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While conducting research in the Lviv archive, dr Magdalena Gibiec comes across two unusually labeled folders. Intrigued, she borrows them, not yet knowing that this decision will completely change the course of her research and result in a publication by the prestigious academic publisher Routledge.

On 19 April 2024 (online), under the patronage of the dean of the UWr Faculty of Letters, prof. UWr dr hab. Arkadiusz Lewicki, the eighth edition of the National One Novel Competition took place, this time devoted to the novel ‘War with the Newts’ by Karl Čapek. The event, chaired by dr Marcin Maksymilian Borowski, was organised by the Student Scientific Association of Russicists WroSlawians in cooperation with the Department of Russian Literature and Culture at the UWr Institute of Slavic Studies and the Department of Practical Russian Language Teaching at the UWr Institute of Slavic Studies and the Student Scientific Association Ljudi. The One Novel Competition has been held at the University of Wrocław for eight years and has become one of the hallmarks of the Institute of Slavic Studies.

Dr Sandra Kozieł from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Wrocław was recognised by Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti in the ‘Innovation in Biotechnology’ category during DemoDay organised by Colorado State University. The award was accepted on her behalf by dr hab. Urszula Komarnicka. The award-winning achievement is the subject of a patent currently in preparation between the UWr and Colorado State University, whose authors are: Sandra Kozieł, Urszula Komarnicka, Andrew Bates, Skyler Markham and Debbie C. Crans.

Two days full of music and entertainment in the Osobowice Fields! On 10 and 11 May, Wrocław will become a student arena of unforgettable events. Juwenalia Wrocławskie 2024 will take place in the Osobowicki Fields (ul. Osobowicka 61), and the organisers are the following universities:

An international team of researchers led by prof. UWr Marta Osypińska, under a grant from a consortium of the University of Wrocław and the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the UW, undertook research again last season at a unique site in Egypt, a first- and second-century pet cemetery in Berenike.

We have been in the European Union for 20 years now. To mark the anniversary, many attractive events are taking place all over Poland and abroad throughout the year. Meetings, festivals, exhibitions, competitions, sports competitions, workshops, school plays, conferences, European May Day and open days at projects that have come about as a result of our presence in the EU.

The spring edition of the Tutoring Academy course starts this Saturday, 11 May (there are still places available – you are welcome!). The next edition – the autumn edition – starts on 14 September and will run until 27 October. Registration is ongoing.

‘I dream of Koreans from all over the world meeting in the Aula Leopoldina.’ – says dr Haesung Lee, head of the Korean Studies team at the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies at the University of Wrocław

With this post, we start #mondayswithWUWr. We will keep you informed about the most important book launches, events and promotions, invite you to publications and describe what’s new! Today is the first Monday summary. For more, visit wuwr.eu!

We are familiar with Lycaon from Africa, but around half a million years ago, these predatory mammals also inhabited the territory of present-day Poland. Scientists from the University of Wrocław, who examined the remains of the last Eurasian Lycaon from the Wieluń Jurassic system, refer to it as “Psi Kuba Rozpruwacz” (Canine Jack the Ripper). It was capable of bringing down a very large prey and consuming its flesh whole.