The Jubilee Conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Faculty of Humanities at UKSW, titled “Logos - Word, Reason, Creativity”, will take place from February 8-10, 2025, at the UKSW building at Dewajtis 5 in Warsaw. The program will include scientific sessions, a concert, a film screening, the play The Birth of the Word, and a meeting with musicologist Jerzy Stankiewicz in the UKSW Music Hall.
Students of the Faculty of Humanities at UKSW, under the guidance of Magdalena Hierowska, along with young piano virtuoso Adam Kałduński, have prepared a performance based on motifs from the poetry of Juliusz Słowacki and live performances of selected parts of Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (Twenty Views of the Infant Jesus). After the performance, at 6:00 PM, Jerzy Stankiewicz – Knight of the Legion of Honor for his contribution to French culture – will participate in the discussion panel “The Mysticism of the Word – Słowacki and Messiaen”. The conversation will explore the unknown parallels between the works of Juliusz Słowacki and Olivier Messiaen, as well as the contributions of the Polish people in sustaining the life and health of the composer in the POW camp in Zgorzelec. The panel will also feature conductor Łukasz Borowicz, director of the Poznań Philharmonic, and Magdalena Saganiak, a researcher of the mysticism of the Word in Słowacki’s works. The discussion will be moderated by musicologist Michał Klubiński.
On February 9, the organizers invite attendees to a documentary and musical film “Le Charme des impossibilités” ("The Charm of Impossibilities," directed by Nicolas Buenaventura Vidal, France 2006), an extraordinary musical documentary about the birth of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, which he composed in the Stalag in Görlitz in mid-December 1940. After the screening, there will be a discussion with the audience, led by Jerzy Stankiewicz and Michał Klubiński.
On the same day, after a solemn Mass at the Church of the Camaldolese Fathers, there will be a concert by the Gaudete in Domino choir, conducted by Dorota Dąbrowska. The concert will feature contemporary Polish sacred music: works by Miłosz Bembinow, Paweł Łukaszewski, Juliusz Łuciuk, and Zuzanna Koziej.
Detailed programme: https://wnh.uksw.edu.pl/wydzial/https-wnh-uksw-edu-pl-wydzial/
