Dear Professors, Colleagues, dear Friends,

You are cordially invited to deliver a lecture during the First Interdisciplinary Meeting: Seeking Origins and Manifestations of Religion which will be held from 28th to 29th of June 2010 at the Pultusk Academy of Humanities in Pultusk in Poland. The conference is to commemorate Polish eminent scholar and philosopher late Professor Leszek Kołakowski.

The deadline for the abstracts submission is the 15th of March 2010. Please send your abstract at the following address: lp.otnokorp@ecnerefnocler
All topics concerned with scholarly approach to religion in all its aspects and forms are welcomed, including papers of ancient as well as contemporary times. We invite scholars of various specialities, archaeologists, anthropologists of culture, linguists, scholars studying religion and culture matters, all willing to discuss religion in its broad sense.

The registration fees are as follows:

Full registration – participants delivering lectures:
130 PLN

Student registration – all level students:
70 PLN

The conference participants are also invited to take part in the welcome reception on Monday the 28th of June

For more information do not hesitate to contact Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska at moc.liamtoh@gaksleipopannaoj or Bożena Józefów at moc.liamtoh@wofezojanezob

Those who have already visited us in during the Fifth Central European Conference of Egyptologists in June 2009 know that Pułtusk, the so-called Venice of the North, offers a lot to be seen. You are whole-heartedly invited to visit Pultusk.
Enjoy the conference and:

the XVth century collegiate church with famous coffered, florally ornamented ceiling;

the longest cobblestone market in Europe;

Regional Archaeological Museum – with small pieces of the famous Pultusk meteorite (bigger pieces exhibited in London and Warsaw museums);

the Pultusk Castle – presently the Polonia House Hotel and conference centre, previously the abode of the bishops; inhabited by Napoleon;

one of the oldest Polish High School named after Piotr Skarga – famous Jesuits’ preacher;

canoeing and gondola excursions on the river Narew

the White Wilderness with becoming extinct species of plants and animals extending from Pultusk to Ostrow Mazowiecka.

We hope to see you in Pułtusk next summer!

We look forward to hearing form you

Yours,
Bożena Józefów
Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska

Dr Bożena Józefów
Dr Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska

Institute of Anthropology and Archaeology
Pultusk Academy of Humanities
ul. Daszynskiego 17
06-100 Pultusk
phone: +48 23 692 11 73
fax: +48 23 692 11 74
e-mail: moc.liamtoh@gaksleipopannaoj; moc.liamtoh@wofezojanezob