The hosts of the seminar “Archaeology of the Roman Frontiers. Contacts between the Mediterranean World and Neighbouring Peoples” kindly invite to a lecture by the guest of the seminar, Dr. Zbigniew T. Fiema, University of Helsinki & Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, entitled “The Roman Fort in Ancient Hegra (Madâ’in Sâlih, Saudi Arabia).” The open lecture will take place on Thursday, March 5, 2026, at 3:00 PM, in the Faculty of Archaeology building, University of Warsaw, room 2.09. Agnieszka Tomas, Martin Lemke, and Tomasz Waliszewski. Invitation Abstract
Workshop
Feeling stressed, anxious or overwhelmed? Take a break and join us to relax, refocus and recharge. Calm your mind with guided meditation and breathing techniques. Make sure to wear something comfortable!
When? 14.03.2026, from 12:00 to 16:00
Where? Pasteura 7, 1st floor, room 106
How to sign up? At Psychological Counseling Center at Pasteura 7 or by e-mail: jz.biedrzycka@uw.edu.
PALPROX MSCA Doctoral Network recrutiment
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is a prestigious European Union programme funding, among other things, doctoral training, implemented within the Horizon Europe framework.
Within MSCA, our Faculty—together with partner universities from, among others, Spain, Portugal, and France—is involved in the PALPROX project. The programme focuses on the use of fossil small vertebrates as proxies for past climates and environments, with particular emphasis on the Late Pleistocene. The network integrates research in archaeology, palaeontology, zoology, paleoclimate, quantitative methods, and remote sensing, and provides
structured doctoral training in a highly international context.
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Revealing the secrets of the mountainous site of Karfi in Crete: a report on the 2024-2025 seasons and the main aims of the excavations in 2026 (Lecture by K. Nowicki)
Dear Colleagues
Lecture remainder:
Revealing the secrets of the mountainous site of Karfi in Crete: a report on the 2024-2025 seasons and the main aims of the excavations in 2026 (by K. Nowicki)
the lecture will take place on 12 February, 11:00 am, Room 202, in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Al. Solidarnosci 105.
P.S. After the lecture, information on student recruitment for work in 2026.
Recruitment for Partial Studies under the Erasmus+ Programme Academic Year 2026/2027
Dear Students,
The International Relations Office of the University of Warsaw has announced a new call for applications for partial studies under the Erasmus+ programme for the 2026/2027 academic year.
Invitation to the Warsaw Aegean Seminar (22 January 2026, 11:30): Dr Filip Franković
We cordially invite you to the first meeting of the Warsaw Aegean Seminar in 2026. We are pleased to host Dr Filip Franković (Heidelberg University), who will present a lecture entitled “To Die Between Two Worlds: Some Perspectives on 2nd Millennium BCE Burial Practices in the East Aegean–West Anatolian Region”.
The meeting will take place on Thursday, January 22nd, at 11:30 AM CET. The seminar will be held in a hybrid format: in person at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Al. Solidarności 105, room 202) and online via the MS Teams platform (please contact us at egea@uw.edu.pl to obtain the link to the event).
Dr Katarzyna Żebrowska and Dr Piotr Zeman
Call for Papers for “Prehistoric Textile Tool Kits: From the Baltic to the Mediterranean” session (7th Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, “Przeszłość ma przyszłość!/The Past Has a Future!”, Warsaw, 13-17 April 2026)
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the session “Prehistoric Textile Tool Kits: From the Baltic to the Mediterranean”, organized within the 7th Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, “Przeszłość ma przyszłość!/The Past Has a Future!”, which will take place in Warsaw between 13 and 17 April 2026.
We warmly invite you to submit proposals for 20-minute oral presentations, together with the required information (see the attached Call for Papers for details). Please send submissions to egea@uw.edu.pl by 15 February 2026.
The session will be held in a hybrid format, with both in-person and online participation.
Call for Papers: Prehistoric Textile Tool Kits
Holiday wishes
Dr Aulsebrook’s December classes
Dr Aulsebrook’s classes during the second week of December (8th-10th December) will be held in-person. The remainder of Dr Aulsebrook’s classes in December will be held in remote learning mode as follows:
1) Aspects of Elite Identity and Practice in the Bronze Age Aegean: Zoom meetings via Google Classroom;
2) Archaeology of (Ancient) Greece: videos on the Kampus platform;
3) Production in Bronze Age Greece: Theory and Practice: Zoom meetings via Google Classroom;
4) Proseminar II: Classical Archaeology: Zoom meetings via Google Classroom.
Please contact Dr Aulsebrook directly by email if you do not have access to the Kampus platform or Google Classroom for your course.
Cancellation of Annelou van Gijn’s lecture and workshops
Due to the speaker’s illness, the lecture by Annelou van Gijn (Leiden University), titled “Studying object biographies, telling stories of the past. Case studies from the Dutch Mesolithic and Neolithic”, as well as the use-wear workshops scheduled for 24–25 November 2025, have been cancelled.