Contents University news 2 Honorary doctorate for Adam Zagajewski 3 Last lecture of Prof. Andrzej Zoll 3 100th birthday of Prof. Adam Bielański 4 Beethoven: Sublimity and Enthusiasm 6 Chinese New Year’s celebrations at JU 7 JU student wins ‘Interstudent 2012’ International relations 18 Polish-French conference on legal systems 18 Agreement with the University of Baku 19 Polish-German-Ukrainian law seminar 20 Collaboration with Minzu University 21 DICE project with Ivano-Frankivsk 21 Visit to Regensburg Features 8 Corpus Christi procession in Ghana as a manifestation of various identities Student life 22 Orientation Day for Erasmus students 23 Conference of Students of Biophysics 24 A semester in Saint Petersburg 25 Concert of Collegium Musicum from Erlangen-Nürnberg 11 JU Polish Research Centre in London 12 New undergraduate programmes at JU Faculty of International and Political Studies 13 Human Rights Education Conference 17 Molecular biotechnology for health No. 49 A. Wojnar HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI n 14 December 2012 Mr Adam Zagajewski received an the Vilenica Award in 1996, Adenauer Award in 2002 and honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University. International Neustadt Award in 2004. His works have been OHaving been familiarised with the resolution of the translated into many languages. JU Faculty of Polish Studies, the reviews prepared by Prof. He was born on 21 June 1945 in Lvov. His family was Anna Legeżyńska from the Adam Mickiewicz University in expelled from Lvov in the same year and moved to Gliwice, Poznań and Prof. Jacek Łukasiewcz from the University of central Poland, where he went to school. After graduation in Wrocław, and the resolutions issued by those universities, the 1963 Zagajewski studied psychology and philosophy at the Senate of the Jagiellonian University approved the decision to Jagiellonian University (1970). His literary debut – the poem grant doctor honoris causa to the eminent Polish poet Adam ‘Muzyka’ – was in 1963. Then he co-founded the Poetic Group Zagajewski. ‘Teraz.’ He also taught philosophy as a research fellow and worked as a member of the editorial staff of Student and Odra The award was to recognise Mr Zagajewski’s outstanding magazines. He was very active in the democratic opposition. achievements in literature, including: In 1982, he immigrated to Paris where he was associated • poetry expressing universal values and the unique with ‘Kultura.’ He lived there for 20 years. In 2002, he experience of an individual; returned to Poland, and now he resides in Kraków. His poem • commitment to maintaining balance between freedom of a Try to Praise the Mutilated World, printed in The New Yorker, lonely individual and social freedom as well as collective became famous after the 11 September attacks: solidarity in artistic work; • essays and poetry presenting the conviction that the You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere, experience of beauty, search for truth and quest for good you’ve heard the executioners sing joyfully. are not some obsolete European utopia but the fundamental You should praise the mutilated world. right of every human; Remember the moments when we were together • the promotion of Polish literature around the world, in in a white room and the curtain fl uttered. particular focusing on the bonds between Polish and foreign Return in thought to the concert where music fl ared. poetry; You gathered acorns in the park in autumn • the message that culture and human values are the core of and leaves eddied over the earth’s scars. democracy and the preservation of memories of the past is Praise the mutilated world crucial for understanding the present. and the gray feather a thrush lost, Adam Zagajewski is an outstanding poet, novelist, essayist, and the gentle light that strays and vanishes and winner of many prestigious literary awards, including and returns. M. Kantor 2 NEWS letter No. 49 Winter/Spring 2013 Last lecture A. Wojnar of Prof. Andrzej Zoll ne of the most eminent Polish 1997) and the President of the Polish lawyers and Head of the Constitutional Tribunal (1993-97), the O Jagiellonian University Chair Polish Ombudsman (2000-2006) and is of Criminal Law Prof. Andrzej Zoll has the co-author of the Polish Penal Code retired. On 24 January 2013 he delivered of 1997. He is a member of the Polish the last lecture of his academic career. Academy of Sciences and the European In the hall of JU Auditorium Maximum Art and Science Academy in Salzburg. over 1,000 students of law listened to his Besides his academic activities lecture on necessary defence. ‘I feel huge he was also very active in public life satisfaction with all the years of my work in Poland. In 1989 he took part in the and I do not know how I should thank for round table negotiations as Solidarity’s them. But I am handing you over to good