Invitation to the seminar ABC of European Heritage. Archaeology of the Byzantine Commonwealth.

At the request of the organisers, we are sending an invitation to participate in an online seminar entitled ABC of European Heritage. Archaeology of the Byzantine Commonwealth.

The invitation is addressed to both staff and students of WA UW.

The aim of this initiative is to popularise the study of Byzantium and its heritage in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It is made possible with funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. (Project Ex Oriente Lux – modernisation and internationalisation of heritage studies in eastern Poland; Science for Society programme no. NdS/543907/2021/2022).

Below are some organisational details:

1). only a seminar is organised, no publication is planned;

2). we are using the zoom platform;

3). of course, students from any country can register;

4). the meeting will be held in an online format. The lecture – 45 minutes – will be translated simultaneously into Polish and Ukrainian;

5). Power Point presentations (e.g. captions to figures) will be prepared in English;

6). three blocks of lectures will be organised (approx. 9:00 – approx. 15:00)

a). 26.-29.02.2024

b). 13.-16.05.2024

c). 10.-13.06.2024

7). The term Byzantine Commonwealth refers to Orthodox areas in the Middle Ages from Sudan to Novgorod and from Sicily to Armenia.

The entire seminar will be available in Polish. It will be translated by A. Jakimowicz translation service.

Those interested may contact Dr. Marcin Woloszyn.

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Applications to be added to class participant lists

Dear Students,

I would like to kindly remind you that in the case of obtaining the lecturer’s consent to be added to the list of participants for classes for which the limit of places has been reached, you should submit an application in the USOS system after the start of a new semester and the end of the registration deadline. The application submitted in USOS should include confirmation of the lecturer’s approval (this can be in the form of an email sent by the instructor from the official UW email account). Applications submitted before 24.02 will not be considered.

Best regards

Elżbieta Jaskulska

Vice Dean for Student Affairs WA UW

4th Edition of the WA UW Student Minigrants Competition

We announce the call for applications in the 4th edition of the WA UW Student Minigrants Competition in the academic year 2023/2024. The application should be submitted electronically with attachments by sending it from an account in the domain student.uw.edu.pl to: wa.studia@uw.edu.pl with the header containing the title “WA UW Student Minigrants Competition 4”. Competition details and template documents are available at: https://www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/studia-program-studia-dzienne-i-wieczorowe/pion-prodziekan-ds-studenckich/minigranty-studenckie/ Applications must be submitted by 14.01.2024 until 23:59. The competition cut-off – date will be announced after the end of application collection.

PhD opportunity in archaeobotany

We got information on PhD opportunity to share with interested students.

We invite applications for a funded, full-time PhD position of 42 months duration under the ERC Consolidator Grant (101087964) project led by Prof. Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute Keen titled PAST AND FUTURE MILLET FOODWAYS (MILWAYS) The successful candidate will be based at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of History at Vilnius University (Lithuania). The project will be coordinated by Vilnius University, with work distributed across several countries in north-eastern and central Europe.

You can find detailed information at: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/121163

Presentation on the diploma process

Dear Students,

I am sending the promised presentation on the diploma process and the meeting recording from January 17th this year.

Diploma-process-for-students – presentation in pdf

Diploma process for students – recording of the meeting (provided by Google Drive, required to log in with a student account)

Yours faithfully,

Elizabeth Jaskulska

Vice-Dean for Student Affairs of the Faculty of Archeology of the University of Warsaw

Student representative election results

I kindly inform you that on November 10, the results of the election of student representatives at the Faculty of Archeology were announced.

The following were elected to the Student Council of the Faculty of Archeology of the University of Warsaw:

1. BELKIEWICZ Klaudia Monika
2. CHMIELEWSKI-GILL Jan Alexander
3. FORNAL Nikola Lucyna
4. KOBOJEK Weronika Wiktoria
5. KURJAN Izabella Natalia

Student representatives in the Council of the Faculty of Archeology of the University of Warsaw were:

1. KURJAN Izabella Natalia
2. SŁUGOCKI Jarema Ryszard
3. SZYMANEK Jędrzej Filip

The published election protocols are attached (in Polish only): Protokół – RSS WA – okr. wyb. nr 19; Protokół – RW WA.

Congratulations to all those selected, and I look forward to fruitful cooperation.

Elżbieta Jaskulska

Vice-Dean for Student Affairs
Faculty of Archeology, University of Warsaw

Voting for the Councils at the Faculty of Archeology of the University of Warsaw

Dear Students,

I would like to kindly inform you that, following the announcement of the Electoral Commission of the Students’ Council of the University of Warsaw on October 27, 2022, details of the election of student representatives to councils at the Faculty of Archeology of the University of Warsaw have been announced. Please see the notice. Details available on the website of the Election Commission: http://ukw.samorzad.uw.edu.pl/

Faculty of Archeology – election announcement (in Polish only)

3rd of October – day free of classes

I kindly inform you that the Rector of the University of Warsaw has announced the 3rd of October as a day free of classes. The normal schedule will commence on the 4th of October (Tuesday).

Best regards,

Elżbieta Jaskulska

Vice-dean for Students Affairs
Faculty of Archaeology UW

Additional registration for courses

Dear Students,

In connection with emerging inquiries about adding more students to the class lists, on which registration is closed due to the lack of places, I would like to kindly inform you that requests for additional registrations will be considered after October 21, when the possibility of registering for courses is closed for students. Before the deadline, students can add themselves to the lists if a place becomes available. Applications for additional registrations will be considered in the order of applications.

After October 21, the student applying to be added to the list must apply with a request to be added to the closed list, enclosing in the attachment the consent of the tutor to admit the student (consent may be given in the form of an e-mail sent from the lecturer’s official account).

Yours faithfully,

Elżbieta Jaskulska

Vice-Dean for Student Affairs
Faculty of Archaeology
University of Warsaw