Prof. Dorota Koczanowicz in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton
Prof. Dorota Koczanowicz from the Institute of Cultural Studies will spend the coming academic year at one of the world’s most prominent research institutions, the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) in Princeton.
The idea of the IAS is to provide a convenient environment for the international academic community to explore selflessly in a setting of forest and wide meadows that provide an opportunity to embody peripatetic ideas. Established in 1930, the IAS hosted many eminent scholars. Albert Einstein, Erwin Panofsky, Clifford Geertz and Jan Bialostocki, among others, were there.
Professor Koczanowicz’s research project, Art versus the Climate Crisis: Visualizing Responsibility and Culinary Practices, addresses the role of art in the discourse of the climate crisis. Particularly relevant to this topic will be works relating to modes of eating in the context of the Anthropocene. Analysis and interpretation will be given to the actions of male and female artists who set themselves the task of redirecting human appetite so that it ceases to be one of the great threats to the environment.
Dorota Koczanowicz – dr hab., professor at the University of Wrocław, cultural studies scholar. Chairperson of the Council for the Discipline of Cultural and Religious Studies (UWr), member of the Committee for Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the 2020-24 term, she is director of the UWr Institute of Cultural Studies. She is the author of books and articles on aesthetic and gender issues, contemporary art and culinary culture. She has held fellowships at The Wittgenstein Archives in Bergen (2003); the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin (2006); and NAWA Bekker (2022 research internship at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo). She was awarded an NCN grant in 2014 to study the relationship between food and aesthetics, and an NPRH Universalia grant in 2020. In the academic year 2024/25, she is doing a research internship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. She is a visiting professor in the School of Social Science. She has published: Doświadczenie sztuki, sztuka życia. Wymiary estetyki pragmatycznej (2008), Pozycja smaku. Jedzenie w granicach sztuki (2018), The Aesthetics of Taste: Eating within the Realm of Art. (2023); współredagowała: Między estetyzacją a emancypacją. Praktyki artystyczne w przestrzeni publicznej (2010), Between Literature and Somaesthetics: On Richard Shusterman’s Pragmatism (2012), a także Discussing Modernity. A Dialogue with Martin Jay (2013). She has published in “Prace Kulturoznawcze”, “Konteksty”, “Performance Research”, “The Monist”, “Pragmatist Today” i “Czas Kultury”.
