Contents University news 2 New university authorities 2 University Foundation Day 4 Templeton Prize Winner creates Copernicus Centre 4 Concert of the Choir of the University of Iceland 5 Recruitment Office 5 JU wins university ranking in Poland International relations 6 Jubilee of Professor Muskat-Tabakowska 22 Agreements with Hebrew University and with Hebron University Features 23 Visit to the University of Orleans 7 International Relations in 2007/2008 23 Exploring new areas, nurturing old links 10 The history of the collection of Romance at the Centre for European Studies manuscripts in the Berlin Collection at JU 24 Visit from the Radboud University Nijmegen 25 IRUN meeting in Barcelona 25 Visits to Rome and Viterbo 11 The profession of journalist in Poland and its legal aspects 13 Building a typology of European institutions of higher education 16 Meeting of Polish and French young musicologists 17 Polish-Eastern Slavonic Cultural Relationships Student life 18 Central European Initiative 26 Detour to Croatia and Serbia 19 Kazimierz Nowak – pioneer Polish traveller in Africa 27 Juwenalia and Festival of Science 22 Literary reception of the Bible 29 Africa must run No. 35 A. Wojnar M. du Vall, A. Mania, K. Musioł, P. Tworzewski, Sz. Biliński, W. Nowak New JU authorities UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION DAY In April 2008 the Senate of the Jagiellonian University elected Karol MUSIOŁ, PhD, Professor of Physics On 12 May 2008 the Jagiellonian University celebrated its as Rector of the Jagiellonian University for the term: 644th anniversary of foundation. In the morning the authorities 1 September 2008 – 31 August 2012. of the Jagiellonian University, together with special guests: the Ministry of Higher Education Prof. Barbara Kudrycka, the As Vice-Rectors the following professors were elected: Piotr TWORZEWSKI, PhD, Professor of Mathematics r Vice-Rector for Development a n j o W . Michał du VALL, PhD, Professor of Law A A. Wojnar Vice-Rector for Personnel and Financial Policy Andrzej MANIA, PhD, Professor of Political Sciences Vice-Rector for Students and Educational Affairs Szczepan BILIŃSKI, PhD, Professor of Zoology Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations Wojciech NOWAK, MD, Professor of Surgery Vice-Rector for Collegium Medicum Rector Musioł and Minister Kudrycka paying homage to the relics of Queen Jadwiga 2 NEWS letter No. 35 Spring 2008 Rector of the Immanuel Kant National University of Kaliningrad Prof. Andrey Klemeshev, Igor Jukovskij, the Head of the International Relations of the University of Kaliningrad, the Rector of the National J. Sawicz Precarpathian Vasil Stefanik University Prof. Bohdan Ostafi czuk and Vice-rector for International Relations Prof. Ihor Tsependa, deposed wreaths on the tombs of the University’s Founders in the Wawel Cathedral. Then there was a ceremonious embedding of the foundation act of the Faculty of Management and Social Communication and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in the new university campus. After its completion the Third Campus, JU biggest investment, will educate over 15,000 students. The JU is also going to build Park Life Science on the campus. During the solemn meeting of the Jagiellonian University Senate Prof. Karol Musioł, JU Rector, conferred a Merentibus Medal on Professor Hartmut Machner from the Research Centre Jülich, Germany, and a Medal With Merit to Jagiellonian University on Dr. Bogusław Winid, Poland’s Ambassador to NATO in Brussels and former Deputy Chief of Prof. Musioł conferring the medal to Prof. Machner Mission in the Polish Embassy in Washington. The contacts between the JU Institute of Physics and Dr. Bogusław Winid and Anna Pankiewicz, who received a Forschungzentrum Jülich have lasted for 17 years. The JU silver medal of the Jagiellonian University, contributed to the physicists worked with Prof. Machner on common projects. At transfer of the original collection of the Institute of German fi rst the projects concerned a large, modern particle accelerator, Work in the East (Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit – IDO) to the named later as COSY. Thanks to this undertaking the physicists JU. During his diplomatic service in the USA Dr Winid helped were offered the possibility to vastly broaden their research area: fi nd and return to Polish museums many monuments of cultural from classical nuclear physics to very modern fi elds of hadron heritage, which were stolen and transported to Germany during physics and investigations of fundamental interactions and World War II. He also initiated the negotiations to transfer the symmetries. A very important role of common activities is the IDO archives. The IDO was opened by the Germans in the education of a young generation of physicists. Another aspect of building of the Jagiellonian University during the war. After the collaboration is international conferences, known under the name war the archives were transported to the USA and deposited in MESON, which concern broadly understood hadronic physics. the Smithsonian Institute Archives