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– The winemaking traditions of Lower Silesia date back to the Middle Ages, to the late 12th century. I have been researching and gathering materials on this topic for many years. And I must confess—it wasn’t a passion for wine, but a love of learning and history that inspired this book – said dr hab. Dagmara Adamska, prof. UWr and author of Winogrady i winne wzgórza. Uprawa i produkcja wina na średniowiecznym Śląsku, during a meeting held at the Botanical Garden of the University of Wrocław.
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. […]

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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.

From 19 to 23 May 2025, dr Grzegorz Joachimiak (Institute of Musicology, Department of Historical Musicology and Centre for Digital Musicology) and dr Michał Kuś (Institute of Political Science, Department of Social Communication and Journalism) delivered lectures at the University of Dar es Salaam (DUCE) in Tanzania as part of the Erasmus+ programme.

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.
Are you looking for a place where knowledge meets passion and people are as diverse as the fields of study? You’ve come to the right place—at UWr, you can not only earn degrees, but also discover yourself. – We offer programs in several areas: humanities, law and social sciences, science and technology, natural sciences, philology, […]