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Dr Elżbieta Olzacka

e-mail: elzbieta.olzacka@uj.edu.pl
www: https://jagiellonian.academia.edu/El%C5%BCbietaOlzacka

Graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków: MA in Sociology (2007) and Cultural Studies, with a specialisation in Russian Studies (2011); PhD in Sociology (2014). My MA thesis and doctoral dissertation focused on analyzing the phenomenon of war from a sociological and cultural studies perspective. My current research includes the dynamics of Ukrainian cultural mobilisation in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. In the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations I teach the methodology of social research as well as research methods for cultural studies.

Academic interests

war, peace and conflict studies
cultural mobilization and wartime cultural politics
culture and history of Russia
contemporary Ukrainian culture and cinema
conflicts in the post-Soviet space

Selected publications

2022, The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine. East European Politics and Societies. https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254221101907
2021, The Role of Museums in Creating National Community in Wartime Ukraine. Nationalities Papers, 49(6), 1028-1044.
2021, The Role of the Cultural Context in the Russian Military Revolution. Quaestio Rossica, 9(1), 218–235.
2019, Proces społecznej konstrukcji bohatera w warunkach trwającego konfliktu — analiza na przykładzie heroizacji uczestników ukraińskiej Rewolucji Godności i wojny w Donbasie. Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 63(2), 253-274.
2017, Understanding the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine: The Role of Cultural Context, Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, (4), 23-38.
2017, Wojna w erze nuklearnej. Rozważania cywilów i wojskowych na temat bomby atomowej i skutków jej użycia, Przegląd Humanistyczny, 1(456), 21-31.
2016, Wojna a kultura. Nowożytna rewolucja militarna w Europie Zachodniej i Rosji, Kraków: WUJ.
2015, The Press in Constructing the Cultural Strategies of War. An Example from the Conflict in the Republic of Tajikistan, Securitologia, 22(2), 83-93 (z Pauliną Niechciał).
2013, Globalizacja a nowe wojny – perspektywa kulturowa, Kultura - Historia -Globalizacja, 13.
2011, Kulturowy wymiar zjawiska wojny – zakres badań i doniosłość, Kultura i Historia, 22.

Research projects

Estetyczne i etyczne wyzwania w tworzeniu wystaw muzealnych o trwającym konflikcie – minigrant POB Heritage, 2021-2022.
The Cultural Context of the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine – granted by the National Science Centre in Poland (Miniatura 1), 2017-2018;
Narratives and Commemorations of the Revolution of Dignity and the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine in the Public Space of Ukrainian Cities (2017/2018; 2018/2019);
The Cultural Strategies of War and Reconciliation: Analysis on the Example of the Civil War in the Republic of Tajikistan (1992-1997) – granted by the National Science Centre in Poland (Sonata 5), co-investigator, 2014-2016.

Other achievements

PROM Programme (Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange) – short-time sholarschip, University of Sarajevo, Bosna and Hercegovina (September 2022).
Visiting scholar in the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine (August 2019).
Visiting scholar in the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA (April – May 2018).
Staff Mobility Programme Erasmus+ Mobility for Teaching (teaching classes at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2017).
Library research and academic consultation – Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia (June 2013); Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (February 2017); Centre for the Study of War, Propaganda and Society, University of Kent, Canterbury (February 2017); Center for Transcultural Asian Studies (CETRAS), Center for Security and Society, University of Freiburg, Freiburg (March 2017); Imperial War Museum, London (April 2022).