Category: Events

  • NCN Grant on Pandemic Protests in Poland: Activities in 2025

    NCN Grant on Pandemic Protests in Poland: Activities in 2025

    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,” published articles, organized a conference, and presented research in 2025. Articles Published in 2025 Radiukiewicz, Anna, Joshua Dubrow, and Alan Żukowski. “Multimodal approaches to the reconstruction of street protest events…

  • 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: 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…

  • 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 Constantin Manuel Bosancianu on Party–Voter Ideological Congruence and Socioeconomic Biases in Representation

    Interview with Constantin Manuel Bosancianu on Party–Voter Ideological Congruence and Socioeconomic Biases in Representation

    Constantin Manuel Bosancianu, of WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany, presented the paper, “Party–Voter Ideological Congruence and Socio-Economic Biases in Representation: OECD over the Past 5 Decades” at the Politics and Inequality conference held in Warsaw, Poland in December 2018. Constantin Manuel Bosancianu is a postdoctoral researcher in the “Institutions and Political Inequality” unit at…

  • 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…

  • Report on the Politics and Inequality Conference in Warsaw December 2018

    Download a PDF of the report here: Politics and Inequality Conference in Warsaw, Poland Report December 2018 The international conference, “Politics and Inequality across Nations and Time: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches,” was held at IFiS PAN, December 12 – 14, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland. The event is part of the research project, “Political Voice and…

  • Politics and Inequality Conference: Program and Abstracts

    We are pleased to present the final program and the titles and abstracts for the conference, “Politics and Inequality across Nations and Time: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches,” December 12 – 14, 2018, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 72 Nowy Swiat, Warsaw, Poland Politics and Inequality Conference in Warsaw December 2018: PROGRAM…

  • Catherine Bolzendahl to Deliver a Keynote Speech at Politics and Inequality Conference in Warsaw

    Catherine Bolzendahl ( @C_Bolzendahl ) of the University of California – Irvine will deliver a keynote speech at the conference, “Politics and Inequality across Nations and Time: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches,” at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, December 12 – 14, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland. Professor Bolzendahl’s keynote title: “Women’s…

  • 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…