Apolinary Rzońca

Diplomas and certificates:

• certificate – (2025) Skills of Tomorrow: AI, Google, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH);
• diploma – (2024) Postgraduate Management Studies: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Partnership, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH);
• diploma – (2018) Academy of Historical Film, Pilecki Institute;
• diploma – (2017) Polish Diplomatic Service, European Academy of Diplomacy;
• master of arts – (2017) Theatre Studies, The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art.

Participation in grants and individual research projects:

1. Research associate in the project “Monstrous Rivers: Investigating the Environmental History of Modern European Floods through Literary Sources”, Scientific project manager: Associate professor Anna Barcz, funded by the National Science Centre (NCN), project no. 2023/49/B/HS3/04329, 2024–2028.
2. Scientific project manager: “Human and Environmental Consequences of Forced Land Reclamation Works in the General Government (1940–1944)”, 2023–2024, funded by the Jan Karski Institute of War Losses.
3. Scientific project manager: “Polish Modernity and Rivers at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries”, 2022–2023, under the Joseph Conrad Fellowship, Institute De Republica.
4. Scientific project manager: “The Anthropocene in the Works of Joseph Conrad”, 2021–2022, under the Joseph Conrad Fellowship, Institute De Republica.
5. Doctoral Researcher in the project “Digital Humanities: Doctoral Studies at IBL PAN and the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology”, 2018–2023), scientific project manager: Associate professor Marek Troszyński (funded by NCBiR, POWER Programme, European Funds).

In media:

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• Wyborcza.pl: https://wyborcza.pl/0,128956.html?autor=Apolinary+Rzo%C5%84ca
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1. “How Did the Water Crisis Contribute to the Social Catastrophe in Gręboszów at the End of the 19th Century?”, in: Forms of Modernization. Poland in the 19th and 20th Centuries, ed. J. Pyda, August hr. Cieszkowski Foundation, Warsaw, 2025, pp. 279–304.
2. “Enslavement of Natural Space and Modern Hydropolitics, or How Forced Labour in the General Governorate Shaped Aquatic Space”, Contemporary Culture. Theory. Interpretations. Practice, vol. 128, no. 3 (2024), pp. 174–189.
3. “Fluid Images of the Anthropocene on the Example of the Theatrical Adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness at the Z. Hübner Powszechny Theatre”, in: Poland and the Complex of Modernity, eds. J. Pyda, P. Szcześniak, Institute De Republica, 2023, pp. 60–88.
4. “On the Digital Ring of Deep Surveillance. Affective Computing and Deep Learning in the Service of Behavioural Analytics”, in: Social, Ethical and Cultural Aspects of the Use of Artificial Intelligence. The Future of New Technologies, Polish Institute of Economics, 2022, pp. 20–26.
5. “Zooming in on Community (In)Security. Photography in Service to Surveillance Culture on Examples from the 19th and 20th Centuries”, Contemporary Culture. Theory. Interpretations. Practice, vol. 118, no. 2 (2022), pp. 126–139.
6. “River Restoration in the Urban Landscape as a Turning Point in Culture and Hydropolitics: Narrations and Case Studies for the Challenges of the 21st Century”, Public Policy Studies, vol. 10, no. 3 (39), 2023, pp. 61–76.
7. “Is a Mutation of ‘Banopticon’ into ‘Careopticon’ Possible? On the Potential Opportunities to Counteract Precarisation and Exclusion of Migrants and Refugees”, Issues in Literary Genres, vol. 65, no. 1 (2022), pp. 87–102.
8. “Elements of Michel Foucault’s Hermeneutics of the Subject in the Post-War Correspondence of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Jerzy Lisowski”, Issues in Literary Genres, vol. 64, no. 3 (2021), pp. 43–53.
9. “Images of Women and Provocative Symbolic Narratives in the Painting of Edward Dwurnik”, Communism: System–People–Documentation, vol. 10 (2021), pp. 123–136.