On 19-22 January 2025, at the invitation of His Magnificence the Rector of the University of Warsaw, His Eminence Javzandorj Dulamragchaa, Khamba Lama of the Gandantegchenlin Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, who is also the highest hierarch of the Buddhist Church in Mongolia, visited the University of Warsaw. The visit was organised by the Department of Turkic Studies and Inner Asian Peoples of the Faculty of Oriental Studies.

On 17 January, the University of Warsaw hosted the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Prof. Pham Minh Chinh. The Prime Minister met with representatives of the University authorities, including the Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Assoc. Prof. Agata Bareja-Starzyńska, Ph.D. Habil. and delivered a speech entitled “Elevating Vietnam-Poland relations to greater heights, for peace and development in Southeast Asia and Central and Eastern Europe”.

Dr Hatif Janabi, a retired member of the Arabic and Islamic Studies Department of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw, has been awarded the silver Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture by the Ministry of Culture. Our sincere congratulations!

Between December 10-14, 2024 a vist to Guinea took place. A delegation from the University of Warsaw included representatives of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, vice-dean dr. Marta Wida-Behiesse and the head of the Chair of African Languages ​​and Cultures, prof. Beata Wójtowicz, the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations (prof. Zbigniew Lasocik and vice-dean Dr. Tomasz Mering) and the Faculty of Geology (vice-dean Dr. Radosław Mieszkowski).

University of Warsaw and Gangneung–Wonju National University signed an agreement for inter-university cooperation. Both institutions will develop mutual relations in areas such as education, research, and cultural offerings. The cooperation agreement between UW and GWNU was signed on December 10th.

We are pleased to inform you that the National Science Centre has published the list of proposals qualified for funding under the PRELUDIUM 23 competition, which includes our doctoral student, Ms. Tenzin Tsenyi. Project title: The Tibetan Guide (gnas yig): A Study of the Literary Genre on Selected Examples. On behalf of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, we extend our heartfelt congratulations!

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

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.