The Centre for the History and Culture of Roma and the Institute of European Studies are pleased to invite you to the celebrations marking International Romani Language Day, which will take place on 5 November 2026 at 12:00 noon at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, 4 Reymonta Street, Room 103 (first floor).

Join us on 19-20 October 2026 for the Student and Doctoral Scientific Conference "Victimization in Historical Memory and Memory Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Contested Legacies, Identity and Politics", organised by the Academic Student Societies of the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University.

Join us for the International Student and Doctoral Conference "The Iron Curtain: Memory, Borders and Political Transformations in Contemporary Europe", which will take place on 19-20 October 2026 at the Faculty of Internetional and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University and online.

Join us for the lecture of Prof. Donatas Murauskas (University of Vilnius) entitled 'Media Freedom and Constitutional Resilience: the Role of Public Broadcasting in Preventing Democratic Backsliding' on 15 October 2026, 15.00, room 301.

We warmly invite you to take part in the “It’s in Your Genes” campaign, organised by the Institute of European Studies at Jagiellonian University in partnership with the DKMS Foundation. As part of the campaign, you will have the opportunity to register as a potential stem cell donor. By joining the register, you could one day be identified as a match for a patient with blood cancer and have the chance to help save their life.

We invite you to a public lecture entitled “Why do we (still) need critical security studies?”, organised as part of the FDL Visiting Professor Scheme. The lecture will be delivered by Dr Marco Krüger from the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tübingen, Germany. The lecture will take place on 8 October, from 12:15 to 13:45, in Room 543 of the WSMiP building on Reymonta Street.

Join us for the Academic Year Opening Lecture at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, entitled "External and Internal Challenges to the EU's Global Role in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil". The lecture will be delivered by Professor Karolina Pomorska (Leiden University) and will take place at our Faculty on Tuesday, 6 October, at 13:15 in room 015.

As AI systems are adopted across society, they increasingly serve as a source of knowledge and memory — including about the Holocaust. Because they are trained on vast amounts of user-generated content and other unvetted sources, they can reproduce biases and misinformation.

Join us for the keynote lecture by Dr Kinga Redłowska of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), 'The New Financial Order: Alternative Systems, Geopolitical Rivalry and Europe’s Security', opening the Jean Monnet PROSPER Research Network Conference. The lecture will take place on 1 October (Thursday) at 15:30 in Room 037, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University.

On 1-2 October 2026, the Faculty of the International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University will host the Jean Monnet PROSPER Network Academic Conference, entitled 'Europe under Pressure: Security, Governance and Geopolitics in a Time of Global Turmoil'. The conference will bring together scholars and practitioners to analyse the interaction between security, governance and geopolitics across the European Union and its neighbourhood.