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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.

We are pleased to inform, that dr Aneta Wojnar from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Wrocław, has been awarded the prestigious European grant under the COST Action programme (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).

The University of Wrocław Museum invites you to an author’s meeting between Magda Podsiadły and the sculptor Bomavé Konaté, which will take place on Friday, 30 May 2025, at 6:00 p.m. in the Oratorium Marianum.

What caused the death of Maurycy Mochnacki, a Polish émigré of the post-November Uprising era, who died before the age of thirty? What was his burial like, and what happened to his handwritten legacy? What surprises lie hidden in the autographs of the Mochnacki brothers’ letters? These are just some of the questions to be addressed during a meeting with the authors of a new edition of the family correspondence of Maurycy and Kamil – Professor Mirosław Strzyżewski and dr Agnieszka Markuszewska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń). The event is organised by the Editing Department of the Institute of Polish Studies at the University of Wrocław in cooperation with the Pan Tadeusz Museum, a branch of the Ossoliński National Institute, and will take place on Tuesday, 3 June 2025, at 5:00 p.m.

International team of scientists, including dr hab. Adrian Marciszek, prof. UWr from the Department of Paleozoology, researched the habitat and morphology of Pleistocene leopard Panthera pardus, which in the past lived throughout Europe from the Iberian Peninsula to the Jelenia Góra Valley.

On 17 May, student volunteers involved in organising the scientific conference series Horizon Mars took part in a trip to Białków (Wińsko municipality), home to the Centre for Astronomical Education of the University of Wrocław. A total of 21 participants joined the excursion, which served both as a token of appreciation for their dedication to the conference and an opportunity to explore the wonders of the cosmos together.