Minority Practices. | SCIENCE EXPLAINS THE WORLD. Meetings with FNP Monographs

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Time for another meeting with science! DSH and the Foundation for Polish Science invite you to a discussion as part of the series "SCIENCE EXPLAINS THE WORLD." Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska and Anna Goc will participate in the conversation, which will be moderated by Marcin Musiał. Language is not only a tool for communication but also a carrier of memory and tradition, an element of individual and collective identity, and a medium of culture. Language is also a condition for access to various services, such as healthcare or education. As part of the series "Science Explains the World: Meetings with FNP Monographs at DSH," we decided to examine the titular "minority practices" – linguistic, cultural, and activist – that represent voices outside what is considered the norm. The starting point for the discussion will be the books of two authors who examine the experiences of linguistic minorities from different perspectives: - "𝑁𝑖𝑘𝑡 𝑧𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑜 𝑛𝑖𝑒 𝑧𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑖" by Prof. Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska, a laureate of the FNP Monographs competition (2017) – a portrait of young activists engaged in efforts to support minority languages in Europe. - "𝐺ł𝑢𝑠𝑧𝑎" by Anna Goc, a multi-award-winning report on the Deaf: their language, culture, and daily life; a story about what it means to speak "in your own way." (published by Dowody, 2022). Between research and reportage, between theory and practice: we invite you to reflect on what it means to speak your own language. Join the discussion! Free admission! About the series "SCIENCE EXPLAINS THE WORLD. MEETINGS WITH MONOGRAPHS OF THE FOUNDATION FOR POLISH SCIENCE AT DSH." DSH and the Foundation for Polish Science invite you to a series of meetings aimed at better understanding our complex reality. Each month, authors of the FNP Monographs series, which presents works in the humanities and social sciences, will talk at DSH with guests from the worlds of art, culture, and science. Specialists from different fields will discuss various dimensions of everyday life: from entertainment, interpersonal and social relationships, to issues of identity and memory. We hope that each meeting will be an opportunity to cross boundaries between disciplines and seek new ways of understanding ourselves and the world around us – yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The meetings take place at the DSH headquarters at 20 Karowa Street in Warsaw. FNP Monographs is a prestigious series of original and groundbreaking works in the humanities and social sciences, selected through a competition by the Foundation for Polish Science since 1994. 📅 Schedule of meetings: - 9.04.2025, 6 PM – What is a concert and how is it changing? - 21.05.2025, 6 PM – Difficult (auto)biographies - 25.06.2025, 6 PM – Trauma, identity, microhistories - 11.09.2025, 6 PM – Minority practices - 1.10.2025, 6 PM – Who is the author? (meeting as part of the Festival of Heroines) - 14.10.2025, 6 PM – Fraternal Violence, or the not-so-beautiful interwar period - 5.11.2025, 6 PM – Hopscotch - 10.12.2025, 6 PM – Love in the times of late capitalism