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Conference Program Committees

  • Member of the Organising Committee: 5th Annual Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference, Gdańsk, Poland, June 13-15, 2023.
  • Member of the Organising Committee: National Conference of Higher Education Researchers, Poznań, Poland, 2014-2017.
  • Member of the Organising Committee: Social Boundaries of work. The varieties of informal work in contemporary societies, Zielona Góra, November 12, 2015.
  • Member of the Organising Committee: The labour of the multitude? The political economy of social creativity, Warsaw, Poland, October 20-22, 2011.
  • Member of the Organising Committee: Perspektywy biopolityki, Warsaw, Poland, March 23-25, 2010.

Selected Conference Presentations

2024

  • Szadkowski, K. Reports from CGHE Project 8: A 10-nation study on higher education and the local and global public good (Poland). CGHE Conference on ‘The public good role of higher education. University College London, Great Britain, March 27, 2024.

2023

  • Krzeski, J. Seidenschnur, T., Szadkowski, K. Trust beyond metrics, European Universities – Critical Futures Conference, University Foundation, Belgium, October 23-24, 2023.
  • Krzeski, J., Szadkowski, K. Academic Robinson and the (im)possibility of solidarity, Solidarity and the university, 5th Annual Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference, Uniwersyt Gdański, Poland, June 13-15, 2023.
  • Panel discussion: The public character of teritiary education. Chair: Lili Yang. Speakers: Aline Courtois, Elisa Brewis, Krystian Szadkowski. Centre for Global Higher Education Annual Conference, University College London, Great Britain, May 22-23, 2023.

2022

  • Krzeski, J., Kulczycki, E., Szadkowski, K., Opening the Black Box of Research Evaluation, ESOCITE/4S Conference, Pueblo Ibero, Mexico, December 7-10, 2022.
  • Krzeski, J., Szadkowski, K., Political ontology – a foundation of critical higher education research. HECU 10/Critical approaches to close up higher education research, Lancaster University, Great Britain, July 4-6, 2022.
  • Krzeski, J., Szadkowski, K., Defining current “crisis” of the university through the prism of political ontology, 4th annual Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden, June 7-9, 2022.

2019

  • Krzeski, J., Szadkowski, K., Three Moments of Critique: Marxist Method in Higher Education Research.Theories and Methods in Higher Education Research. The CHER 32nd Annual Conference. Universitat Kassel, Germany, August 28-30, 2019.
  • Krzeski, J., Szadkowski, K., Rethinking the crisis in, against and beyond the university through Marx’s method of critique. Rethinking crisis, resistance and strategy. Historical Materialism Conference, 2-5 May, Athens, Greece, May 2-5, 2019.
  • Krzeski, J., Szadkowski K., Conflict instead of dialectics: Marxist critical inquiry into higher education. IX International conference critical education, University of Naples Federico II & Accademia di Belle Arti, Italy, June 3-6, 2019.

2018

  • Szadkowski, K., The Public Good and the Common Good in Public Higher Education in Poland. SRHE Annual Conference, The changing shape of higher education: Can excellence and inclusion cohabit?, Celtic Manor, Newport, Great Britain, December 5-7, 2018.
  • Szadkowski, K., Capital – not market. A contribution to the critique of political economy of science and higher education. 15th Annual Historical Materialism Conference. Taking on the Right. SOAS, University College London, Great Britain, November 8-11, 2018.
  • Szadkowski, K., Collegiality and the common as the condition of living autonomy of the university departments in Poland. 31st Annual CHER Conference, Higher School of Economics, Russia, August 30–September 1, 2018.
  • Kwiek, M. Szadkowski, K., Reforms stopped halfway through. Changing autonomy of the Polish universities (2007-2017). 31st Annual CHER Conference, Higher School of Economics, Russia, August 30–September 1, 2018.

2017

  • Szadkowski, K., Beyond Public-Private Dichotomy. Non-dualistic approach to study higher education. SRHE Annual Conference, Higher Education rising to the challenge: Balancing expectations of students, society and stakeholders. Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales, Great Britain, December 6-8, 2017.
  • Szadkowski, K., Political Ontologies of the University: the Public and the Common. The Philosophy of Higher Education Conference – The purpose of the future university, Aarhus University, Denmark, November 6-8, 2017.
  • Szadkowski, K.,The Public and the Common in Higher Education: A Conceptual Approach. 30th Annual Conference of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, August 27-29, 2017.

