Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

The Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IS PAN) has been operating since 1954. It conducts research in two scientific disciplines: linguistics and cultural and religious studies. The Institute’s activities and research program focus on areas of key importance for the development of social awareness and the preservation of national culture, both material and spiritual.


Areas
linguistics, cultural studies, literary studies, history, ethnology

Researchers in the field. Dialectological research was conducted in the vicinity of Hajnówka during a trip organized by the Slavic Foundation for students of philology from the Belarusian State University in Minsk.

The Institute’s organizational structure comprises four departments: Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies, History, and Ethnic Studies. The departments conduct research in the following areas: documentary and historical humanities, cultural heritage and national and regional identities of Slavs, sociolinguistic and ethnolinguistic research, linguistic and cultural contacts and borderlands, synchronic Slavic linguistics, corpus linguistics, and digital Slavic studies.

Field research conducted in the 1950s. The photo shows an employee of the Institute of Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and an informant from Kashubia.

The unit has the Zdzisław Stieber Library, which has the richest Slavic studies collection in Poland, and a publishing house that publishes eight prestigious scientific journals and scientific monographs in open access.

IS PAN is authorized to award doctoral degrees in linguistics and cultural and religious studies, as well as postdoctoral degrees in linguistics. In the ranking of scientific units, the Institute has category A (linguistics) and the highest category A+ (cultural and religious studies). In 2017, it joined the elite group of scientific institutes authorized to use the HR Excellence in Research label.