Art

Culture and history of art of Europe of the Middle Ages and modern times, especially of Slavic Orthodox and Byzantine World; the history of the culture of the Eastern Church in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, especially the history of icon painting in relation to other centers of orthodox painting

Research on Scandinavian drama and theatrical traditions in Scandinavia, combining insights from theatre, literat

Beckett Research Group in Gdańsk

The Border Studies Research Group at the University of Gdansk is an interdisciplinary group of scholars from fields of linguistics, literary studies and theory, history, performance arts, and sociology who share a common interest in the subject of border studies not only in the field's usual connotation signifying a focus on regional, socio- and geo-political issues but also in the broadest of senses which encompasses but is not limited to literary theory, history and emigration studies, spectrality and liminality, intercultural and transnational studies, performance studies, and more.