Academic year 2020/21 begins

With masks on and keeping social distance, with an audience following the event mainly on the Internet, on October 1st at the auditory of Henryk Wieniawski we opened another academic year in the history of our university.

The celebration was particular for one more reason. Prof. Andrzej Lesicki, rector of Adam Mickiewicz University officially stepped off the office. He handed over the emblems of power to his successor, prof. Bogumiła Kaniewska. She is the first woman to hold this office. In her inaugural speech, the rector discussed the crisis of meaning that the idea of ​​the university is experiencing today. I believe in university. I believe in a university that has never been and never will be a corporation, a point factory. We can't rule it technocratically or authoritatively. The university is a beautiful community of wise and responsible people who pursue common goals. She emphasised the issue of the involvement of the university in the matters outside of it. During the ceremony, prof. Andrzej Kostrzewski from the Faculty of Geography received from the rector the medal Palmae Universitatis Studiorum Posnaniensis. Afterwards, the matriculation of first-year students took place. Prof. Piotr Śliwiński gave a very timely lecture titled Hope in Literature. The ceremony ended with the traditional anthem Gaudeamus.