Język, doświadczenie, działanie – kulturoznawcze studia slawistyczne na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim

Abstract

The paper deals with the process of institutionalization of cultural studies at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw. It shows the determinants and the course of institutional change, within which a new, orig­inal concept of studies was developed and implemented, based on an interdisci­plinary approach and combining the linguistic and philological traditions of Slav­ic studies with the perspective of cultural anthropology. The author analyzes the ways in which the opening of didactics and research areas to cultural studies at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies can be considered a response to the political, social, and civilizational transformations taking place in the Slavic countries following the end of the 20th century, as well as how this transformation helps to face the challenges posed by today’s culture of knowledge.