Warsaw University

Directorial Staff:

• Prof. Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo - director
• Dr Hab. Piotr Taracha - deputy director
• Dariusz Cichocki, M.A. - deputy director

Department of African Languages and Cultures

• Head of the Department: Prof. Stanisław Piłaszewicz
• Phone: (+48 22) 55 20 517
• Studies: African and Ethiopian studies

Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies

• Head of the Department: Dr hab. Katarzyna Pachniak
• Phone: (+48 22) 55 20 343
• Studies: Arabic studies

Department of Assyriology, Hittitology and Egyptology

• Head of the Department: Dr Olga Drewnowska-Rymarz
• Phone: (+48 22) 55 20 439
• Studies: philology of the Ancient Near East

Department of Hebrew Studies

• Head of the Department: Dr Maciej Tomal
• Phone: (+48 22) 55 20 518
• Studies: Hebrew studies

Department of Iranian Studies

• Head of the Department: Dr Sylwia Surdykowska
• Phone: (+48 22) 55 20 353
• Studies: Iranian studies

Department of Japanese and Korean Studies

• Head of the Department: Dr Krystyna Okazaki
• Phone: (+48 22) 55 20 464
• Studies: Japanese and Korean studies

Department of Turkish and Central Asian Studies

• Head of the Department: Dr Agata Bareja-Starzyńska
• Phone: (+48 22) 55 20 513 (Mongolian studies) or 55 20 353 (Turkish studies)
• Studies: Section of Inner Asian Peoples

Department of Sinology

• Head of the Department: Dr hab. Lidia Kasarełło, Prof. UW
• Phone: (+48 22) 55 20 689
• Studies: Sinology and Vietnamese studies

Department of South Asian Studies

• Head of the Department: Dr Hab. Danuta Stasik
• Phone: (+48 22) 55 20 459
• Studies: Indology

International Seminar "Logic and Belief in Indian Philosophy"

Department of Studies in European Islam

• Head of the Department: Prof. Anna Parzymies
• Phone: (+48 22) 55 20 518

Centre for East European and Central Asian Studies

• Head of the Centre: Prof. Tadeusz Majda
• Phone: (+48 22) 828 53 69
• e-mail:
studium_e_w@orient.uw.edu.pl
• Complementary M.A. studies in East European countries, post-graduate studies in East European and Central Asian countries

Centre of Cross-Cultural Relations

• Head of the Centre: Prof. Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska
  e-mail: e.palasz-rutkowska@uw.edu.pl
• home page : http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/ssm/en
• Evening studies in cross-cultural relations

Teaching

The Institute proposes regular 5-years M.A. studies in the following domains: African studies, Arabic, Hebrew, Indology, Iranian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian studies, philology of the Ancient Near East, Sinology and Turkology.

Post-graduate studies in East European and Central Asian countries are offered by the Centre for East European and Central Asian Studies.

The Institute proposes also evening studies and extramural studies in Japanese and in cross-cultural relations.

Libraries

The library of the Institute is the biggest oriental library in Poland. In the end of 1999, there were 194 205 vols. (153 789 books and 35 188 periodicals). Most of them are available in the department libraries.

Each year, the library acquires some 3 000 new volumes.

The reading room gives access to all the volumes, and offers the possibility of consulting volumes from different libraries of the Polish Academy of Science, as well as items of special value, such as manuscripts.

Publications

• Bibliografia Europy Wschodniej (Polska-Litwa-Białoruś-Ukraina-Rosja
• Informator Wschodni, editor: Dariusz Maciak
• Obóz. Problemy krajów i narodów byłego obozu komunistycznego, editors: Jan Malicki, Wojciech Stanisławski, Jerzy Targalski, Akos Engelmayer
• Przegląd Wschodni, editorial board: Jan Malicki, Jolanta Sikorska-Kulesza, Andrzej Chodkiewicz, Maria Kałamajska-Saeed, Inga Kotańska
• Studia indologiczne, chief editor: Prof. Marek Mejor
• Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures, chief editor: Prof. Stanisław Piłaszewicz