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Let’s talk about the Middle East, or the first “Academic Debate” under the patronage of the Rector of the University of Wrocław

On Wednesday, 30 October 2024 at 2:30 pm in W. Świda Hall 2D of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, we will talk about:

– the specifics, causes and anticipated effects of after 7 October 2023 activities in the Middle East,

– the state of democracy/authoritarianism in Israel and Gaza,

– the role of the international community (individual states, neighbors, international organizations, NGOs, international judiciary),

– asylum, visa and migration policy in the EU as it relates to people from the Middle East, and forms of support for those affected by armed actions,

– autonomy of universities in Israel and Gaza, academic freedom and restrictions on access to education,

– forms of cooperation with universities and the criteria for its ethical evaluation.

We would like the academic debate to identify, at least in part, the areas that depend on Polish universities in the area raised during the discussion. That is, what universities can offer and whether they alone, without the support of central authorities, are able to provide real assistance to those affected by armed conflicts.

During this academic debate, we will talk about the various forms of protest, its limits, forbidden hate speech, acceptance/praise/justification of violence or discrimination, and responsibility for our University.

Participation in the debate announced:

dr Jagoda Budzik, assistant professor at the Tadeusz Taube Chair of Jewish Studies , Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Wrocław. Her research interests include the Holocaust and its memory, Hebrew literature and Israeli culture.

dr Ewa Górska, Faculty of Law and Administration, Academic Excellence Incubator – Digital Justice Center.

She specializes in the sociology of law and in conducting empirical research on law, but her research topics are related to Islam and the Arab world. She has worked on customary Arab law, critical geography of law using Palestine as an example, bioethical issues in contemporary Muslim law, and orientalism and stereotyping in Polish law, especially jurisprudence. At the University of Wrocław, she will head the Sonata grant, which will look at how Islam is presented in the jurisprudence of European tribunals, but also examine how religiosity and secularism are understood in European law.

Prof. Jarosław Jarząbek works at the Institute of International and Security Studies at the University of Wrocław. His research interests include security policy, political systems and armed forces of Middle Eastern countries, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Scholarship holder of the Polish-American Fulbright Commission. Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies program at UWr Institute of International and Security Studies.

See also (conflict background): https://uwr.edu.pl/konflikt-izraelsko-palestynski/

dr hab. Barbara Kowalczyk works in the Department of Comparative Public Administration, in the Institute of Administrative Sciences at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of UWr. She is associate dean for education. Her research interests include legal comparativism, comparative administration, European administrative law, Europeanization of administrative law, immigration and asylum law. She is a judge, legal advisor and participant in the Consultative Forum of the European Asylum Support Office.

dr Paweł Wróblewski, works at the Institute of Philosophy at the Faculty of Social Sciences, where he heads the Laboratory for Predictive Research on Religious Change. A historian of ideas and philosopher of religion, he is an expert in interreligious mediation and the analysis of the security environment in a religious context (crisis situations and conflicts against this background), and has experience as an expert witness in religiously motivated criminal cases.