Mondays with WUWr #6
There’s a lot going on at the University of Wrocław Press and we want to keep you informed!
With this post, we start #mondayswithWUWr. We will keep you informed about the most important book launches, events and promotions, invite you to publications and describe what’s new! Today is the first Monday summary. For more, visit wuwr.eu!
Książka i biblioteka w wybranych pracach Umberta Eco – Anna Lubińska
The book on the famous bibliophile Umberto Eco written by Anna Lubińska from the Institute of Information and Media Studies will soon be on sale! Following the motto of this year’s celebration of the All-Polish Libraries Week, ‘The Library – a place to be’, we recommend this unusual publication from the University of Wrocław Press.
For centuries, the book has been a tool of power, an object of desire and a marker of human worth. Libraries, antique bookshops, publishing houses and medieval scriptorias are motifs that recur frequently in Umberto Eco’s literary and journalistic works. They were evidence of the author’s love of reading, which he called spiritual consumption. In many publications, such as in The Name of the Rose or Foucault’s Pendulum, he paid tribute to the people of the book who had struggled for centuries to survive and develop knowledge.
In the Italian author’s texts we find many reflections on the development of modern librarianship and the future of the book in the age of mass media. Anna Lubińska not only places these issues against the background of the general theories of bibliophilism, which Eco presented in numerous treatises, but also relates them to his private life. Numerous examples from high, popular and everyday culture, as well as the writer’s characteristic sense of humour, make it possible to understand how important a role the book played in his life.
Enriched with illustrations and drawings by Eco, the publication brings together the themes appearing in his work concerning the role of the book in society and the book-library-reader relationship. What emerges is the image of a bibliophile who expressed his views through various means of expression and used scientific knowledge in literary works, remembering that it is thanks to the reader that a book ‘becomes a book’.
New issues of Prawo, Dziennikarstwo i media and Prace Kulturoznawcze
On the website Czasopisma Naukowe w Sieci, three issues of scientific journals have recently been published:
Volume 336 (2023) | Prawo (wuwr.pl)
Volume 336 in the first part contains studies on the significance of codification in the history of law. They are the aftermath of the XXVI Conference of State and Law Historians organised by the Institute of the History of State and Law at the University of Wrocław in 2022. The authors have additionally deepened the texts of their papers with conclusions drawn from the discussions held during the proceedings. The Varia section includes three texts on Roman law, the methodology of law and the history of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wrocław.
Volume 20 (2023): Media na usługach społeczeństwa | Dziennikarstwo i Media (wuwr.pl)
The media sphere and the social space obviously interpenetrate each other, interact with each other and remain inseparable. And the latter are clearly highlighted in the articles comprising the forthcoming twentieth issue of Dziennikarstwo i Media. The articles attempt to demonstrate the multifaceted relationship between society and the media, are devoted to describing the influence of the media on social individuals, and how these individuals create or co-create the media sphere. Subsequent authors demonstrate that the media are born and function on the basis of social phenomena and are shaped by social conflicts, being a reflection of them.
Volume 27, No. 3 (2023): Imaginaria Feministyczne | Prace Kulturoznawcze (wuwr.pl)
The articles published in this issue of Prace Kulturoznawcze are the result of reflection on the feminist imaginarium, encompassing specific figures, images, ideas and stories. The authors explore feminist attitudes, demands and hopes, articulated in the face of personal, transformative experiences as well as socio-political changes. They look at the incorporation of feminist values into social circuits of knowledge and show how the emancipatory imaginary underpinning communal action is being remodelled. The authors also offer a critical, in-depth look at issues of community, care, art or work. The collected texts indicate the diversity of feminist narratives and the multiplicity of feminist-oriented research perspectives.
Job! The publishing house is looking for an Initiating Editor! (in Polish)
The main responsibilities include: initiating new titles and new publishing series, managing publishing projects at all stages, acquiring rights to titles and illustration material – liaising with authors and rights holders, coordinating the conclusion and preparation of contracts and their archiving, participating in national and international book fairs to acquire and sell copyrights and liaising with authors, literary agents, translators and foreign publishers.
Wśród głównym obowiązków wymieniane są: inicjowanie nowych tytułów i nowych serii wydawniczych, zarządzanie projektami wydawniczymi na wszystkich etapach, pozyskiwanie praw do nabywania tytułów i materiału ilustracyjnego – kontakt z autorami i właścicielami praw, koordynowanie procesu zawierania oraz przygotowania umów i ich archiwizowania, udział w krajowych i zagranicznych targach książki w celu nabywania i sprzedaży praw autorskich oraz współpraca z autorami, agentami literackimi, tłumaczami i wydawcami zagranicznymi.
Details on the website: Praca na stanowisku: Redaktor_ka inicjujący_a książek | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego (wuwr.eu)
