Topics of 2026 Issues

Volume 32, Issue 1/2026
"Tomasz Dunin Szpot SJ and the Jesuit Missions in China"

Call for Papers for Volume 32 of Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum (1/2026)

The Jesuit missions in China constitute one of the most significant developments in the history of early modern intercultural communication, scientific exchange, and relations between Europe and East Asia. A particularly important place in scholarship devoted to this subject is held by the writings of Tomasz Dunin Szpot SJ (1644/45–1713), a Polish Jesuit whose works dealt with the history of China, Catholic missions, and the cultures of the Far East. His writings provide an important testimony to early modern European reflections on Chinese civilisation, while also illuminating the ways in which Asia was perceived by scholars and missionaries originating from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The Editorial Board of Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum invites scholars working on the history of Jesuit missions, Sino-European relations, Church history, intellectual history, and the culture and science of the early modern period to submit contributions related to the theme of this issue. We particularly welcome studies exploring topics that have thus far received limited scholarly attention. Contributions devoted to Jesuit activity in China, the reception of knowledge about Asia in Europe, missionary historiography, Neo-Latin Jesuit literature, and modern approaches to the study of missionary sources will be especially welcome.

We warmly invite submissions.

Editors:
Prof. Janusz Smołucha, PhD hab. (UIK)
Dr Andrzej Wadas

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Volume 32, Issue 2/2026
"Student Culture and the Heritage of Academic Communities"

Call for Papers for Volume 32 of Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum (2/2026)

Student culture has long been an integral part of academic life, shaping the identity of universities, intellectual communities, and successive generations of students. Academic customs, artistic activity, student clubs and associations, student traditions, sociolects, and various forms of student integration and self-organisation together constitute an important record of the social and cultural history of universities and other centres of learning.

The Editorial Board of Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum invites scholars working on the history of higher education, academic culture, social history, cultural anthropology, and student life to submit contributions related to the theme of this issue. We particularly welcome studies devoted to academic traditions and rituals, the activities of student organisations and clubs, the artistic and literary creativity of students, student festival traditions, as well as transformations of student culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Editorial Board also encourages submissions addressing subjects that have thus far received comparatively limited scholarly attention within research on academic communities.

We warmly invite submissions.

Editors:
Dr Michał Szanduła
Prof. Janusz Smołucha, PhD hab. (UIK)

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Volume 32, Issue 3/2026
"Space in Culture, Literature, and Language"

Call for Papers for Volume 32 of Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum (3/2026)

Space has long occupied a central place in research on culture, literature, and language. Contemporary humanities increasingly draw attention to the ways in which space is constructed, transformed, and interpreted in both its material and symbolic dimensions. The city, the home, the landscape, the border, spaces of memory, digital space, and spiritual space have become key categories through which scholars interpret human experience and the transformations of the contemporary world.

The Editorial Board of Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum invites scholars of literature, culture, language, intellectual history, and spatial studies to submit contributions related to the theme of this issue. We particularly welcome studies devoted to representations of space in literature and art, the relationship between space and memory, transformations of the cultural landscape, experiences of the city, travel, borderlands and liminal spaces, as well as reflections on space from anthropological, philosophical, and cultural perspectives. The Editorial Board also encourages submissions addressing subjects that have thus far remained less prominent within humanities scholarship.

We warmly invite submissions.

Editors:
Dr Anna Dybiec
Dr Yanina Ryier

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Volume 32, Issue 4/2026
"Studies in the History of the Order of the Holy Spirit"

Call for Papers for Volume 32 of Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum (4/2026)

The Order of the Holy Spirit was among the major religious communities of medieval and early modern Europe, playing a significant role in charitable activity, the care of the sick and the poor, and the religious life of numerous countries. Its history remains a valuable testimony to the development of charitable and hospitaller spirituality, ecclesiastical institutions, and the functioning of religious communities across different historical periods. Particular scholarly attention has been devoted to the Order’s activity in the Polish lands, as well as to the history of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Editorial Board of Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum invites scholars of Church history, religious orders, Christian spirituality, social history, and religious culture to submit contributions related to the theme of this issue. We particularly welcome studies devoted to the origins of the Order of the Holy Spirit, its activity in Europe and Poland, its relations with urban and ecclesiastical communities, the history of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit, charitable activity, and figures associated with the order. The Editorial Board also encourages submissions addressing topics that have thus far remained underrepresented in historiography.

We warmly invite submissions.

Editors:
Dr Mateusz Zimny
Prof. Janusz Smołucha, PhD hab. (UIK)

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