Zaproszenie do współtworzenia numeru tematycznego 2/2026 pt. 'Literatura polityczna'

Zaproszenie do współtworzenia numerów 2/2025 i 1/2026 pt. Logos - słowo, rozumność, twórczość'

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to the thematic issues 2/2024 and 1/2025 of Colloquia Litteraria entitled:

Literature and Ego‑Documents.

The thematic editor is Associate Professor (dr hab.), University Professor Dorota Kielak, and, as of January 2025, Associate Professor (dr hab.), University Professor Magdalena Saganiak.

Submission deadline: 30th April 2025.

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to the thematic issue 1/2024 of Colloquia Litteraria entitled:

Literary Comedy. Do Books Still Make Us Laugh?

The guest editor of this issue is Associate Professor (dr hab.), University Professor Paweł Stangret.

Submission deadline: 29th February 2024.

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to the thematic issue 2/2023 of Colloquia Litteraria entitled:

Ecoreadings. Literary Representations of the Natural World.

The guest editors of this issue are Associate Professor (dr hab.) Joanna Zajkowska and Dr. Łukasz Kucharczyk.

Submission deadline: 31st May 2023

The perspective of the new, non‑anthropocentric humanities, grounded in the ethics of solidarity and respect for all forms of life and redefining the human mode of “being‑in‑the‑world”, today inspires reinterpretations of established readings of both contemporary and historical literary works. This is the direction we wish to encourage.

Ecocritical methodology assumes that every — or almost every — text can be read in an ecologically engaged way, as it consciously or implicitly addresses, in some form, the relationship between humans and nature. Ecocriticism, based on relational thinking focused on the mutual interdependence of human and environmental, human and non‑human beings, offers a mode of interpretation that brings to the foreground the issue of the relationship between human beings and their natural environment.

We would like to invite you to publish in this issue of our journal, which will be devoted to broadly understood “ecoreadings” — that is, all interpretations and reinterpretations addressing the coexistence of humans and the natural world, or of humans in the natural world.

We propose considering the following topics present in literature:

• The history of ecocritical research in Poland and worldwide;
• Ecocritical readings of historical and contemporary works;
• “Ecological” metaphors, symbols, images;
• Nature as a sign of memory;
• Nature as a reflection on time and space;
• Animal characters in literature;
• Nature in dystopian and post‑apocalyptic literature;
• Anthropocentrism and biocentrism in literature;
• Nature and posthumanism;
• Flora‑ and fauna‑related topos;
• Nature in children’s literature – taken for granted or newly proposed?

Colloquia Litteraria is a scholarly, peer‑reviewed semiannual journal in literary studies, affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Since 2006, it has been published in thematic issues devoted to various fields of literary scholarship and to interdisciplinary topics. The journal is indexed in: BazHum, CEJSH – The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, IC Journals Master List, and PBN – the Polish Scholarly Bibliography. It has been awarded 20 points on the Polish Ministry of Education and Science list of ranked journals. Thanks to funding from the Ministry (within the “Science Dissemination Activities” module), five special issues containing selected archival articles from Colloquia Litteraria translated into English have been published.

We will be accepting submissions until 31st May 2023. Before that, by 15th April 2023, please send the title of your article along with a short proposal (approx. 1,000 characters).

Information on editorial requirements and additional elements for submitted articles can be found on our website: www.czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl

Please send submissions to: beatabohsulecka@wp.pl

Associate Professor (dr hab.) Joanna Zajkowska, Dr. Łukasz Kucharczyk

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to the thematic issue 1/2023 of Colloquia Litteraria entitled:

Polish–Italian Literary Contacts in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Relazioni letterarie polacco‑italiane (Ottocento e Novecento).

The guest editors of this issue are Associate Professor (dr hab.) Raoul Bruni and Associate Professor (dr hab.) Paweł Stangret.

Submission deadline: 28th February 2023.

The topic may be explored in two main directions: presenting studies focused on the presence of Italian themes in Polish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, or research on Polish motifs in Italian literature of the same period. The editors’ intention is to draw attention to aspects of Polish–Italian relations that have not yet been addressed, making use not only of literary works in the strict sense, but also of historical accounts by writers, correspondence, and journalistic writings.

Many Polish writers of the 19th and 20th centuries were sensitive to the myth of Italy; likewise, there was no shortage of Italian authors who stayed in Poland or showed interest in Polish history and culture. The reception of Italian literature in Poland, as well as of Polish literature in Italy, is also of crucial importance. Both historical‑critical articles and studies in the field of translation will be most welcome.

