In search of new interdisciplinary projects
The Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. Robert Olkiewicz, on February 8th, 2024, met with prof. Benjamin Bricker, from Southern Illinois University, which collaborates with UWr scholars. prof. Bricker represented the Dean’s Authority of the College of Liberal Arts, and was hosted by us at the invitation of the Institute of Philosophy and Centrum Cassirera (Cassirer Centre).
The meeting at the rector’s office was attended by representatives of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Dean prof. Robert Alberski, Vice-Dean prof. Magdalena Ratajczak and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, prof. Bartłomiej Krzan. The authorities of the Institute of Philosophy were represented by dr hab. Ilona Błocian, prof. UWr (director of the Institute), and dr Paweł Wróblewski (director for general affairs).
The meeting was primarily devoted to the problems of the various aspects of cooperation, its extension within faculties and units of the University of Wrocław other than Faculty of Social Studies, and fields of study other than philosophy. The possibilities of joint research projects were discussed (one such project in the framework of interdisciplinary research and international cooperation is already in the making), student exchanges, and the Centrum Cassirera (Cassirer Centre) as a unit serving these purposes and preparing its proposal for the beginning of a series of meetings “Culture Week 1.2024” (11-15.03.2024), which will feature lecturing professors from Southern Illinois University (USA), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) and SWPS University in Warsaw (Poland).
In the afternoon, Kamienica Pod Aniołami in Wrocław also hosted a meeting between prof. Benjamin Bricker and a group of employees of the Institute of Philosophy: prof. Ilona Błocian, Paweł Korobczak, Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy, dr Magdalena Hoła-Łuczaj, coordinator of the “Culture, Thought and Humanity” field of study, and dr Karol Morawski, representing research team “Wyobraźnia Polityczna” (“Political Imagination”). Student exchanges and the formation of interdisciplinary research groups (philosophy of politics, political science) were discussed.
Translated by Wiktoria Łapka (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
