On Wednesday, April 9, 2014, between 4.00 pm and 7.30 pm, the Open Lectures will be held on the mezzanine of Galeria Katowicka during the 10th Student Science Festival – the most important event in the region promoting academic discourse. The lectures will be hosted by the research workers of the University of Silesia and the School of Management of the University of Silesia.
Open Lectures held at Galeria Katowicka on April 9, 2014 – agenda:
1) 4.00 pm – 4.30 pm, dr hab. Piotr Wróblewski, “Konsumpcja – zabójcza aplikacja Zachodu?” [Consumerism – a destructive ideology of the West?]
Dr hab. Piotr Wróblewski – associate professor, sociologist of culture, in post at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Silesia and at the Bogdan Jański Academy in Opole. Author of the following books: “Społeczność czeska w Zelowie” [The Czech community in Zelów] (1996) and “Mobilizacja i konflikt etniczny” [Mobilisation and the ethnic conflict] (2007). He manages a research project entitled “Socjologia mody. Formy ubioru i fasady osobiste studentów” [Sociology of fashion. The forms of clothing and the students’ personal façades].
2) 4.45 pm – 5.15 pm, prof. zw. dr hab. Barbara Kożusznik, “Kapitał psychologiczny a szczęście w życiu i kariera zawodowa” [Psychological capital vs. happiness in life and professional career].
Prof. Barbara Kożusznik is a psychologist specialising in the organisational and management psychology issues. The author and co-author of 24 books, over 90 scientific publications dedicated to problems related with managing, professional training of work teams as well as development and enhancing effectiveness of actions taken also at the position of a manager. Author of ca. 30 non-published works on diagnosing the psychosocial condition of an organisation and introducing organisational changes. The scientific interests of prof. Barbara Kożusznik are related to such issues as the effectiveness of work of a manager, the problems in effective operation of work teams as well as the practical application of research results in the field of management.
3) 5.30 pm – 6.00 pm, dr Barbara Smorczewska, “Nawigowanie karierą” [Career navigation].
The scientific interests of dr Barbara Smorczewska are based on the work and organizational psychology, the psychology of career development, human resources management and individual professional goals of the young population. She co-operates with the Careers Service of the University of Silesia on a regular basis. She is the member of the Polish Association of Organizational Psychology (PAOP) and the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology.
4) 6.15 pm – 6.45 pm, dr Dariusz Kajewski, “Odkrywanie tajemnic fizyki” [Discovering the secrets of physics].
Dr Dariusz Kajewski conducts the research on ferroelectric properties of solids at the Experimental Physics Unit at the Physics Institute of the Mathematics, Faculty of Physics and Chemistry of the University of Silesia in Katowice. He is also interested in Scanning Probe Microscopy which plays an important role in nanophysics. He is always keen to engage in spreading knowledge about physics among the public. Dr Dariusz Kajewski is one of the founders of the Silesian Science Café.
5) 7.00 pm – 7.30 pm, prof. zw. dr hab. Henryk Fontański, “O Łemkach i ich języku” [About the Lemkos and their language].
The scientific interests of prof. Henryk Fontański cover the East Slavic languages as well as contrastive linguistics. They relate mainly to the syntax of Russian as compared to Polish from the communicational and functional perspective as well as the grammatical description of the modern Lemko language. Prof. Henryk Fontański also dealt with language statistics, theoretical background of contrastive analysis studies and didactic issues.