All Astern! …because the past has a future!
On behalf of the organizers of the conference “Chrysomallos III. Polscy archeolodzy nad Morzem Czarnym i na Kaukazie” we cordially invite you to take part in the conference, which will take place on June 15-16, 2023. The conference will start at 9:00 AM.
The conference has a hybrid character – in-person at the Faculty of Archaeology UW, room 2.10 and online via Google Meet => meet.google.com/mxa-sidv-qhi
A conference programme here.
We kindly invite you to the penultimate – in this academic year – Archaeo-oriental Seminar. On 12th June, 2023 at 3:00 PM dr Tomasz Michalik (Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, UW) is going to present a paper entitled “Between mental and material heritage. Perception of medieval Nubian paintings by Sudanese and Western people – eye-tracking study”.
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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Registration open for the AEA Virtual Spring Conference 2023
The AEA Virtual Spring Conference will be taking place online on 13 May 2023, with optional Basic R training sessions on 14 and 15 May 2023.
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).
Department of Archaeology of Barbaricum and the Roman Provinces invites to the lecture presented by Dr Alexander Sarantis from the Faculty of History University of Warsaw. The lecture entitled “Avar-Slav Raiding Warfare and the Balkan ‘Dark Age’, 581-750: An Archaeological Survey” will take place on 22nd March 2023 (Wednesday) at 9.45–11.15 a.m. in the Faculty of Archaeology UW, room 2.06. Invitation with summary of the lecture
We invite you to participate in the 4th Conference of the Faculty of Archaeology ‘Przeszłość ma przyszłość!/ The Past Has a Future!’, which will take place at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (Poland) on March 13th-17th, 2023.
Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to announce that Dr. Ricardo Fernandes from Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany, will come to the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw with a series of workshops/lectures. Here is the time table:
1. Introduction to Bayesian modelling of archaeological isotopic data
Tuesday, 14 March, 11:00–13:00
2. Towards a systems-based historical science
Tuesday, 14 March, 15:00–16:30
3. Case studies in South American archaeological isotopic research
Tuesday, 14 March, 16:45–17:30
4. Mediterranean isotopic research: archaeological case studies
Monday, 20 March, 9:45–11:15
All meetings will be scheduled in room 1.09 of the faculty’s building (ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Szkoła Główna). We welcome all scholars and students interested in archaeological science and Big Data approach in archaeology.
Best regards,
Arkadiusz Sołtysiak
We would like to invite you to a lecture of
Dr. Manon Schutz
(The University of Oxford and Universität Münster)
The secret life of furniture. A different view on beds, chairs, and thrones
The online lecture will take place on March 7 at 4.45 PM:
https://meet.google.com/ngu-oxhd-fqq
The lecture will be held as part of the seminar “Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia” (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw).