Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Łukasz Opaliński and Katharina Boguslawski will give lectures in the ‘Science at the Centre’ series, organised by the Copernicus Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the National Science Centre (NCN). 

The first lecture this year will be given by Dr Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, winner of the NCN 2023 Prize in the humanities, social sciences and arts. The researcher is a cultural scientist, bohemian and ethnologist, working at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the series Science at the Centre, she will give a lecture entitled ‘On how things turn into ghosts. Displacement and the emergence of new cultures in Central Europe’.

The lecture will take place on 14 November and will be broadcast on the Copernicus Center’s YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@CopernicusCenter). It will begin at 6 pm. 

The next meeting in the series, a lecture by Professor Łukasz Opaliński, winner of the NCN 2023 Prize in Life Sciences, is scheduled for 28 November. The series will conclude in December with a lecture by Prof Katharina Boguslawski, winner in the area of science and technology.