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On 20–21 November 2025, the third international conference in the series “Transformacje Europy Wschodniej w ostatnim stuleciu” was held in the hospitable setting of the Ossolineum, organised by the Historical Institute at the University of Wrocław. This year’s edition was titled: “1945 – między wojną a pokojem”. During the opening of the conference, conducted by the Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, dr hab. Paweł Klint, prof. UWr, the Director of the Historical Institute, dr hab. Filip Wolański, prof. UWr, and the Director of the Ossoliński National Institute, dr Łukasz Kamiński, the figure of prof. Stanisław Ciesielski (d. 2020) was recalled. He was the founder and first head of the Department of Eastern European History at the Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław, and a renowned scholar of the history of Russia and the USSR.

On 18–19 November, dr Anna Grochowska and mgr Piotr Sobkowiak from the Institute of Geography and Regional Development delivered the training course “Planowanie przestrzenne w gminach”, organised as part of the project „Uniwersytet Wrocławski: Rozwój kadr dla dolnośląskiego rynku pracy” (no. FERS.01.05-IP.08-0451/23), funded under the European Funds for Social Development 2021–2027 programme.

XIII Polish Scientific Conference “Local Ethnic-Religious Communities” took place on the 20th of November in Ostrów Wielkopolski. The event was organised by the Research Centre on Jewish History and Culture from the Southern Greater Poland and the Scientific Society together with the Culture Centre in Ostrów Wielkopolski. It is an effect of more than thirteen years of academic and local government cooperation, which has brought many initiatives and projects. These were accomplished by the Research Centre instituted by the Rector of the University of Wrocław and the President of Ostrów Wielkopolski on the 14th of May 2013.

Wrocławscy geografowie przygotowali szereg wydarzeń, aby uczcić jubileusz 80-lecia Instytutu Geografii i Rozwoju Regionalnego UWr

The Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wrocław, will host a visiting professor under the IDUB programme from 24 to 27 November 2025 – prof. Clovis Salgado Gontijo (Federal University of ABC [UFABC] / Seminário Provincial Sagrado Coração de Jesus, Diamantina, Brazil). During his visit, three events will take place: a public lecture at the Library of the University of Wrocław and two workshops/seminars held on the Faculty of Social Sciences campus at ul. Koszarowa.

The training “Organizacja lekcji terenowych i edukacji regionalnej w edukacji geograficznej” directed to primary and secondary school teachers took place in October. The event took place as a part of the FERS project – “Uniwersytet Wrocławski: Rozwój kadr dla dolnośląskiego rynku pracy”. The project was accomplished thanks to the European Funds for Social Development programme 2021-2027.

In November, the results of the competition for the best doctoral thesis on public procurement law were announced. The winner was dr Katarzyna Śliwiak, an attorney-at-law and graduate of law, economics, and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław. She was recognised for her dissertation entitled Zasada równego traktowania przy kwalifikacji podmiotowej wykonawców w postępowaniu o zamówienie publiczne.

The University Library in Wrocław invites you on 25 November at 2.15 p.m. to conference room no. 3 of the Library of the University of Wrocław (BUWr) for the first lecture in the new series Colloquia Bibliologa Wratislaviensia, dedicated to the history of the early book, manuscripts, writing culture, and libraries. Registration is required.

Preparations are currently underway in the Botanical Garden of the University of Wrocław for the creation of a new tourist attraction and additional research facilities. But what were archaeologists doing on the grounds of the Botanical Garden?

The Historical Institute at the University of Wrocław invites you to the next online meeting in the “Szewski czwartek” series, to be held on 27 November at 6:00 p.m. Dr hab. Krzysztof Fokt from the Centre for Source Publications at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, will deliver a lecture entitled: „Wolni, niewolni, półwolni? O statusie chłopów w monarchii wczesnopiastowskiej”. The language of instruction is Polish.

Are humanities studies nothing more than leafing through old books and journals? At the University of Wrocław, you can quite literally touch history and even taste it.

Archaeological works are being carried out in the Crypt of the Collegiate Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kłodzko as part of its renovation. A few days ago, researchers recovered the remains of Arnau of Pardubice (1297–1364), an eminent clergyman who is believed to have originated from Kłodzko.