KNOW Team
KNOW – Knowledge Complexity and Memory
Team Leader: Dr hab. Adam Kola, prof. UMK (read: Head of the Center)
Members:
1. Dr hab. Anna Branach-Kallas, prof. UMK (kallas@umk.pl)
ORCID, Google Scholar, Research Gate
Research interests:
- contemporary literature in English and French;
- postcolonial theory and fiction;
- trauma and memory studies;
- representations of trauma and war;
- comparative studies;
- medical humanities.
Scientific achievements:
- the Pierre Savard Award of the International Council for Canadian Studies for the best monograph on a Canadian subject (in a language other than English and French) for Uraz przetrwania. Trauma i polemika z mitem pierwszej wojny światowej w powieści kanadyjskiej (UMK, 2014)
- Grant OPUS 2014-2018, National Centre for Science, Poland, for the project The First World War as Cultural Trauma in Contemporary British, French, and Canadian Fiction
- Bekker’s Scholarship, NAWA, National Agency for Academic Exchange, for the project Missing Persons: Trauma, Precarity and First World War Veterans in Australian and Canadian Fiction, fellowship at the University of Toronto, 7 June – 7 September 2019
- Grant OPUS 2020-2024, National Centre for Science, Poland, for the project Critical Mourning, Entangled Legacies of Violence, and Postcolonial Discontent in Selected 21st Century First World War Novels in English and French
Hobby: ice-skating, roller-skating, swimming
2. Dr hab. Agata Domachowska, prof. UMK (a.domachowska@umk.pl)
ORCID, Research Gate, Google Scholar
An associate professor (dr hab.) at the Faculty of Humanities (Nicolaus Copernicus University, NCU) and a senior analyst at the Institute of Central Europe (Department of the Balkans). Her research focuses on identity and historical narratives, nation-building and the politics of memory in the Western Balkans, Balkan diasporas, politics and culture of Western Balkan states. She has carried out her research in Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Croatia, Germany and the United States. She also did an internship at the European Parliament and a training stay at the Polish Embassy in Tirana (Albania). The recipient of numerous scholarships and grants including a Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, the 2015 ASEEES Davis Travel Grant. What is more, she is a recipient of a research grant from the National Science Center for the project on “The subjectivity of the Albanian diaspora during the transformation in Albania”. Member of the Laboratory for the Study of Collective Memory in Post-communist Europe – POSTCOMER and the Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History.
Research interests:
- politics of memory and identity politics in the Balkans;
- Balkan diasporas;
- migration from South-East Europe;
- symbolic politics;
- international relations.
Scientific achievements:
- She has carried out her research in Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Croatia, Germany and the United States. She also did an internship at the European Parliament and a training stay at the Polish Embassy in Tirana (Albania).
- The recipient of numerous scholarships and grants including a Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, the 2015 ASEEES Davis Travel Grant. What is more, she is a recipient of a research grant from the National Science Center for the project on “The subjectivity of the Albanian diaspora during the transformation in Albania”.
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Member of the Laboratory for the Study of Collective Memory in Post-communist Europe – POSTCOMER and the Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History.
Hobby: basketball and tennis
3. Dr hab. Veslava Osińska, prof. UMK (wieo@umk.pl)
ORCID, Google Scholar, Research Gate
Research interests:
- data science;
- data and knowledge visualization;
- science mapping;
- network analysis;
- machine learning.
Scientific achievements:
- Polish science mapping;
- Computer Science Visualisation;
- Scientometric analysis interface design.
Hobby: art history, oil painting, sketching, popular science reading, sport
4. Francesco Trupia, PhD (trupia@umk.pl)
ORCID, Google Scholar, Research Gate
Research interests:
- Transnational Identities and post-1989 Democratization;
- Collective Memory and Public Sphere(s);
- Subaltern Studies and Minority Groups;
- Critical Theory and International Relations;
- Balkans and South Caucasus.
Scientific achievements:
- author of “Rethinking Subalternity in Central and Eastern Europe” published by Transnational Press London (2020);
- Policy Research Alumnus at the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society – KFOS (2018 – ongoing);
- PhD completion award from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (May 2020);
- PhD mid-term award from the Bulgarian Ministry of Education (February 2018);
- Scholarship for Advanced Study Programme in Cultural Studies from the New York Institute – Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2017);
- International Fellowship at the Caucasus Resource Research Centre, Yerevan, Armenia (2016);
- Winner 2017 Call for Paper at Forum für Mittelost-und Südosteuropa. Pap.
Hobby: photography, volunteerism, antiques
5. Dr Łukasz Gemziak (lukgem@umk.pl)
Research interests:
- contemporary Russian and Czech literature and culture
- Russian sociopolitical thought
- relationships between literature and politics
- collective and cultural memory
Scientific achievements:
- Member of the Laboratory for the Study of Collective Memory in
Post-communist Europe – POSTCOMER - Тhe author of the book (in Polish) Settlement with totalitarianism?
Russian literary criticism during the perestroika period (selected
disputes)
Hobby: sport
6. Dr hab. Oleksandra Shtepenko
Research interests:
- literary theory
- modernist and postmodernist literature
- decolonization and trauma studies
- role of intellectual women as keepers of cultural memory
Scientific achievements:
- “Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine” title, awarded by the President of Ukraine
- Diploma of the Supreme Council of Ukraine “For services to the Ukrainian people”
Prof. Shtepenko is with us thanks to the cooperation with the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund
7. Dr Olga Solovieva
Research interests:
- History and theory of cinema
- Cultural intersections of arts and politics, especially in contect of Japanese, German, Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian cultures
- Media studies
- Comparative literature
Najważniejsze osiągnięcia:
- 2 published monographies: Christ’s Subversive Body: Practices of Religious Rhetoric in Culture and Politics (2018) oraz The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently (2023)
Doctoral Candidates:
1. mgr Julia Siepak (julia.siepak@doktorant.umk.pl)
ORCID, Research Gate, Google Scholar
Research interests:
- contemporary North American Indigenous women’s writing;
- Indigenous studies;
- poetics of space;
- ecocriticism;
- feminism.
Scientific achievements:
- Principal investigator of the research project entitled “Towards an Alternative Poetics of Space: Intersections of the Feminine and the Environmental in Recent North American Indigenous Fiction” financed by the National Science Centre, Poland (PRELUDIUM grant, 2021-2024).
Hobby: Italian language and culture, travelling
2. mgr Adam Szalach
3. mgr Agata Rupińska
Former Members:
1. Brett Buttliere, PhD
ORCID, Research Gate, Google Scholar
Research interests:
- psychology;
- philosophy and the mind sciences;
- computational methods;
- computational social science
Scientific achievements:
- Several impactful papers and projects including Buttliere (2014), Buttliere & Wicherts (2014), and Buttliere & Buder (2017)
- Several nice grants including from the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, and Altmetrics, as well as several to many particular conferences
- Several invited talks and lab visits, including at universities, labs, and conferences in Europe and the USA
Hobby: Futbol, Basketball, and any team sport or exercise in general. Cooking, especially Asian dishes and soups. Music-making on uncommon instruments, like the harmonica, which is, in fact, the best instrument in the world