Prof Michal Kowalewski (University of Florida) was invited as a Keynote speaker and gave the Annual Public Outreach lecture “The premises, promises, and pitfalls of conservation paleobiology” at the PalGes conference organized by the Faculty of Biology UW in 16-21 September 2024.

The lectures was also publicly live-streamed through Facebook and also part of the annual “Festiwal Nauki – Warszawa” – Warsaw Science Festival. The conference proved very succesfull and co-organised by the University of Warsaw (Faculty of Biology, Faculty of Geology), Institute of Paleobiology - Polish Academy of Sciences, Paleontological Section of the Polish Geological Society, Polish Geological Institute–National Research Institute and the Paläontologische Gesellschaft. The official conference language was English but outreach lectures happened in 3 different languages.