Inauguration of the Academic Year 2024/2025

JM Rector of Collegium Da Vinci Dr. Marek Zieliński, Prof. CDV is pleased to invite you to the Inauguration of the Academic Year 2024/2025, which will be held on October 8, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. in the Aula Artis at 10 Tadeusza Kutrzeby Street in Poznań.

During the Inauguration, first-year students will solemnly take the oath, receive their student’s transcripts during matriculation and sing the traditional Gaudeamus together. This is a special moment when the whole CDV academic community begins a new year full of challenges and successes.

The inaugural lecture ‘Creativity in the Era of Artificial Intelligence’ will be held by Edwin Bendyk – Chairman Of The Board at Stefan Batory Foundation. Professionally a journalist, publicist and writer, columnist for Polityka weekly. Member of the Polish PEN-Club and the European Council on Foreign Relations. He runs the blog “Antimatrix” and the podcast “Understanding Ukraine”. He recently published the book “In Poland, or Everywhere. A thing about the fall and the future of the world”.

The Academic Year Inauguration ceremony will be accompanied by a screening of the film ‘Kobieta z marmuru’ (Woman of Marble) directed by Mateusz Biziorek – a graduate of Creative Film Production course.

This is what the author, Mateusz Biziorek, says about the production: ‘It is the story of a film student, Mateusz, who also works at a local television station and tries to convince his supervisor, the programme director, that Krystyna Janda will play in his diploma film. Of course, the programme director dismisses him, explaining that the idea is ridiculous and that he should take up ‘normal’ stories of ‘ordinary’ people. The hero, however, sets off for Warsaw. On the way, he meets a curator at the National Museum and also meets a forgotten diva of the theatre. Finally, he reaches the Polonia Theatre and meets Krystyna Janda. But I don’t know how his conversation with Janda went.’