Institute of Humanities (IH)

Affiliated Research areas

  • Texts and Concepts
  • The Study of the Human Past
  • Studies of Cultures and Arts

Scientific Areas

  • The Study of the Human Past
  • Texts and Concepts
  • Studies of Cultures and Arts

Keywords

  • Research

Summary

The summaries points are the result of an analysis of the titles of publications, projects, and scientific and artistic achievements published at USWPS in the years 2022-2024 in disciplines affiliated with the listed institutes.

- Education and nationalism
- Digital culture and media
- Art, visuality, and performance
- Identity and community
- Memory and historical politics
- Technology and society
- Digital exclusion and ethical aspects of technological development
- Feminism and women's rights
- Relationships between culture and nature
- Society and ethics
- Human rights
- Ethics of sustainable development
- Games and interaction, Metafiction and intertextuality: the study of self-referentiality in literature and its dialogue with other works
- History and literature: how literary works reflect, reinterpret, and create historical narratives
- Comparative and transcultural literature: analysis of literary works in the context of cultural exchange and intercultural influences
- Ecocriticism: the study of nature and environmental representations in literature and their significance for contemporary ecological discussions
- Psychoanalysis and literature: the application of psychoanalytic theories to literary interpretation
- Feminism and gender studies: analysis of gender representation, sexuality, and gender relations in literature
- Formalism and poetics: the study of formal and stylistic structures in literature, including poetic and narrative forms

Heads of research unit

  • Research unit : Institute of Humanities
  • Research unit : Center for Research on the Economics of Memorial Sites
  • Research unit : Center for Cultural Research of Technologies

Members