To the Students of the Jagiellonian University’s  Faculty of Philosophy 

Dear Students,

We would like to invite you to a Student Conference at the Faculty of Philosophy.
Organizers: Faculty of Philosophy and Jagiellonian Language Center
Date: 1 December 2017
Venue: Faculty of Philosophy, Kraków, ul. Grodzka 52
Theme: Refugees: Hot Issues Today and Tomorrow

• Social construction of the refugee
• Lessons from the refugee crisis
• Clashing images of refugees in the media and art (e.g.: from Banksy to hate mems)
• Refugee crisis or value crisis
• Religions’ response to the refugee crisis: institutions and individuals
• (Dis-)Functional reactions to refugees’ arrival (examples from all over the world)
• What can we learn from each other? The value of dialogue
• Supporting refugees: strategies and solutions
• Moral dilemmas related to (not) accepting refugees

On 1 December 2017, the Faculty of Philosophy will hold a Student Conference at which Students of the Jagiellonian University’s Faculty of Philosophy will come together to explore the theme: Refugees: Hot Issues Today and Tomorrow.

Students will have the opportunity to engage in an intellectually vibrant learning environment with academics from the Faculty as they explore, discuss, share knowledge, provide facts and justify their claims. Political manifestos are not welcome.

 Faculty academic members of staff will help with issues of the presentation content whereas the Jagiellonian Language Center will help with language matters. The language of the Conference is English.

We are looking forward to receiving abstracts of student presentations by October 26, 2017 at berenika.rewicka@uj.edu.pl

Abstracts should be 150-200 words long and contain an overview of
the conference presentation.

All conference academic presentations should be 15 - 20 minutes long (with additional 10 minutes for discussion) and are to be based on facts therefore the sources used must be provided.

The speakers will be members of the Faculty’s academic staff as well as students of the Faculty of Philosophy, however all the Jagiellonian University students are welcome to take part in the Conference opening lecture, discussions and panel stages.
We look forward to seeing you on 1 December 2017.
The Conference Committee

More about the Conference

This Student Conference is a joint initiative of the Jagiellonian Language Center and a University faculty as an example of best practice and one of possible ways of cooperation between these University units. It is organized within the Teaching Quality Week (Tydzień Jakości Kształcenia) held at our University.
 

The Conference Student–Speakers (i.e., Students who deliver talks) will receive a certificate of attendance and will be given an opportunity to take part in a 30-hour language course free of charge. The language course (other than English) can be chosen from the JCJ lektoraty offer for the summer term of 2017/2018 or for the subsequent academic year.

All  registered Conference participants (i.e., the audience) will be given
a certificate of attendance.

We are looking forward to  your attendance at this unique academic event. 

The Conference preliminary framework
9.30 – 10.00 Opening lecture
10.15 – 12.00 Parallel Student sessions
12.00 – 12.30 Break
12.30 – 13.00 Parallel Student sessions
13.00 – 13.30 Panel discussion
13.45 Closing of the Conference

The Conference Committee
Professor Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska (Chair)
Dr Anna Tomaszewska
Dr Dorota Gierszewski
Dr Daria Łucka
Professor Cezary Galewicz
Dr Monika Stawicka 
Berenika Rewicka