We invite secondary school students, older primary school pupils and teachers to free lectures and walks dedicated to various geographical issues.
The lectures aim to engage listeners with the world around them, both near and far, and to expand geographical knowledge.
In the academic year 2025/2026, in the winter semester, in-person lectures will take place on the Thursdays indicated in the schedule at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies headquarters on the Main Campus of the University of Warsaw (Wacław Nałkowski Hall, no. 102). Online lectures will take place once a month.
📩 Applications (indicating selected dates and number of students) should be sent to: geograficzne.spotkania@uw.edu.pl
📅 IN-PERSON LECTURE PROGRAM (September–February 2025/2026, 13:00–14:45)
- 25.09.2025 – Dr. Adam Tyszkiewicz – Monuments and epidemics. Public art in the face of infectious diseases and collective memory.
- 09.10.2025 – Dr. Kamil Leziak – From tornadoes to hurricanes: dangerous wind-related weather phenomena
- 23.10.2025 – Dr. Dorota Giriat – Rivers in the city: How people change river processes and affect valley landscapes?
- 06.11.2025 – Dr. Jarosław Suchożebrski – Sometimes flood, sometimes drought… Facts and myths about Poland’s water resources.
- 04.12.2025 – Dr. habil. Elwira Żmudzka, Prof. UW – Local climate as an effect of modification of large-scale climate-forming processes due to the influence of the atmosphere's substrate at a local scale
- 18.12.2025 – Dr. Iwona Szumacher – In the footsteps of the Incas – Andean expeditions
- 08.01.2026 – Dr. habil. Maciej Dąbski – Greenland: nature, society, geopolitics
- 15.01.2026 – Prof. Dr. habil. Wojciech Dziemianowicz – Foresight, geography, space – let’s talk about our future
- 05.02.2026 – surprise lecture
- 26.02.2026 – Dr. Krzysztof Górny – Did Poland build a colonial empire? The meanders of Polish overseas expansion
📅 ONLINE LECTURE PROGRAM (September–February 2025/2026, various times)
- 23.09.2025, 09:00–10:30 – Dr. habil. Bogdan Zagajewski, Prof. UW – What can be seen from a satellite?
- 14.10.2025, 11:30–13:00 – Dr. Adam Tyszkiewicz – Famous European cemeteries in a historical perspective: art, functions, education
- 18.11.2025, 11:30–13:00 – Dr. Piotr Kociszewski – Thematic Mazovia: along the routes of Princes, Chopin … and industrial histories
- 09.12.2025, 11:30–13:00 – Dr. Katarzyna Greń – A geographer in Antarctica. Life among penguins (the lecture will be delivered from Antarctica!)
- 03.02.2026, 12:00–13:30 – Dr. Anna Jarocińska – How to recognize plant stress from altitude?
- 17.02.2026, 11:30–13:00 – Dr. Maksym Łaszewski – About the springs of Warsaw and surroundings from hydrological and historical perspectives
📅 WALKS around UW (11:00–12:45)
- 18.09.2025
- 25.09.2025
- 02.10.2025
- 09.10.2025
- 16.10.2025
- 23.10.2025
- 30.10.2025
- 06.11.2025
- 13.11.2025
- 11.12.2025
- 18.12.2025
- 15.01.2026
- 05.02.2026
- 12.02.2026
- 26.02.2026
In-person events take place on the Main Campus of the University of Warsaw (Warsaw).
