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The Institute of Polish Studies at the University of Wrocław, together with the Society of Friends of Wrocław Polish Studies, invites you to the 30th edition of the popular-science lecture series in Polish studies, “Meetings at Nehring Hall”, organised in the 2025/2026 academic year. The series will be opened by a lecture by Prof. Jan Miodek entitled “Język sportu w moim życiu”, which will take place on 5 October.

“Our research shows that more than eight thousand years ago, the area of today’s Gobi Desert had completely different environmental conditions,” said Grzegorz Michalec, a doctoral student at the Doctoral College of Archaeology, Arts and Culture and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Wrocław.

On 13 September, the 28th edition of the Lower Silesian Science Festival, the largest popular science event in the country, will commence.

As part of the IDUB programme (short-term visits), the Faculty of Biological Sciences and the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Wrocław will host two distinguished scholars, who will deliver open lectures on the determinants of human behaviour. The event will take place at the Institute of Psychology, ul. Dawida 1, in room 18/lecture hall.

W ramach programu IDUB (short-term visits), Wydział Nauk Biologicznych Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego będzie gościł prof. Marka Thomasa z Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, który wygłosi wykład otwarty pt. Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe. Wydarzenie odbędzie się 23 września 2025 roku w godzinach 15:00–16:00 w dużej sali przy ul. Sienkiewicza 21 (budynek Muzeum Przyrodniczego UWr).

Must contemporary democracy be dominated by negative emotions? Are we doomed to ever-growing hostility between political opponents and to enthusiastically supporting “our side” at all costs? Or might it be possible to improve the emotional climate within European democracies while preserving citizens’ identities and, at the same time, respecting the worldview diversity essential for public debate? These and other equally compelling questions are being explored by political theorists dr Paweł Nowakowski and dr Mateusz Zieliński.

We spoke with the DFN coordinator at the University of Wrocław, dr Aleksandra Ziober, about this year’s festival theme and the events awaiting participants.

On 11-13 September 2025, the Institute of German Studies will host the 10th jubilee edition of the international scientific conference series ‘Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław’. The theme of the conference is: Quo vadis, germanistische Linguistik? – Aktuelle Fragestellungen und Forschungsfelder. The conference is organised by the Department of Applied Linguistics, the Department of German Language and the Linguistic Research Group of Germanists. The partners of the conference are the Adapa Foundation and the Atut Publishing House.

The Institute of Archaeology at the UWr Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, invites you on Friday, 5 September 2025, to two open lectures as part of the Visiting Professors programme, implemented under the Excellence Initiative – Research University project.

As part of the visiting professors programme implemented under the Initiative of Excellence – Research University project, the Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Wrocław will host Prof. Ben Boyd from Monash University (Australia).

Obesity is a global problem, but in Poland it is an especially important issue for consideration. Hence, Wroclaw Medical University introduces the health campaign raising awareness about obesity, which is supported by the University of Wrocław.

The project “W kierunku stosowalnych nadprzewodzących stopów o wysokiej entropii o wysokich gęstościach prądu krytycznego” (eng. ‘Towards applicable high-entropy superconducting alloys with high critical current densities’) has received support from the National Science Centre. The Miniature grant will go to dr Piotr Sobota, assistant professor at the Department of Nuclear Physics and Dielectrics of the Institute of Experimental Physics of the UWr Faculty of Physics and Astronomy.