2016

  • Szadkowski, K.,The University and the task of critique. What can critical higher education stand for? ECER Leading Education: The Distinct Contributions of Educational Research and Researchers, University College Dublin, Ireland, August 22-26, 2016.
  • Szadkowski, K., Czy globalny wyścig o prestiż w nauce rzeczywiście sprzyja rozwojowi nowoczesnych badań? Sześć zagrożeń wynikających z bezkrytycznego odnoszenia się do globalnych rankingów uniwersytetów. Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa, Nowoczesność w badaniach naukowych. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, June 3, 2016.

2015

  • Szadkowski, K., Unearthing the roots of academic acceleration. Subsumption of academic labour under academic publishing capital during higher education reforms in Poland. Power, Acceleration & Metrics in Academic Life, Czeska Akademia Nauk, Czech Republic, December 2-4, 2015.
  • Szadkowski, K., Unpacking the “transnational association of capitals”. Rankings and subsumption of academic labour under academic publishing capital in peripheral Poland. 12th Annual Historical Materialism Conference. The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: States, Strategies, Socialisms. SOAS, University College London, Great Britain, November 5-9, 2015. 
  • Szadkowski, K., Subsumption(s) of Academic Labour under Capital. Towards a Conceptual Framework. Historical Materialism Conference, Rome, Universita Roma Tre, Italy, September 17-19, 2015.

2014

  • Szadkowski, K., Political and economic consequences of the first capitalist transformation of the Polish higher education system (1990-2008). 11th Annual Historical Materialism Conference. How capitalism survives. SOAS, University College London, Great Britain, November 6-9, 2014.

2013

  • Szadkowski, K.,The Long Shadow of Doctoral Candidate’s Status. Case Study Poland, EDUWEL – Final Conference – Scientific Results, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, June 3-5, 2013.

2012

  • Szadkowski, K., Reading Marx in the times of double crisis. Higher education system as a site of production, exploitation and struggle, International Conference, Hegel and Marx on the Global Crisis, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, October 22-23, 2012.
  • Szadkowski, K., Kategorie marksowskie i marksistowskie w analizach szkolnictwa wyższego, Konferencja „Karol Marks i jego czytelnicy”, University of Szczecin, Pobierowo, Poland, September 1-7, 2012.

2011

  • Szadkowski, K., Introduction paper to a panel Politics in the Age Of Immaterial Labour Labour of multitudes? Political economy of social creativity, University of Warsaw, Poland, October 20-22, 2011. 
  • Juskowiak, P., Szadkowski, K., Reclaiming Education in Post- Socialist City. Towards Autonomous University in Zagreb. The European Conference on Educational Research – Urban Education, Berlin, September 14-15, 2011.
  • Szadkowski, K., W stronę Italian Theory. Włoskie odczytania Fragmentu o maszynach z Grundrisse, Konferencja „Karol Marks i jego czytelnicy”, University of Szczecin, Pobierowo, Poland, September 1-7, 2011.
  • Szadkowski, K., Podwójny kryzys i uniwersytet jako instytucja dobra wspólnego, Konferencja naukowa Nowe Otwarcie Uniwersytetu, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, June 17-18, 2011.
  • Szadkowski, K., Farewell to intelligentsia. Crisis, social movements and paradoxes in contemporary Poland. School for Social Imagination – Opening Conference, San Marino, May 20-21, 2011.
  • Szadkowski, K., Structures of Injustice in PhD studies in Europe. Education International 7th Annual Research Network Meeting, Belgium, March 8-9, 2011. 
  • Sowa, J., Szadkowski, K., Eastern European Higher Education – Polish Case Study, For a New Europe: University Struggles Against Austerity. European Meeting of University Movements, Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, Paris, France, February 11-13, 2011.

2010

  • Szadkowski, K., Regaining Education. Conclusions from students’ movements struggles 2007-2010. Case study Occupation Cookbook. International conference Creative Industries and Knowledge Factories: Analysis and Resistance, Wolny Uniwersytet Warszawy, Warsaw, Poland, December 7-9, 2010.