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Aleksandra Kil is a Ph.D. candidate in cultural studies at the University of Wrocław and a member of the Laboratory for the Contemporary Humanities. In 2017/2018 she is a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the New York University and the Univer-sity of California, Santa Barbara. Her research concentrates on the epistemologi-cal implications of both digital and analogue media used in the humanities knowl-edge production. Co-author of the book Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe and a co-editor of Non-human Culture.
Dawid Junke recently received his Ph.D from the Department of Cultural Studies
at the University of Wrocław. His research interests revolve around social and theological aspects of popular culture. He wrote a dissertation on religious motifs in contemporary American television shows.
Michał Matlak is a Ph.D. researcher at the European University Institute in the
Department of Political and Social Sciences and at the same time advisor at the European Parliament. He holds a degree in cultural studies from the University of Wroclaw. He also studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin, KU Leuven, and was a visiting fellow at Princeton University. His research focuses on the forms of secularism in the process European integration and various aspects of Europeani-zation. In 2016 he was awarded the Józef Tischner Fellowship at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna.
Olivier Roy is a professor of political science at the European University Institute
in Florence. Previously he has been senior researcher at the French CNRS and Professor at the EHESS (Paris). He headed the OSCE’s Mission for Tajikistan and was a Consultant for the UN Office of the Coordinator for Afghanistan. He was a head of the ERC funded project “ReligioWest” from 2011 until 2016. His field works include Political Islam, Middle East, Islam in the West and comparative religions. In 2008–2009 he has been a visiting Professor at Berkeley University. He is the author, among other books, of Globalized Islam and Holy Ignorance. His last book is Jihad and Death.
Tomasz Sieczkowski is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy,
Uni-versity of Lodz. His research interests include epistemology, social and political
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Notes on the Authorsphilosophy, and philosophy of religion. Author of a book on Hume (David Hume. Critique of Epistemology) and editor or co-editor of several books. Co-editor-in-chief of On-line Philosophical Magazine Hybris.
Joanna Sieracka is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland. As a recipient of the Erasmus Programme she studied Gender Studies at the University of Utrecht. Her current research focuses on the issue of cultural specificity of postfeminism in Poland. Since 2014 she has been a member of the the Laboratory for the Contemporary Humanities.
Ewa Tak-Ignaczak is an Assistant Professor at the University College Roosevelt, a liberal arts college of Utrecht University, in Middelburg, the Netherlands. Her research and teaching interests focus on various aspects of life narrative and mem-ory, critical perspectives on literary meaning, and links between literary and film narration.
Izolda Topp is a professor at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Wroclaw, member of Board of the Polish Society of Cultural Studies. Member of editorial board of Praksema. Journal of Visual Semantics. Her interests comprise theory of culture, regional identity, symbols in contemporary culture and cultural dimension of reli-gion and religiosity. She carries out research project together with Univerisity of Tomsk on the cultural landscape of modern Siberia. Her last book: Unfashionable words? Culture — symbol — tradition.
Tomasz Wiśniewski is a Ph.D. student at Faculty of Historical Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. His main areas of interests are political philosophy and theory of history, especially posthumanities and postsecular turn. Harald Wydra is a Fellow of St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge. After studies of history and political science at the Universities of Regensburg and Salamanca, he took a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. Before coming to Cambridge in 2003 he taught Political Science at the University of Regensburg. He held visiting fellowships at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the Australian National University in Canberra and was a Visiting Professor at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. He is a founding editor of the academic journal International Political.
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