We invite you to listen to an interview with Prof. Tadeusz Kopyś discussing research currently being conducted in Australia on the cultural and historical significance of Mount Kosciuszko, the country’s highest peak.

On 2 August 2026, the Director of the Institute of European Studies, Prof. Kinga Anna Gajda, took part in the commemorations marking the 82nd anniversary of the liquidation of the so-called “Zigeunerlager” at Auschwitz II-Birkenau and the European Roma and Sinti Holocaust Memorial Day.

During a research placement at the Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava (IVO – Inštitút pre verejné otázky), the Director of the Institute of European Studies, Kinga Gajda, PhD, Prof. UJ, and the Head of the Department of Central European Studies, Krzysztof Koźbiał, PhD, Prof. UJ, met with the Director of IVO, Dr Grigorij Mesežnikov, one of the Institute’s founders. The Institute was established in 1997.

Coping and Adaptation in Times of Exodus offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary exploration of the Venezuelan migration crisis - one of the most significant South-South population movements in recent decades. Drawing on the results of the MICLACAS research project, this book examines how Venezuelan migrants and their families navigate the challenges of displacement.

​This book proposes a paradigm shift in the way that ‘the state of exception’ – as it is usually named in legal and political theory – is to be understood. Building on the assumption that the exception is a heuristic idea that is still a relevant category for a critical deconstruction of law, this book argues that it needs to be rethought outside the boundaries of its traditional understanding.