We are pleased to announce that two members of our faculty, dr hab. Kirił Marinow, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz, and Dr Andrzej Kompa, both from the Department of Byzantine History at the Institute of History, University of Lodz, participated in the International Scientific Workshop entitled "Byzantium in Poland – Poland in Byzantium. Past and Present," which was held on 23 October 2025 at the University of Ioannina in Greece. The meeting was devoted to various aspects related to the broadly understood presence of Byzantium in Polish science, education and culture, as well as the teaching of Polish medieval history at the aforementioned Balkan university. Prof. Kirił Marinow, as the Chairman of the Byzantine Committee of the Polish Historical Society, characterised contemporary trends in research on Byzantium in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, along with the prospects for their development, while Andrzej Kompa, as Secretary of the Committee, discussed Byzantine themes emerging in Polish political and intellectual discourse.
The meeting was also attended by scholars from other Polish universities – the University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, University of Gdańsk, University of Rzeszów and University of the National Education Commission in Kraków, as well as representatives of local Greek science.
The meeting was organised as part of Polish-Greek cooperation and sponsored by the Polish Embassy in Athens. The meeting was honoured by the presence of Wojciech Ponikiewski, Chargé d'affaires of the Polish diplomatic mission in Greece, as well as Prof. Dr Anna Batistatou, Rector of the University of Ioannina, and Prof. Dr Christos Stavrakos, Member of the Board of Directors of the University and Secretary of the International Association of Byzantine Studies (AIEB). The texts of the presented papers are to be published. We would like to offer our congratulations to both gentlemen!
