Trans-action! Seminar as an event in the light of transactional analysis

This paper is a result of analyzing the academic phenomenon of research seminar in order to find elements of its structure (a set of invariable traits). Especially the historical origins of academic seminar and its institutional background were the essential subject of conducted considerations, as a result of which the specificity of seminar as such was shown and examined with the help of ter-minology taken from Transactional Analysis. The paper in its primary goal reveals how the root elements of the seminar become the subject of games (within the meaning of TA), but names a few seminar games and discuss the issue of the very seminar description boundaries.