On behalf of the organizers we kindly invite you to the 1^st International Conference “Tibet and the Himalayas: Past and Present”  held on October 21—22, 2024, at the University of Warsaw. The conference will be a platform for discussing many aspects of Tibetan civilization and the Himalayas, including languages, literature, history, religions, culture, arts, and social and environmental problems. Further details, including the conference programme, will be announced in due time. 
For all matters related to the conference, please contact us via email tibet.himalayas@uw.edu.pl (Dr Magdalena Szpindler, conference secretary).

The main subject of the conference will allow us to discuss the core of Asian and African studies, why they matter today, what their tools and methods are, and how they can be approached. We believe that the conference will become a forum for a fruitful discussion and exchange of opinions. Prof. Mark Elliott from Harvard University kindly agreed to deliver a keynote talk.

Abstracts and registration forms shall be submitted to the email address: orient_konf@uw.edu.pl

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.