From September 26-27, 2022, this Centennial Conference of Argonauts of the Western Pacific will take place at the Institute of Sociology of Jagiellonian University (Krakow). The organizers Grażyna Kubica-Heller (UJ Kraków), Dariusz Brzeziński (IFiS PAN, Warsaw), and Karol Piotrowski (UJ Kraków) encourage representatives of the social sciences and humanities to participate in this international conference. Paper abstracts (250 word maximum, in Polish or English) should be sent to malinowski2022@uj.edu.pl by April 30, 2022.
The hundredth anniversary of the publication of Malinowski’s monograph Argonauts of the Western Pacific presents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon its significance for contemporary social sciences and humanities. The following themes may be considered for paper presentations:
- Reflection on the Polish context of the life and work of Bronisław Malinowski
- The importance of Bronisław Malinowski for the formation of the identity of the humanities and social sciences in Poland
- The importance of Bronisław Malinowski’s method of intensive fieldwork for the methodological and theoretical development of social sciences and humanities
- Reinterpretation of the legacy of Bronisław Malinowski in the context of contemporary social and philosophical thinking
- The concept of “practical anthropology” developed by Bronisław Malinowski and his vision of the role of anthropologists in a changing world
- The concept of sociocultural change in the late works of Bronisław Malinowski
- The author of Argonauts of the West Pacific as an iconic figure in cultural texts
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