On 7 May 1977, Stanisław Pyjas, 24, a fifth-year student of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, poet and anti-Communist opposition activist, died suddenly in unexplained circumstances. His death came as a shock to the academic community, his family and circle of friends, sparking the opposition movement activity in Kraków.

As for the last five years, the Jagiellonian University will celebrate the opening of the new academic year with the JU MC Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy’s Cup Run. Unlike in the previous editions, however, the participants will not be able to gather together and circle around the Kraków Błonia Park, and so the organisers have devised an alternative method of taking part in the event.

Law Against Pandemic is an interdisciplinary, international, multilingual project whose aim is to analyse the interrelations between law and pandemics. The debate shall aid in the development of sustainable solutions – not only in regard to the mitigation of the negative impacts of SARS-CoV-2, but also in the context of prevention of future epidemiological risks.

The conference, which is a continuation of the series of Biological Complexity in Cracow meetings, is aimed to gather together researchers working in the fields of quantitative biology and physics. This year, it will be hosted by the Garage of Complexity of the Jagiellonian University.

The international conference will be held on September 25-26 in the Conference Centre of the Faculty of Medicine, JU Medical College.

The Bronisław F. Trentowski Society of Philosophy of Education and the Department of General Pedagogy and the Philosophy of Education at the JU Institute of Pedagogy are hosting the international conference “Education and the State”.

The Eighth Annual Humanistic Management Conference: Unity in Diversity is an international conference co-organised by the Institute of Culture of the Jagiellonian University. The 2020 event will be different from the previous Annual Humanistic Management Conferences as it will be the first online conference in the series.

The motto of the congress is: Belief – Imagination – Knowledge. New Paths of Religious Studies in the 21st Century. The speakers will include Tim Jensen from the University of Southern Denmark, President of International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR).