CONFERENCES. ORGANISATION

Broadening Horizons 6. Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue,
Freie Universitat Berlin, Gemany, June 24th-28th, 2019.
Member of the Scientific Committee.

Broadening Horisons 5: Civilisations in Contact,
University of Udine, Italy, June 5th-8th, 2017.
Member of the Scientific Committee.

Current Research on Assyrian Landscapes,
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
May 18th-20th, 2017.
Chief organiser.

Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East.
60e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale,
University of Warsaw, Poland, July 22nd-25th, 2014,
Member of the organisation committee.

8th International Congress on Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE),
Universityy f Warsaw, Poland, April 30th – May 4th, 2012.
Member of the organisation committee.

CONFERENCES. PARTICIPATION

Kultur – Kontakt – Kultur,
66e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI),
Frankfurt/Maintz, Germany, July 25th-29th, 2022,
paper presented:
„The Old-Assyrian Eponym List and the Chronology of Northern Mesopotamia of the second Millennium BCE”.

International Workshop: In Search of Ancient Gaugamela
Kraków, Poland, February 17th-18th, 2022,
paper presented:
“Contribution of the Upper Greater Zab Archaeological Reconnaissance Project to the Knowledge of the Historical Geography of Iraqi Kurdistan”.

12th International Congress of Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE),
Bologna, Italy, April 6rd-9th, 2021,
paper presented:
“Middle and Late Bronze pottery distribution in the north-eastern Mesopotamia. Insights from the UGZAR project”.

Changing Clusters and Migrations in the Bronze Age,
Vienna, Austria, December 4th-6th, 2019,
paper presented:
„Changing Clusters and Migrations in the central Jezirah (NE Syria).”

11th International Congress of Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE),
Munich, Germany, April 3rd-7th, 2018,
paper presented:
“Upper Greater Zab Archaeological reconnaissance– a summary report”.

The 2nd International Scientific Conference Archaeology
and Heritage of Hawler-Erbil,
Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, May 12nd, 2018,
paper presented:
„Archaeological Reconnaissance in the naxia of Shaqlawa
- a summary report”.

Polacy na Bliskim Wschodzie,
Warsaw, Poland, July 7th-9th, 2018,
paper presented:
„Historia osadnicza irackiego Kurdystanu. Rezultaty ostatniego sezonu badań terenowych”
(Settlment History of Iraqi Kurdistan. Report on the terminal field season
of the project). 

Current Research on Assyrian Landscapes,
Poznań, Poland, May 18th-20th, 2017,
paper presented:
"Studying Past Landscapes and Settlement History along the Greater Zab".

Current Research on Assyrian Landscapes,
Poznań, Poland, May 18th-20th, 2017,
paper presented: (with D. Ławecka)
„From Scattered Villages to Urban Sites: the Early Bronze Age settlement in the UGZAR area”.

Current Research on Assyrian Landscapes,
Poznań, Poland, May 18th-20th, 2017,
paper presented:
„Landscapes of Continuity: Settlement and Pottery in the UGZAR area during the Middleand Late Bronze Age”.

Current Research on Assyrian Landscapes,
Poznań, Poland, May 18th-20th, 2017,
paper presented:
„Late Sasanian and Islamic pottery in the UGZAR area – a short overview”.

Polscy na Bliskim Wschodzie – 2017,
Warsaw, Poland, May 25th-26th, 2017,
paper presented:
„Historia osadnicza irackiego Kurdystanu: badania na równinie Harir
w 2016 roku".
(Settlement history of Iraqi Kurdistan: survey on the Harir Plain in 2016)”.

Polacy na Bliskim Wschodzie: badania archeologiczne, studia, konserwacja
(Poles in the Near East: archaeological research, studies, preservation),
Warsaw, Poland, April 1st-3rd, 2016,
papers presented:
„Rashid International: aims and developments”, “Polish Archaeology in Iraq 2001-2015”,
"Settlement history of Iraqi Kurdistan project: a half-way assessment”. 

