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This article is a report from the academic conference “Stanisław Orzechowski – political writer. On his 500th birth anniversary” which took place on 17 and 18 October 2013 in Przemyśl, Żurawica and Orzechowce. The aim of that conference initiated by the TPN (Society of the Friends of Learning) in Przemyśl, was to honor the 500th birth anniversary of Stanisław Orzechowski, a former canon of Przemyśl, Renaissance humanist, author of political writings, originator of philosophical concepts. The conference participants were academics from universities and colleges from Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Przemyśl, Rzeszów and Warsaw and the proceedings were of interdisciplinary nature, which created an opportunity for concrete analysis and confrontation with the cultural and literary legacy of Stanisław Orzechowski. The basic plenary part of the conference involved the papers by eight speakers and contributions of the debate’s participants.