We cordially invite all students, PhD candidates and scholars of the JU’s Faculty of International and Political Studies, as well other members of Polish political science community to participate in lectures and debates within the project: “Polimpact – Social Relevance and Impact of Political Science”.
On November 21, 2022 (Monday) we will be hosting Professor Dianne Pinderhughes from the University of Notre Dame – the President of International Political Science Association. The lecture and subsequent discussion will focus on the subject:
Is There A Future for Political Science?
Reflecting on How to Turn It Inside Out, Upside Down,
and/or Maybe into an Exciting Field
The event will take place on November 21, 2022 (Monday) at 16:00 on the MS Teams platform, and will be live-streamed on Youtube.
Links to the meeting:
All participants will have an opportunity to comment and ask questions.
Professor Dianne Pinderhughes is Notre Dame Presidential Faculty Fellow, and the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science; she holds a concurrent faculty appointment in American Studies, is a Faculty Fellow at the Kellogg Institute, and is a Research Faculty member in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Pinderhughes is the current President of International Political Science Association (2021-2023 term of office). Her research addresses inequality with a focus on racial, ethnic and gender politics and public policy in the Americas, explores the creation of American civil society institutions in the twentieth century, and analyzes their influence on the formation of voting rights policy. Professor Dianne Pinderhughes is the Author of i.a.: Uneven Roads: An Introduction to US Racial and Ethnic Politics, Black Politics After the Civil Rights Revolution: Collected Essays, Race, Gender, and the Changing Face of Political Leadership on 21st Century America. In the years 2007-2008 she held the position of the President of American Political Science Association, she also was the member of APSA Task Force, which prepared the report: Political Science in the 21st Century.
We would like to invite you also for the next meetings within the project Polimpact. We will be hosting Professor Paulo Ravecca from the Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, as well as Polish scholars. We will keep you informed.
The lectures of Professor Jan Zielonka (November 2, 2022) and Professor Dianne Pindehughes (November 21, 2022), and other outstanding scholars, are a part of the project “Polimpact – Social Relevance and Impact of Political Science”.
The project is financed by the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University, and is realized by the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University, Polish Political Science Association (Kraków Branch) and Dr. Henryk Jordan Youth Center in Kraków.
The aim of the Polimpact project is to organize popular-scientific and scientific meetings in an innovative formula, which will engage, firstly, common activities of institutional partners having common goals; and secondly - common activities of scholars, students and high school students, interested in politics and social life.
This is a future-oriented project - the future of political science as a scientific discipline. The project aims at stimulation of processes of enhancing and developing political science as a scientific discipline. Activity directed on realization of this assumption will have two aspects:
1) raising awareness of significance, social role and impact of political science within the system of science, as well as state and society, and promoting of this scientific discipline - by popular-scientific activities (lectures, workshops) dedicated for young people;
2) initiating and promoting new direction of discussion of the political science representatives on the condition, development and the future of this scientific discipline - by organization of specialized debates and lectures, which will be in line with the "ICTR" rule (Integration-Consolidation-Thematic Reorientation).
The project meets important expectations and needs:
- the need for initiation of new activities, which will really contribute to enhancement of political science within the system of science and will rise its atractiveness and will rise awareness of its significance;
- the expectation to constantly encourage for undertaking broadly understood political studies;
- the need for promotion of political research, studies, and reflection.
The position of project manager is held by Dr Piotr Obacz – Assistant Professor in the Chair in the History of Polish Political Thought in the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the JU Faculty of International and Political Studies. Co-responsible for realization of the project are: Professor Franciszek Czech – the Head of the JU Institute of Intercultural Studies and the Chair of Kraków branch of Polish Political Science Association, as well as Mrs. Marta Rajek and Mrs. Julia Górecka from Dr. Henryk Jordan Youth Center in Kraków.