10th International Conference on the Archaeology of Ancient Near East (ICAANE),
Vienna, Austria, April 25th-29th, 2016,
paper presented:
„An Archaeological reconnaissance in the Greater Zab area
of the Iraqi Kurdistan (UGZAR) 2012-2015”.

New Perspectives on the Chronology of the Early Second Millennium BC
in the Near East and Egypt, 
Lille, France, September 8th-9th, 2015,
paper presented:
„Radiocarbon Chronology of the Post-Akkadian to Old Babylonian Transition in the Jezireh”. 

Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East,
60e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI),
Warsaw, Poland, July 22nd-25th, 2014,
paper presented:
„Misfortunes of Yasmah-Addu, king of Mari”.

Advances in the Polish Remote Sensing
and Computer Applications in Archaeology,
Warsaw, Poland, June 12nd-13th, 2014,
paper presented:
„The use of satellite imagery in an archeological survey in Iraqi Kurdistan”. 

The city of Akre between its fragrant past, … present and future,
University of Duhok, Akre, Iraqi Kurdistan, April 12nd –13rd 2014,
paper presented:
„The City of Akre and its Area in the Early Historical Period”.

International Mediterranean Survey Workshop,
Groningen, Holland, April 26th–27th, 2013,
paper presented:
„Studying Settlement on the Hilly Flank – the Upper Greater Zab
ReconnaissanceProject in Iraqi Kurdistan 2012”.

Archaeological Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and in the adjacent area,
Athens, Greece, November 1st-3rd, 2013,
paper presented:
„Insights into the settlement history of Iraqi Kurdistan from the Upper Greater Zab
Archaeological Reconnaissance Project field seasons 2012 and 2013”.

Understanding Hegemonic Practices of the Early Assyrian Empire,
Leiden, Holland, March 15th-16th, 2013,
paper presented:
„Making Mitanni Assyrian”.

8th International Congress on Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE),
Warsaw, Poland, April 30th – May 4th, 2012,
paper presented:
„Generation count at Tell Arbid, Sector P”.

8th International Congress on Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE),
Warsaw, Poland, April 30th – May 4th, 2012,
poster presented: (with X. Kolińska)
„Kelek Mishik Field School 2011”. 

8th International Congress of Hittitology,
Warsaw, September 5th-9th, 2011, Warsaw, Poland,
paper presented:
„Kanesh Eponym List G and the History of North Mesopotamia in the 18th Century BC”.

Legal and Illicit Trade with Cultural Heritage,
Warsaw, Poland, May 12th-13th, 2011,
paper presented:
„War and crisis. The Iraqi Lesson”.

Grave Inventories and Their (Inter)Regional Context. An Interdisciplinary Approach,
Tübingen, Germany, November 25th-27th, 2010,
paper presented:
„Architecture, artifacts and anthropology of death at OJ cemeteries
at Tell Arbid, Sector P”.

7th International Congress on Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE),
London, Great Britain, April 12th – 17th, 2010,
paper presented:
„Tell Arbid at the turn of the third millennium BC”.

The Archaeology of the Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont in the Second Millennium BC,
Berlin, Germany, January 21st –23rd , 2010,
paper presented:
„XXth century BC in the Habur Triangle region and the advent of the Old Assyrian trade with Anatolia”.

Constituent, Confederate and Conquered Space in Upper Mesopotamia:
The Case of the Mitanni Transition,
Berlin, Germany, July 13th –15th, 2009,
paper presented:
„Settled Space - Evidence for change in settlement patterns”.

IIIrd Symposium on Environmental Archaeology: Archaeozoology in Poland
and in central and eastern Europe, materials, methods, interpretations,
Koszęcin, Poland, November 27th-29th, 2009,
paper presented:
„Interpretation of differentiation of composition of animal remains retrieved from various 
functional contexts. Some case studies from Northern Mesopotamia”.

6th International Congress of Archaeology of the Ancient Near East,
Rome, Italy, 5th-10th May, 2008,
paper presented:
„The mountain sheep are sweeter….”.

City Administration in the Ancient Near East,
53e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale,
Moscow – St. Petersburg, Russia, July 23rd-28th, 2007,
paper presented:
„Between City Institutions and Markets: Mesopotamian traders of the 2nd millennium BC”.

