Taube Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

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Zapraszamy na wykład otwarty w ramach sieci Jean Monnet PROSPER pt. "Green Activism in the era of re-democratization: which factors determine the transition from coal towards alternative (greener) energy sources in Poland?", który wygłosi prof. Adam Fagan z King’s College London.

📆 Wykład odbędzie się 27 marca (piątek), w godz. 09:45-11:00, w sali 543 WSMiP UJ.

Adam Fagan jest profesorem European Politics w King’s College London, politologiem porównawczym. Jego aktualne badania koncentrują się na odporności demokratycznej i mobilizacjach anty-populistycznych w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej, europeizacji oraz ruchach prodemokratycznych w państwach powojennych Bałkanów Zachodnich i Europy Południowo-Wschodniej, a także na aktywizmie środowiskowym i polityce odchodzenia od węgla w Polsce. Szczególnie interesuje go rola aktorów niepaństwowych i mobilizacja społeczeństwa obywatelskiego.
Jest redaktorem naczelnym czasopisma East European Politics.

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We invite you to the next Taube Center seminar. Dr. Marianna Lovato invites you to a conversation entitled: For things to remain the same, everything must change: the UK’s transformed role in the Russian sanctions negotiations after Brexit.
Please join us on 24 March (Tuesday) at 2:30 PM at room 207, Reymonta 4, Kraków

2 POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITIONS (Assistant Professor) from Spring 2026 for 2 years.

We are happy to announce a call for applications for 2 post-doctoral research positions in SOCIAL SCIENCES or HUMANITIES
Applicants should be interested in conducting 2-year research on one of the proposed topics:

Testing Postmodernism in the Era of Crisis of Democracy
The Politics of Constructing and Performing Trust

Candidates are expected to propose a research project they would like to carry out during the 2-years of employment at the Centre.


We offer a base for an international community of high-level scholars willing to devote themselves entirely to their research work without teaching obligation.
Competition commencement date: 14 January 2026
Applications can be filed till 22nd February 2026

More information on
https://taubecentre.uj.edu.pl/
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/400403

We're proud! Among the recipients of the 2025 Rector's Award of the Jagiellonian University are two Taube Centre Fellows: Dr. Marianna Lovato and Dr. Jost-Henrik Morgenstern-Pomorski. Congratulations!

Next Monday, we invite you to a lecture by Prof. Thomas Christiansen from LUISS University, Rome:
The European Union's Mission Impossible on China

The lecture, co-organised with the Future Democracy Lab, will take place at 11:30 a.m. on October 27th in room 008 at Reymonta 4.

We are deeply saddened that Tad Taube, the man to whose vision, initiative and generosity we owe the existence of our Centre, died on September 13, 2025, at the age of 94.
Born on April 1, 1931, in Krakow, the son of Zygmunt Taube, a Jagiellonian University graduate, and Lola Taube, just a few months before the outbreak of World War II emigrated to California, where he remained until his death. He graduated from Stanford University, served in the United States Air Force, and achieved considerable business successes, particularly in real estate. His spectacular professional successes enabled him to become involved in charitable work, which was at the core of his identity and lifelong mission.

Tad Taube was the founder and president of Taube Philanthropies, the largest American-Jewish family foundation with an office in Poland, and the long-time president of the Koret Foundation, based in San Francisco. In 2008, he endowed the Irena Sendler Award. He was one of the most generous donors to the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He was the initiator and main sponsor of the Global Education Outreach Program, a research and educational program for Judaic studies in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.

Programs sponsored by Taube Philanthropies support various charities, academic institutions, cultural, and religious organizations in the United States, Israel, and Poland. Tad Taube's philanthropic activities were particularly focused on his hometown of Kraków, where he actively supports the Galicia Jewish Museum, the Jewish Community Centre, the Jewish Culture Festival, and, since 2019, the Taube Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at the Jagiellonian University.

In 2004, Tad Taube was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit. In 2007, he became Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in San Francisco. In 2015, he received the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland from the President of the Republic of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski.

In 2018, he received an honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University in recognition of his commitment to rebuilding the reviving Jewish communities in Poland, his work in Poland and the United States to build good Polish-Jewish relations on the solid foundations of a democratic civil society, and the development of Jewish studies in Poland, particularly at the Jagiellonian University. The Jagiellonian University Senate also honoured him for rebuilding the memory of Jewish society and culture in Poland and promoting studies on the history and culture of Polish Jews internationally.

We extend our condolences to Tad Taube's Family and Friends, and we want to assure that we will share Tad’s vision and continue the mission we jointly agreed upon by establishing the Taube Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Jagiellonian University.

May He rest in Peace.

We invite you to the annual Taube Centre conference. Conference with the participation of researchers, the Taube Center Board and Guests will be held on April 24-25, 2025.
On the first day in the Bobrzyński Room in Collegium Maius,
on the second day at the seat of the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University at ul. Reymonta 4, room 207.

On March 20, 2025, dr. Paulina Lenik, TC Fellow shared her results, concerns and questions related to her research conducted at the Taube Centre. The presentation concluded with a discussion in which Faculty members participated. Thank you for participating!

Photo credit: Monika Simpson

We invite you to the next seminar of the Taube Centre:

Dr. Paulina Lenik: Don't saw-off the branch: Cohesion funds and institutional trust in Poland, 2014-2020
Thursday, 20 March 2025 at at 3:00 p.m. in room 207 (WSMiP UJ, ul. Reymonta 4)

The meeting, held in English, is part of the Taube Center seminar series, the aim of which is to present the research results of Taube Center Fellows.

After Dr. Lenik's lecture, there will be time for comments, questions and discussions.

With the seminar led by Dr. Aleksandra Dragojlov, we started a series of seminars aimed at presenting the research results of the Taube Centre Fellows and the conversations they provoked.
We want to thank the seminar participants.
Thanks to your presence and conversations, the researcher received valuable comments and remarks, and as organizers, we have a sense of satisfaction and conviction that such seminars are a platform for getting to know each other better and sharing our research interests.

17 January 2025
Photo: Monika Simpson

Fundamental Rights and Values in the EU
2nd seminar at the Taube Centre

A great scientific debate with scholars and researchers focusing on EU politics and postdocs of the Taube Centre. We are discussing the future of Europe and the values behind its development.
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