Research visits of Ukrainian scholars
During the first months of the summer term 2019/2020, the Faculty of Arts and Letters, Catholic University in Ruzomberok had an opportunity to host two Ukrainian scholars from the area of journalism and media studies – Olha Harmatiy from the Lviv Polytechnic National University and Oksana Pochapska from the Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University. They realized their stays thanks to the generous support of the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic.
Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus pandemic and measures taken by the Slovak government and authorities in March, their visits were disrupted (closures of our faculty, university library, other facilities, uncertainty about a possibility to travel out of Slovakia etc.) and that is why both of them had to finish their stays prematurely and they returned to Ukraine by the end of March.
The research visit of a Georgian historian
Irma Talakhadze is a professor of history from Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is realizing her three-month long research stay at our Faculty of Arts and Letters, Catholic University in Ruzomberok thanks to the generous support of the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic.
She is the author of two books and several other publications focusing mainly on various aspects of religious orders, monasteries and monastic lifestyle. Her interest in religious orders and monasteries has been the main reason for her visit in Ruzomberok. Excellent resources of our university library allowed her to study several religious orders such as the Franciscans, the Premonstratensians and the Carthusians in order to compare them with the Georgian monastic reality.
Catholic University in Ružomberok - Update on COVID19 situation (March 26, 2020)
Dear Partners and Colleagues, we would like to inform you that because of the COVID-19 all business trips are cancelled, the University will not be able to welcome colleagues from abroad for teaching/training mobility from March 11, 2020. The full-time classes will be interrupted from March 11,2020. This announcement is valid until further notice.
The educational process will take place in the form of self-study (students will be provided with neccessary information and study materials).
CU is continuously monitoring the developments and recommendations for action issued by the national authorities. We will update you on the situation whenever there are significant changes.
Summer school in Gubbio
From 8 to 12 July 2019, we had the opportunity to attend a summer school in Gubbio, Italy, organized by the Federation of European Catholic Universities (FUCE). It was a program for the students of Catholic universities with focus on European values. The theme of the first year of the summer school (hosted by LUMSA) was called European humanism in the making.
The summer school program consisted of private and public lectures prepared by representatives of several universities. They divided the theme of European humanism into several sub-themes: Contribution of History to European Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Translation and European identity, Science, Technology and the Challenges of Humanism in Europe, European Social Humanism, Governance, Democracy and Civic Engagement. The program also included workshops on the topics as well as an afternoon trip to Assisi, where we had the opportunity to visit the Basilica of St. Francis and Basilica of St. Clare.