Broadening Horizons 2,
Lyon, France, June 17th-18th, 2007,
paper presented:
„On grain, bones and Khabur collapse”.

Neue Forschungsergebnisse zur Archäozoologie und Anthropologie, 5.
Tagung der Gesselschaft fűr Archäozoologie und prähistorische Anthropologie,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Spetember 28th – October 1st, 2004,
paper presented: (with J. Piątkowska-Małecka)
„Animal Bone Remains from Tell Arbid in North-East Syria“.

4th International Conference of Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE),
Berlin, Germany, March 29th – April 3rd, 2004,
paper presented:
„Animals in the steppe: Patterns of animal husbandry as a reflection
of changing environmental conditions in the Khabur triangle”. 

4th International Conference of Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE),
Berlin, Germany, March 29th – April 3rd, 2004,
poster presented:
„Babylon through the war”.

Dark Ages and Transitional Periods in the Archaeology of Near East,
International Berlin-Copenhagen Seminar,
Copenhagen, Danmark, January 31st – February 1st, 2003,
paper presented:
„Dark Ages and Transitional Periods in the Khabur Triangle during
the Later Part of the third millennium BC”.

3rd International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE),
Paris, France, April 15th – 18th, 2002,
paper presented:
„The Middle Bronze Settlement at Tell Arbid, Northern Syria”.

Nomades et sedentaires dans la Proche Orient Ancien,
47e Rencontre Assiriologique Internationale,
Paris, France, July 9th – 12th, 2000,
paper presented:
„Tell Fakhar: a dimtu settlement or the city of Kuruhanni?”

Landscapes, Borders and Territories in Ancient Mesopotamia,
44e Rencontre Assiriologique Internationale,
Venice, Italy, July 7th – 11th, 1997,
paper read in absence:
„The Hinterland of Assyria: The upper Tigris valley in the 2nd millennium BC”.

Landwirtschaft im Alten Mesopotamien,
41e Rencontre Assiriologique Internationale,
Berlin, Germany, July 7th – 10th, 1994,
paper presented:
„Land Use in the Upper Tigris valley”.

House and Household in Ancient Mesopotamia,
40e Rencontre Assiriologique Internationale,
Leiden, Holland, July 5th – 8th, 1993,
paper presented:
„Building a house in 3rd millennium Northern Mesopotamia:
when Vision Collides with Reality”.

Assyrien im Wandel der Zeiten.
39e Rencontre Assiriologique Internationale,
Heidelberg, Germany, July 6th – 10th, 1992,
paper presented:
„The Form of the Old Assyrian Settlement at Tell Rijim, northern Iraq”. 

GUEST LECTURES

Contribution of the UGZAR project to historical geography of Eastern Iraq,
Institut für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Freie Universität Berlin,
Berlin, Germany, June 6th, 2016. 

Mesopotamian Temples and their Names,
Karsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
Copenhagen, Denmark, December 7th, 2006.

Polish Contribution to the Oriental Archaeology.
Salahaddin University,
Erbil,  Iraq, September 23rd, 2006.

Seven seasons of field work at Tell Arbid, Northern Syria,
Institut fűr Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Freie Universität Berlin,
Berlin, Germany, November 17th, 2002.

Tell Arbid 1996-1998. A new Polish-Syrian excavation in the Khabur Triangle, Syria.
Oriental Institute, Oxford University,
Oxford, England, June 14th, 1999.

Third Millennium BC Graves in Northeastern Syria.
Altorientalisches Seminar, Karl-Eberhard Universität,
Tübingen, Germany, January 30th, 1998.

Third Millennium Graves from Tell Rad Shaqrah, Khabur Region.
Seminar fűr Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Freie Universität Berlin,
Berlin, Germany, November 27th, 1997.

Tell Rad Shaqrah, an Early Dynastic Site on Khabur, North-East Syria,
Institut fűr Vordeasiatische Archäologie, Universität Műnchen, Műnchen, Germany, June 8th, 1997.