dr Wojciech Bedyński
2017-2023
He graduated from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw and Univestite Paris-IV (Sorbonne). As a recipient of the scholarship of the French government he studied at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris (EPHE) and was a fellow of the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS). He also studied at Durham University in the UK.
For many years he conducted ethnographical field research on the memory of common live in the multicultural society of pre-war Galician shtetls. He has done several research fieldworks in Poland, Ukraine and Israel. Over the next few years, his research activity focused on cultural landscape of the Central and Eastern Europe (as the leader of the “Landscape as a factor in creating identity” project, 2011-2013).
He is interested in issues of identity, memory, landscape, sacral space, culture of the Celtic countries, history of Europe.
He is an enthusiast of travel, hill walking, diving and traditional music.
Selected publications
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Wojciech Bedyński,
Jana Pecníková,
Petra Strnádová,
Karel Čada,
Ágnes Erőss,
Katalin Kovály,
The impact of Brexit on migration from the v4 countries to the UK: migrant strategies. Report from qualitative research 2019-2023.
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Wojciech Bedyński,
Holy wells and trees in Poland as an element of local and national identity
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Wojciech Bedyński,
Liminality of the Cultural Landscape
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Wojciech Bedyński,
István Povedák,
Landscape as a factor in creating identity
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Wojciech Bedyński,
Magh nEo na Sachsan. Anglosaski klasztor w Irlandii
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Wojciech Bedyński,
The motif of human head in Celtic art and literature
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Wojciech Bedyński,
Podkarpathian Shtetl
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Wojciech Bedyński,
Remigiusz Mazur-Hanaj,
The Tree, the well and the Stone. Sacred Places in the Cultural Space of Central-Eastern Europe
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Wojciech Bedyński,
The Region of Podkarpacie as Melting-pot of Cultures and Religions
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Wojciech Bedyński,
The Christianization of Northumbria and Saints Wilfrid and Cuthbert