• The history and politics of Latin America
• The development and transformation of Latin American societies
• Contemporary social problems and phenomena
• The international relations of Latin America and the Caribbean
• Migrations and migration policy in the Americas
• Comparative studies of migration from Europe to the Americas
• Hispanics/Latinos in the United States
• Transculturation in Latin American literature
• Transnational problems
• Nationalism and nation-forming processes
• The transformations of Latin American identity
• Human rights
• The rights of indigenous peoples of Latin America
• Heritage studies

 
Our scholars’ academic interests include:

• Mexico from historical and contemporary perspectives, democratization processes, public security, organized crime;
• language-identity relations, language policies in the U.S. and Latin America, Latin America’s languages;
• hybrid and heterogenic literature created in the areas of merging of two or more languages;
• transnational issues in literature, history reconstruction and the search for identity in ethnic literature;
• national / ethnic / cultural identity;
• transnationalism;
• the immigration policy of the U.S. towards Hispanics/Latinos, American immigration law, the migration of children from Central America to the United States, and the problems of contemporary Cuban refugees;
• the Jewish Diaspora in Latin America;
• North American integration;
• cultural policy and cultural pluralism in Latin America: the rights of indigenous peoples; the political, social, and legal aspects of the protection of Latin America’s cultural heritage; religious diversity and processes of syncretism in past and present-day Latin America.

Conferences of Latin American Studies

• The 6th Kraków Conference of Latin American Studies (online) “Progreso en América Latina (en una realidad post-COVID)”, April 1-2, 2022.
• The 5th Kraków Conference of Latin American Studies “La Violencia en América Latina. Retos y perspectivas para el futuro”, April 5-6, 2019.
• The 4th Kraków Conference of Latin American Studies “Migrations and Diasporas in Contem-porary Latin America”, April 8-9, 2016.
• The 3rd Kraków Conference of Latin American Studies “Los Derechos Humanos en América La-tina. Teoría y Practica” (“Human Rights in Latin America: Theory and Practice”), March 15-16, 2013.
• The 2nd Kraków Conference of Latin American Studies “Social and Ethnic Movements in Latin America”, March 19-20, 2010.
• The 1st Kraków Conference of Latin American Studies “The Experience of Democracy in Latin America”, October 19-20, 2007.

Seminars and Guest Lectures

• “Migraciones forzadas en el siglo XXI: el caso de Venezuel”, January 12, 2023.
• “Mexico – the nation of Mestizos? Identity, nationalism, and cultural pluralism in contempo-rary Mexico”, December 14, 2022.
• “Ethnopolitics in Latin America – pandemic challenges”, December 13, 2022.
• “2021 Elections in Latin America”, December 9, 2021.
• “Problemas Actuales de México: Violencia, Seguridad y Justicia”, November 9, 16, 23, 30, 2021.
• “Interpretations of the Brazilian Society”, a series of lectures delivered by a visiting researcher in cooperation with the Coimbra Group, October 2021.
• “Desconsolidación de la democracia en América Latina”, May 28, 2021.
• “Intervention in the Bay of Pigs: 60 years later”, March 25, 2021.
• “Zonas urbanas y ciudades en America Latina - los retos contemporaneos”, January 25, 2021.
• “The defeat of the Zetas Cartel”, November 25, 2020.
• “Mujeres indígenas como ejemplo de población vulnerable en América Latina”, November 4, 2020.
• “Forced Confessions: Tracking Torture and Mistreatment in Mexico's Accusatorial Criminal Jus-tice System”, June 2, 2020.
• “Países Latinoamericanos en la época de coronavirus”, May 4, 2020.
• “Politics and linguistic heritage in the Americas: assimilation – globalization – revitalization”, December 17, 2019.
• “Brazil on fire. President Bolsonaro's first year in office”, December 10, 2019.
• “The judiciary and the criminal law systems in Latin America: challenges and transformations”, November 5, 2019.
• “Treasures of Mexico” – conference and presentation of manuscripts from Alexander Hum-boldt’s archive and items from the collection Manuscripta americana, from the former Prus-sian State Library in Berlin, kept at the Jagiellonian Library, June 19, 2019.
• “Argentina: from a ‘Melting Pot’ to the new migration policies in Macri Presidency”, April 11, 2019.
• “Faces of dictatorship. Latin America’s authoritarianisms from a comparative perspective”, March 25, 2019.
• “Transnational crimes and their impact on international direct investments in Latin America”, December 3, 2018.
• The 90th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and Mexico, November 26, 2018.
• “Polish emigration to Latin America”, October 22, 2018.
• “Migrations in Americas”, April 25, 2018.
• “Perspectivas y visiones contemporáneas de la violencia de género en América Latina”, March 16, 2018.
• “Desarollo Cubano en la perspectiva de economia mundial”, January 15, 2018.
• “Pentecostalism, Politics, and Religious Equality in Argentina”, April 2017.
• “Cultural Heritage and New Religious Phenomena in the Americas: The Past and the Present”, April 2017.
• “Pensamiento latinoamericano” (“Latin American Thought”), January 16, 2017.
• Meeting with the Ambassador of Mexico to Poland, October 2016.
• “Mexico en el siglo XXI” (“Mexico in the Twenty-First Century”), October 25, 2016.
• Meeting with Jacek Hinz, Former Ambassador of Poland in Caracas (Venezuela), 2016.
• Meeting with the Ambassador of the Republic of Peru in Poland, June 2016.
• “Working with My Own Language: Research and Revitalization of the Nahuatl Language and Culture”, June 9, 2016.
• “Political Crisis in Brazil: Impeachment or Coup d’état?”, May 19, 2016.
• "The Religious Diversification of the Americas: Myths, Traditions, Contemporary Phenomena”, March 18, 2016.
• “Cuba in the Post-Hegemonic World”, December 11, 2015.
• “Student Movements in Mexico, 1968-2015”, October 23, 2015.
• “The Place of Latin America in Contemporary International Relations”, April 28, 2015.
• “Latinos in Krakow”, April 29, 2015.
• “The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: Yesterday and Today”, March 19, 2015.
• “Latin American Literature since the Times of Boom: Regional or Global?”, November 19, 2014.
• “Cuba in the Contemporary World”, October 28, 2014.
• “What’s Going On in Venezuela?”, March 4, 2014.
• “Peligros para la democracia en America Latina” (“Dangers to Democracy in Latin America”), March 27, 2014.
• “The Fuel Revolution in Latin America”, January 16, 2014.
• “Protección del medio ambiente en America Latina – amenazas y soluciones” (“Protection of the Environment in Latin America”), December 12, 2013.
• “America: A Meeting or a Discovery?”, October 14, 2013.

Occasional Events

• “Homenaje al Profesor Karol Derwich”, December 8, 2022.
• The 20th anniversary of the Department of Latin America, March 31, 2022.