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Pokolenia Gonią Lenia 2025
The University Sports Centre encourages participation in free sports activities organised throughout Poland under the slogan ‘Pokolenia Gonią Lenia’. People aged 20-60 can take part in the programme.
‘Pokolenia Gonią Lenia’ is a multidisciplinary programme of the Academic Sports Association, which aims to encourage Poles to be physically active. Free sports classes in various disciplines are organised in different cities across Poland, giving local residents the opportunity to train under the supervision of professional instructors.
The University Sports Centre invites you to free rowing ergometer training sessions, which start on 15 September and last until 11 December. Classes are held every Monday and Thursday from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. In addition, the USC free classes also include a sauna. From 22 September to 30 October, the sauna will be available twice a week, every Monday (5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.) and Thursday (5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.), and from 3 November to 8 December only on Mondays.
Due to the limited number of spots (maximum 9 people per group), registration is required. To register, please send an email to pokolenia2025@wp.pl with the following information:
- first and last name
- age
- type of classes selected
- selected dates on which you wish to participate in classes
- contact telephone number
After sending the message, please wait for an email confirmation. The class schedule can be added to Google Calendar.
Exhibition: Between/Inter by Basia Sokołowska
Between/Inter by Basia Sokołowska is the title of an exhibition prepared as part of the Vintage Photo Festival at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Museum (M. Rapacki Square), the opening of which will take place on October 10, 2025, at 3:00 PM.
The exhibition will feature 30 photographs by Basia Sokołowska from four series: Interior/Apartment (1993), Beyond Surface (1994), Ars Moriendi (1998), and Tissues/Adaptation (2005). The works draw on the tradition of still life and explore the duality of the world of dreams and reality, crossing internal barriers and maturing, transience, the cyclical nature of life and death, and adaptation on many levels and in many contexts. They reveal the transformations taking place in the artist's life and psyche, the multi-layered nature of the world around her. Veiled and mysterious, they evoke curiosity and anxiety, resonating. They engage emotionally and physically. They create a mood, are honest, and open to interpretation. The artist uses collage techniques, creates spatial photographic compositions, highlights detail, color, and texture, and stages them.
All works in the exhibition are a gift from Basia Sokołowska to the University Museum in Toruń. The exhibition will be on view until February 13, 2026.
Absent Legacies: Lotte Jacobi and Janina Gardzielewska
On October 10th at 6:00 PM, the exhibition "Absent Heritage: Lotte Jacobi and Janina Gardzielewska Rediscovered", curated by Dr Katarzyna Gębarowska, will open at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Toruń.
The exhibition, organised as part of the Vintage Photo Festival, showcases the artistic heritage of two photographers associated with Toruń: Lotte Jacobi and Janina Gardzielewska. Although both came from families with a tradition of studio photography, they decided to pursue a dynamically developing artistic photography, aiming to transform photography into abstract art. Jacobi created photograms, Gardzielewska created large-format collages. Both pushed the boundaries of traditional photography and were avid travellers. Despite achieving international fame, they experienced exclusion. Jacobi was excluded because of her ties to the city's Prussian past, while Gardzielewska was forgotten.
The exhibition will juxtapose Lotte Jacobi's photographs of Toruń with 21 photographs by Janina Gardzielewska from the University Library in Toruń collection. Gardzielewska's works will include portraits of visual artists associated with the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, including Mirosław Piotrowski, Maria Pokorska, and Tymon Niesiołowski. Some works were created using photomontage techniques as part of the series "My Acquaintances of Toruń Visual Artists," presented in 1983 at the Mała Galeria Fotografiki in Toruń. The exhibition will be complemented by theatrical photographs documenting scenes from performances at the Wilam Horzyca Theatre from the 1960s and 1970s.
The exhibition will be on display until November 16th.
Immortality locked in the body
As part of the “MAXIMUM. Thinking Anew” series, the first open meeting after the summer break will be held on October 13 at 5:00 p.m. at Collegium Maximum (Plac Rapackiego 1). The guest of the event will be Dr Cezary Odrzygóźdź, director of the Centre for Academic Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer at Nicolaus Copernicus University.
