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On 17 October 2025, the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław will host professor Jon Saklofske from Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada), whose visit is part of the Visiting Professors programme. Professor Saklofske will give a lecture entitled ‘Beyond Ego: Pedagogies of kindness and deterministic responsibilities in university learning.’ The meeting will take place at 11:00 a.m. in Amphitheatre A, in building C of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at ul. Więzienna 8/12.

From 22 to 26 September 2025, Wrocław will host the 67th Scientific Congress of the Polish Chemical Society, organised jointly by Wrocław University of Science and Technology, the University of Wrocław, and Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. This year’s edition takes place under the motto “Building Bridges to New Discoveries”, which refers both to the symbolism of Wrocław’s bridges and to the idea of connecting different fields of chemistry, research environments, universities, fundamental and applied research, as well as fostering relationships between early-career and experienced researchers, and between academia and industry.

As part of the IDUB Visiting Professors programme, the Faculty of Biological Sciences will be hosting Professor Matej Germ from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Professor Germ will be staying at the Department of Ecology, Biogeochemistry and Environmental Protection from 29 September to 3 October 2025. During her visit, she will give an open lecture entitled Macrophytes – an important component in aquatic habitats, which will take place on 2 October 2025 from 10:00 to 11:00 in the lecture hall of the Faculty of Biological Sciences at ul. Kanonia 6/8.

As part of the IDUB Visiting Professors programme, professor Davi Rodrigues from the Federal University of Espírito Santo in Vitória (Brazil) is coming to the University of Wrocław. During his stay, which will last from 25 September to 18 October 2025, prof. Rodrigues will give an open lecture entitled: Tracing the origins of a rare cosmic explosion: the kilonova candidate GRB 230307A. The meeting will take place on 3 October 2025 at 12:15 p.m. in room 422 of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Wrocław. The event is organised by the Institute of Theoretical Physics.

In the year marked by the war happening to the West of our borders, an increase in hybrid threats and a redefinition of the international order, Wrocław will become the Polish centre of debate about security. The 3rd Nationwide Congress of Security Education will be held on October 22-23, 2025, and guarantees to gather the highest-ranking researchers and practitioners, as well as service and administrative representatives, in order to answer the questions about the country’s resilience, successful tactics of deterrence, social and informational security, and the quality of research within this discipline.

The Department of Renaissance and Reformation Art History at the Institute of Art History of the University of Wrocław, is organising, from 22 to 27 September 2025 in Gdańsk, the Polish-German Seminar Wrocław–Halle–Siegen “Religion and Art in Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Confessional Gdańsk in the Early Modern Period”. The participants in this event, prepared in cooperation with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Siegen, will include scholars, doctoral candidates and students of art history, Protestant and Catholic theology and church history from the institutions named above.

The jubilee, 20th Polish-Belarusian Scientific and Practical Round Table, titled “Kształtowanie społeczeństwa obywatelskiego na Białorusi a polskie doświadczenia transformacyjne” (eng. “The Relation between Shaping the Civil Society of Belarus and Polish Experiences with Democratic Transformation”), will take place on Friday, November 3. The event will be held at 9 a.m. at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of International and Security Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences located at ul. Koszarowa 3, room 114. The co-organisers of the event are the Municipal Office of Wrocław and the Free Belarus University Foundation.

As part of the visiting professor programme implemented under the Excellence Initiative – Research University project, the Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Wrocław will host prof. Marta Krasowska from the University of South Australia (Australia). During her visit, the professor will give an open lecture entitled ‘Isolating the interface of an emulsion using X-ray scattering and tensiometry to understand protein-modulated alkylglyceride crystallisation’.

An analysis of two decades of pollen concentration measurements in Poland has shown that climate change is increasingly shaping the timing and duration of tree pollen seasons.

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.

We invite you to read the latest issue of Przegląd Uniwersytecki No. 1 (245) 2025.

“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.