Katarzyna Borkowska, PhD
15.05.2020 | 04.06.2025
Assistant Professor
History of Exact Sciences Research UnitRoom: A02Phone: +48 22 65 72 836Office hours: last Friday of the month, 9am–5pmE-mail: kborkowska@ihnpan.plORCID: 0000-0002-3963-1569 |
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Academic interests
- History of science
- Links between arts and sciences
- Ancient philosophy
- Evolution of ideas
Education, academic degrees and titles
- 2022 – PhD, Institute of Classical Philology, University of Warsaw
- 2014 – MA at the Institute of Classical and Slavic Studies, University of Gdańsk
Employment
- since 2022 – Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences – Assistant Professor
- 2019–2022 Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences – Research Assistant
International experience
- 2019 – Vandœuvres – research scholarship for young researchers at the Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’antiquité classique
- 2019 – Vandœuvres – one-month research stay at the Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’antiquité classique
- 2018 – Vandœuvres – one-week research stay at the Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’antiquité classique
Participation in national and international research projects
- “Dzieła Grzegorza z Nyssy”. MNiSW Grant, National Programme for the Development of Humanities, Uniwersalia 2.2 – konkurs 11 (NPRH/U22/SN/507048/2021/11), member of the research team: translation and commentary on source texts as defined by the principal investigator, dr hab. Marta Przyszykowska, PhD, DSc
- “Nie przeocz tego, co na peryferiach: Maria Cunitia i Elias von Löwen a astronomia XVII stulecia”. NCN OPUS-18, member of the research team: work on the source materials as defined by the principal investigator, Prof. Jarosław Włodarczyk.
Membership in scientific councils and editorial boards of journals and publishing series
- Komitet Historii Nauki i Techniki, Editorial Assistant, since 1st January 2020.
- “Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki”, Editorial Assistant, since 1st January 2020
Membership in scientific societies and organizations
- Polskie Towarzystwo Filologiczne, delegat member, since 1st October 2021.
Chapters in edited volumes
- (2022) ‘Translatio, Imitatio, Aemulatio – assimilation of Greek thought in Cicero’s philosophical writings’, in Castelnérac, B., Gili, L., Monteils-Laeng, L. (eds.) Foreign Influences. The Circulation of Knowledge in Antiquity, ISBN: 978-2-503-59895-6.
- (2021) ‘Cicero and Male Virtue’, in Iwicka, R. (ed.) Manifestations of Male Image in the World’s Cultures, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 31–45, ISBN: 978-83-233-5043-9.
Articles
- (2021) ‘Wiersze dedykacyjne w dziełach Urania Propitia (1650) i Selenographia (1647) – analiza porównawcza’, Analecta. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki, 30 (2), pp. 157–195.
- (2021) ‘Filozofia starożytna a medycyna średniowieczna. Refleksje na marginesie książki Beaty Wojciechowskiej <Flebotomia i purgowanie, czyli o leczeniu w wiekach średnich>‘, Medycyna Nowożytna. Studia nad Kulturą Medyczną, 27.
- (2020) Historia medycyny na pograniczu dziedzin. Rozważania na marginesie książki <Medicina, antiqua mediaevalis et moderna. Historia – filozofia – religia>, Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 4, pp. 135–143. DOI: 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.20.032.12865.
- (2018) ‘The unique meaning of Plato’s ἀρετή’, Studies in Greek philosophy: Ethics, politics and the origins of philosophy on Rhodes, Athens: Ionia Publications, pp. 74–78.
Other
Conferences
- 2021 – Lubawa – International Conference Kopernik na Ziemi Lubawskiej (paper title: Hypatia z Aleksandrii); conference organised by the Nicolaus Copernicus Fondation, Institute for the History of Science, Lubawa City Council.
- 2021 – Poznań – CIX General Assembly of the Polish Philological Society Gatunki literatury antycznej. Tradycja, recepcja i współczesna refleksja literaturoznawcza (paper title: Dialog platoński a dialog cyceroński); conference organised by the Polish Philological Society, AMU Institute of Classical Philology.
- 2020 – Lubawa – International Conference Kopernik na Ziemi Lubawskiej (paper title: Lekarz potrzebny od zaraz – studia medyczne i praktyka lekarska Mikołaja Kopernika); conference organised by the Nicolaus Copernicus Fondation, Institute for the History of Science, Lubawa City Council.
- 2019 – Międzygórze – II Studenckie Spotkania Filozoficzne Powtórka (paper title: Wartość powrotów do źródeł: O tym, jak holistyczny ogląd rzeczywistości prezentowany przez greckich filozofów wpłynął na rozwój teorii fizyki kwantowej); conference organised by the Count August Cieszkowski Foundation and “Kronos” Quaterly.
- 2018 – Montreal – Foreign influences: Philosophy and circulation of knowledge in antiquity (paper title: Translatio, imitatio, aemulatio: Assimilation of Greek thought in Cicero’s philosophical writings).
- 2017 – Rhodes – 29th International Conference of Philosophy (paper title: The unique meaning of Plato’s ἀρετή); conference organised by the International Association for Greek Philosophy (IGAP).
- 2016 – Kraków – II Philosophical Conference Od mniemań do wiedzy (?) organised by the Pedagocical University of Krakow, (Scio me nihil scire – czy poszukiwanie prawdy jest skazane na porażkę).