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4 April 2018

Book Presentation: Resettling the Borderlands (State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus)

A study of Imperial Russian and Soviet resettlement policies in the South Caucasus and their impact on the ethnic conflict:

Exploring the policies and implementations of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Resettling the Borderlands investigates...


5 April 2018

Philosophical Café | Afternoon with the Institute of Philosophy (the first English edition)

In the first international Philosophical Café we will welcome three researchers from the Formal Epistemology Centre directed by prof. Ladislav Kvasz, namely Joan Bertran-San Millán, Vera Matarese and Aldo Filomeno and explore some interrelations between logic, the theory of knowledge and the empirical evidence provided by physical science in the following talks...


5 April 2018 – 12 April 2018

Dr. Christopher T. Hank (HU Berlin): Exploring Art and Visual Culture

Dr. Christopher Hank from Humboldt University in Berlin will teach two subsequent session of the Exploring Art and Visual Culture course on April 5 and April 12, 2018. There are approximately five places available for students who are not enrolled in the course.


5 April 2018

Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: An Adventurer

The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague. The Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages is part of the Humanities Research Centers. The series is supported by the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague.


10 April 2018

Academic and Scientific Writing Within and Across Disciplines

This workshop is intended for those already teaching writing in English or who are considering doing so. We’ll explore the essential components of academic writing processes and conventions while pooling and discussing our experiences and concerns to generate ideas on how to modify, and hopefully improve, our own practical approaches.


12 April 2018

Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Founder of a Holy Dynasty

Through the Secular and Saintly Eyes of his Sons: A Comparative Consideration of Two Biographies of Stefan Nemanja, the Founder of the Serbian Medieval State

Serbian scholar Slavica Rankovic will compare two lives of Stefan Nemanja, the Grand Prince of Serbia and challenger of Byzantine Emperors, written by two of his sons: Stefan the First-crowned, the first Serbian king and Saint Sava, the first Serbian archbishop.


13 April 2018

Hidden treasure for policy research

The Czech Republic has a tradition of extensive data collection by the state. However, administrative micro data is seldom used to support evidence based policy. Access and merging of administrative data from different sources is not only constrained by overly restrictive legislation but also by the lack of trust between academic and government organisations as well as within the government. ...


18 April 2018

Dr Sonja Lawrenson: Popular Fiction in Romantic Ireland

The Centre for Irish Studies, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, invite you to a lecture on POPULAR FICTION IN ROMANTIC IRELAND by Dr Sonja Lawrenson (Manchester Metropolitan University). Sonja Lawrenson is a lecturer in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature at Manchester Metropolitan University.


19 April 2018

Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Saint

Holy Lives. How you Make a Saint?

Famous Austrian medievist Rudolf Simek (*1954) from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn will speak about the constitution of the lives of the medieval saints.


23 April 2018

Lecture "Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation"

Faculty of Humanities cordially invites you to a lecture by dr. Nyklíček (Tilburg University) "Mindfulness and emotion regulation". The lecture takes place in Jinonice on April 23 at 3:30 PM. The lecture is supported by Erasmus+ programme.


23 April 2018

Q&A session about palliative care with Harvard Medical School professor Tulsky

James Tulsky, MD, a leading expert on palliative care and communication in medicine, will visit our faculty during his visit in Prague. Come to this Q&A session to learn more about his work on palliative care in heart failure, get some recommendations for delivering bad news from one of the best experts in this field or just to learn how to become a professor at the best medical school in the world.


24 April 2018

Guest Lecture: Marx on Revolution

Phenomenology Research Centre and Society for Philosophical Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, CU cordially invite you to lecture by prof. Peter Trawny (University of Wuppertal): Marx on Revolution. The lecture takes place on April 24, 2018.


25 April 2018

Guest Lecture: Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy

Phenomenology Research Centre and Society for Philosophical Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, CU cordially invite you to lecture by prof. Peter Trawny (University of Wuppertal): Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy. The lecture takes place on April 25, 2018.


25 April 2018

Prof. Timo Müller: Transnational Mobility on the American Road

Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Timo Müller (University of Regensburg) “TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY ON THE AMERICAN ROAD”. Timo Müller is Professor and interim Chair of American Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His research areas include modernism, environmental studies,...


26 April 2018

Guided walking tour From Vinohrady to Žižkov and Back Again

Do you study in Prague and want to find out more about the history and present of some interesting districts of Prague? The “Study in Prague” association of seven Prague universities in cooperation with the City of Prague has prepared two guided walking tours with commentary in English.


26 April 2018

Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Villain

The Growth of the Biography of Dismas and Gesmas in Medieval Sources

German medievist and germanist Wilhelm Heizmann (Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität München) will speak about the constitution of lives of the two prototypic villains of the European Middle Ages: Dismas and Gesmas, the two thieves on the Cross.


