Campus life [2023-12-19]

The Year Revolving around Copernicus

— Editors

The conference summarising the World Copernican Congress, held in Toruń on 15 December, was the highlight of the NCU's celebrations of the Year of Nicolaus Copernicus.

The World Copernican Congress, organised to mark the 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus by the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Jagiellonian University and the University of Warmia and Mazury, as well as the Institute of the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, was inaugurated on 19 February in Toruń, the city where Copernicus was born and grew up. In May, the deliberations moved to Kraków, where he studied, and in June to Olsztyn - the heart of Warmia, with which the remarkable scholar was associated for the last 40 years of his life. In September, the Congress returned to Toruń, where it had its grand finale on 15 September.

The conference summarising the Congress was attended by the rectors of the universities organising the WCC: Prof. Wojciech Wysota, Vice-Rector for Science of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and First Vice-Rector, Prof. Jacek Popiel, Rector of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and Prof. Jerzy Przyborowski, Rector of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.

During the meeting, Prof Stanisław Roszak and Prof Agnieszka Wieczorek from the NCU Faculty of Historical Sciences gave a lecture on 'Nicolaus Copernicus in the Culture of Memory'. Those present also discussed, among other things, the future of the International Copernican Research Centre - a letter of intent concerning its establishment was signed by representatives of the authorities of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warmia and Mazury (UWM) during a meeting held in Toruń in September.