This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang, recognized for her “intense poetic prose that grapples with historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” 

The novel “The Vegetarian” brought her international fame; the Polish translation, done by Dr. Justyna Najbar-Miller and Dr. Choi Jeong In from the University of Warsaw, was released in 2014 by Kwiaty Orientu publishing house and reissued in 2021 by W.A.B.

The keynote lecture was delivered by Prof. Mark Elliott, Vice-Chancellor of Harvard University. 

Prof.  Elliott is an authority on the last four centuries of Chinese history, particularly the Qing period (1636–1911). An expert in Manchu studies, he is known as a pioneering figure in the ‘New Qing History’, which emphasises the imprint of Inner Asian traditions upon China’s last imperial state. Mark Elliott is the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilisations and the Department of History at Harvard University, where he also serves as Vice Provost of International Affairs.

The Centre for Azerbaijani Studies and the Department of Turkic Studies and Inner Asian Peoples of the Faculty of Oriental Studies invite all students to an unusual opportunity to meet Professor Mukhit-Ardager Sydyknazarov, a famous Kazakh researcher, author of the exhibition “The Continuity of Kazakhstan’s Statehood in the Stream of History. The Kazakh state on the maps of Europe and America in the 15th-19th centuries”. During the meeting, the author will talk about his 17-year research on the historical continuity of Kazakhstan’s statehood and his work on collecting maps and documents in the largest archives of Europe, the USA and the Middle East.

Date: 13 November 2024 Time: 11:30, Location: Room 240, 69 Hoża Street