East Asian Civilization Research Center
The East Asian Civilization Research Center (东亚文明研究中心) at SWPS University, or CCAW, is an interdisciplinary research institute established in 2003 and headquartered in Warsaw, focusing on political, cultural, linguistic, and literary studies of Mainland China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan. Founded by the late Professor Krzysztof Gawlikowski, the center evolved from an organizational unit into the Department of Asian Studies within the Faculty of Humanities in 2017-2018. The center participates in the European Union’s Horizon Europe “China Horizons” project examining contemporary Chinese society and culture, and operates a research platform on hermeneutics and translation of classical Chinese texts in collaboration with the University of Warsaw, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and Adam Mickiewicz University.
