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• Transformations: Time in Culture, Literature, and Language

  Vol. 45 No. 2 (2024)
• Kultura w mediach, media w kulturze

  Vol. 44 No. 1 (2024)

  The current issue of our quarterly is primarily dedicated to two leading themes. The first theme, “Culture in the Media, Media in Culture”, engages authors in a contemplation of the media’s role within contemporary communication-cultural rituals and presents the media sphere as a platform for the dissemination of cultural norms and values. Doctor Jarosław Kinal from the University of Rzeszów serves as the guest editor for this segment of Perspectives on Culture. The second leading theme is the “Historical City” under the editorship of Assistant Professor Andrzej Laskowski, professor at UEK. Within this section, authors endeavor to elucidate how urban communities have reacted to diverse crisis scenarios, which have concurrently served as remedies for the manifold afflictions encountered by urban spaces throughout history. Additionally, the issue comprises other works featured within regular sections.

• Around Costume in Culture: Dressing Up, Concealing, Creating, Manifesting, Contesting. In Tradition and Modernity

  Vol. 43 No. 4/2 (2023)

  We are presenting you with another issue of Perspectives on Culture. The current issue of our quarterly is related to a multifaceted cultural and historical reflection on the presence of costume in culture over the centuries, to which topic a thematic section has been devoted. The editing work was undertaken by Professors: Beata Bigaj-Zwonek, Izabela Kaczmarzyk and Monika Stankiewicz-Kopeć of the Institute of Cultural Studies and Journalism at the Ignatianum University in Cracow. The topic proved to be extremely popular and aroused great interest, hence the section itself, as well as the entire issue, is the most extensive one in the journal’s several-year history.

• 625th Anniversary of the Faculty of Theology in Krakow

  Vol. 43 No. 4/1 (2023)

  This issue marks the 625th anniversary of the Faculty of Theology in Krakow and sums up a conference commemorating this event that was organized on January 17, 2022 by the authorities of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow and Jagiellonian University. As I do not want to take up too much of your time, I would only like to recommend reading the introduction by Father Rector of Ignatianum University in Cracow, Prof. Tomasz Homa SJ, Prof. of the UIK, the initiator of this publication, and the letters by Fr. Prof. Robert Tyrała, Rector of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, and Prof. Jacek Popiel, Rector of the Jagiellonian University, that were read during last year’s conference. Guest editing was entrusted to Prof. Tomasz Graff, Prof. of the UPJPII from the Department of History and Cultural Heritage at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, who also shed some light on the status and prospects of research on the Faculty of Theo­logy in Krakow.

• Culture (in) Hybrid Reality

  Vol. 42 No. 3 (2023)

  The current issue of our quarterly is special for at least four organizational and administrative reasons. Firstly, the Ignatianum Academy in Cracow has become a university and as of October 1, 2023, its new name is Ignatianum University in Cracow. Secondly, the journal’s editors, moving with the times, are focusing on an online formula, abandoning the printed form and remaining in wide open access via the online Open Journal Systems platform. Thirdly, by the decision of the Minister of Education and Science announced in the Communiqué of July 17, 2023, regarding the list of academic journals and peer-reviewed materials from international conferences, the journal received 140 points. Finally, fourthly, the list of the parameterized disciplines that the journal covers, namely 1) cultural and religious studies, 2) literary studies, 3) history, and 4) management and quality sciences has been expanded to include other disciplines, such as 5) ethnology and cultural anthropology, 6) philosophy, 7) linguistics, 8) art sciences, 9) Polish studies, 10) political and administrative sciences, 11)  social communication and media sciences, and 12) education studies.

• Rights of Nations in the Era of Cultural Interaction

  Vol. 41 No. 2/2 (2023)

  This issue of the journal is related to the contemporary topical issue of the rights of peoples in the era of cultural interaction. The assembly and editing of texts related to the aforementioned issues was undertaken by Professor of the Jagiellonian University, Leszek Korporowicz, PhD, a long-time collaborator of the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow, including in the Social Dictionaries project, where, together with Dr. Łukasz Burkiewicz and Dr. Agnieszka Knap-Stefaniuk, he became co-editor of the Studia kulturowe collection (Krakow 2022). The leading issue in this journal will be presented in an introduction prepared by Prof. Korporowicz. I would like to mention that in this section there are seventeen texts written by authors from various scientific centers in Poland.

• Klasyczne inspiracje i kulturowe aspiracje promotorów kultury polskiej w Padwie

  Vol. 41 No. 2/1 (2023)

  The year 2022 marked the 800th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Padua, one that Poles have eagerly chosen as the site of their education since its founding, and one of Europe’s finest intellectual centers of the humanist era. For many years, Polish researchers have pointed out the importance of the university to our country, its culture, science and comprehensive development. The Polish elite of the 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries, including Paweł Włodkowic, Nicolaus Copernicus, Jan Kochanowski and Jan Zamoyski were educated in Padua, but these are just some of the many Polish names associated with the university. In view of the significant importance of the “Paduans” for Polish culture, we have decided to devote the theme section of this issue of Perspectives on Culture to the classical inspirations and cultural aspirations of the promoters of Polish culture in Padua, and to place it under the editorship of Prof. Dr. hab. Mirosław Lenart and Dr. Sławomir Marchel from the University of Opole. His Magnificence Father Rector of the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow, Fr. Dr. Tomasz Homa SJ, AIK Professor, also included his introductory word in the issue.

• Protection of Cultural Heritage

  Vol. 40 No. 1 (2023)

  The leading topic of this issue is the thematic section Protection of Cultural Heritage under the guest editorship of Prof. AIK Justyna Łukaszewska-Haberkowa, PhD. The section includes eight texts written by authors from various academic centers and cultural institutions in Poland.

• The Court of the Queen in the Middle Ages and in the Modern Era - People, Relations, Influence

  Vol. 39 No. 4 (2022)

  The main theme section of this issue under the guest editorship of Prof. Agnieszka Januszek-Sieradzka, PhD, has been titled “The Court of the Queen in the Middle Ages and in the Modern Era – People, Relationships, Influences.” This section is presented in the introduction by the Professor herself. Let me add that the section contains nine articles written by authors from various research centers in Poland.

• Studies on Eastern Churches Culture within the Borders of the Former Polish‑Lithuanian Commonwealth

  Vol. 38 No. 3 (2022)

  The current issue is larger than the typical issues of Perspectives on Culture. This is primarily related to the theme section, Studies on Eastern Churches Culture within the Borders of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, under the guest editorship of staff members of the Department of Polish-Ukrainian Studies at the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University: Associate Prof. Alicja Zofia Nowak, PhD, Professor of the Jagiellonian University, and Associate Prof. Agnieszka Gronek, PhD, Professor of the Jagiellonian University. This section is presented in the Editorial written by the two Professors, and is a continuation of their previous projects on similar topics (2016 and 2019 monograph editions). I would only add that it contains 19 articles written by authors from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Germany, France and Italy. The section is also complemented by two articles. The first is a short communiqué by Archbishop Ihor Isichenko (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) presenting Kharkiv, and more precisely, Kharkiv churches in the first weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The other one is a review of Oleh Bolyuk’s book Wooden sacred artifacts (as based on Ukraine’s western regions) by Agnieszka Gronek (Jagiellonian University).