Leszek Korporowicz

title of speech
“Cultural dignity as a missing category in understanding modern human reality”

Leszek Korporowicz, professor at the Institute of Sociological Sciences at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Former professor of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The research scope of his numerous publications encompasses sociology of culture, intercultural communication and management, dynamics of personal growth and cultural identity, cultural competence, medialization of culture, evaluation as social and educational change. He is a co-founder and the first chairman of the Polish Evaluation Society, a former member and present expert of the State Accreditation Commission, representative of Poland in the OECD Education Commission, a co-founder of the Ukrainian-Polish Centre for European Studies at the Dragomanov Pedagogical University in Kiev where he was awarded of the Doctorate Honoris Causa (2019),  former rector of the Bogdan Jański College in Warsaw, and an animator of Jagiellonian Cultural Studies, an educational and research project  realized at the Faculty of International and Political Studies. Member of thè Agency of thè Holy See for thè Evaluation and Promotion of Quality in Ecclesiastical Universities and Faculties (AVEPRO) since 2023.

Within this range of themes, he conducted several series of university lectures abroad, including Denmark (Aarhus and Odense), Germany (Bielefeld), Australia (Adelaide), Taiwan (Taipei), Byelorussia (Minsk) and Ukraine (Kiev).

Main publications include: Creating of Meaning, Language – Culture – Communication (1996), Personality and Communication in Transformative Society (1997), Intercultural Communication, co-editor (1997), Evaluation and Society (2001), Types of reductionism in cultural studies (2002), Communication as an inter-active reality (2007), Intercultural Management. From adaptation to development (2008), Intercultural Communication as a Transgression (2010), Cultural Sociology (2011), Bridges of  Hope (2016 ed.), Jagiellonian ideas (2018 ed.) Cultural Studies (2023)