Welcome to the Wyatt Exploration trip for 2010! Our theme is "Poland Between East and West." On May 3rd, 12 UM-Flint students, 3 faculty and I are headed for Krakow, ancient capital of the kingdom of Poland (before the Crown joined with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Warsaw seemed a more logical location). We'll be in Krakow May 5 to 17. We have a great itinerary planned and I really excited and curious to see how students enjoy Poland!

Monday, May 10, 2010

Day 6: Auditorium Maximum of Jagiellonian University

Monday, May 10---Rain all day, at times just pouring, and our entire group needs to get down Krupnicza street, several long blocks from the Rynek, to a new Jagiellonian University building called "Auditorium maximum."  Since I am giving the lecture, we've decided to give up our umbrellas and get cabs at Atrium, our hotel.  The reception desk staff is wonderful; a couple of phone calls and then three mini-van cabs does it!
This new (opened in 2005) building is really part of a complex of buildings that includes a 1000 seat auditorium and was built together with European Union funds.  It's state of the art.  Anyway, this was my opportunity to "give back" to Jagiellonian University's Center for European Studies by giving a lecture about the writing of Henryk Grynberg.  Some Center Students came so this was a chance for our UM-Flint students to talk to the masters' level students studying here in Krakow.  And two of our students, Chris and Michelle, want to come back here to study! Here's the Center's website http://www.ces.uj.edu.pl/ou

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