Daniel Przastek doctor habilitated in political science (2018). Researcher for the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw. From September 1st, 2020, he became the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies. He has gotten a scholarship from Polish Cultural Foundation in Buffalo. In his professional work, he deals with the recent history of Poland and the world, cultural policy and the issue of freedom in art. The links between art and politics remain in the circle of his interests, with particular emphasis on the relations between theatre and politics. He is the author of the books Environment of the theatre during martial law (2005) and Cultural policies and freedom of artistic expression in Poland in 1989-2015 (2017). Moreover, he wrote several dozen scientific articles and articles promoting science. He has published in places such as: 'Notatnik Teatralny', 'Opcja', 'Przegląd Powszechny', 'Teatr', 'Nietakt!', 'Rocznik Nauk Politycznych', 'Świat i Polityka', 'Przegląd Europejski', 'Społeczeństwo i Polityka', 'Dzieje Najnowsze', 'Studia Politologiczne', 'Studia BAS', 'e-Politikon'. He collaborated with the Theatre Institute in Warsaw, where in 2007 he prepared the exhibition Teatr stanu wojennego. In 2009, he cooperated with the Institute of National Remembrance as part of the educational and scientific project The Year of Independent Culture. He is the co-founder of the student group 'Teatr i Polityka' with which he created seven theatre performances. At the Polish National Opera, he worked as a playwright with Michał Zadara in the production of Oresteia by Iannis Xenakis and with Krzysztof Pastor he produced the ballet And the rains will pass… to the music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. In 2011 he collaborated, again as a playwright, with Michał Zadara, on the productions of Awantura warszawska at the Warsaw Rising Museum, and also for Prologue by Czesław Miłosz at the Theatre Institute in Warsaw. Then in 2012 for Hotel «Savoy» by Józef Roth at the New Theatre in Łódź, and then again in 2014 at Polish Theatre in Wrocław for Forefathers' Eve Part I, II, IV and Phantom of Adam Mickiewicz, as well as in 2015 for Forefathers' Eve Part III. In the same year, he co-founded Fantazy by Juliusz Słowacki at the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw. In 2015, together with Marta Streker in Wrocław, he prepared Ostatni „LOT” czyli historia »superbohatera« z Polski Ludowej, inspired by the biography of Hieronim Wysocki, "LOT". In 2016, he collaborated yet again with Michał Zadara at the Polish Theatre in Wrocław on Forefathers' Eve Part III and To Friends of Muscovites by Adam Mickiewicz. In the same year, he co-created Euripides' Orestesa with Zachęta - National Gallery of Art. Together, they also adapted The Un-Divine Comedy by Zygmunt Krasiński for the Polish Radio Theatre. In 2018, as a history consultant, he co-created the performance Sprawiedliwość at the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw and Sen srebrny by Juliusz Słowacki at the Studio Theatre in Warsaw. In addition, he also as a playwright co-created the performance at the Musical Theatre in Gdynia titled: Cud, czyli Krakowiaki i Górale by Wojciech Bogusławski. In 2018, he as well worked with the choreographer Krzysztof Pastor on the 2nd piano concert by Fryderyk Chopin, which was a part of the Nasz Chopin ballet evening at the Polish National Opera. He was the co-author of the project of the scientific and artistic laboratory at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw Sześć polskich mów. He is a co-founder of the Association of International Cultural Initiatives. In 2013, as the artistic director, he co-created the first edition of the Eye on Culture Festival – an artistic event presenting art from the countries of the former European Eastern Bloc. In the years 2014 - 2015, he was the program coordinator of the Białołeka Comedy Festival 'Zabafka' as well as the creator and curator of the Impresario Stage of the Białołeka Cultural Centre. Additionally, he is the originator of student premieres at Polski Theatre in Warsaw and the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw. In the years 2014 - 2019 he co-founded the Student Theatre Festival START, and in the years 2016-2019, he was its artistic director.

Jacek Zaleśny
habilitated doctor of legal sciences

Publishes in: «Comparative Law Review» (Scopus), «Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues» (Scopus), «Future Human Image» (Scopus), «WISDOM» (Scopus), «Opcion» (Scopus), «Сравнительное Конституционное Обозрение», «ВЕСТНИК Томского государственного университета», «Kutafin University Law Review», «Право України», «Государство и Право», «Юридическая наука», «Пробелы в российском законодательстве», «Евразийский юридический журнал», «Гуманитарий Юга России», «Przegląd Prawa Konstytucyjnego», «Przegląd Sejmowy». J. Zaleśny (ed.), Constitutional Courts in Post-Soviet States. Between the Model of a State of Law and Its Local Application, PETER LANG 2019.

Scientific grants. From 2019 to today: expert of the research team within the framework of the National Science Center (Poland): Accountability as a category of constitutional law (No. 2018/29/B/HS5/01771).
From 2019 to today: expert of the research team within the framework of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland): Political changes (No. DIALOG 0090/2019).
From 2016 to 2020: the chief of the international research team within the framework of the National Science Center (Poland): Constitutional courts in post-Soviet states: between the model of a state of law and its local application (No. 2016/23/B/HS5/03648).
From 2016 to 2017: expert in the research program Jean Monnet Chair No. 575172 (Erasmus+): Teaching the European Transnational Constitutionalism Inside and Outside the EU.
From 2010 to 2013: expert of the research team within the framework of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland): The constitutional concept of a representative mandate and its contemporary conditions - between theory, law and practice (No. 110 042235).

Editorial committees: member of the Editorial Board «Правова держава» (Ukraine) and «International Science Reviews. Social Sciences series» (Kazakhstan); member of the Editorial Committee: «Przegląd Prawa Konstytucyjnego» (Poland).

Honors: 2019: Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Medal of the 20th anniversary of the Faculty of Law of the Eurasian National University named after L.N. Gumilyov