List of articles from archive in month: January 2011


The Malach Visual History Centre Marks One Year of Existence

The Malach Visual History Centre was launched at the end of January 2010. On the occasion of the Malach Centre’s first anniversary, a conference will be held on Friday January 28th, 2011 scheduled to start at 9 am at the refectory of the Charles University Faculty of Mathematics and Physics on Prague’s Malostranské náměstí.

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Mgr. Jakub Mlynář, 21 January 2011


Academic Senate Celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the University Statutes

On January 21, the Academic Senate convened in the Great Hall of Karolinum to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the key document that governs the university and to honour the contributions of those who took a great part in drafting of the document and governing of the university in the subsequent years.

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21 January 2011


Charles University Commemorated the Self-Sacrifice of Jan Palach

On January 16, 1969, Jan Palach, a student of the Charles University Faculty of Arts, set himself on fire as a protest against the Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia and the demoralization of the society under the totalitarian regime. He died of his injuries three days later.

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20 January 2011


Authors Introduced a German-Language Collective Monograph on the History of Charles University

The new collective monograph on the history of Charles University, entitled “Die Prager Universität Karls IV.” (Prague University of Charles IV), was presented to the public at an event on January 18. The book covers many aspects of the life of the diverse academic community that had been hosted by the university since its foundation until the 1940s, focusing specifically on the students and professors from German-speaking countries. Its authors, the publishing team and guests celebrated the volume in the Small Auditorium of Karolinum.

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19 January 2011


Transformation of Gender Culture in Czech society 1948–1989

The status of women in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989, their organization in a historic perspective, feminist awareness in socialism and capitalism as well as feminist and critical criminology, criminal law and justice, feminism in Czech cinema with a focus on the work of director Věra Chytilová and other themes were discussed by participants of a one-day conference that took place at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University on January 14. The international conference was part of the three-year research project Transformation of Gender Culture in Czech Society 1948–1989.

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Marie Kohoutová, 17 January 2011


Erasmus Mundus Continues at the Faculty of Education

For the next five years, the Charles University Faculty of Education will continue to be one of the partner institutions in the Erasmus Mundus programme. It will offer courses in special education to dozens non-EU students in collaboration with London’s Roehampton University and the Norwegian University of Oslo. Assistant professor doc. PhDr. Jan Šiška, Ph.D. is the coordinator of the project.

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12 January 2011


New Transplant Unit Opens at the 1st Faculty of Medicine and the General Teaching Hospital

In a ceremony on January 11, 2011, the newly renovated transplant unit of the 1st Clinic of Internal Medicine of the General Teaching Hospital and the Charles University 1st Faculty of Medicine opened for the public. Costing 26 million CZK, the reconstruction allowed to increase the capacity of the unit and significantly improve both patients’ comfort and the quality of teaching.

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11 January 2011


I Am an Aggressive Optimist, Says Professor Jaroslav Nešetřil

Anybody can cheat, be they carpenters or lawyers, and mathematicians cheat and argue too. A company of mathematicians is like any other. Mathematics might tend to involve less cheating, because cheating in mathematics is more difficult. Mathematics is on one hand very complex, but on the other hand it is a simple science, meaning that the criterion of truthfulness is very simple. Most questions you ask in real life can be answered by both yes and no, or something in between. In mathematics, the answer is pretty much clear-cut.

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P. K. , 3 January 2011




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