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Kulturoznawstwo jako nauka. Od epistemologii do metod
(Wydawnictwo Nauk Społecznych i Humanistycznych UAM, 2026-06) Redakcja; Kijko, Maciej; Koschany, Rafał; Michałowska , Marianna; Zydorowicz, Jacek
Przekazywana do rąk Czytelniczek i Czytelników antologia tekstów pomyślana została jako wydawnictwo okolicznościowe, przygotowane w ramach obchodów Jubileuszu 50-lecia Instytutu Kulturoznawstwa Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Tom ten nie ma wyłącznie charakteru wspomnieniowego. Nie rekonstruujemy historii Instytutu i jego kolejnych przeobrażeń strukturalnych Zebrane w niniejszej antologii teksty zostały napisane przez kilka pokoleń poznańskich kulturoznawczyń i kulturoznawców. Są tu artykuły inicjatorów kierunku, a także – jako komentarze – ich uczennic i uczniów. To międzygeneracyjny dialog, a także ukazanie ewolucji sposobów myślenia o kulturze i języków wypowiedzi naukowej.
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Postawy wobec robotów społecznych. Zarys teoretyczny i przegląd badań
(2026-05) Wasielewska, Aleksandra
Książka Aleksandry Wasielewskiej stanowi realizację dojrzałego metodologicznie i wartościowego pod względem merytorycznym projektu badawczego. W monografii zostały usystematyzowane społeczne aspekty problematyki postaw względem robotów wraz z wyraźnym wskazaniem kierunków przyszłych badań tej niezwykle aktualnej problematyki, a przeprowadzone badania związane z kontekstem polskim oraz otrzymane wyniki stanowią o aktywnym włączeniu się Autorki w nurt badań nad postawami wobec robotów społecznych.
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Limited western circulation of Soviet scientometrics: the case of Naukometriya
(2026-08) Kwiecień, Kalina; Kislenko, Ivan; Kulczycki, Emanuel
Co-authored by Vasily Nalimov and Zinaida Mulchenko, Naukometriya (1969) introduced the term that came to name the field of scientometrics. However, the book itself had limited impact on the development of the field outside the Eastern Bloc. This paper examines how problems of translation shaped the global circulation of one of scientometrics’ foundational texts. We reconstruct the history of the book’s only English version, a 1971 machine translation produced with the Systran system for the U.S. Air Force, and assess its quality using the Multidimensional Quality Metrics framework. Our analysis demonstrates that the translation introduced substantial linguistic and conceptual distortions, obscuring key ideas and plausibly contributing to the book’s limited reception in the West, alongside structural factors such as restricted dissemination and geopolitical constraints. To explain why a revised translation was never published, we analyze archival correspondence between Nalimov and Eugene Garfield. We also draw on Web of Science citation data covering both the original Naukometriya and its English translation to reconstruct patterns of international visibility. The paper demonstrates how triangulation of bibliometric analysis, translation quality assessment, and archival sources can reconstruct the infrastructural conditions under which foundational scientometric texts circulate — or fail to circulate — across linguistic and political boundaries.
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Western Influence or Local Efforts? John Bernal and the Soviet Organization of Scientific Information
(2026-08) Kislenko, Ivan; Kulczycki, Emanuel
Purpose - This paper examines the relationship between John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) and the Soviet approach to organize scientific information, focussing on the establishment of the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (VINITI). Design/methodology/approach - First, we highlight that the current science of science historiography carries a certain imbalance in acknowledgement of Western and Eastern contributions to the field during the Cold War. Then, we trace how Bernal was generally canonized in Anglophone histories of the science of science and how this canon was subsequently mapped onto and essentialized with the Soviet developments. Additionally, we reconstruct early Soviet initiatives in abstracting, indexing and information policy, highlighting the importance of the existing local scientific culture for future organizational innovations. Eventually, we engage with the archival materials from the Cambridge University Library (Bernal Archive) to support our argument in favour of a rather locally emerged approach than externally imposed influence. Findings - Drawing on the newly consulted materials from the Cambridge “Bernal Archive”, we argue that the idea of VINITI and the general Soviet approach to the organization of scientific information may be better understood as the outcome of endogenous Soviet trajectories that emerged as a natural expansion of the Soviet scientific efforts. Originality/value - This paper is a systematic attempt to balance the narratives in science of science canonical history to appreciate locally emerged scientific traditions instead of imposing explanation models based on Western external influence.
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Czy filozofowie winni rządzić Unią Europejską? Próba odpowiedzi z środkowoeuropejskiej perspektywy
(Fundacja "Otaczaj Blaskiem", 2025-12-31) Brzechczyn, Krzysztof
The author tries to answer this question by defining what is philosophy, in which direction European Union evolves and what in nature of political power. In the second part of this paper its author describe the historical and cultural specificity of Central Europe and its perspective in European context.