Том 1 № 2 (2024)

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    The "University and War" Project – Perspectives of Polish-Ukrainian Studies at the Jagiellonian University
    (2024) Nowak, Alicja Zofia
    This article focuses on the "University and War" project, which has been implemented since spring 2022, and its important element, i.e. an international interdisciplinary academic conference. The work involved scholars from Poland, Ukraine (online and onsite) and Austria. The main objective of the meeting was to discuss the role of the university in crisis situations and make a preliminary assessment of the state of Ukrainian universities and the situation of Ukrainian academics and students in Ukraine and abroad. The next thematic block concerned the reaction of Polish universities to the Russian aggression: scholarship and aid programmes implemented, volunteering activities of the university community. One of the current issues after Russia’s armed attack is the attitude of the academic community in Poland and worldwide to these events, i.e. an adequate evaluation of the aggressor’s policy, including in social media, and above all the institutional and conceptual reconstruction of Ukrainian studies, which is necessary to finally break with the remnants of the "Russian world" concept. An important objective of the project was to involve students (mostly from Ukraine). The students prepared exhibitions featuring photographs of the destroyed Kharkiv, war­themed posters, and poems inspired by the events, and took part in an international (with students from the Kyiv Academy of Fine Arts) scientific student seminar, during which they presented papers, analysed a questionnaire about their own situation after the outbreak of war and their involvement in aid and volunteering. The project was also an expression of solidarity, a form of support that Polish academics wanted to give to students and academics from Ukraine.