Heurystyki – RELATIONSHIPS/INTERACTIONS. HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN BEINGS IN HUMANITIES RESEARCH | 23 April 2026

15 04 2026

On 23 April 2026, from 4 pm to 8 pm, in the Auditorium of the former University Library building, the next edition of Heurystyki will be hosted. Heurystyki is a series of doctoral seminars at the University of Warsaw, initiated by His Magnificence the Rector of the University of Warsaw, Prof. Alojzy Z. Nowak. Heurystyki provides an opportunity to present research conducted by doctoral students from each of the University of Warsaw’s doctoral schools.

We would like to invite you to the next edition of the seminar, organised by the Doctoral School of Humanities.

During the meeting RELATIONSHIPS/INTERACTIONS. HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN BEINGS IN HUMANITIES RESEARCH, doctoral students from the Doctoral School of Humanities will present their research and academic achievements, in the presence and with the support of their supervisors:

• Lux Profus, MA, who is conducting research in the field of literary studies under the academic supervision of Prof. Dr hab. Dominika Oramus, (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”):
  “The Animal-Machine” in the Literary Laboratory.

• Aleksandra Leniarska, MA, who is conducting research in the field of literary studies under the academic supervision of Dr hab. Agnieszka Graff-Osser, UW Professor (Centre for American Studies, Institute of the Americas and Europe):
  Non-human reading: the contemporary American novel between the mountain lion and the linguistic model.

• Anna Potoczny, MA, who is conducting research in the field of literary studies under the supervision of Dr hab. Justyna Włodarczyk, UW Professor (Faculty of Modern Languages, Institute of English Studies) and Dr. Joanna Mąkowska (Centre for American Studies, Institute of the Americas and Europe):
  Towards Plant Writing: The Literary Flora of Virginia Woolf.

• Adam Perzyński, MA, who is conducting research in the field of art studies under the academic supervision of Prof. Dr hab. Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (Faculty of Cultural and Art Studies, Institute of Art History) and Dr Magdalena Herman (Faculty of Cultural and Art Studies, Institute of Art History):
  What does an archangel look like, and is a horse really what everyone sees it to be? Non-human beings in the work of Tomasz Makowski.

Link to the event page on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/4q50qOcal