – a Leibniz Collaborative Excellence Project Documenting Russia’s war against Ukraine, also known as LivArch!The fellowship is intended for Ukrainian scholars affiliated abroad…
Happy news: my project has been awarded the Denkraum Ukraine Sur-Place Fellowship by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies “Think Space Ukraine” (Denkraum Ukraine)!Denkraum Ukraine is one of the major Ukraine-related research initiatives in Germany, established…
At the end of May, I had the pleasure of presenting my doctoral research project at the Department of Theoretical Sociology, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences.The presentation was built around my pivotal conceptual figure of the Stayer and the two…
Time to share my empirical work and methodology - not just theory. My empirical study draws on Ukrainian wartime diaries published since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The body of such literature is striking: more than 350 volumes - and the still growing. Yet this…
I am happy to become a grantee of the Documenting Ukraine grant by IWM - Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen.The project I proposed is a part – or rather a specific case – of my doctoral dissertation and the Stayer project. In this broader project, I take war as a “…
My last scholarly event this year was the XV International Congress of the Spanish Society for Phenomenology (SEFE) at the University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca. The congress on "Normality, Normativity, Lifeworld" was the perfect place to summarize the path…
The conference season continues. After Schutzian Copenhagen and Vienna, applied Dublin, and totally Husserlian Warsaw, I remained immersed in Husserl and moved to Darmstadt for a PhD colloquium – a part of the Biannual Conference of the German Society for Phenomenological…
My next stop this summer (or is it autumn already?!) is the Summer School in Genetic Phenomenology in Warsaw, organized by gPHEN – International Network for Genetic Phenomenology. A year ago, at this very event, I had my first proper encounter with phenomenology – an encounter…
The conference in Dublin, Lifeworlds in Crisis: Applying Phenomenology, brought together a striking number of contributions framing crisis in terms of estrangement and alienation. What felt particularly significant was that many of these discussions approached estrangement in a…
This spring, I spent a month at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, with NAWA PROM grant for GSSR PhD students. My visit was kindly hosted by Prof Anna Durnová’s research team, specialising in political and cultural sociology, sociology of emotions, and…
What was expected to be just another conference became pivotal to my dissertation. The train Warsaw-Vienna, late April. One day before my presentation at the Schutz Circle conference. I planned to talk about Multiple Realities - the central conference theme in honor of the 80th…
This presentation at the Center for Subjectivity Research’s Winter School devoted to Alfred Schutz’s legacy (where I was happy to be one of six speakers), was motivated by a curious observation: while Schutz’s texts, especially later ones, are full of references to ‘normal,’ (…