Category: Conferences and Workshops

  • PhD Workshop: New Voices in Social Movements and Protest

    PhD Workshop: New Voices in Social Movements and Protest

    The three-day English-language international event, “Empirical Research on Social Movements and Protest: New Voices” will take place December 3, 4, 5, 2025 at the Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, and feature PhD student research on their projects in political sociology. Major events around the world over the last two decades —…

  • Empirical Research on Protests and Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe: Conference 2025

    Empirical Research on Protests and Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe: Conference 2025

    Empirical Research on Protests and Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe: State of the Art Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN)72 Nowy Swiat, Warsaw, Poland December 4 – 5, 2025 About Major events in Europe over the last two decades — financial crises, rising populism, EU skepticism, pandemic, and…

  • NCN Grant on Pandemic Protests in Poland: Activities in 2024

    NCN Grant on Pandemic Protests in Poland: Activities in 2024

    We, the research team funded by the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland (2021/43/B/HS6/01155) grant entitled “The Construction of Post-Pandemic Society: Covid-19 Street Protest in Poland,” presented several papers, and published a couple of articles and a book review, in 2024. Published articles in 2024 Dubrow, Joshua K., Anna Radiukiewicz, and Alan Żukowski. “Government justification of…

  • NCN Grant on Pandemic Protests in Poland: Presentation Abstracts in 2023

    NCN Grant on Pandemic Protests in Poland: Presentation Abstracts in 2023

    We, the research team funded by the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland (2021/43/B/HS6/01155) grant entitled “The Construction of Post-Pandemic Society: Covid-19 Street Protest in Poland,” presented three papers in 2023. One of them was “Reconstructions of the Covid-19 Protests in Poland: Using Text, Pictures, and Video Data to Derive Visions of Social Change” at WZB…

  • POLINQ: Political Inequality and Political Voice across Nations and Time

    POLINQ: Political Inequality and Political Voice across Nations and Time

    What is POLINQ Political Inequality? POLINQ is an acronym for political inequality, defined as structured differences in political influence and its consequences. POLINQ is also the acronym of the National Science Foundation, Poland funded project (2016/23/B/HS6/03916), which ran from 2017 – 2022, with Joshua K. Dubrow as the Principle Investigator. POLINQ was housed at the…

  • Workshop: Women’s Political Inequality in Poland and Ukraine

    We announce the workshop, “Women’s Political Inequality in Poland and Ukraine: Theory Statements and Empirical Research,” on April 23, 2019 at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), Warsaw, Poland (Pałac Staszica, Nowy Świat 72, Warsaw, Room 154). This one-day workshop brings together scholars of Poland and Ukraine on women’s…

  • Interview with Gwangeun Choi on Economic and Political Inequality in Cross-national Perspective

    Interview with Gwangeun Choi on Economic and Political Inequality in Cross-national Perspective

    Gwangeun Choi presented the paper, “The Link between Economic and Political Inequality in Cross-National Perspective” at the Politics and Inequality conference held in Warsaw, Poland in December 2018. Dr. Choi recently received a PhD in Government at the University of Essex in the UK. His research interests are in the areas of democracy, quality of…

  • Interview with Jan Falkowski on Political Power and Land Inequality in Poland

    Interview with Jan Falkowski on Political Power and Land Inequality in Poland

    Jan Falkowski, of the University of Warsaw, Poland, recently presented a paper, “Do Political and Economic Inequalities Go Together? Mayors’ Turnover, Elite Families and the Distribution of Agricultural Land” at the Politics and Inequality conference held in Warsaw, Poland. Jan Falkowski is an Assistant Professor with the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Chair…

  • Interview with Katerina Vrablikova on Economic Hardship, Politicization and Protest

    Katerina Vrablikova, of the University of Bath, UK, recently presented a paper, “Economic Hardship, Politicization and Protest in Western Democracies,” at the Politics and Inequality conference held in Warsaw, Poland. Since Fall 2018, Kateřina Vráblíková has been a senior lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of…

  • Political Voice and Economic Inequality Conference in Warsaw, Poland

    The research project, “Political Voice and Economic Inequality across Nations and Time,” funded by Poland’s National Science Centre, is organizing its first event. Politics and Inequality Conference PRELIMINARY Program The interdisciplinary conference, “Politics and Inequality across Nations and Time: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches,” will be held at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy…

  • Political Inequality Sessions at the International Sociological Association 2012 Second Forum of Sociology

    I am organizing two sessions at the upcoming International Sociological Association Second Forum of Sociology in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1 – 4, 2012. If you are interested, please submit an abstract on-line in the ISA website between August 25 and December 15, 2011.  You can also email Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow: dubrow.2@osu.edu Here is what ISA says about grants.…

  • Political Inequality Sessions at International Sociological Association 2010

    Political Inequality Sessions at International Sociological Association 2010

    I organized a general theme on political inequality for RC 18: Political Sociology at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden.  Here is a link to the RC18 website’s call for papers.  General Theme: Political Inequality in Cross-National Perspective (Convener: Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Polish Academy of Sciences) Political inequality refers…