All Astern! …because the past has a future!
We cordially invite you to join us for the official launch of the EuroWeb Digital Atlas of European Textile Heritage, which represents one of the primary outcomes of the COST Action CA 191931 ‘Europe through Textiles: Network for an Integrated and Interdisciplinary Humanities’ hosted at the Faculty of Archaeology UW.
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Welcome Point UW invites you to a meeting on legalizing your stay in Poland, dedicated to foreign students and doctoral students of the UW.
Meetings will be held on the Main Campus:
Registration via forms:
If you have any questions, please write to: welcome.event@uw.edu.pl
We cordially invite you to a lecture by Prof. François-Xavier Fauvelle (Collège de France in Paris). Lecture “Cultural Diversity, Ecological Thresholds, and the African Middle Ages” will take place on April 3, 2023 (Monday), at 17:00 in the Column Hall of the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw. In addition, there will be a discussion about the book “Penser l’Histoire de l’Afrique”.
Abstract
Africa is a surprisingly diverse continent in terms of cultures, as is illustrated by the diversity in languages, traditional systems of social organization, political systems, techniques, or traditional food production economies. Why is it so? What can we make of this diversity in terms of history? A closer look into the history of several regions of Africa suggests that this diversity is a social response to the environmental diversity of the African continent: in Africa probably more than elsewhere, societies had to adjust to very constraining milieus and to find new opportunities in them. It is thus interesting to observe that many African polities in the Middle Ages had their capital on ecological thresholds. Based on documented examples from the Horn of Africa (the sultanate of Ifât), West Africa (the kingdoms of Ghâna and Mâli) and East Africa, it is suggested that such environments worked as places of both ethnic differentiation and commercial interfaces with the broader medieval world.
Bio François-Xavier Fauvelle
François-Xavier Fauvelle is the Professor of Ancient African History and Archaeology at the Collège de France in Paris. A former director of several research institutions in France and abroad, he organized and hosted the biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists in 2016. He was the coordinator of several research programs in Africa, mainly in Ethiopia and in Morocco. He is the author or editor of around 20 books and the author or coauthor of around 150 academic articles. His book The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages, originally published in French in 2013, received the main French award for academic history books; it was published in Polish (Złoty nosorożec : dzieje średniowiecznej Afryki, Dialog, 2018). He recently published Penser l’histoire de l’Afrique (2022) et Les Masques et la mosquée : l’empire du Mâli (2022).
We cordially invite you to a lecture by Mr. Aleksander Schwartz, an expert of the Rabbinical Commission for Cemeteries, a specialist in Jewish law in the field of cemeteries and burials.
Lecture “Practical application of Jewish law in research on cemeteries and burial grounds of Holocaust victims” will take place on February 27, 2023 (Monday), at 1:15 pm, room 2.10 (first floor), in the building of the Faculty of Archeology of the University of Warsaw at Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28.
Students who want to do archaeological excavation practice at the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw are required to attend the lecture.
The XXVII Archaeological Festival in Biskupin is fast approaching.
Every year, we will be present at the Festival, and our students will perform shows and talk about the past.
This year’s Archaeological Festival refers to the slogan “Mother Nature” and will take place on September 14-18, 2022. The organizers, apart from the traditional sightseeing, according to the chronology of the reconstructions located in the Park, proposed 5 educational paths, the content of which is directly related to the theme of the Festival.
More information can be found at www.biskupin.pl/festyn2022/
We invite you to participate in this unique event!
We have the pleasure invite you to the archeo-oriental seminar on which dr. Karel Innemée (Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam) will give a lecture on “The non-verbal communication of costumes of authority”.
The lecture will be held on Monday (May 30) at 11:30 AM.
Link to the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83327401035qr
Abstract:
“Costumes of wordly and religious leaders have multiple layers of meaning. Firstly, there is the aspect of ‘dress to impress’, often by making the person look larger than others. Secondly, there are ways of ‘reading’ the costume and its details. For the outsider it will be clear that he/she is dealing with a king, queen or bishop, but the insiders will be able to distinguish more details, hidden in attributes and decorations. How far are we, as researchers, able to go into this non-verbal language of costumes of authority? A case study from Nubia as a foretaste of a new research project.”
