Kuligowski, Waldemar

Waldemar Kuligowski is a professor at the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He’s also a head of the Section of Cultural Anthropology. He was conducting fieldworks in Europe, Asia, and North America. His research interests focus on the theory of culture, reflexive ethnography, anthropology of motorway, festivals and festivalization. His essays and articles has been published in many international journals such as “East European Politics and Societies”, “Transfers. Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies”, “Anthropos. International Review of Anthropology and Linguistic” and “Punk & Post-Punk”. Recently, he has been implementing a 3-year research project devoted to music festivals as tools for communicating values and norms. In addition, he is a juror of the competition for the largest music award in Poland "Fryderyk", as well as a supporting member of the Chamber of Commerce for Managers of Polish Artists.

Marcin Poprawski (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the Humak University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki. His academic interests include arts organisations, ethical and ecological dimensions of cultural management, cultural policies, audience engagement, aesthetics, and festivals as organisations. He coordinates COSM (cosm.humak.fi). He is Finnish team’s manager and researcher in the Horizon Europe ‘EKIP’ (European Cultural and Creative Industries Policy Platform) led by Lund University. He is an expert of the Association of Polish Cities and the European Expert Network on Culture (Interarts Barcelona) operating for the European Commission. In the years 2013-2018, he was the vice-president of ENCATC (Brussels). Previously, he worked for over 20 years at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He was also a guest lecturer at European University Viadrina, University of Arts in Helsinki, University of Salento in Lecce, Theater Academy (DAMU) in Prague, ZHAW in Zurich, Academy of Music (JAMU) in Brno, and the Heritage Academy of the International Cultural Center in Cracow. For 17 years he worked as a cultural manager in the private, public, and civic sectors, including 8 years as a music festival director.