Engaged Polish Studies

For many years now, we've been told that the world is rushing and change is inevitable. New phenomena and trends—technology, artificial intelligence, social media—go hand in hand with eternal questions about the meaning and direction of existence, the uncertainty of tomorrow, the inability to keep up with changes, the need to preserve the human element in a world of algorithms and procedures. 

We cordially invite you to participate in "Geopolonistyka", the purpose of which is to create an interactive, multilingual database of Polish studies in the world. Information in the form of text, photos, recordings, podcasts, for which the basic guide is an interactive map, aim to create synthetic knowledge about the current state and history of Polish studies. "Geopolonistyka" allows you to recognize the activities of people and institutions involved in conducting various forms of research and teaching Polish literature, culture and language outside Poland – currently and in the past. We will be honored if you would like to present your activities within "Geopolonistyka" and fill out the survey provided by us.

A meeting with a patient is a privilege. Conversing with a person in a crisis situation, at a difficult, perhaps most important moment of their life, is a unique experience.

What attitudes do contemporary literary studies take toward maladic narratives? What is the communal and emancipatory aspect of these narratives? How can we view the theory of the "wounded narrator" from today's perspective, 30 years after the publication of Arthur Frank's The Wounded Storyteller (1995)? These and other important questions are answered by the editors of an issue of "Ruch Literacki," titled "Maladic Discourse – Illness as Narrative: Theories and Interpretations" (No. 4/2023). The issue of "Ruch Literacki," which prompted this conversation, is available on the journal's website at: https://journals.pan.pl/rl/150189#tabs.