
Wojciech Bedyński
Cultural historian and anthropologist, researcher at the Center for Migration Research, University of Warsaw (from June 2016). A graduate of the University of Warsaw and University of Paris-IV (Sorbonne), former pensionnaire étranger at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (d’Ulm).
In 2011 he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Rzeszów on the basis of a dissertation under the title Magh nEo on Sachsan. An Anglo-Saxon monastery in Ireland which is a monograph of the monastery of Mayo Abbey, present-day County Mayo, from its founding in the second half of the 7th century until the end of the Viking Age (published as a book in Krakow, 2014). He lectured, among others at the University of Warsaw, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Banská Bystrica, the University Rzeszowski and at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. Author of several scientific articles from the scope of the cultural landscape, the history of the British Isles and the history of Polish-Jewish relations; and also editor of two books on cultural landscape.
His scientific interests include: the history of Celtic peoples and countries, the history of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, Polish-Jewish relations, history of Masuria, Warmia and East Prussia, landscape theory, history of migration. He is currently working on a monograph describing social mobility and territorial territory of the inhabitants of Giżycko on the basis of ethnographic research of graduates of all secondary schools from 1976 to 2006. In addition to scientific activities, it is founder and president of the Foundation for Landscape Protection and Promotion of Regions “NUMINOSUM”, under the which he implemented numerous social and cultural projects, incl. Visegrad Landscape Map, Academy Itinerant Musicians, Numinosum Festival (8 editions). Since 2012, he has been running Klub Numinosum (currently Chata Numinosum in Warsaw’s Jazdów) – a grassroots community center associated with the environment of lovers of traditional culture. In his spare time, he travels, plays guitar and tin whistle, walks in the mountains.