How to design algorithms that ensure an equal treatment of implicit groups of voters? This issue has been raised by an ERC Starting Grant recipient, Prof. Piotr Skowron from the UW's Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics and his team in the project “Proportional Algorithms for Democratic Decision”.

From 29th to 31st May, the International Congress of Spanish History was organised at the University of Warsaw. The event was attended by researchers from 14 countries. 

On 4th May, the University of Warsaw was visited by a Portuguese delegation led by Prof. Augusto Santos Silva, the President of the Assembly of the Republic. During the visit, Prof. Silva met with Prof. Alojzy Z. Nowak, the UW Rector, and delivered a lecture at the Faculty of Modern Languages.

English Studies at the UW have been running now for 100 years. The anniversary’s celebrations were held on 21st and 22nd April at the Institute of English Studies. They were accompanied by a series of lectures and other events.

Teotl was a key religious concept of the Nahuas. Did it refer to a “god”, a source of energy or a being from the afterlife? Dr Agnieszka Brylak from the UW Faculty of Modern Languages will try to find the answer to this question during the project “The concept of teotl: a complex approach to the principal religious category of pre-Hispanic Central Mexico”, financed with the ERC Starting Grant.

On 22nd March Welcome Point is organising the next edition of the Career Planning workshop open to all long-term international students. The registration deadline is 14th March.

In March and April, experts in the field of multilingualism will present multilingualism from the linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives. On 15th April, the third lecture will be held. Prof. Jasone Cenoz from the University of the Basque Country will speak about multilingualism and translanguaging in education.