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Intensive Polish Language Course

The University of Warsaw is offering an unpaid 76-hour intens [read more]

Building and working hours during the holidays

Ladies and Gentlemen, please be advised that the following working arrangements apply during the 2021 holiday period: JULY History Faculty building open 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. WH Library and Reading Room open 9:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. Administration (secretariats,...

Polish Returns

The aim of the Polish Returns NAWA Programme is to allow prominent Polish scientists to return to their country and take up employment at Polish higher education institutions, scientific units or research institutes. The Programme will create optimal conditions for...

Innovative Polish-Norwegian research project

The project “Symbolic Resources and Political Structures on the Periphery: Legitimization of the ELITES in Poland and Norway, c. 1000 – 1300” focuses on the forms and means of symbolic power the members of the political elites in the two...

Prof. Henryk Samsonowicz passed away

It was with great sorrow that we learned of the death of Prof. Henryk Samsonowicz. Born in 1930, Henryk Samsonowicz was an eminent historian, an expert on the history of the Middle Ages and an important man of the University...

Pindaricus Fortunatus? How well did Venantius Fortunatus know Pindar?

27 V (4.45 Warsaw time): Enno Friedrich (Universität Graz), Pindaricus Fortunatus? How well did Venantius Fortunatus (Gaul, 6th c. CE) know Pindar (Greece, 5th c. BCE)? Venantius Fortunatus, late antique author of occasional poems, letters, saints’ lives and one hagiographical...