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5th edition of the Student Mini-Grants Competition, year 2025/2026

Dear Students,

we are pleased to announce the call for applications to the 5th edition of the Student Microgrants Competition at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (WA UW) for the 2025/2026 academic year.

Applications must be submitted electronically along with attachments, sent from an account in the student.uw.edu.pl domain to: wa.studia.pl@uw.edu.pl. Please use the following subject line: “Student Microgrants Competition WA UW 5”.

The competition is open to students of first-cycle (BA) and second-cycle (MA) full-time studies in Archaeology, as well as students of the Archaeology “Studies in English” program, who meet the following criteria:

  • have completed at least one study stage (year) and achieved a grade average of at least 4.0 at the end of the stage preceding the year in which the competition is announced;
  • for first-year MA students, the grade average from the end of the third year of BA studies will be considered.

Full details of the competition and templates are available on the website:
https://www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/studia-program-studia-dzienne-i-wieczorowe/pion-prodziekan-ds-studenckich/minigranty-studenckie/

Application deadline: March 31, 2026, 11:59 PM. The results will be announced after the application period closes.

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Field walking survey – spring 2026

Dear Students,

The spring field exercises will take place on 23–27 March 2026. Information is available on our website in the Studies – Field Exercises section, where offers will be published gradually. Registration is carried out with the instructors.

Zuzanna Mianowska

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Invitation to the lecture

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

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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.pl
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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.

Continue reading “PALPROX MSCA Doctoral Network recrutiment”

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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.

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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

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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

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