in Washington. The German collection contains materials of the Section for Racial and National Traditions Research (Sektion für Rasse-und-Volkstumforschung), which constitute a very important source to J. Sawicz examine the occupant’s policy towards the Jagiellonian University and the Polish nation. For example, IDO conducted research among the inhabitants of Podhale and the region of Nowy Sącz to determine the racial hierarchy of the inhabitants of occupied Poland and to prove that they had been Polonicised Germans. The Nazis had taken numerous photos, including 525 photos of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane. The collection also embraces detailed anthropological and sociological surveys with personal, genealogical and medical data concerning the highlanders. The IDO observed and documented the Jewish population in the Ghetto in Tarnów. Consequently, a valuable documentation of the tragic fate of the Polish Jews was created. The archives packed in 100 boxes were transported to the JU Archives in the autumn of 2007. M. Kantor Rector Musioł awarding Dr. Winid NEWS letter No. 35 Spring 2008 3 Templeton Prize Winner creates Copernicus Centre J. Sawicz Professor Michał Heller, a Polish engaging many sources: mathematics, cosmologist and Catholic priest, has won philosophy, cosmology and theology. the 2008 Templeton Prize, the world’s His academic and religious background largest annual monetary award given has enabled him to credibly move within to an individual. Prof. Heller dedicated each of these domains. His prolifi c the Templeton Prize money, valued at writings include more than 30 books 820,000 pounds sterling, to help create and nearly 400 papers on such topics the Copernicus Centre in Kraków, which as the unifi cation of general relativity would deal with relationships between and quantum mechanics, multiverse science and religion as an academic theories and their limitations, geometric discipline. The Copernicus Centre is methods in relativistic physics such MK t to be an inter-university institution, as noncommutative geometry, and the affi liated to the Jagiellonian University philosophy and history of science. and the Pontifi cal Academy of Theology In his nomination of Heller for the Prize, in Kraków. The senates of both Professor Karol Musiol, JU Rector and a Templeton Foundation and son of Sir institutions approved the project. The professor in the Institute of Physics there, John, noted that Heller’s scholarship Centre will conduct interdisciplinary noted that Heller’s combination of scientifi c exposed the global community to a research in natural science, philosophy, investigation and theological inquiry rose wider understanding of purpose in life. theology and the history of science. above the trap of easy concordism. ‘His ‘Michael Heller’s quest for deeper The 2008 Templeton Prize was unique position as a creatively working understanding has led to pioneering offi cially awarded to Heller by HRH scientist and refl ective man of religion has breakthroughs in religious concepts and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, brought to science a sense of transcendent knowledge as well as to expanding the at a private ceremony at Buckingham mystery,’ he wrote, ‘and to religion a view horizons of science.’ Palace on May 7th. Among the invited of the universe through the broadly open On 25 April 2008 there was a guests were Prof. Karol Musioł, Rector eyes of science… It is evident that for meeting with Prof. Michał Heller in the of the Jagiellonian University, and him the mathematical nature of the world JU Auditorium Maximum. He confessed Professor Władysław Stróżewski from and its comprehensibility by humans that if towards the end of his life it the Faculty of Philosophy. constitute the circumstantial evidence of occurred that he had been right in all Professor Heller, 72, has focused on the existence of God.’ of what he had ever said he would be fundamental questions such as ‘Does John M. Templeton, Jr., M.D., unpleasantly surprised. the universe need to have a cause?’, Chairman and President of the John M. Kantor as hard winters. Some of them took the CONCERT OF THE CHOIR form of epic tales (rímur). Mr Ólafson has founded the Centre of Folk Music in of the University of Iceland Siglufjord. He also wrote a book on old Icelandic folk songs, which has been the On 24 May 2008 there was a concert works presented folk wisdom sayings fi rst book on this theme since 1906. of the mixed Choir of the University and religious beliefs. The concert ended The Choir of the University of of Iceland (Háskólakórinn) in the aula with a beautiful old Mary’s praise sang Iceland was founded in 1972. Its main of Collegium Novum, the Jagiellonian at Christmas. Traditionally, the Icelandic aim is to grace various academic events University. The concert consisted of folk songs are strongly religious in with music but twice a year the Choir Icelandic folk songs, composed in the character and have been sung without gives concerts outside of the University. 13th – 20th centuries and arranged by any instruments.