Organizers: Failure Lab and Criminology Scientific Club (University of Warsaw), & Section of Economic Sociology (Polish Sociological Association)
Media patronage: Polish Scientific Publisher PWN [Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN]
Venue: IPSiR UW [Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation], ul. Podchorążych 20, room 55, 02-721, Warsaw
Registration to participate in the event, free of charge [by May 1, 2024]: a.mica[at]uw.edu.pl
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Catherine Alexander (Durham University, England)
Research: how forms and fears of failure affect complex organisations, such as large science collaborations; forms of waste and recycling (repair, reuse, recovery).
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Bashir Bello (Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State Nigeria)
Research: failure as equity and inclusion issue in relation to women in the academia; upsurge in crime; youth and students amid kidnaping and banditry in Nigeria.
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Costică Brădățan (Texas Tech University, US)
Research: religion and philosophy; historical figures who led lives of impact and meaning—and assiduously courted failure; lives of philosophers, humility, challenging of success.
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Paweł Kubicki (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw)
Research: public policy analysis, social exclusion, development of equalizing opportunities for persons with disabilities.
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Andrea Di Lorenzo (University of Florence, Italy)
Research: relationship between subjectivation processes and the culture of modernity, “Failure is impossible?”, critical reading of the “myth” of positive failure.
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Oskar Lubiński (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland)
Research: globalization, theories of social change, behind-the-scenes activities such as shadow elites, hierarchies and international inequalities which date back to colonial history of most wealthy nations.
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Matthew McKenna (University of Birmingham, England)
Research: how changing practices and beliefs regarding cooperation, conflict and power illuminate the way local policymakers learn to fail and to blame; rationalist approaches to policy failure in public administration literatures.
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Adriana Mica (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Research: failure, post-failure, abeyance and “beef” in policymaking, impact of creolization on failure regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, global dynamics of “failing our children”.
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Szymon Nawrocki (University of Warsaw, Poland & Criminological Scientific Club)
Research: criminology, cybercriminoogy, cyber security, war studies, intersections with failure studies.
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Mikołaj Pawlak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Research: new institutional theory, migration studies, ignorance and failure studies, sociological vacuum.
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Krzysztof Rowiński (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Research: non-redemptive failure; political effects of failure beyond a teleological lens; analysis of literary, performative, and filmic examples, which transcend narratives of redemption and ultimate success; Italy, Poland, and the United States.
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Minsun Song (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea)
Research: impact of cultural and political climates on the policy-making process and the conflicts and failures that may arise in the policy process. I hope to share my insights and learn from others’ experiences in this regard.
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Agnieszka Włodarska (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Research: hate crimes, toxic masculinity, failure projections in relation to radicalisation.