Geographical Meetings at Krakowskie
About the event
Geographical Meetings at Krakowskie
We invite secondary school students, older primary school pupils and teachers to free lectures and walks devoted to various geographic topics. The lectures aim to engage listeners with the world around them and broaden geographic knowledge.
📍 In-person lectures: Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, UW Main Campus — Wacław Nałkowski Room (no. 102).
🕒 In-person lecture hours: 13:00–14:45. In the winter semester of the 2025/2026 academic year, in-person lectures take place on the Thursdays indicated in the schedule; online lectures take place once a month.
✉️ Applications (indicating chosen dates and number of students): please send to: geograficzne.spotkania@uw.edu.pl
PROGRAM OF IN-PERSON LECTURES (September–February 2025/2026, 13:00–14:45):
- 25 September – Dr. Adam Tyszkiewicz: Monuments and epidemics. Public art in the face of infectious diseases and collective memory.
- 9 October – Dr. Kamil Leziak: From tornadoes to hurricanes: dangerous wind-related weather phenomena.
- 23 October – Dr. Dorota Giriat: Rivers in the city: How people change river processes and affect valley landscapes?
- 6 November – Dr. Jarosław Suchożebrski: Sometimes flood, sometimes drought... Facts and myths about Poland's water resources.
- 4 December – Dr. habil. Elwira Żmudzka, Prof. UW: Local climate as an effect of modifications of large-scale climate-forming processes.
- 18 December – Dr. Iwona Szumacher: In the footsteps of the Incas – Andean expeditions.
- 8 January – Dr. habil. Maciej Dąbski: Greenland: nature, society, geopolitics.
- 15 January – Prof. Dr. habil. Wojciech Dziemianowicz: Foresight, geography, space – let’s talk about our future.
- 5 February – surprise lecture.
- 26 February – Dr. Krzysztof Górny: Did Poland build a colonial empire? The meanders of Polish overseas expansionism.
PROGRAM OF ONLINE LECTURES (September–February 2025/2026, various hours):
- 23 September, 9:00–10:30 – Dr. habil. Bogdan Zagajewski, Prof. UW: What can be seen from a satellite?
- 14 October, 11:30–13:00 – Dr. Adam Tyszkiewicz: Famous European cemeteries in a historical perspective: art, functions, education.
- 18 November, 11:30–13:00 – Dr. Piotr Kociszewski: Thematic Mazovia: along the routes of Princes, Chopin … but also industrial histories.
- 9 December, 11:30–13:00 – Dr. Katarzyna Greń: A geographer in Antarctica. Life among penguins (the lecture will be delivered from Antarctica!).
- 3 February, 12:00–13:30 – Dr. Anna Jarocińska: How to recognize plant stress from above?
- 17 February, 11:30–13:00 – Dr. Maksym Łaszewski: On the springs of Warsaw and surroundings from a hydrological and historical perspective.
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
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