Beginning this October, a new thematic series will feature as part of the PCMA UW seminar: “Pot Talks – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Ceramics from Africa and Beyond”. The series is organized by Dr. Katarzyna de Lellis-Danys from the PCMA UW Department of African Studies and the National Museum in Warsaw. The lecture series will […]
The PCMA Seminar series is starting after the summer break. During the first meeting, Anna Urszula Kordas, Szymon Popławski and Dr. Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornicka will present a paper entitled: “A new discovery of a temple building in Cyprus? Preliminary observations, analyses, and reconstructions of architectural decoration found at the Latsithkia site, the Limassol District”. Abstract: “In […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo invites to a lecture by Dr. Fatma Keshk, the 2022/23 PCMA-Ifao Fellowship holder. The talk, wihich will be held in hybrid form, is entitled: “Egyptian Houses through the lens of ethnography”. Dr. Keshk, who is based in Cairo, is a graduate of Leiden University, with a PhD from […]
Dr. Francisco Núñez Calvo from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has been awarded a grant from the Honor Frost Foundation. This grant will facilitate an investigation into the palaeoenvironment of Tyre, Lebanon, during the Bronze Age. The research project is closely linked to the collaborative efforts of a multidisciplinary team from […]
The National Science Centre of Poland has announced the fourth list of recepients of its Miniatura 7 grants. Dr. Patryk Chudzik from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw is among those awarded. His project “Burial customs in ancient Egypt at the end of the Third millennium BCE. A case study of the […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw is moving to a new office in the same building. The relocation began on 16th of August and will last about a week. The PCMA UW remains in the office building by the Daszyński Roundabout (69 Prosta St). The new office is located on floor 6A. […]
Dr. Marcin Kotyl from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has been awarded a research fellowship from the Bekker NAWA Programme for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cologne. As part of the fellowship, Dr. Kotyl will work on his project “Musical instruments in Graeco-Roman Egypt: A papyrological and archeological […]
PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo and Institut français d’archéologie orientale awarded their fifth joint Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The new Fellow will be Dr. Cristina Alù. As part of the scholarship, she will organize a conference “Place-making in the desertscape: the socialization of the Egyptian-Sudanese Eastern Desert landscape in the longue durée (4th millennium BCE–4th century […]
The Director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw announces a competition for the position of an adjunct (post-doc) in the project “Życie w Makuryckiej Metropoli: Bioarcheologiczne badania średniowiecznej Starej Dongoli, Sudan” (Life in the Makurian Metropolis: A Bioarchaeological Inquiry into Medieval Old Dongola, Sudan), NCN nr 2020/37/B/HS3/00348-OPUS 19. Detailed requirements can […]
Director of the NCN project nr 2022/45/B/HS3/01708-OPUS 23 entitled “Życie w Makuryckiej Metropoli: Bioarcheologiczne badania średniowiecznej Starej Dongoli, Sudan” (Life in the Makurian Metropolis: A Bioarchaeological Inquiry into Medieval Old Dongola, Sudan) announces a competition for the position of student/PhD student at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw. Detailed requirements can be […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Artur Obłuski, director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology UW, has been appointed associate professor by the University Senate’s resolution of June 29, 2023. Prof. Artur Obłuski, PhD, has been the director of the PCMA UW since 2020, having served as acting director for the previous two […]
With sadness, we received the news of the passing of Beata Madaj, a long-time employee of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. She had been working at the University of Warsaw for three decades. In 2001, she transferred to the PCMA administration from the University of Warsaw Bursary. At the PCMA, she […]