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

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.

Prof. Adam Izdebski: „Do we need boundaries between scientific disciplines?”

Knowledge is one, just as reality and truth are one, and we desire complete, multi-layered, complex cognition. However, in such an understanding of interdisciplinarity, when going beyond fragmented, disciplinary views of the world, full autonomy of scientific methods is still necessary. And for this we need disciplines, because they are a form of cultivating the autonomy of methods.

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Lecture: “Life after The Ice. Palaeoecological context of the post-glacial human settlements in SW Germany”

Dear Colleagues,
We warmly invite you to a lecture that will take place on Monday, May 26, 2025, at 9:45 AM in room 2.06. Dr. Elisa Luzi from the University of Tübingen will give a talk titled: “Life after The Ice. Palaeoecological context of the post-glacial human settlements in SW Germany”.

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Monday Seminars

Dear Colleagues,

You are warmly invited to attend two guest lectures that will take place this coming Monday, 12 May 2025.

The first lecture will be held at 9:45 AM in room 2.06.
Dr. Mario Mata-Gonzalez from the Max Planck Institute in Jena and the University of Malta will present:

“Did anything change? A zooarchaeological history of the Middle & Upper Paleolithic occupations at Ghar-e Boof, southern Zagros”

The second lecture will be held at 3:00 PM in room 2.07.
Dr. Ivan Rey Rodriguez from the University of Vigo will present:

“Small mammals and their role in Archaeology, from Central Asia to the Caucasus”

Further details can be found in the attached documents.
Both lectures are part of our departmental seminar series, but are open to all interested participants.
We kindly ask you to share this information with any students who may be interested in attending.

With best regards,
Małgorzata Kot
Claudio Berto