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Wolny Uniwersytet Białoruski zaprasza studentów i studentki z Białorusi do udziału w kursach online poświęconych aktywności obywatelskiej i rozwojowi społecznemu.

Polish wine – although not as well-known as its Western European counterparts – has a rich and intriguing history. Its “career” began at the tables of the elite – princes and bishops – in castle halls and monastic refectories. It was served to envoys and high-ranking dignitaries and offered to guests at weddings and betrothals. Wine was considered a prestigious beverage and it was widely believed that those aspiring to join the social elite should partake in it. This elevated status also stemmed from its sacred function – in Catholic liturgy, wine symbolises the blood of Christ.

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The next edition of the Student Scholarship Programme is now underway. The Wrocław Academic Centre is launching two calls for scholarship applications: one for doctoral candidates with outstanding academic achievements in fields important to the development of Wrocław, and another for students who have been granted the right to study at a foreign university.

As part of the IDUB programme Visiting Professors, the University of Wrocław will host Prof. Benjamin Hale, Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. His areas of specialisation include environmental ethics, disaster ethics, public health ethics, public policy and philosophy, as well as social and political philosophy.e się 9 czerwca 2025 roku o godz.13.15-14.45 przy ul. Koszarowej 3 (budynek Instytutu Filozofii i Instytutu Socjologii), sala nr 240.

The University of Wrocław has been ranked 937th globally and 4th among Polish universities in the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) 2025, published on 2 June. Notably, it is the only Polish institution to be ranked in the “Faculty” category, securing 269th place worldwide.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on the Relationship Between Oral and Written Culture invites you to the next event in the series “What I Would Like to Tell You About Oral Tradition.”
Ancient sources refer in various ways to the so-called Peisistratean recension of the Homeric poems. These accounts share the idea that The Iliad and The Odyssey, allegedly already committed to writing, were later fragmented and dispersed, until Peisistratus, the tyrant of Athens in the 6th century BCE, initiated an effort to collect the scattered fragments and commissioned the Athenians to produce a new edition of the text.

The thirteenth International Staff Training Week, organised by the International Office, took place between 19 and 23 May 2025. This year, we had the pleasure of welcoming participants from universities in Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Spain, Vietnam, Ghana, Lithuania, Germany, Scotland and Chile.

With deep sorrow, we inform you that on 24 May 2025, prof. dr hab. Anna Aleksiewicz, a prominent academic of the University of Wrocław, passed away.
Born on 17 July 1936, she was a renowned researcher of 19th-century book history, the author of numerous academic publications, and a respected university teacher for many generations of library scientists.

The Institute of Polish Studies and the Society of Friends of Polish Studies in Wrocław invite you to the final lecture in the 29th edition of “Spotkania w Nehringu” (eng. Meetings at Nehring Hall), a cycle of popular lecture series.

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of the late prof. dr hab Jerzy Jastrzębski, who died on 27 May 2025, born in 1945 in Częstochowa. He was a co-founder and long-standing member of the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication.