Ekologia interdyscyplinarności

The Ecology of Interdisciplinarity

A collective work of the researchers representing various academic disciplines, areas of expertise and fields of science as well as different generations, which aims to present interdisciplinarity as an essential element of research activity. The scholars share their experience and thoughts relating – directly or indirectly – to advantages and disadvantages of interdisciplinary practices.

Keywords: interdisciplinarity in science, interdisciplinary research, ecology of interdisciplinarity.

PhD assoc. prof. Jerzy Axer – is a classical philologist, member of research organizations the world over, President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric in 1999–2001, elected member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU), and the author of more than 500 publications (15 books, as well as multiple editions of source texts, and academic papers).

In 1991, he established the pioneering Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA) at the University of Warsaw – now one of the five main units of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, of which he became the founder and its first Dean (2012–2016). He is also the author of cutting-edge experi¬ments in education, adopted in Poland and abroad. He founded and for many years directed the International School of Humanities (MSH) and the College of Inter-Area Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MISH). His fields of interest include Cicero, Neo-Latin studies, textual criticism, theatre, and the reception of Classical Antiquity, as well as issues from the field of an¬imal studies.

Prof. Axer ecologically chases real and mythical beasts. In 2017, he established Poland’s first study curriculum in Anthropozoology, led jointly by the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” and the Faculties of Biology and Psychology, University of Warsaw. He is also the head of the international PhD study pro¬gramme Nature–Culture that fosters innovative thinking and transdisciplinary cooperation. He represents the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” on the Scholarly Board of the Cluster “The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme”.

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