About me

Dr Anna Smywińska-Pohl

My name is Anna Smywińska-Pohl. I have a broad humanistic education. In 2019, I defended my doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, completed parallel doctoral studies dealing primarily with the methodology of science – Socitety-Environment Technology and the Jagiellonian Interdisciplinary PHD Programme, I studied intellectual property management. I was also a participant of Erasmus programme under the Democracy and Religion program and a scientific seminar of the Polin Museum of Polish Jews.

My family history was full of blank spots, and I felt the need to fill them in. I’ve been exploring this map for years. I know how important it is for identity reasons, family narratives or discovering hidden transgenerational messages. The fact that we do not know our ancestors does not make them absent from our lives.

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My achievements

  • Extensive archival research conducted in Poland and abroad, including Ukraine, Lithuania, Austria and Israel
  • Publication of the book Córki Nawojki. Filozofki na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim Kraków 2017 (together with Ewa Chudoba)
  • Publication of the anthology Filozofki na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim 1897-1967. Antologia, Kraków 2016 (together with Ewa Chudoba)
  • Writing the book Odkrywanie niedostępnego. Utwory osierocone w dorobku studentów pochodzenia żydowskiego z Wydziału Filozoficznego Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (together with Anna Jarmuszkiewicz)

Achievements

2010

Master’s degree at the Jagiellonian University in philosophy
Beginning of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University
Beginning of archival research in the context of the first female students of the Jagiellonian University

Commencement of inter-faculty supplementary master’s studies Intellectual Property Management at the Jagiellonian University in 2012.

Receiving a grant from the National Science Center for the project Philosophers at the Jagiellonian University in the years 1897-1967. Thought and biography. (under the direction of Ewa Chudoby, the scientific supervisor was Prof. Jan Woleński). The project was implemented at the Jagiellonian University
2015

Receiving a grant from the National Science Center for the project The problem of orphan works against cultural memory on the example of the writings of selected Jewish philosophers and philologists from the Jagiellonian University (1918-1939) implemented at the Polish Academy of Sciences together with Anna Jarmuszkiewicz. I led this project

Beginning of doctoral studies at the Faculty of History of the Jagiellonian University, at the Institute of Jewish Studies with the doctoral project Jews – students of philosophy during the Second Polish Republic
publication of Filozofki at the Jagiellonian University 1897-1967. Anthology (written together with Ewa Chudoba)
2017

Publication of the book Córki Nawojki. Filozofki na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim Kraków 2017 (together with Ewa Chudoba

Publication of the book Odkrywanie niedostępnego (written with Anna Jarmuszkiewicz)

Scientific trip to Israel, conducting archival research in Jerusalem

I am currently preparing my second doctoral dissertation devoted to pre-war Jewish intellectuals and their achievements. You can find out more about my work here.

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