The 1st Symposium of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School was held at the European Centre for Geological Education in Chęciny on 27-28 May 2023. The purpose of the trip was to hold an Interdisciplinary and Cross-disciplinary Conference of MSD doctoral students of all years, willing to present lectures or reports related to the topics of their dissertations. The symposium, initiated by the doctoral students, turned out to be an ideal complement to the interdisciplinary ‘integrative’ MSD seminar, which is implemented by year of study.
The sessions were attended by doctoral students of all years, the Director of MSD, Prof. Paweł Stępień, the Deputy Director of MSD, Dr. Karol Samsel, and Prof. Paweł Golik, representing the School Council. The Symposium itself took a hybrid form, with some of the doctoral students presenting their speeches via videoconference.
The programme of the symposium included individual speeches by participants, papers introducing the principles of the interdisciplinary workshop of a doctoral student, as well as thematic panels defining the directions of the School’s development, the mission of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, and the current needs of its doctoral students.
We would like to thank all those present for their participation, and invite everyone to future editions of the MSD Symposium.
Programme of the 1st MSD Symposium
Saturday
- Nilabh Kumar, Interdisciplinarity in my PhD project: Dialogue between disciplines, application of two disciplinary methods to solve a problem, or Dilettantism
- Natan Waśniowski, Western axiological standard of competition, intellectual property law and the Chinese axiological system – incompatibility illustrating the current dilemmas of data law and intellectual property law
- Rishabh Prakash Sharma – Physics of micro-scale cave formation in dissolving rocks
- Kacper Żochowski, Papyrus – from ancient writing to modern reading or how many scholars does it take to read a letter from 2,000 years ago
- Jan Kołodziejczyk, Complex systems in the world around us
- Emil Chról, Perceptions of Ukrainian culture among Poles in the context of the conflict in Ukraine
- Rafał Bieryło, Uncommon view on common things: nation-building tools in Central Europe – XIX century lessons for today
- Yasser Salimi Namin, The revision of the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam: can it help bring Islamic law into line with the Western vision of human rights?
Sunday
- Anna Grochowska – Exploring the links between the quality of early mother-infant interactions and later child development. What matters?
- Agata Bebel-Nowak, Archeobotanical research conducted in Sudan, Iraq and Egypt – problems and challenges
- Mateusz Fortunka – Pheromones – have we discovered the elixir of love?
Pannels:
- Karol Popow – On self-governity within the MSD structures
- Konrad Zieliński, Ada Tymińska – Grant scholarships – problems and challenges
- Krzysztof Worek – Requirements for PHD dissertations – legal and factual aspects
- Karol Samsel – Contemporary philosophy of science facing challenges of the interdisciplinarity
Gallery of the 1st MSD Symposium
