Jan Czempiński

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NGRE Research Associate, University of Warsaw

Jan Czempiński is an MA student of History at the interdisciplinary MISH College, University of Warsaw, previously having done his BA in History and Sociology there. He is a fellow of the New Generation Exchange Programme, developing the project titled ‘Are myths true? The polemics between Leszek Kołakowski and Marcin Król’.

 

Jan is one of the winning scholars of the project "New Generation Research Exchange" in collaboration with the Universities of Warsaw and Zagreb.

Research Interests

  • History of ideas
  • Phenomenology
  • Problem of mentalities at the intersection of contextual and universalistic sciences

Affiliations

  • College of Inter-area Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MISH, University of Warsaw)
  • New Generation Research Exchange

 

 

Publications

  • ‘Between the Polish and English myth of the countryside. Are Zofia Stryjeńska and J.R.R. Tolkien the same?’, forthcoming in Culture.pl (Institute of Adam Mickiewicz).
  • ‘Wedel in the memory of Warsaw residents’, forthcoming in Clepsydra, 3.1 (2023)
  • ‘Warsaw Robinsons – a selection of accounts‘, forthcoming in Clepsydra, 3.1 (2023)
  • ‘Marszałkowska Street in 1945. Transport, administration and cultural function’, Warsaw Almanac, 14 (2021).
  • ‘Between the new “Kercelak” and the “Polish Bond Street”. Trade, craft, industry and services on Marszałkowska Street in 1945’, Chronicle of Warsaw, 159.1 (2019).