We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 7th Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Archaeology, “Przeszłość ma przyszłość!/ The Past Has a Future!”, which will take place on April 13–17, 2026, at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Following the tradition of previous years, the conference has been planned as an event of both international and national scope.
We invite you to organise one- or two-day sessions and workshops addressing specific research topics. To foster a deeper dialogue, we encourage involving representatives from other units in the co-organisation of the session. Please note that session organisers collect submissions from participants of their panel and then forward the final programme to the conference organisers.
Those who wish to present their research results outside thematic panels are invited to submit abstracts for the “Archeowieści” reporting session. In this case, please send the registration form directly to us.
To reach the widest possible audience, we encourage organising panels and submitting abstracts in English.
This year, we are accepting submissions until November 30, 2025.
Conference schedule:
30.11.2025 – Submission of thematic sessions or workshops, and abstracts for the “Archeowieści” reporting session
31.12.2025 – Notification of acceptance
13–17.04.2026 – 7th Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, “Przeszłość ma przyszłość!/ The Past Has a Future!”
The registration form should be sent to: wauw_1@uw.edu.pl. Please also direct any questions or comments regarding the conference to this address.
The registration form can be downloaded here.
Organisers: Adam Cieśliński, Aleksander Dzbyński, Marta Kaczanowicz, Marcin Wagner (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)
Session format: in-person
Session language: Polish
For more information see => Numizmatyka na styku dyscyplin – Wydział Archeologii UW
Organisers: Mikołaj Pławiński, Ludwika Jończyk, (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw), Rytis Jonaitis, Irma Kaplūnaitė (Lithuanian Institute of History)
Session format: in-person
Session language: Polish/English
The spread of Christianity in various parts of the vast Baltic region was a long process that lasted for more than half a millennium and gradually transformed all aspects of human life as well as the perception of death and eschatological concepts, and consequently, also the funerary rituals.
The session will focus on discussing the changes – or their absence – in different aspects of daily life, material culture, and burial practices, in all their diversity. The aim of the session is to describe and explain the mechanisms of transformation brought about by the spread of Christianity in different parts of the Baltic region during the last centuries of the first and the early centuries of the second millennium AD.
Organisers: Anna Juga-Szymańska, Paweł Szymański (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)
Session format: in-person
Session language: Polish
For more information see => Różne oblicza archeologii archiwalnej II – Wydział Archeologii UW
Organiser: Dariusz Błaszczyk (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)
Session format: in-person
Session language: Polish
For more information see => Archeogenetyka – teraźniejszość i przyszłość badań kopalnego DNA w archeologii w Polsce – Wydział Archeologii UW
Organisers: Julia Chyla, Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, Michał Starski (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)
Session format: in-person
Session language: Polish
For more information see => RADOGOST: cyfrowe dane archeologiczne w praktyce badawczej – Wydział Archeologii UW
Organisers: Agata Ulanowska, Monika Kaczmarek, Kinga Winnicka, Katarzyna Żebrowska (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Magdalena Przymorska-Sztuczka (Archaeological Museum in Biskupin), Gerasimoula Ioanna Nikolovieni (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University)
Session format: in-person
Session language: English
Textile tools, specifically clay spindle whorls and loom weights, frequently comprise the basic, albeit indirect, evidence for textile production in past societies. Over the last 20 years, notable progress in textile tools studies has made them not only informative about the qualities of textiles produced using them, but also brought them into the mainstream of archaeological artefacts, which has led to their publication in more comprehensive and comparative ways. However, both spindle whorls and loom weights are only parts of more complex implements and sets, such as spindles and distaffs, and always many tools were required to produce a textile. Textile tools kits included a series of different instruments, either personal or communal, including, e.g. spinning bowls, dyeing implements, carders, combs, metal scissors, metal and bone needles designed for different purposes, pins, hooks, shuttles, weft beaters, so called pin-beaters, various loom-types, and many more, several of which served multifunctional roles. But textile tools kits are found only occasionally, and since tools were frequently dispersed, they are often published separately according to the material from which they were made, while some may still await proper recognition. In this session, we would like to focus on textile tool kits by asking questions about their contexts – domestic, ritual, funerary; their specific functions and purposes, and use-wear; the particular sets of tools that might constitute a kit; their materiality, including a broad range of materials and tool making techniques, and, finally, possible biographies of textile tool kits that made them such unique finds.
Organisers: Marta Kaczanowicz, Anna Wodzińska, Dobrochna Zielińska (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Session format: in-person
Session language: English
Our aim is to encourage reflection on the changing concept of space in archaeology – how it is defined, experienced, and represented in material sources; how categories such as “public” and “private” have developed in different cultural and historical contexts; and how the boundaries between them are shaped through social practices. We welcome both regional and comparative approaches, encompassing various periods and research traditions. Topics may include, but are not limited to: changing perceptions of space over time, gendered and geographical differences, ritual aspects, and other perspectives that broaden the understanding of this multifaceted phenomenon. We hope this session will become a meeting ground for diverse research traditions and theoretical perspectives, as well as a forum for sharing concrete research results (case studies) that help us understand how space was (and continues to be) created through everyday, ritual, and symbolic practices.
Organisers: Adam Cieśliński, Aleksander Dzbyński, Marta Kaczanowicz, Marcin Wagner (Wydział Archeologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Polska)
Session format: in-person
Session language: Polish
For more information see => Sposoby produkcji ceramiki naczyniowej w starożytności i we wczesnym średniowieczu na terenach dzisiejszej Polski – Wydział Archeologii UW
Organiser: Piotr Jaworski (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)
Session format: in-person
Session language: Polish
For more information see => Miasto z widokiem. 25 lat badań Wydziału Archeologii UW w Ptolemais – Wydział Archeologii UW
Organisers: Katarzyna Pyżewicz, Marcin Wagner (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw), Barbara Wagner (Biological and Chemical Research Centre University of Warsaw, Faculty of Chemistry University of Warsaw)
Session format: in-person
Session language: Polish
For more information see => Zabytek archeologiczny w laboratorium – Wydział Archeologii UW
Organisers: Dariusz Błaszczyk, Marta Kaczanowicz, Marcin Wagner (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)
Session format: stacjonarna/in-person
Session language: Polish/English
The presentations in this session will focus on key research problems formulated by scholars in the course of their archaeological investigations. The talks will also serve as an attempt to synthesize and summarize the scientific and research activities of the staff of our Faculty, carried out both individually and within research teams—often formed in collaboration with researchers from various institutions. The session will additionally highlight the role and significance of different disciplines supporting archaeology.
This year’s edition will focus on Polish archaeological research not only in Egypt and Sudan, but also in Ethiopia and Tanzania.