JAN KAJFOSZ
2010 – obtained a PhD habilitation degree (in humanities) in Ethnology at the Faculty of History of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
2001 ‒ obtained a PhD degree (in humanities) at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ostrava.
1995 – obtained MA degrees in Polish Studies and German Studies at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ostrava.
Professional appointments
2019 – present: Associate Professor at the Institute of Culture Studies of The University of Silesia
2011–2017 – Head of the Department of Theory and History of Culture of the University Silesia
2001–2019 – Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Silesia
Research interests
cognitive anthropology, social constructivism, magical thinking, pre-modern and contemporary folklore, discourse analysis and rhetorics of media messages.
Membership in organisations/associations
Polish Ethnological Society (PTL)
Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA).
Projects
Monograph translation: Magia w potocznej narracji (Magic in popular narratives). Katowice 2009. National Programme for the Development of Humanities: grant no. 21H 17 0246 85, execution period: 2018‒2021.
Major publications
Kajfosz J. (2022). From Memory Conflicts to the Demarcation of Cultural Memory. Teschen Silesia One Hundred Years After Division. Prace Etnograficzne no. 50, pp. 101‒115.
Kajfosz J. ( 2021). Magic in Popular Narratives. Berlin, p. 216.
Kajfosz, J. (2020). Między traumą a reifikacją, czyli o estetyzacji reprezentacji przeszłości i schematach pamięci społecznej. Sprawy Narodowościowe, no. 52, pp. 1‒14.
Kajfosz J. (2020). Obraz muzułmańskiego uchodźcy w komunikacji potocznej a kwestia bliźniego. Rocznik Teologiczny, no. 3, pp. 1077‒1096.
Kajfosz J. (2019). Neoliberalism, the Rise of New Media Folklore and the Emergence of New Nationalisms. Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, no. 2, pp. 27‒47.
Kajfosz J. (2018). Presupozycje w analizie potocznych dyskursów pamięciowych. In W. Czachur (Ed.) Pamięć w ujęciu lingwistycznym. Zagadnienia teoretyczne i metodyczne. Warszawa, pp. 118‒137.
Kajfosz J. (2016). Mitologie Rolanda Barthes’a a antropologia kognitywna. In A. Grzegorczyk, A. Kaczmarek, K. Machtyl (Eds.) Imperium Rolanda Barthes’a. Poznań, pp. 95‒106.
Kajfosz J. (2015). Obraz przeszłości w percepcji magiczno-mitycznej, czyli pamięć w działaniu. Politeja, no. 35, pp. 27‒40.
Kajfosz J. (2013). Faktoid i mistyfikacja w nowych mediach, czyli o strategiach czarowania umysłu In P. Grochowski (Ed.) Netlor. Wiedza cyfrowych tubylców. Toruń, pp. 65‒90.
Kajfosz J. (2012). Miejsce folkloru w konstruowaniu współczesnego świata. Kultura Popularna, no. 3, pp. 44‒60.
Collaboration with other academic institutions/centres
From 2013, collaborated with the Department of Sociology of the University of Ostrava (the Czech Republic), which involved giving lectures in social and cultural anthropology, the methodology of qualitative research, and the theory of collective identities.
In 2008, gave lectures in Folklore Studies at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań for the duration of one term.
In 2011, was a guest lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague by invitation of the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication.
Is a member of the Executive Academic Board of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ostrava. Is a member of the Executive Academic Board of the Doctoral Studium of Comparative Polish and Slavonic Studies of the same department.
Member of the Programme Board of Książnica Cieszyńska (the Cieszyn Library).