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#Agnieszka Mikrut-Żaczkiewicz - Instytut Porównawczych Studiów Cywilizacji

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Dr Agnieszka Mikrut-Żaczkiewicz

Dr Agnieszka Mikrut-Żaczkiewicz

e-mail: agnieszka.mikrut@uj.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8208-0184

Graduate of the Faculty of Management and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University, Institute of Audiovisual Arts, majoring in cultural studies-film studies. She obtained her doctoral degree in art sciences. She studied cultural studies with a specialisation in Far Eastern studies at the Institute of the Institute of the Middle and Far East  at the Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University. As part of a government scholarship, she studied Chinese language and culture at Zhejiang University in the People's Republic of China.

Academic interests

  • popular culture as a political and cultural tool;
  • cinema of East Asia, especially China and Japan;
  • tradition and contemporary;
  • nationalism in popular culture;
  • social history.

Selected publications

  • 2020, Rooted in the past, China's vision of a green future: the concept of ecological civilization, (in) "The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series", Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 29-48
  • 2018, Little people in times of great change - the filmmaking of Jia Zhangke, Krakow.
  • 2017, Trot and rock - the development of Korean musical genres against the backdrop of socio-political change. socio-political developments, (in:) "Contemporary Culture. Theory, interpretations, practice", no. 3/2017/96, pp. 144-156.
  • 2016, Commercial Cinema in China, (in) Silent Explosion. The new cinema of East and Southeast Asia East and Southeast Asia, J. Murczyńska (ed.), Kraków, pp. 31-53.
  • 2015, Lou Ye (in:) Authors of Asian Cinema II, A. Kamrowska (ed.), Kraków pp. 43-85.

Other achievements

  • Polish government scholarship to travel and study Chinese in the PRC.

Hobbies

  • travelling;
  • mountain hiking;
  • legends and myths of Southeast Asia.