We suggest considering the following issues present in the literature:

• Italian and Polish Romanticism – literary contacts;
• Italy and its myth in the works of Polish writers of the 19th and 20th centuries;
• The avant‑garde in Italy and Poland – literary influences;
• Polish writers in Italy;
• Italian writers in Poland;
• Italian literature in Poland – reception, translations, and literary canons;
• The fate of the works of Polish writers in Italy – reception and translations;
• Correspondence between Polish and Italian writers;
• Italian topics in Polish literary journals;
• Polish topics in Italian literary journals.

We will be accepting submissions until 28th February 2023. Before that, by 30th December 2022, please send the title of your article along with a short proposal (approx. 1,000 characters).

Articles may be written in Polish, Italian, or English.

Information on editorial requirements and additional elements for submitted articles to Colloquia Litteraria can be found on our website: www.czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl

Please send submissions to: beatabohsulecka@wp.pl

Associate Professor (dr hab.) Raoul Bruni, Associate Professor (dr hab.) Paweł Stangret

Dear Madams and Sirs,
we would like to invite you to contribute to the 1/2022 thematic issue of "Colloquia Litteraria" entitled:

Roads to Neverland. Fantasy literature and the fantastic in literature

Today, fantasy and science fiction are extremely catchy and widely read genres, which are characterized by a certain peculiar divergence in reception. Stanisław Lem describes science fiction (but the same features can also be ascribed to fantasy literature, of course) as a sociocultural genre, whose most important elements are the readers (the silent majority and active groups of amateurs who form the so-called fandom) and the producers of science fiction (authors, reviewers and publishers). The author of Solaris sees the genre as belonging to, as he puts it, "two kingdoms": the upper (mainstream, mainstream literature) and the lower (that is, mass-market, commercial literature). This dual pedigree, combined with the rigid laws of economics, make it impossible to use a proper critical filter which would separate valuable works from trivialized ones. It seems, therefore, that fantasy, especially in today's heavily transmedia age, is a great field for research. We would like to invite you to publish in the issue of our journal, which will be devoted to widely understood fantasy literature.

The managing editors are: dr Łukasz Kucharczyk and lic. Piotr Góral.
Deadline for the submission of texts: June 30, 2022.

We propose to consider the following issues present in literature:
1. history of fantasy literature
2) Contemporary games with the tradition of literature of fantasy
3) Mainstream and fantasy literature
4) Not only Lem and Sapkowski - other, less popular authors of fantasy literature
5. horror and gothicism in fantasy
6 Magical realism
7. fantasy literature and fine arts
8) Fantasy literature and screen adaptations and egranisations
9. fantasy literature and comic books. 10.
10. carnality in fantasy literature
11. religion in fantasy literature
12) literary criticism of fantasy
Utopias, dystopias and allotopias
14) Post-apocalypticism
15. the theory of fantasy literature
"Colloquia Litteraria" is an academic journal, a semi-annual journal of literary studies, associated with the Faculty of Humanities at UKSW. They have been published since 2006 in the form of thematic issues devoted to various fields of literary studies and interdisciplinary issues. They are indexed in: BazHum, CEJSH - The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, IC Journals Master List, PBN - Polish Scientific Bibliography. The periodical received 20 points on the ministerial list of scored journals. Thanks to the subsidy from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (in the framework of the module "Dissemination of Science") five special issues containing archival articles of "CL" translated into English were published.
We are waiting for the texts until June 30, 2022, and earlier, until March 30, 2021, we ask you to send the subject of the article and its formulation (about 1000 characters) in draft form.
Information about the editorial requirements and additional elements for submitted articles to "Colloquia Litteraria" can be found on our website:
www.czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl
Please send submissions to the address of the editorial secretary - the undersigned Dr. Łukasz Kucharczyk:
l.kucharczyk@uksw.edu.pl

phd Lukasz Kucharczyk
lic. Piotr Góral

Dear Colloquia,
we invite you to contribute to the 2/2020 thematic issue of "Colloquia Litteraria" entitled:

Ulysses of Literature

The leading editors are: Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda, PhD and Joanna Zajkowska, PhD.
Deadline for the submission of texts: June 30, 2022.

