On 4 June, the JU Vice-Rector for University Development Prof. Dorota Malec met with a group of foreign researchers who came to the University in recent days or weeks to assume the positions of visiting professors.
The group consisted of Prof. Nancy Schultz (Salem State University, Massachusetts, USA), Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta (University of Calcutta, India), and Prof. Ying Yi Hong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong). They were only some of the newly arrived visiting professors, several of whom could not attend the meeting for a variety of reasons, such as field classes taught outside Kraków.
Besides the Vice-Rector, the Jagiellonian University was represented by the Rector’s Proxy for Internationalisation Prof. Adam Jelonek, Prof. Piotr Laidler from the JU Internationalisation Committee, and the Head of the JU International Relations Office Dorota Maciejowska.
During the meeting in Collegium Novum Senate Room, the visiting professors briefly discussed their research interests and the topics of lectures and classes they teach at JU. The conversation moved on to other issues, such as the professors’ experiences in Kraków and Poland, as well as various aspects of intercultural communication.
Since the beginning of 2018, the Jagiellonian University has hosted 18 researchers from abroad within the framework of the visiting professorship programme financed from a special fund established by the rector. The visitors came from 16 countries; Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Russia, the USA, Canada, India, China, Australia, and Thailand. 30 more visiting professors are expected to give lectures at the JU by the end of 2018. The number is expected to rise in the following year.
