Dear Students! Congratulations on your admission to the University of Warsaw!

We are delighted to welcome you as one of our newly admitted international students and are eager to support you on your exciting academic journey in Poland. To help you prepare for your arrival and ensure a smooth transition, Welcome Point UW is organizing the “Pre-Welcome Days”.

The Pre-Welcome Days have been specifically designed to provide essential information and guidance to international students, like yourself, before you embark on your studies at our esteemed university. These sessions will be held online, allowing you to participate from the comfort of your current location, and will be conducted in English to ensure effective communication for all participants.

Event Details

Date: 9th August (Wednesday) and 22nd August (Tuesday)
Time: 12:00 CET
Platform: Zoom

Agenda

During the Pre-Welcome Days, you can expect to receive valuable insights and information on the following key topics:

Preparing for Your Arrival in Poland

We will guide you through the essential steps you need to take before you depart for Poland, including travel arrangements, required documents, and useful tips to ease your transition.

University of Warsaw Dormitories

Get acquainted with the various dormitory options offered by the University of Warsaw and learn how to apply for accommodation, ensuring a comfortable stay during your academic pursuit.

Legalisation of Stay and Visa Issues

Our experts will provide detailed information about the legal requirements and procedures for obtaining the necessary visas, ensuring your legal status during your stay in Poland.

Registration

To register for the Pre-Welcome day please use the registration link and select the date that best suits your availability. The Zoom link will be sent only to the registered participants one day prior to the meeting.

Please keep an eye on your email for further updates of the Pre-Welcome Days.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the “Welcome Point UW” via email: welcome.event@uw.edu.pl.

Year 2024/2025

November 21: “House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction” Author’s Meeting

November 19, 2024

Join us on November 21, 2024 for an author’s meeting with Dr. Agnieszka Kotwasińska about her book “House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction” published last year by the University of Wales Press. Dr. Kotwasińska will be joined by Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, and the event will be moderated by Dr. Jędrzej Burszta.

Year 2024/2025

November 20: ‘A Plane out of Phase’ – The Dark Continuance of the Gothic 1980s

November 19, 2024

Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join for a fantastic (no pun intended) lecture by our guest, Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn from Manchester Metropolitan University! This lecture asks you to consider the dark return of the Gothic 1980s in contemporary culture. Drawing upon ideas and examples of sequelisation, IP branding, apparatus theory, YouTube video curation, nostalgic programming, weird TV, and music, and the confluence of such forms in streaming series including Stranger Things and the current media adoption of Dark MAGA, this lecture invites you to examine the toxicity of the rhetoric of restorative projections and to query its undervalued reflective nostalgia as imagined onscreen to reclaim the future from the precarious dark present.

Year 2024/2025

November 18: After the US Elections: The Futures of European Security and Transatlantic Cooperation

November 18, 2024

Together with Gazeta Wyborcza we are delighted to invite you to the whole-day conference “After the US Elections: The Futures of European Security and Transatlantic Cooperation” dedicated to the global and regional (CEE) impact of the results of the 2024 US presidential elections. We will try to parse through the scenarios regarding the relationship between the US and Europe, human rights and democracy worldwide, aid to Ukraine, and new global threats. The invited guests include President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, ASC professors, external policy experts, and journalists and editors from GW.

Year 2024/2025

November 14: Recruitment for the Student Chapter of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group

November 14, 2024

We are happy to announce that we are opening recruitment for the team coordinating the activities of the Student Chapter of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group at the ASC! This year, we would like to invite new members of the ASC community (and not only) to our team, in order to coordinate the next series of events and, above all, to make our space available to different classes of graduates at the BA and MA level.

News

The Office for Student Affairs will be closed on November 14.

November 13, 2024

We would like to kindly inform you that the Office for Student Affairs will, exceptionally, be closed on November 14. We apologize for the inconvenience.