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The Humanities at a Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects in the (Post-)COVID-19 World

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The Humanities at a Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects in the (Post-)COVID-19 WorldThe widespread social and political changes at the end of the 20th century influenced and reshaped higher education and, consequently, research in and the position of the humanities at universities around the world. This paper examines the much-debated crisis in the humanities and poses questions on its course in the light of the global COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that the COVID-19 pandemic might be an opportunity for reflections that may lead to changes in higher education that aim to revive humanistic research, which provides people with tools such as critical thinking, which has proved to be crucial in times of crisis, like pandemics. We consider the example of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade, the most prominent place for language, culture and literature research in Serbia, as this is an institution that faces many challenges, primarily a decline in enrolment in certain programmes. Finally, we analyse this Faculty’s strategies to cope with both internal and external problems and to revitalize the interest of prospective students in philological studies.Nauki humanistyczne na rozdrozu – wyzwania i perspektywy w swiecie po pandemii COVID-19Szeroko zakrojone zmiany spoleczne i polityczne pod koniec XX wieku przeksztalcily szkolnictwo wyzsze, a co za tym idzie, badania i pozycje nauk humanistycznych na uniwersytetach na calym swiecie. W niniejszym artykule analizie poddany zostal szeroko dyskutowany kryzys w humanistyce oraz postawiono pytania o jego przebieg w swietle globalnej pandemii COVID-19. Autorka przekonuje, ze pandemia COVID-19 moze byc okazja do refleksji prowadzacej do zmian w szkolnictwie wyzszym, które maja na celu ozywienie badan humanistycznych, dostarczajacych ludziom narzedzi, takich jak krytyczne myslenie, bedace kluczowym w czasach kryzysu (np. pandemii). Analizie poddany zostal przyklad Wydzialu Filologicznego Uniwersytetu w Belgradzie, najwybitniejszego miejsca badan nad jezykiem, kultura i literatura w Serbii. Wybór ten zostal podyktowany faktem, iz jest to instytucja, która stoi przed wieloma wyzwaniami, przede wszystkim zwiazanymi ze spadkiem liczby zapisów na niektóre kierunki. Na koniec analizuje strategie tego Wydzialu w zakresie radzenia sobie zarówno z problemami wewnetrznymi, jak i zewnetrznymi oraz ozywienia zainteresowania przyszlych studentów studiami filologicznymi.

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