I went to see The Odyssey with a dual identity: that of a cultural studies scholar, professionally sceptical of Hollywood adaptations of classics, and that of an ordinary viewer who simply wants to be…
Starting in October, you will embark on the next chapter of your life: university studies. Registration completed, documents ready for submission, but have you found your place in Lodz yet? At…
At the end of June 2026, Istanbul (Türkiye) hosted the UNIC Alliance conference “Institutions in Transition: Justice, Security, and Well-Being in Post-Industrial Cities”. Participants discussed the…
Can you spend a summer evening under a star-filled sky, learn where “shooting stars” come from, and at the same time admire one of the most spectacular astronomical phenomena of the year? Absolutely!…
The University of Lodz has once again become a partner of the TME Polówka Summer Film Festival. This year, we have jointly created an original section titled OFFLINE. This is a series of five open-air…
One day we are looking for shade and ways to survive temperatures approaching 40°C. A few days later, we are putting on jackets, sheltering from the rain and wondering whether summer is already over.…
Kindness is not limited to polite words and good manners. In Tove Jansson’s stories, it grows out of curiosity about another person and respect for their differences, values that are particularly…
The concluding academic year 2025/2026 has been an exceptionally busy period for the Polish Animation Research Group, operating at the University of Lodz. It has been a time of significant scholarly…
"It is not often that someone without an academic degree is awarded an OPUS grant. It is even rarer for such a person to secure one of the top two positions on the ranking list. Over the next three…
The Battle of Grunwald is one of the most recognisable events in Polish history. Over more than six centuries, however, it has become surrounded by legends that are often difficult to separate from…
As part of Project P106, training sessions and field exercises on responding to CBRN incidents (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) were conducted for airport security personnel and…
The first round of admissions for full-time (daytime) BA studies and uniform Master's Studies at the University of Lodz for the 2026/27 academic year came to an end on 13 July. Compared with the first…
A project carried out by researchers from the Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics at the University of Lodz in collaboration with the Warsaw University of Technology has received more than PLN…
EU regulations are becoming a part of everyday business operations. Legal acts such as the CSRD, NIS2, DORA and the AI Act have either already entered into force or will do so in the coming years.…
Factories built of red brick and workers’ housing estates are the hallmark of our city. Another “brick city” lies underground – over 250 kilometres of brick-built collectors of various sizes and…
We are delighted to announce that Dr Anna Stępień from the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, has joined the…
Summer is a particularly busy season for archaeological fieldwork. The ruins of a Renaissance fortified manor house in Mikorzyce, in Bełchatów County stand on a tree-covered mound surrounded by an old…
The Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics at the University of Lodz has expanded its computing infrastructure with an AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card featuring 32 GB of memory. The hardware…
Prof. dr hab. Monika Namysłowska and dr hab. Dominik Lubasz, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz, have won a competition organised by the Polish-German Foundation for Science.
On 9 July 2026, gardens of the Biedermann’s Palace hosted the workshop for children entitled “Naturalnie uważni – ruch, skupienie, koncentracja” [Naturally Mindful – Movement, Focus, Concentration].…
