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Adopting Michael Billig’s concept of banal nationalism, the article investigates how national identity is performed in popular culture in reference to comics. The main research source are the Polish Wikipedia entries c...

The study attempts to read Rembrandt’s 1660 history painting from a curious aesthetic perspective: as a drama in the Aristotelian sense. To show the moment of anagnorisis in a picture is not enough to place the particu...

Teaching a form of Syrian dialect is documented in a manuscript by Ottoman poet and writer Ḥassān ibn Naṣūḥ ar-Rūmī al-Balāṭī dating back to around 1445. He aimed to instruct individuals interested in tra...

In the second half of the 20th century, academic mobility gained new importance, particularly in the context of political and social changes. Throughout the Eastern Bloc, the education of foreign students served not only...

The present article highlights the changing realities and methods of research on the history of academic institutions, with a particular focus on the Jagiellonian University in the 20th century. It is not only the great ...

This article responds to Glenn Parsons’ threefold objections against engagement aesthetics, demonstrating that Parsons’ critiques are rooted in a limited reading of its philosophical foundations. While Parsons focuse...

Deep time, encompassing the expansive temporal scale of Earth’s history, often evokes a sense of alienation due to its immensity. However, this estrangement can be mitigated through the aesthetic appreciation of the te...

The article deals with the Dungan newspaper ‘Xuėjmin bo’, which has been published under various titles and in various scripts (Cyrillic, Latin) since 1932, focussing in particular on its history and the literary-hi...

In the writings of American intellectuals and students during the interwar period, Kraków and Jagiellonian University appear as an example of an old space, sanctified by tradition, with beautiful monuments and culture, ...

During the interwar period, professors from the Jagiellonian University played an active role in the Polish public life by serving in the Senate, contributing their academic authority and expertise. Although only five pr...

In this paper, I claim that some hermeneutical concepts developed by Hans-Georg Gadamer might help us elaborate a philosophical understanding of a landscape’s sustainability. In particular, the notion of “situatednes...

The University School of Nurses and Hygienists – established in 1925 – was a direct continuation of the nursing school founded in 1911 through the initiative of socially conscious women. What distinguished the instit...