Karolina Wigura

Karolina Wigura

a sociologist, historian of ideas, and journalist. She is a member of the Board of Kultura Liberalna Foundation and assistant professor at Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw.

She studied philosophy, sociology, and political science at the University of Warsaw and Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich. She co-directed the Polish Programme at St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, entitled “Knowledge Bridges: Poland—Britain—Europe” from 2016–2018. She was awarded a visiting fellowship at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna and a Marshall Memorial Fellowship. She was a POMP (Programme on Modern Poland) Visiting Fellow at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford and at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. A graduate of the Leadership Academy for Poland.

Sshe has published two books: “Wina narodów. Przebaczenie jako strategia prowadzenia polityki” (“The Guilt of Nations: Forgiveness as a Political Strategy”) and “Wynalazek nowoczesnego serca. Filozoficzne źródła współczesnego myślenia o emocjach” (“The Invention of the Modern Heart: Philosophical Sources of Contemporary Thinking about Emotions”).

She publishes in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Journal of Democracy, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, taz, The Guardian, and many other press outlets.

Karolina Wigura
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