The 17th (Extraordinary) International Congress of Slavists took place in Paris from August 25 to 30, 2025. There were researchers from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ISS PAS) among its participants.
On August 26, Prof. Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska delivered a co-authored paper (with Janusz Siatkowski) entitled “Chronological Parameters in the Study of Lexis on the Polish–East Slavic Borderland”. On August 28, she represented Poland at the meeting of the national committees of the International Committee of Slavists (ICS). In addition, Prof. Rembiszewska assumed the chairmanship of the Commission on the Pan-Slavic Linguistic Atlas.
On Wednesday, August 27, at the request of the organizers, Prof. Ryszard Grzesik chaired the session entitled Rapports réciproques entre les cultures savantes slaves, byzantines et ouest-européennes jusqu’à l’époque modernę (Reciprocal Relations between erudite Slavic, Byzantine, and Western European Cultures until the Early Modern Period). Within this session, he presented a paper entitled “Hungarian Chroniclers on the Slavs”. The following day, he also chaired — in a hybrid format — a meeting of the Professor Gerard Labuda Commission on the Early History of the Slavs, which was accredited for the 2025–2029 term.
Prof. Piotr Sobotka delivered two lectures at the congress: on August 26, “Происхождение славянских экспонентов «истины» с функциональной точки зрения: заметки по этимологии и методу” (The Origin of Slavic Exponents of “Truth” from a Functional Perspective: Notes on Etymology and Method), and on August 30, “The Proto-Slavic Dictionary – Transition from the Printed to the Digital Version”. Furthermore, on August 28, during a meeting of the Etymological Commission, Prof. Sobotka was elected its secretary (with Prof. Marta Bjeletić from the Serbian Academy of Sciences as the chairperson). Among the newly elected Commission members there was also Dr. Szymon Pogwizd from the ISS PAS.
Prof. Alena Rudenka participated in Section 1.2. Histoire des langues slaves (History of the Slavic Languages), particularly in subsection 1.2.5. Interaction des langues slaves normées et des dialectes locaux à différentes périodes de l’histoire (Interaction of Standard Slavic Languages and Local Dialects in Different Historical Periods). Her paper focused on letters from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 14th to 16th centuries. In addition to attending thematic sessions and round-table meetings, Prof. Rudenka also participated in the activities of the Commission for Slavic Ethnolinguistics at the Congress of Slavists, with which she has long been associated through her work on the EUROJOS project. The meeting was held in a hybrid format. A report on the Commission’s activities over the last six years has been published at: https://www.slavic-ethnolinguistics.org/home/novosti-events.
Dr. hab. Anna Engelking, Associate Professor at the ISS PAS, chaired Section 3.1.4. on August 29, titled L’héritage des grands slavistes (The Heritage of the Great Slavists), where she presented a paper entitled “The Unknown Face of Polish Slavic Anthropology: The Legacy of Józef Obrębski and Its Dissemination”.
On August 29, Dr. hab. Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa, Associate Professor at the ISS PAS, 
presented a paper entitled “The Topos of the «Immured Woman» in the 20th and 21st Century Bulgarian Scholarly Thought”, in which she discussed, among other things, the results of her research conducted within the OPUS grant of the National Science Centre entitled “The Topos of the «Immured Woman» in the Cultures of Southeastern Europe and Hungary”.
Dr. hab. Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa, Associate Professor (prof. em.) at the ISS PAS, also participated in the congress. On August 28, during a session of the Commission for Slavic Ethnolinguistics, she presented a paper and a visual presentation entitled “Women’s Ego-documents as Sources for Ethnolinguistic Research”. The paper was closely connected to the Polish-Lithuanian team project currently being carried out 
under the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities, entitled “The Ego-documents of Emilia Wróblewska (1850–1886) — A Testament of Life and Ideological Views of a Polish Woman from the Vilnius Intelligentsia. A Digital Edition of 7 Diaries with Critical Apparatus and an E-Monograph”. The lecture concerned methodological approaches to studying the complex mental construct of the identity of a woman living at the cultural crossroads during the time of partitions after the fall of national uprisings. The presentation sparked a lively and inspiring discussion. The session was attended by ethnolinguists from Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, an independent researcher from Belarus, and Dr. Rima Cicėnienė, Director of Research at the Wróblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, who represented the project partner from Lithuania..
As part of the Congress, a meeting of the Commission on Linguistic Bibliography was held, chaired by Dr. Paweł Kowalski of the ISS PAS. During the session, new members were elected, including Dr. Roman Tymoshuk (ISS PAS), Dr. Jelena Janković (SANU), Dr. Ana Golubović (University of Belgrade), Dr. Julia Cygwinceva (NANU), Dr. Monika Łaszkiewicz (UMCS), and Dr. Ekaterina Petkova (BAS). Dr. Kowalski also participated in the thematic block of the Commission on Word-Formation and attended a meeting at the Serbian Embassy. Additionally, he is a candidate for the position of secretary of the Commission on the Pan-Slavic Linguistic Atlas.
This year, for the first time, the Slavic Studies Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the publishing house of the Institute of Slavic Studies PAS, prepared the 14th volume in the series “From Polish Slavic Studies”, edited by Prof. Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska, Prof. Ryszard Grzesik, and Prof. Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska. As in previous years, the volume is divided into two parts: “Literary and Cultural Studies” and “Linguistics”. The volume includes papers by Polish historians, literary and cultural scholars, and linguists that were presented during the Paris congress.
Prof. Natalia Bernickaja, the chair of the ICS, announced that the next congress will take place in Prague in 2029.
