International Conference - Warsaw, September 2002
KORCZAK: A NEW
ANTHROPOLOGY OF EDUCATION
Varsovie - 19 au 21 septembre 2002
(Project of the conference program - English language)

DAY I (Thursday, September 19)

Morning
plenary session (Warsaw University).

• Maria Janion (Poland): Utopia and tragedy of Korczak.
• Henryk Cwi-Rozen (Israel): Korczak’s philosophy of human.
• Scott Hartblay (USA): Triumph and tragedy of Janusz Korczak: a lesson in humanity and inhumanity.
• Piotr Matywiecki (Poland): How Henryk Goldszmit raised Janusz Korczak.

Afternoon
thematic sections.

SECTION I: (Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw University)
Opposition: nature - culture in human philosophy and upbringing. Where does evil come from? Culture as a source of value – culture as a violence.

• Anna Sobolewska (Poland): Freedom in Korczak’s pedagogy – Phenomenon of nature or culture?
• Wojciech Eichelberger (Poland): Unification of nature and culture – Is it possible?
• Theo Cappon (Holland): Violence today.
• Sigrid Tschoepe-Scheffler (Germany): Child social world between coercion and freedom.
• Kazimierz Krzysztofek (Poland): Child in the world of media and cultural industry.
• Teresa Walas (Poland): Korczak and brother Albert. Two versions of modernist biography.
• Irena Wojnar (Poland): Korczak and culture of peace.
• Sven Hartman (Sweden): Modernity in a post modern society. On reading Korczak in Sweden.

SECTION II: (Literature Research Institute, Staszic’s Palace)
Discovery of a “child’s world”. Pictures of a child and childhood; child’s social world; pedagogic ideas and myths.

• Monika Czerepaniak-Walczak (Poland): Child’s rRights – Isonomy traps.
• Michael Langhanky (Germany): Ethnography of childhood.
• Barbara Smoli�ska-Theiss (Poland): Childhood discoverers and researchers – Locke, Rousseau, Korczak.
• Friedhelm Beiner (Germany): Psychological regression as a “path” to children’s experience.
• Eugenia Prokop-Janiec (Poland): Differences and diversity in the world of Korczak’s children’s heroes.
• Marc Silverman (Israel): Korczak’s anti-theoretical theory of education. Preliminary reflection.
• Adam Fr_czek (Poland): Socializing and child’s abilities to deal with conflicts.

DAY II (Friday, September 20)

Morning
plenary sessions (Jewish Historical Institute).

• Zygmunt Bauman (United Kingdom): Child without borders in the world without borders.
• Michael Kirchner (Germany): Janusz Korczak and the child as “Text of hieroglyphs”.
• Boguslaw _liwerski (Poland): Upbringing crisis in pedagogical reflection of Korczak.

Afternoon
thematic sections (Jewish Historical Institute).

SECTION III
A Child (Human) in Regard to Existence and Transcendence; Korczak’s Philosophy.

• Krystyna Ablewicz (Poland): Child philosophy by Korczak.
• Alicja Kotusiewicz (Poland): Korczak’s ethical idea.
• Grzegorz Leszczy�ski (Poland): Child in regard to the mystery of life.
• Priest Stanis_aw Musia_, SJ (Poland): Child in the countenance of death.
• Joanna Papuzi�ska (Poland): About forgiveness with Korczak.
• Priest Jan Niewôg_owski (Poland): Upbringing and prayer.
• Monika Kami�ska (Germany): Attempt of recognizing Korczak’s pedagogy in the light of Levinas’ philosophy.
• Joram Beker (Israel): Philosophical background of Korczak’s idea.

SECTION IV
Korczak in the upbringing practice and education.

• Krystyna Starczewska (Poland): Korczak’s ideas in experience of a School on Bednarska street.
• Batia Gilad (Israel), Robert Szuchta (Poland), Wies_awa M_ynarczyk (Poland): Teaching about Holocaust in polish and israeli schools.
• Muhhammad Hourani (Israel): Rising Arab children according to Korczak way.
• Krystyna Pankowska (Poland), Christa Hoffmann (Germany): Drama – an instrument of raising (double-voice).

DAY III (Saturday, September 21)

Afternoon
plenary sessions (Polish Culture Institute, Warsaw University).

Conference Conclusion

• Marta Ciesielska (Poland): Korczak in Poland – Popularization and research areas.
• Beniamin Anolik (Israel): Korczak in Israel.