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The Division for Research on Sub-Saharan Africa is pleased to invite you to the Seminar on contemporary Nigerian poetry, including the work of Hausa poets on the Covid-19. During the meeting, the latest publication illustrating the role of culture in times of pandemic will be presented: Corona Blues. A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry on Corona Virus, edited by I. Bala and K. Imam. The meeting will be honored with the participation of invited guests, i.e. the book editors and representatives of All Poet Network from Nigeria.
The Seminar will take place on 7 April (Wednesday) at 18:00 (Warsaw time). It will be held online via Zoom and is open to public.
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We are pleased to inform you that the electronic version of the 33rd volume of our journal, Études et Travaux, is already available (without any limitations) on the journal’s website. This Egyptological volume is devoted especially to the research on Egyptian temples.
The 33rd volume of Études et Travaux has been funded through the programme of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of Poland entitled “Narodowy Program Rozwoju Humanistyki” in 2016-2021 (“The National Programme for the Development of the Humanities”; project no. 3bH 15 0099 83).
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The Section for the Study of Cultures along the Silk Road is pleased to invite you to the fourth lecture in the series “On and Beyond the Silk Road: I. Meeting of Cultures”. The lecture “On the Buddhist Indus Script and Scriptures of the Sāṃmitīyas” by Dr. habil. Dragomir Dimitrov will take place on 26 February (Friday) at 5 pm (Warsaw time). It will be held online via MS Teams and is open to the public.
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Candrālaṃkāra, fol. 2a
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The Section for the Study of Cultures along the Silk Road is pleased to invite you to the fifth lecture in the series “On and Beyond the Silk Road: I. Meeting of Cultures”. The lecture “New Ruins in an Old Context: The Buddhist Site of Toplukdong (Domoko) in Khotan (7th–9th c. CE)” by Prof. Erika Forte will take place on 12 March (Friday) at 10 am (Warsaw time). It will be held online via MS Teams and is open to the public.
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On February 2, 2021, Professor Anna Mrozek-Dumanowska died.
The Professor was associated with our institution since 1965, that is for over fifty years – first as the Section for Social and Cultural Issues of Contemporary Africa, then, from 1976, the Department of Non-European Countries, and from 2011 – as the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures Oriental Polish Academy of Sciences. Undoubtedly, Professor Mrozek-Dumanowska created our institution and shaped its research profile. She was a philosopher and orientalist (Arabic studies) by education. She studied both faculties at the University of Warsaw. She also conducted research in the field of sociology and religious studies. The Professor's scientific achievements include monographs, editorial teams, articles, book chapters, papers at national and international conferences, research projects, reviews of dissertations and publications, as well as editorial issues of our journals. The Author’s many-sided interests draw attention: initially, it was Arab philosophy, relations between Islam and Christianity, and nation-building processes in Africa; then contemporary Islam and its social functions, and later - phenomena on the border of religion and magic, and movements of religious renewal. What united these studies was the desire to understand the essence of social change in the countries of the so-called Third World, which our research team worked on. The reality of the Third World changed more than the reality of the first or the second world and applying the matrices of our development to the local reality gave rise to numerous paradoxes. For Professor Mrozek-Dumanowska, religion and its social functions were the reference point for research on social change, and the main research field was Islam and the Muslim world. In the 1970s, exposing the social functions of religion was not popular, and among researchers of the Third World the dominant theory was modernization, which assumed gradual secularization and westernization of this world. Only the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 showed the social and political potential of religion, confirming the correctness of Professor's predictions.