legal expert. hands. Perhaps it is my greatest success He has received many distinctions, – the hands of my disciples,’ with these including the Commander’s Cross of words Prof. Zoll ended his lecture. the Polonia Restituta, the Great Cross He was born in Sieniawa on 27 May with Star of the Order of Merit of the roles in various public offi ces and at the 1942. He graduated from the Faculty Federal Republic of Germany, the Grand Jagiellonian University. The ‘professors’ of Law of the Jagiellonian University Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash line of the Zolls have contributed to the in 1964. Judge Zoll earned his PhD in for Services to the Republic of Austria Polish law for almost one and a half 1968, and a habilitated doctor’s title in (1997), the Order of the Lithuanian ages, commencing from Fryderyk Zoll, 1973. In 1988 he became professor of Grand Duke Gediminas as well as ‘the Older,’ who was a well-known legal sciences. From 1994 he headed doctor honoris causa of the universities specialist in Roman law, through Prof. the Chair of Criminal Law of the of Vilnius and Mainz. Fryderyk Zoll, ‘the Younger,’ who was Jagiellonian University. During his work It is also worth mentioning that Prof. the JU Rector in 1912-13, co-founder at the JU he promoted several hundreds Zoll wrote a biography of his family of the Kraków school of civil law, of MA students and 30 PhD students. He entitled ‘Zollowie. Opowieść rodzinna’ the grandfather of Prof. Andrzej Zoll, is the author of three monographs and [The Zolls. A Family History], published and fi nally, Prof. Fryderyk Zoll, ‘the over 150 other publications in the area in 2011. It is a fascinating saga of the Youngest,’ (son of Prof. Andrzej Zoll) of criminal law, constitutional law and Zoll family who came from the region of who is continuing the family tradition as the philosophy of law. Württemberg, Germany, to Poland at the professor of civil law at the Jagiellonian Prof. Andrzej Zoll was a Justice beginning of the 19th century. Then soon University. of the Constitutional Tribunal (1989- became polonised and played important M. Kantor 100th birthday A. Wojnar of Prof. Adam Bielański rofessor Adam Bielański is the education he enrolled in the Jagiellonian oldest scientist of the Jagiellonian University in 1931. He studied chemistry. PUniversity, the doyen and one of He was lucky to meet eminent chemists, the most outstanding Polish chemists including Prof. Tadeusz Estreicher, of his times. He has been involved in assistant to Karol Olszewski, who academic activities of almost 80 years. together with Zygmunt Wróblewski, had He is the pioneer and founder of the liquidated oxygen and nitrogen. He wrote Polish and Kraków school of catalysis, a his Master’s thesis (in 1936) and doctoral master and model for many generations dissertation under Prof. Adam Skąpski of scientists. He supervised over 30 at the Academy of Mining in Kraków. doctoral dissertations and wrote many The outbreak of World War II made it textbooks in physical and inorganic diffi cult for him to continue his career as chemistry. Prof. Bielański celebrated his the Nazi occupants closed all institutions 100th birthday on 14 December 2012. of higher education. Prof. Bielański He was born in Kraków in 1912. worked in the City Chemical Laboratory After having completed secondary and prepared his doctoral dissertation NEWS letter No. 49 Winter/Spring 2013 3 while taking clandestine courses. He From 1964 he worked as a professor of transmitting knowledge to his followers defended his PhD at the beginning of chemistry at the Jagiellonian University. and shaping their characters. Every day 1944 in conspirational conditions. Four He retired in 1983 but since then he has he walks from his house on the Vistula years later he received a one-year British been professor emeritus and conducted to the JU Faculty of Chemistry. Council scholarship to conduct research research in the Institute of Catalysis The Jagiellonian University in the Imperial College of Science and and Surface Chemistry of the Polish celebrated the special jubilee of Prof. Technology in London. After his return Academy of Sciences in Kraków. Bielański during the First National Forum he worked at the Academy of Mining Prof. Adam Bielański is still very of Inorganic Chemistry in the aula of an Metallurgy in Kraków (1949-64). In active and full of energy. He has excellent Collegium Novum on 6 December 2012. 1955, he received the title of professor. memory, didactic skills and charisma, M. Kantor BEETHOVEN: SUBLIMITY AND ENTHUSIASM Prof. Zdzisław Pietrzyk, who stressed that the library had preserved the music manuscripts in the best conditions and with enthusiasm made them accessible to readers. The emotions of sublimity and enthusiasm accompany both musicians and librarians. In turn, Prof. W. Nowak, he exhibition of music design – Lech Dziewulski.