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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.

This year’s edition of the library field game “Obiegówka” has finally come to a close. It enjoyed great popularity among the academic community.

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.

Contrary to the common understanding of a “barbarian” as a primitive and brutal individual, in archaeology the term carries no negative connotations. It was borrowed from Roman historians, who used it to describe peoples living outside the Roman Empire and not speaking Latin.