PROF. ZW. DR HAB. WALENTY PIŁAT

Joanna Nawacka

Instytut Słowiańszczyzny Wschodniej Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

Abstract

Prof. Walenty Piłat first co-operated with the Department of Russian Philology
in the Higher Pedagogical School (in the mid-70s of the 20th c.). Prof. Piłat with
Prof. Albert Bartoszewicz initiated a series of international Slavic conferences which have
been organised in Olsztyn biennially until today. He also co-established Acta Polono-
-Ruthenica, a scientific journal published in Olsztyn, and was its editor since 2001 to
2016. He always found it extremely important to cooperate with the Immanuel Kant
Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad. His academic interests have always centred
on modern Russian drama, in this field he published extensively both in Poland and
abroad. Not only a scientist, but also a teacher, he was a supervisor of a few dozen MA
students and a few Ph.D. candidates.

Keywords:

Walenty Piłat, Institute of Slavic Studies, organisational and academic activity, academic cooperation with Kaliningrad, international Slavic conferences, scientific periodicals