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, which opened European literature, have had, and continue to have, a huge impact on culture, including literature. Unique among the many characters in these two epics is Odysseus, who has become a figure of the traveler for the literature of later times, and whose peregrinations pose an existential challenge. The richness of Odysseus' personality and the variety of themes that accompanied his struggles became an inspiration for many authors in antiquity and in the centuries that followed. In this perspective, we would like to offer you a reflection on the theme of the voyage across the centuries and eras.
We suggest considering the following issues present in literature:
1. The wanderings of Odysseus in Homer's epic;
2. The reception of the Odysseus theme in the literature of different epochs;
Human life as a wandering, wandering, pilgrimage. 4;
The artist on a journey - notes and reminiscences of travelling artists and writers of old and modern times; 5;
Travellers in literature;
Travel and travel writing in ancient and contemporary literature: itinerary, journey, diary, travel journal, letter, reportage;
The man who travels, the man on a journey. 8;
Peregrinations and pilgrimages, journeys, journeys for knowledge, journeys for pleasure;
Travel as an encounter with the Other: exoticism, cultural and moral differences. 10;
Literary works based on the motif of a journey. 11;
A journey in time and space - fantastic realizations of the motif; 11.

"Colloquia Litteraria" is a scientific periodical, a semi-annual journal of literary studies, associated with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Warsaw. They have been published since 2006 in the form of thematic issues devoted to various fields of literary studies and interdisciplinary issues. They are indexed in: BazHum, CEJSH - The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, IC Journals Master List, PBN - Polish Scientific Bibliography. The periodical received 20 points on the ministerial list of scored journals. Thanks to the subsidy from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (in the framework of the module "Dissemination of Science") five special issues containing archival articles of "CL" translated into English were published.
We are waiting for the texts until June 30, 2022, and earlier, until March 30, 2021, we ask you to send the subject of the article and its formulation (about 1000 characters) in draft form.
Information about the editorial requirements and additional elements for submitted articles to "Colloquia Litteraria" can be found on our website:
www.czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl
Please send submissions to the address of the editorial secretary - Dr. Łukasz Kucharczyk:
l.kucharczyk@uksw.edu.pl

prof. Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda
prof.  Joanna Zajkowska 

Dear Sirs and Madams,

we invite you to contribute to the 2/2021 thematic issue of "Colloquia Litteraria" entitled:

Faith and Creativity - The Legacy of Laski.

Dear Sirs and Madams,

we invite you to contribute to the 1/2021 thematic issue of Colloquia Litteraria entitled:

Literary Anniversaries

Dear Sirs and Madams,

we invite you to contribute to the thematic issue 2/2020 of"Colloquia Litteraria" entitled:

Mediterranean Tradition in Literature

Gentili amici e colleghi,

vi invitiamo a contribuire al numero monografico di «Colloquia litteraria», 2/2021, dedicato al tema:

Fede e creatività: l’eredità di Laski

Gentili amici e colleghi,

vi invitiamo a contribuire al numero monografico di «Colloquia litteraria», 1/2021, dedicato al tema:

L’anniversario letterario

Gentili amici e colleghi,

vi invitiamo a contribuire al numero monografico di «Colloquia litteraria», 2/2020, dedicato al tema:

La tradizione mediterranea nella letteratura

Gentili amici e colleghi,

vi invitiamo a contribuire al numero monografico di «Colloquia litteraria», 2/2020, dedicato al tema:

La tradizione mediterranea nella letteratura

Szanowni Państwo,

zapraszamy do współtworzenia numeru tematycznego 2/2021 „Colloquiów Litterariów” zatytułowanego:

Wiara i twórczość – dziedzictwo Lasek.

Szanowni Państwo,

zapraszamy do współtworzenia numeru tematycznego 3/2020 „Colloquiów Litterarriów” zatytułowanego:

Jubileusze literackie

Szanowni Państwo,

zapraszamy do współtworzenia numeru tematycznego 2/2020 „Colloquiów Litterarriów” zatytułowanego:

Tradycja śródziemnomorska w literaturze

Redakcja „Colloquiów Litterariów” informuje, że dzięki dofinansowaniu z MNiSW (w ramach modułu „Działalność Upowszechniająca Naukę”) w ciągu ostatnich dwóch lat ukazało się pięć specjalnych numerów czasopisma, zawierających archiwalne artykuły z „CL”, przetłumaczone na język angielski.

1. Special Issue – Studies in Literary Theories, red. prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Łukaszuk
2. Special Issue – Studies in Romanticism, red. prof. UKSW dr hab. Ewa Szczeglacka-Pawłowska
3. Special Issue – Studies in Contemporary Literature, red. prof. dr hab. Piotr Mitzner
4. Special Issue – Advances in Cyprian Norwid Studies, red. dr hab. Tomasz Korpysz
5. Special Issue – Studies in Ancient and Old Polish Literature, red. dr Ewangelina Skalińska

Autorem większości tłumaczeń jest dr hab. Grzegorz Moroz (nieliczne wyjątki zaznaczono przy poszczególnych artykułach).

Wszystkie numery specjalne „Colloquiów Litterariów” można odnaleźć w zakładce „Archiwum”.