During this seminar Izabela Wagner, Associate Professor at Collegium Civitas cooperative university in Warsaw, will present her biography of the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman.
About Izabela Wagner:
Izabela Wagner (Ph.D. with habilitation) is an associate professor at the Institute of Sociology, at Collegium Civitas cooperative university in Warsaw (Poland) and a fellow at the Institute Convergence Migration in Paris, as well as associate researcher at Sophiapol - University Paris X.
In 1996, Wagner enrolled in the sociology doctoral program jointly offered by the Ecole Normale Superieur, the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), and University of Paris 8.
In 2006 she defended at EHESS her PhD thesis (on ethnography of music virtuoso world) and pursued her study of creative careers in the context of international elite circles. From 2003 to 2016 Wagner conducted ethnographic research focusing on academic careers (mainly life-science specialists). Since 2016 Wagner has also been investigating the refugee phenomenon (work in progress). In 2010-2011 Wagner was a post-doc in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University and in 2016 she was the visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research in NYC. In fall 2021, she was the fellow at European University Institute in Florence at the Department of the History and Civilization. Wagner was a visiting professor: at the Fudan University in Shanghai (China) in 2010, Minho University (Portugal) in 2013 and 2014; Cagliari University (Italy) in 2015, EHESS in Paris in 2017, in 2020 - at Sapienza (Italy) in the department of Social Psychology and in 2021 at the University Paris X.
Wagner is the author of “Producing Excellence. Making of a Virtuoso” (Rutgers UP, 2015) and “Becoming Transnational Professional. Kariery i mobilność polskich elit naukowych.” (Scholar, 2011). She has also written several articles about the work conditions, the construction of careers and international mobility of creative professionals. In 2020 Wagner published the first comprehensive biography of Zygmunt Bauman - “Bauman: a Biography” (Polity, 2020).
Her books are translated into Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Korean and Spanish.