June Conference

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 8th International Conference, devoted to an interdisciplinary reflection on human functioning in its cognitive, perceptual, and educational dimensions in the context of the ongoing transformation towards the era of artificial intelligence (AI). The conference constitutes the latest instalment in a series of academic meetings organized by the Polish University Abroad in London.

The point of departure for this year’s edition is Guy Debord’s thesis on the society of the spectacle, in which the direct relationship between human beings and the world is replaced by images, representations, and mediated forms of experience. Successive generations of media, understood as both tools and matrices of vision, produce a distance between the subject and reality. The world increasingly appears as an image, an interface, or a model, while contemporary technologies not only reproduce reality but also process, select, and simulate it.

Of particular significance today are the so-called “vision machines”, which offer vision without seeing – automated forms of perception that precede human observation and interpretation. In the age of AI, images generated by artificial intelligence systems are not merely reflections of reality; rather, they are often the result of statistical averaging of patterns encoded in databases. This process is accompanied by opaque data flows, which have become a crucial element of contemporary transmission and communication.

In this context, we would like to invite you to join us in a shared reflection on the transformations of perception, cognition, education, and communication in a world shaped by images, algorithms, and artificial intelligence technologies.

The conference is international in scope and remains open to diverse research perspectives. We welcome proposals for theoretical, empirical, methodological, and practice-based presentations. We also warmly encourage early-career researchers at the beginning of their academic journey to participate.

The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, so we encourage submissions of presentations from a range of disciplines. The topics include:

• the society of the spectacle, media, and transformations of communication
• perception, cognitive processes, and machine vision in digital environments
• education and learning in the age of artificial intelligence
• language education and glottodidactics in digital contexts
• media psychology, as well as the psychology of cognitive processes and learning
• human–technology communication and human–AI interaction
• digital narratives, storytelling, and immersive environments (VR/AR)
• adane, transmisja i algorytmiczne modele rzeczywistości
• information and knowledge management in digital environments
• conditions and determinants of digital transformation in social, cultural, artistic, and historical contexts
• the ethics of artificial intelligence and the social consequences of technological development
• interdisciplinary methodologies for researching the human being, communication, and technology

The above list is open-ended – we encourage the search for new, original perspectives.

• Prof. Włodzimierz Mier-Jędrzejewicz, (Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom) – Chair
• dr. n. o zdr. Grażyna Czubińska, prof PUNOPolish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom – Wiceprzewodnicząca
• Dorota Hrycak-Krzyżanowska, PhD, (Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom) – Deputy Chair

Academic Commitee Members

• Prof. Alessandra Montali, PhD (Conservatory of Music Giacomo Puccini, La Spezia, Włochy)
• Prof. Edyta Pałuszyńska, (Iniversity of Łódź, Poland)
• Prof. Jan Fellerer (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
• Helena Elias, PhD (University of Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon, Portugal)
• Prof. Sławomir Nasuto (Reading University, Reading, United Kingdom)
• Prof. John Mugubi (Kenyatta University, Kenyatta, Kenya)
• Prof. Karina Banaszkiewicz (University of Silesia, Poland)
• Prof. Odete Palaré, PhD (University of Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon, Portugal)
• Paweł Powroźnik, PhD (University of Lublin, Poland)
• Prof. inż. Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska, (University of Lublin, Pland)
• Prof. Aleksandra Łukaszewicz (Polish University Abroad, United Kingdom)
• Prof. Jolanta Chwastyk-Kowalczyk (Polish University Abroad, United Kingdom)
• Agnieszka Szajner, PhD (Polish University Abroad, United Kingdom)
• prof. Paweł Duber, (Polish University Abroad, United Kingdom)
• Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha, PhD (Polish University Abroad, United Kingdom)
• Marta Głowacka , PhD (Polish University Abroad, United Kingdom)
• Przemysław Ciszek, PhD (Polish University Abroad, United Kingdom)
• Pavlina Částková, PhD (Palacky Univeristy Olomouc, Czech Republic)
• prof. Jiri Dostal, (Palacky Univeristy Olomouc, Czech Republic)
• prof. Tomáš Čech, (Palacky Univeristy Olomouc, Czech Republic)
• Michael Sedlacek, PhD (Palacky Univeristy Olomouc, Czech Republic)

• prof. Prof. Grażyna Czubińska, Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom – Chair
• Małgorzata Witkowska, M.A. ,Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom – Deputy Chair
• Michał Przygoda, M.A., Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom– Deputy Chair
• Dorota Hrycak-Krzyżanowska, PhD, (Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom) – Deputy Chair

Organising Committee Members

• Danuta Włoch, M.A., Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom
• Arleta Orwat, M.A., Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom
• Magdalena Jaworska, M.A., Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom
• Anna Paprzycka, M.A., Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom
• Andrea Hasselbusch, M.A., Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom
• Adrian Ligęza, , M.A., Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom
• Leszek Kulaszewicz, M.A., Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom
• Jakub Wiśniewski, M.A., Polish University Abroad, London, United Kingdom

Administration office

e-mail: june.conference@puno.ac.uk

• Polish
• English

• Online

• Presentation (up to 12 min)

It is anticipated that the conference proceedings will be published in a reviewed academic monograph by the London-based academic publishing house PUNO Press (included in the Polish list of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, LEVEL I – 80 points)

Publication fee: £40

Participants interested in publishing their chapter are kindly requested to indicate this in the registration form.

• Registration form
• Call for papers

e-mail: june.conference@puno.ac.uk

• The international scientific project – as part HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE. No 101086391, Title: Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment (CAPHE). Consortium: Jagiellonian University in Krakow, (UJ) Poland, Polskie Towarzystwo Estetyczne, (PTE) Poland, Miastopracownia (MP) – Poland, Narratologies P.C (NR) – Greece, Conservatorio G. Puccini, La Spezia (CP) – Italy, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (FBAUL) – Portugal, Opera Network (ON) – Italy, Kenyatta University (KU) – Kenia, The Polish University Abroad in London, (PUNO) – United Kingdom 

• Grant offer: Research Grant, Other JeS Guarantee Calls. Grant Title: Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment (CAPHE). No EP/X038572//. UKRI Funding, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
• The Brzezie Lanckoronski Foundation
• Polskie Stowarzyszenie Sztucznej Intelgiencji

Partners in projects

• Conservatorio G. Puccini, La Spezia, (CP) Italy
• Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, (FBAUL) Portugal
• Jagiellonian University in Krakow, (UJ) Poland
• Kenyatta University, (KU) Kenia,
• Miastopracownia, (MP) Poland
• Narratologies P.C., (NR) Greece
• Opera Network, (ON) Italy
• Palacký University Olomouc, (UPO) Czech Republic
• Polish University Abroad in London, (PUNO) United Kingdom
• Polskie Towarzystwo Estetyczne, (PTE) Poland
• Pwani University, (PU) Kenya
• University of Silesia (US) Poland
• University of Szczecin (USz), Poland
• National and Kapodistrian, University of Athens (NKUA) Grece