The topic of Dr Cezary Odrzygóźdź's presentation will be “Immortality locked in the body” – a story combining ancient myths about elixirs of longevity with the latest discoveries in molecular biology and regenerative medicine. Participants will learn how research on exceptionally long-lived organisms, regenerative therapies, and gene editing capabilities translate into practical strategies for slowing down the aging process. The meeting will provide a new perspective on the future of humanity and showcase the tools that modern science is already putting at our disposal.
“MAXIMUM. Thinking Anew” is a series of meetings with interesting people, which was inaugurated in June 2025. The guest of the first meeting was Janina Ochojska, social activist and Ambassador of the Nicolaus Copernicus University.
Behind the curtain of resocialisation – conference
The Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University is organising another edition of the nationwide scientific conference ‘Behind the curtain of resocialisation – controversies, challenges, perspectives’. The meeting of experts will take place on 17 October.
The growing dynamics of adult and juvenile crime, the increase in social pathologies and the emergence of new forms of them, including behind prison walls, pose challenges for contemporary resocialisation. For a long time, there has been growing scepticism about the implementation of the idea of resocialisation as subjective activities aimed at changing the behaviour of lawbreakers. The ineffectiveness of these measures applies in particular to broadly understood institutional resocialisation concentrated in correctional and penal institutions. It should be emphasised that solutions suggesting the priority of isolation and punishment over resocialisation and therapeutic measures are not only burdened with a false vision of the effectiveness of social deterrence, but also dangerously suggest the idea of abandoning solutions focused on improvement and readaptation.
The 9th edition of the conference 'Behind the curtain of resocialisation- controversies, challenges, perspectives' is intended by the organisers as an invitation to reflect and discuss various aspects of resocialisation and prevention activities, controversies and challenges that are subject to discourse due to changing social threats, analyses of original empirical research and reflections on the complexity of the human mind.
Following the example of previous conferences, it will be a platform for the exchange of experiences, thanks to which participants will jointly seek innovative and effective methods of social resocialisation, correctional and therapeutic interventions, both in conditions of isolation and in a broadly understood open environment.
More information about the conference can be found at https://za-kurtyna-resocjalizacji.umk.pl/pages/home/
YUFE International Café
Join us for a cup of hot coffee and an even hotter debate on how our cultural differences affect communication. The hybrid event planned for 23 October will start with the lecture ‘Say What?! Understanding Communication through Culture, which will be followed by workshops raising awareness of differences in the perception of language.
To try theory in practice, we’ll run simultaneous sessions in different YUFE countries and online. Participation in the event is free of charge. Registration is required:
- If you would like to participate in the online event, please register here: https://virtualcampus.yufe.eu/p/course/fK6ZYNxPBK4MiRqs
- If you would like to participate in the meeting at the Copernican Integration Centre, register here: https://virtualcampus.yufe.eu/p/course/IsObWRH9bVjnzt3O
YUFE International Café is a new joint initiative where students, university staff, and citizens come together to share cultural experiences and practices. It’s a space to connect, learn from each other, and discover how diverse perspectives shape the way we see the world.
Doping in sports – conference
On 28 November, the Nicolaus Copernicus University Sports Centre will host a nationwide scientific conference devoted to the issue of doping as a phenomenon extending beyond professional sport. The event is organised by the Nicolaus Copernicus University Sports Research Centre, the Polish Sports Law Association and the Academic Sports Association of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province.
Three main discussion panels are planned during the conference. The first one, during which problems and challenges will be presented, will focus on doping as a medical and public health issue. The next one will discuss the socio-cultural determinants of the use of performance-enhancing substances in mass society. The third discussion will focus on education and prevention in the fight against doping.
Applications to participate can be submitted using the application form until 15 October 2025. Detailed topics to be discussed at the conference can be found on the website of the University Centre for Sports Research. Information on the acceptance of papers will be sent out on 20 October. The conference fee is PLN 200 and includes lunch, coffee breaks and conference materials. Speakers will have the opportunity to publish in a post-conference monograph, in a volume of the monographic series ‘Sport: language, society, culture’ or in journals cooperating with the University Centre for Sports Research at Nicolaus Copernicus University (20/40 points from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education).