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From 4 to 6 November 2025 of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław will host Dr Juan García Blesa from the University of Hagen (Germany), who will visit our university under the Visiting Professors IDUB programme. Dr García Blesa is a recognised scholar in the fields of critical theory of international law, legal research methodology, and the relationship between culture and law.

The University of Wrocław, as in the previous year, has been placed in the 1201–1500 band of the world’s best universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026, announced on 9 October 2025. The University’s strongest indicators are Research Environment, in which it ranks 830th globally, and Teaching, where it holds 900th place worldwide.

From 19 to 22 October, the Centre for Research on the Ancient World at the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences will host Professor Julien Faguer from Université Paris Nanterre. The visit, organised at the invitation of dr Dominika Grzesik, is funded under the IDUB project’s “Visiting Professors” programme. Professor Faguer is the author of numerous publications devoted to the epigraphic culture and economy of ancient Greece, and has taken part in and led archaeological missions in Delphi and Delos.

Wydział Nauk o Ziemi i Kształtowania Środowiska Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego zaprasza na trzecią edycję obchodów Dnia Krajobrazu i Dnia Georóżnorodności, które odbędą się 17 października 2025 roku od godziny 10:00 na Kampusie UWr przy ul. Cybulskiego 30–34 we Wrocławiu, a także w Gmachu Głównym Uniwersytetu przy Placu Uniwersyteckim 1 oraz w Centrum Badań Regionów Zimnych UWr. Tegoroczne wydarzenie odbędzie się pod hasłem „SYMBIOZA – Przyroda i Miasto w jednym Krajobrazie!”

The Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures invites to an open lecture by Dr Guillermo Sánchez Ungidos (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), held as part of the IDUB programme. The lecture, entitled Keep it cute, manito: Poetry and cultural identity in Spanish and Latin urban music, will take place on 21 October 2025 (Tuesday) at 17:30 at the Institute of Romance Studies (pl. Nankiera 4, Room 4.8, Wrocław).

The Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures invites you to an open lecture by prof. Aleksandra Nowakowska from Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, held as part of the IDUB – Visiting Professor programme. The lecture, entitled Comment le dialogisme révèle-t-il l’épaisseur du discours ? Outils de l’analyse du discours, will take place on 22 October 2025, from 12:00 to 13:30 at the Institute of Romance Studies (Room 3.2, pl. Biskupa Nankiera 4, Wrocław).

The Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Faculty of Letters at the University of Wrocław warmly invite you to a series of academic lectures delivered by international guests visiting under the University’s IDUB Visiting Professors Programme. The meetings will take place during the international seminar Transcultural and Transnational Perspectives on Children’s and Young Adult Literature (as part of Reading – Experiences – Emotions. Books for Children and Young Adults – Theory and Practice of Reception [X]) and the anniversary celebration of the journal Filoteknos.

The Historical Institute invites you to a lecture by Professor Mary P. Erdmans from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio (USA), entitled A Rebellious Generation: Activism over the Life Course of Return Solidarity Refugees. The lecture will take place on Monday, 20 October, at 12:30 p.m. at the Historical Institute at ul. Szewska 49, Room 322.

The Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Wrocław would like to invite you to a series of scientific lectures as part of the Visiting Professors programme. Distinguished scientists from the Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology, Minho University, Braga, Portugal, will be our guests on October 21st and October 22nd, 2025.

On 3 October 2025, the 20th Polish-Belarusian Academic and Practical Round Table, entitled “Shaping Civil Society in Belarus and the Polish Experience of Transformation,” took place at the Institute of International and Security Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

We asked professor Ewa Marcinkowska from the Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Wrocław – an expert conducting research at the interface of haematology and immunology, focusing on therapies inducing the maturation of blasts in acute myeloid leukaemia – to explain what the immune system is all about and why research into it is so demanding and multifaceted.

As part of the Excellence Initiative – Research University (IDUB) programme, the Faculty of Neophilology will host Professor Catriona Seth from the University of Oxford, a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century literature and culture. During her visit, Professor Seth will deliver two open lectures in English, both held at the Institute of Romance Studies (pl. Nankiera 4).