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EuroBorderWalks team take part in the Polish Congress of Sociology
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Four members of the EuroBorderWalks project research team took part in the Polish Sociology Congress in Bialystok 15-19th September 2025.
Prof. Maggie O'Neill spoke in a plenary Borders next to us and borders within us: towards a new sociology of borderlands chaired by Prof. Katarzyna Waniek and co-organised with Prof. Agnieszka Golczy艅ska-Grondas and Prof. Ma艂gorzata Bie艅kowska. Other speakers included Prof. Dorte Jagetic Andersen (Denmark), Prof. Jussi P. Laine (Finland) Prof. El偶bieta Opi艂owska (Wroclaw), and Dr Marta Pietrusi艅ska (Warsaw). Postdoctoral researcher Dr Aleksandra (Ola) Sobanska shared some research findings from her EuroBorderWalks interviews on the Polish Ukraine border at the conference.
Prof. Maggie O鈥橬eill spoke in a plenary on The Role of Sociology in the Contemporary World, alongside Prof. Kaja Gadowska, Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian 深夜亚洲福利久久, Poland, President of European Sociological Association, Prof. Geoffrey Pleyers, Universit茅 Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, President of International Sociological Association and Prof. Judit Tak谩cs, research professor at ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary.
Graphic artist Dorota Kostowska created a wonderful graphic narrative of the discussion (below).
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