27 April 2018

Lecture "Emotions and Cognition: Mutual Influences"

Faculty of Humanities cordially invites you to a lecture by dr. Nyklicek (Tilburg University) "Emotions and Cognition: Mutual Influences". The lecture takes place in Jinonice on April 27 at 12:30 PM. The lecture is supported by Erasmus+ programme.


27 April 2018

Göran Malmqvist (Stockholm University): Politics and Philology at the End of the Qing Dynasty

My talk will deal with Kang Youwei’s activities in Sweden 1904-05, his intellectual background, his utopian work Datongshu 大同书 and his participation in the reform movement during the summer of 1898. Finally I deal critically with his politically motivated excursion into philology and his utterly futile attempt to prove that Zuozhuan 左转 and the....


30 April 2018

Study in Prague photo/video competition - deadline

Post your photo/video at your personal Instagram/Facebook/Twitter account. Use #studyinprague and #MyPragueUni hashtags. Fill out competition submission form completely. Wait until May 7th for your name to be announced as the winner of the competition. deadline for submitting photos/videos is April 30th, 23:59 CET


1 May 2018

Studentský Majáles Festival

Don't miss the sixth Studentský Majáles Festival, a traditional multigenre student celebration of May. There will be a number of theatre companies, debaters, lecturers, poets, bands, and singer-songwriters performing for you in the yard complex of Karolinum. This event is not for students only, it is open for public, and the entry is free.


3 May 2018 – 6 May 2018

Conference Prague Protein Spring 2018, Proteins at work

PPS 2018 aims to cover a thematic issue: "Proteins at Work" addressing concepts and system approaches demonstrated on selected general topics: "Proteins in living cells ", "Large Scale organization of Proteins", "Proteins in Biomineralization" and "Integrating knowledge about Proteins at the systems' level".


3 May 2018

Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: Jesus

The Late Medieval Lives of Christ

Hungarian scholar David Falvay (ELTE Budapest) will speak about the late medieval lives of Christ and evaluate them as reflections of the medieval Christian piety.


4 May 2018

Dr. Lee Schwartz: Geographic Perspectives on Global Hot Spots – Views from the U.S. Geographer

Lee Schwartz is the State Department’s 8th Geographer, a position that bears the statutory responsibility for providing guidance to all federal agencies on questions of international boundaries and sovereignty claims. His recent focus has been on projects related to geographic information documentation and coordination related to participatory mapping, complex emergencies, and sustainability.


9 May 2018

Lecture: Commercial Utopias of the Enlightenment

Departments of Philosophy and History, Faculty of Humanities, cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr Richard D Sheldon (University of Bristol) 'Commercial Utopias of the Enlightenment: Smith and Condorcet on the Market and the State'.


10 May 2018 – 13 May 2018

FHS will present its book production at Book World Prague 2018

On May 10-13, 2018 the 24th international book fair and literary festival “Book World Prague 2018” is held at the Prague Exhibition Grounds in Holešovice. FHS`s book production will be presented and you will find it in the right part of the Industrial Palace at the P 202 stand.


10 May 2018 – 1 September 2018

Exhibition “The University and the Republic: 100 Years – 100 Items – 100 Stories”

Exhibition “The University and the Republic: 100 Years – 100 Items – 100 Stories” will deal with the relationships between Prague University and the Czechoslovak and Czech Republics based on a hundred exceptional exhibits, each representing one year in the period 1918-2018.


10 May 2018

Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Jewish Jesus

Sorcerer, Rebel, or Pious Fool? Jewish Narratives about Jesus and Their Medieval Afterlives

Young Czech Hebraist Milan Žonca (Charles University, Prague) will speak about spectacular, scurrile and blasphemous Jewish medieval narratives about the life of Jesus Christ


16 May 2018

Rector's Sports Day

As in previous years, the end of this year’s summer semester sees the annual Rector’s Sports Day (RSD), carried out under the auspices of University Rector Professor MUDr. Tomáš Zima, DrSc., MBA, an occasion intended to bring together students of the University, both on and off the sports field.


17 May 2018

Young scientists

Come support young scientists...


17 May 2018

Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Dark Hero

Tronege Hagen and the Sinister Thread of the Middle High German Nibelungenlied

Young German scholar Florian Deichl (Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität München) will speak about the sinister figure of Hagen in the German medieval Song of the Nibelungs and try to uncover the origins of the human fascinations by so called “dark heroes”.


22 May 2018

Student Research Conference of the Third Faculty of Medicine 2018

Similarly to last year, the conference will be divided into lectures and poster section, with the majority of the poster presentations. Special independent committee will assign the abstracts into the sections. The poster session will take the form of moderated discussion with a 5-minute presentations of the competitor. The abstract forms will be opened on March 5, 2018 on the website http://svk.lf3.cuni.cz. The deadline for abstract submission is set on April 8, 2018.


29 May 2018

Prague Symposium on Cancer Metabolism

We would like to invite you to the Prague Symposium on Cancer Metabolism, which will take place on 29 May in Prague, Czech Republic.


