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dr Małgorzata Bakalarz-Duverger

Acting Director
malgorzata.bakalarz-duverger@wok.art.pl
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I joined the team in December 2022 as Deputy Director. I currently work as Acting Director at WOK. My educational background is in art history and sociology, and I received my PhD in Social Sciences from the New School for Social Research in New York. My dissertation focused on collective memory, decentralisation, the meanders of the development of the civil society, and their role in understanding multicultural material heritage in Poland.

Throughout my career, I worked on projects blending education, culture and applied sociology for several institutions, including NGOs, universities and museums and galleries. For the past 15 years, I lived in New York where I worked at the Center for Jewish History as Director of Academic Programmes and as a lecturer at Parsons School of Design, among other places. Regarding my work experience in Poland, I greatly value my time spent at the Centre for Civic Education and the Foundation for Education for Democracy.

I am befriending Warsaw anew after my long-time absence, and I am invariably enthralled by the city’s radical contrasts and architectural co-existence, which keep reminding me that Warsaw is a city-(sensitive) witness. I am still convinced that I will live in the Palace of Culture when I grow up!

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REPORT: Working Conditions of Freelancers in Contemporary and Conceptual Dance
What impact does freelance status have on the lives and career trajectories of contemporary dance artists? How do professionals in conceptual dance organize their work in a "project-to-project" mode?
On the WOK.radar
1 month ago
REPORT: To read or not to read? How to support young adults reading in the midst of a digital revolution
Who should answer this question? There are many people who read and promote reading, and multiple approaches to the problem. At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture (WOK), we have created a platform for sharing cross-sectoral knowledge and reflections on reading, in order to capture the transdisciplinary sense of reading promotion.
On the WOK.radar
1 month ago
Warsaw in Sociological Studies
What do migrants in the capital do for a living? How does housing insecurity affect the lives of Varsovians? Do we feel responsible for the quality of the air in our city? These are just some of the questions we tried to answer during the national scientific conference Warsaw in Sociological Studies. The event, organised by the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Sociological Association was held in late November.
Artistic and Research Projects
1 year ago
Call for applications for the doctoral Municipal Fellowships in 2023/2024 (in Polish only)
The Culture Department of the City of Warsaw, in partnership with the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, are announcing a call for applications for the doctoral Municipal Fellowships Programme. Watch a short video introduction to this year's themes, by Małgorzata Bakalarz-Duverger, our Deputy Director.
Municipal Fellowships 2023/2024
2 years ago
Cultural Education
The study of cultural education in Warsaw is a study of the city itself: its radically changing community; its shifts and uncertainties in the face of global challenges; as well as its local conditions and their impact on the lives of Warsaw’s residents. WOK presents the report Cultural Education in Research and Action, which concludes the second phase of our study on cultural education practices in Warsaw.
Artistic and Research Projects
7 months ago

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