Ludmila Lambeinová
2017-2018
Ludmila Lambeinová, PhD Candidate in Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland
I graduated from Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic and earned my Master’s Degree in Polish Philology and History.
In 2014, I started my doctoral studies at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw in Poland. I joined the Department of Central and East European Intercultural Studies where I am working on a Ph.D. thesis entitled The Character of Polish-Czech Translation of Academic Papers Based on the Texts about the 20th Century History of Poland.
During my master studies I received a number of scholarships at universities in Poland (Cracow, Poznan, Warsaw). As a PhD candidate, I was granted twice the Intra-Visegrad Scholarship from September 2015 to July 2017.
My research is focused on the 20th century history of Poland in translation. So far this topic has not received enough attention. The topic is approached from the point of view of contrastive linguistics and translation theory (cognitive-communicative approach and translation theory proposed by A. Popovič).
In my doctoral research I focus on describing the language of history, general questions connected with academic texts in translation, translation of culture-bound items and specific translation problems connected with Polish-Czech translation.
Although contemporary translation theories see translation as cross-cultural communication, my doctoral research so far shows that Czech translators of the analysed academic text have strong tendency to domestication. For example, although it is suggested that geographic names should not be translated in non-literary texts, it seems that translators of the analysed texts do not respect this rule. The research question is: “What should the translator do to preserve as much of the source culture in the target text as possible As I have described in various scholarly articles, so called culture-bound items (words with cultural specificity) pose serious translation problems because of their cultural specificity even in academic texts.
In addition to my doctoral research I have prepared and taught academic courses of Czech for Foreigners (different levels) and a course devoted to Czech and Slovak Culture at the University of Warsaw.
I am a member of The Association of Teachers of Czech as a Foreign Language. I took a part in various international conferences focused on Translations Studies (for instance in Katowice, Poznań, Nitra). In my non-academic life, I attended meetings of two English speaking discussion groups BAS Book Club Warsaw and Warsaw Poetry Club.
Ewa Zawojska
2016-2017
In 2013, I graduated with my Master’s in economics at the University of Warsaw in Poland and at the University of Vienna in Austria. I then started my doctoral studies at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. I joined the Department of Microeconomics where I am doing research on the use of stated preference surveys to estimate monetary values of public goods that are not traded in markets (such as clean air and water).My doctoral research focuses on how content of stated preference surveys, such as the type of information provided and how questions are formulated, may incentivise truthful responding. Stated preference surveys play an important role in the cost-benefit analysis of public policies (as they allow to estimate the benefits), as well as in litigation over environmental damages (as they inform about the value of losses). Recent evidence, however, cast doubt on whether respondents truthfully reveal their preferences in these surveys as the surveys rarely provide economically based incentives for truthful preference disclosure. My doctoral research verifies if the lack of economically based incentives indeed results in biased estimates of respondents’ preferences.
Currently I am leading a research project that aims at verifying the degree to which respondents’ belief in the actual consequences of the survey affects truthfulness in their preference disclosure. In collaboration with researchers from the University of Nantes in France, I am working on another project where we are testing novel methods on how to incentivise respondents to answer truthfully in surveys. Besides this research on stated preference methods, I am also involved in other projects that investigate an individual’s behaviour from the economic perspective, such as whether (and how) time pressure impacts an individual’s risk attitudes.
During my doctoral studies, I undertook several stays at universities and research institutes abroad. I was granted a fellowship for a course on natural resource management at the Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi in India. For three months I studied at the University of Glasgow in Scotland on a Junior Dekaban Scholarship, where I did research on the methodology of stated preference surveys. I developed my knowledge and skills on stated preference methods by attending international courses at the University Institute of Tourism and Economic Sustainable Development in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain, at the University of Catania in Italy, and at the University of Southern Denmark.
Olga Cielemęcka
2013-2014
Olga Cielemęcka, PhD Candidate at the Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University, Poland. I am a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University, Poland. I studied philosophy, Spanish philology, and gender studies. My main fields of scientific interest are: contemporary continental philosophy, posthumanism, and feminist critique. I am currently working on my PhD dissertation entitled “Between Human and Non-human. Giorgio Agamben’s Ethics and Its Anthropological Foundations.” The primary objective of my research is to examine a philosophical proposition of a “new, non-human ethics” which emerges after the so-called “antihumanist turn” in philosophy. In this antihumanist vein the human subject is reallocated into the field of the “non-human”; its close proximity to the animal, machine, matter, the microorganic, etc., is thus recognized and conceptualized. My aim is to investigate how this anti-anthropocentric twist challenges the humanist tradition, at the same time allowing new normative—and possibly also political—projects to be articulated.
Ignacy Jóźwiak
2012-2013
Ignacy Jóźwiak, PhD Candidate at the Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw, Poland
My research interests cover the issues borders, borderlands, migration and ethnicity in Central-East Europe. As an undergraduate student at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw I conducted ethnographical fieldworks in Moldova and Ukraine. The former was devoted to a diverse understanding of the Moldovan nation and the latter on national/ethnic identity of Hungarians in the region of Transcarpathia. As a PhD Candidate at the Graduate School for Social Research (Warsaw) I conducted the fieldwork in an urban-type-settlement of Solotvyno in Ukraine at the border with Romania. The aim of my dissertation is to use the case study of a borderland area to explore how local inhabitants practice their territory in the wider context of state borders and politics as applied to them. I place it in the wider context of issues related to Ukraine, the Ukrainian-Romanian borderland, the neighbourhood in Central-East Europe as well as past and current processes and political transitions. The state border with its diverse aspects (political, economic, symbolic, historical, aesthetical, and practical) is of crucial importance for my study.
Apart from my doctoral research I have also worked as a researcher and analyst in migration-related issues for The Institute of Public Affairs (Warsaw, Poland), Centre for Migration Studies (Poznan, Poland) and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Gottingen, Germany).