30 May 2018

International Conference: Transnational migration. Borders and Global Justice

Faculty of Humanities and Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences cordially invites you to an international conference "Transnational migration. Borders and Global Justice". The conference takes place at villa Lanna (V Sadech 1, Prague 6) on May 30, 2018.


4 June 2018 – 8 June 2018

Conference: Central European Pragmatist Forum.

Department of Electronic Culture and Semiotics, Faculty of Humanities and Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences cordially invite you to tenth international conference "Central European Pragmatist Forum: Conversations Across Borders". The conference takes place at the Institute of Philosophy (Jilská 1, Prague 1) on June 4 – 8, 2018.


7 June 2018 – 9 June 2018

International Conference: The Wording of Thoughts

Faculty of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the International Conference The Wording of Thoughts: Philosophy from the Standpoint of its Manuscripts and Archives. The conference will take place from 7 to 9 June 2018 at the French Institute in Prague, 5th Floor.


14 June 2018

Prof. Aldena Smithe: Where Character is King: Leadership and Epicureanism in Aeneid 1

The notion that Epicureanism shapes Virgil’s thought process is quite old, going back to Servius. That notion can also be derived from several factors, from the historical Virgil’s friendship to the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus and his circle, to his friendship with Horace and Maecenas, to the thematic progression of Epicurean imagery from the Eclogues through the Georgicsto the Aeneid.


15 June 2018 – 16 June 2018

International conference "Philosophie und Literatur"

Department of German and French Philosophy, Faculty of Humanites, Charles University and Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel would like to invite you to an international conference "Philosophie und Literatur".


21 June 2018

Serge Haroche

Juggling with atoms and photons in a box: from fundamental tests to new quantum technologies.


16 July 2018 – 22 July 2018

CLS Summer '18: Law and Technology

GDPR. Cyber crime. International financial markets.

Online trolls and the future of democracy.

Cyber bullying. Electronic warfare. Covert surveillance. The future of law…

If all of this sounds as though it might interest you, read on.


31 August 2018 – 3 September 2018

Ballads and Memory. International Conference of the Ballad Commission/Kommission für Volksdichtung

Songs are often thought of as capturing the memories of a people or community. They reflect cultural experience and, as David Buchan put it, they give expression to the “cultural preoccupations of—and sometimes the sense of identity of—a given group”. They are a record of human experience. But how is that record constructed?


13 September 2018 – 15 September 2018

Beckett & Technology Conference

In April 1981, having devoted considerable time to resolving the technicalities that surrounded his TV play Quad, Samuel Beckett confessed to Ruby Cohn: “Not long back from Stuttgart. Unsatisfactory. Television is beyond me.” Frustrating as it may have been at times, technology held its fascination for Beckett and often became enmeshed with his work. It remained central for him, as it continues to be for researchers and practitioners engaging with his work today.


18 September 2018 – 19 September 2018

"Populist Constitutionalism: Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe"

The conference examines the relationship between populism, constitutionalism, and the rule of law, in the context of recent political developments in East-Central Europe. Most constitutionalists regard populism is as incompatible with liberal-democratic constitutionalism.


21 September 2018 – 22 September 2018

"Crisis, Modernity, Authority and the State"

The purpose of this conference is to engage critically with law's authority – conceptually, comparatively and historically – from the viewpoints of public law, private law, political, social and legal theory, as well as jurisdictional perspectives. We will discuss questions such as: What is law's authority and in which sense can authority be false or deficient?


24 September 2018 – 25 September 2018

International Colloquium: Old Master Drawings

The Collection of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery in Prague


26 September 2018

I read and became a reader


27 September 2018

"SELF-RESTRAINT OF THE CEE CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS: DOES IT EXIST AND SHALL IT EXIST?"

In post-1989 Central Eastern Europe, the debate between lawyers, political scientists and the general public has markedly focused on the rise of the judiciary and the issue of judicial activism....


11 October 2018

Dvorky festival

The fifth volume of the Dvorky festival is finally here! Stop by on the 11 October and take part in the largest event organised by the students of our faculty.


12 October 2018 – 13 October 2018

Late-Ottoman Identities: the National, Transnational, and Marginal

The annual “Identities in the Middle East Workshop,” organized and hosted by the Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies at Charles University, will be inaugurated with a two day deliberation on late-Ottoman identities. The aim of the workshop is for participants to gain a profound awareness of the conceptualizations and manifestations of individual, communal, national, and transnational identities in the last century of the Ottoman Empire.


16 October 2018

The Title of Doctor honoris causa

Charles University invites you to an honorary degree ceremony

in which the title of Doctor of honoris causa will be awarded to Prof. Dr. Frank Roelof de Boer and Prof. Robert D. Goldman, Ph.D.


16 October 2018

The USA and the Origins of Czechoslovakia

The lecture series presented by prof. PhDr. Ivan Šedivý, CSc., Head of the Department of Czech History, forms a part of a new academic initiative for the ECES program – an annual lecture series. This year’s theme is “University and Republic”, focusing on this year’s centennial celebrations.




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