Sympozjum o relacjach polsko-australijskich

Polish – Australia Relations

Wed. 13.05.2026

10.00 AM – 1.00 PM, Room 208

Symposium program:

10.00 – 10.20   J.E. Benjamin Hayes, Australian Ambassador to Poland: Polish-Australian relations in the 21st century

10.20 – 11.30  Fr. Frank Brennan SJ AO, Australian Catholic University: Multicultural Australia and its relations with Poland.

11.30 – 12.00 dr. hab. Jan Lencznarowicz prof. UJ, Jagiellonian University: Polish-Australian relations in the era of Solidarity 1980-1981: perspectives revealed in Warsaw's official diplomacy

12.00 – 12.15 - dr hab. Andrzej Paweł Bieś SJ, prof. UIK, Ignatianum University in Krakow: A Review of Scientific Publications on Australia by the Ignatianum Community

12.15 – 12.45 dr Dariusz Zdziech, Ignatianum University in Krakow: Fr Wiesław Słowik SJ and the Seventh Candle

12.45 – 13.00 Presentation of a film in English on Prof. Jerzy Zubrzycki, referred to as one of the founding fathers of Australian multiculturalism. Film excerpt titled: Polish Exploreres of the New World and the Island of the Pacific. Predecessors and successors of Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki.