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5 April 2019

Global Macroeconomics Workshop

CERGE-EI invites you to a Global Macroeconomics Workshop organized by Marek Kapicka and Ctirad Slavik (CERGE-EI) in cooperation with Vienna Macro and Global Macro: David Andolfatto (FRB St. Louis and SFU), Martin Gervais (Georgia), Gabriel Lee (Regensburg and IHS).


9 April 2019

Carolinum - guided tour (for international students)

Are you studying at one of the faculties at Charles University? And do you want to see where it all started?

You are welcome to join us for a sightseeing guided tour through Carolinum - the historical building of Charles University. Do not miss this unique opportunity to learn more about the university’s history.


10 April 2019 – 11 April 2019

Scientific Conference 2019

Many of you, certainly, wake up every morning with the feeling that something is missing in your life, yet you can't define exactly what it is. We have the answer – the Second Medical Faculty’s Scientific Conference! Nine months has gone by since last year's conference, and we're all looking forward to another year.


11 April 2019

Dr Barry Shiels (Durham): W.B. Yeats & the Scale of Poetry

This lecture considers the problem of scale in Yeats’s poetry, specifically the way that certain of his poems produce their effects by layering different temporal and spatial dimensions: the personal, the national, the European, the global, and even the planetary. Can we read one scale against another?


15 April 2019

Jasmina S. Ćirić – Architecture of Nemanjić dynasty: From Studenica to Sopoćani

Lecture of dr. Jasmina S. Ćirić, University of Belgrade. Learn something new about medieval Serbian architecture. Dobro došli!


16 April 2019

Jasmina S. Ćirić – Architecture of Dečani: Rites of Passages

Department of South Slavonic and Balkan Studies and Serbian language office cordially invites you to the lecture by Jasmina S. Ćirić (University of Belgrade): Architecture of Dečani: Rites of Passages. The lecture will take place on April 16th 2019 at the Celetna 20 (Room 221).

Добро дошли!


17 April 2019

Jasmina S. Ćirić – Serbian Medieval Architecture: The Age of Knez Lazar and Despot Stefan Lazarević

Department of South Slavonic and Balkan Studies and Serbian language office cordially invites you to the lecture by Jasmina S. Ćirić (University of Belgrade): Serbian Medieval Architecture: The Age of Knez Lazar and Despot Stefan Lazarević. The lecture will take place on April 17th 2019 at Faculty of Arts main building (nam. Jana Palacha 1/2, Room 308B).


24 April 2019

Dr Michael D’Arcy: Krapp’s Last Tape and the End of Art

The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures / Centre for Irish Studies invites you to a lecture “Krapp’s Last Tape and the End of Art” by Dr Michael D’Arcy (St. Francis Xavier University) on Wednesday 24th April, 9:10-10:40 in Room 111.


25 April 2019

MSCA Individual Fellowship Seminar

Charles University and Technology Centre of Academy of Sciences have a pleasure to invite you to the workshop focusing on MSCA Individual Fellowship projects in H2020 on Thursday 25 April from 10 A.M. Programme is attached.

The participants will have a unique opportunity to work with anonymized successful IF proposal and to meet IF project participants as well as project evaluators.


26 April 2019 – 28 April 2019

11th PRAGUE MICROFESTIVAL 2019

PRAGUE MICROFESTIVAL (PMF) is an annual festival of the arts, combining contemporary writing with art, film, theory & performance. PMF is fully bilingual (CZ and EN), and presents readings by the best authors of contemporary poetry and fiction. Every year, PMF welcomes renowned and underground authors from across the world, staging them alongside film projections, music, performance and visual art, in a rich polylogue of artforms.


29 April 2019

Nina Power & Daniel Miller on “Performing Naughtiness”

Humour in the internet age is in trouble. The ‘Alt-Right’ appears to have a monopoly on laughter in the form of memes, jokes, ‘edgelordism’, disrespect for the po-faced and an ability to make rare steaks out of liberal sacred cows. .....


6 May 2019

Dr Guégan: French Algeria and British India

The Department of Historical Sociology, Faculty of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the lecture „French Algeria and British India: Comparing the Mechanisms of Colonial Cultures and Identities“ which will be delivered by Dr Xavier Guégan, University of Winchester, UK.


7 May 2019

Dr Guégan: A Visual Colonial Anthropophagy

The Department of Historical Sociology, Faculty of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the lecture „A visual colonial Anthropophagy: Photography and public opinion’s reaction to the 1860s-1870s famines in French Algeria and British India“ which will be delivered by Dr Xavier Guégan, University of Winchester, UK.


7 May 2019

Phenomenology and qualitative research

Since its inception, phenomenological philosophy has exerted an influence on empirical science. But what is the best way to practice, use and apply phenomenology in a non-philosophical context? How deeply rooted in phenomenological philosophy must qualitative research be in order to qualify as phenomenological? How many of the core commitments of phenomenology must it accept? In my talk, I will criticize the approaches of van Manen, Smith and Giorgi, and propose some alternative strategies.


9 May 2019 – 12 May 2019

FHS will present its book production at Book World Prague 2019

On May 9-12, 2019 the 25th international book fair and literary festival “Book World Prague 2019” 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.


13 May 2019

What Future for the Norms-Based International Order? Czech and German perspectives

Institute of International Studies () invites you to the public debate with two German experts, Hanns W. Maull and Gernot Erler. The main topic will be: "What Future for the Norms-Based International Order? Czech and German perspectives". The event will take place on Monday 13th May 2019 at 5:00 PM at Carolinum historical building (Small Aula).


14 May 2019

Rector´s Sports Day

The Rector’s Sporting Day of Charles University this year will take place on Tuesday, May 14, 2019. Therefore, on this one day only, leave the lecture halls, laboratories, offices and study rooms empty, take your colleagues, classmates and friends and come out to play. Put together a team and take part in one of the collective sport tournaments, find yourselves a rival and come to enjoy a game of badminton, kanjam, summer biathlon or any other sporting activity.


14 May 2019

Adam Ledgeway: Changing Patterns of Configurationality in the Passage from Latin to Romance

Drawing on his ground-breaking book, From Latin to Romance (Cambridge University Press 2012), Professor Ledgeway (Cambridge, UK) will deal, in this talk, with the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages.


15 May 2019 – 17 May 2019

Professor Kip S. Thorne

American physicist Kip S. Thorne, the Nobel laureate for the detection of gravitational waves will be visiting Prague in May 2019. He will be the guest of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. Prof. Thorne will give three lectures during his Prague stay.


15 May 2019 – 16 May 2019

The 7th National Conference on Knowledge and Technology Transfer and Via Carolina Fair

On the first day of the  there will be a presentation of new opportunities to connect science and research, including those in humanities, with the world of investors and business. ...



16 May 2019 – 17 May 2019

Padova Meets Prague

University of Padova in Prague.


16 May 2019

65th Student Scientific Conference

The Student Scientific Conference of our Faculty of Medicine is held on Thursday, May 16, 2019 from 2.00 p.m. at the Educational centre (EC) in the Faculty hospital.


20 May 2019

Family Environment during Childhood and Educational Gender Gap

Family disadvantage is strongly negatively associated with early social and behavioral skills of children. How does family structure during childhood affect female and male teenage behavior and school-grade outcomes? Do boys benefit more from advantageous family environment than girls?


26 May 2019 – 6 June 2019

Ethnomusicology Summer School: Romani Music

One-week course organized in the framework of the Khamoro Romani Festival, intended for university students.

The Summer School is part of the Lifelong Learning Programme (41) at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague.


27 May 2019

Developing effective presentations in English (Part 1 of 2)

FOR PhD STUDENTS / Do you need to present your work, your institute, your projects and/or your research at international conferences? Are you afraid of presenting? Would you like to keep your audience engaged and simultaneously make impact? Do you need to boost your general public speaking skills? Would you like to master some basic principles of graphic design and thus create more effective slides? This workshop will help you with the above and more.


29 May 2019

The advent of e-mobility and robots: Chances and challenges for labor market

How will the expansion of e-mobility and automation processes affect Czech and German labor markets and the educational and vocational systems? How will these developments affect firms and workers? What are the challenges for policies?


1 June 2019 – 26 June 2019

Holiday with Czech (Poděbrady)

This course is designed as intensive with focus on the Czech language and area studies. The optional afternoon programme consists of lectures held in Czech and English, showing Czech films, cultural and sport activities. It takes place in the Podebrady Study Centre, about 40 kms from Prague.


1 June 2019 – 26 June 2019

Sumer School of Slavic Studies (Poděbrady)

This  course is designed as intensive with focus on the Czech language and area studies. The optional afternoon programme consists of lectures held in Czech and English, showing Czech films, cultural and sport activities. It takes place in the Podebrady Study Centre, about 40 kms from Prague.


2 June 2019 – 10 June 2019

Ethnomusicology Summer School: Music in Socialism and Postsocialism

The summer school Music in socialism and postsocialism will provide students with a general understanding of social, cultural, political, and economic conditions of the European socialist and postsocialist states and societies, and the role of music in this regard.


4 June 2019

Generic Analysis of Speech Introduction in Persian Media: Patterns of Religiously Motivated Language

How do religious concepts and expressions in introductonary sections of Persian media thematize discourse and shape the mind of Iranian society?

Dr. Jalilifar will explore the position of these expressions, the functions they serve and the targets they address.


5 June 2019 – 6 June 2019

Prof. Samuel Putnam (Bowdoin College, USA): Temperament – Measurement, Structure, Stability and Cultural Correlates

Professor Putnam specializes in social development. He teaches a survey course in child development, a lab in developmental research methods, introduction to psychology, and a seminar in social development.


10 June 2019

Glenn Penny: Persistent Collecting Networks – Explaining the History of Hamburg’s Central American Textile Collections

The lecture will explain how German museums, and many others, were filled with objects by networks of collectors, in many cases, multi-generational, the collecting process continuing for unexpectedly long time. 


10 June 2019

Developing effective presentations in English (Part 2 of 2)

FOR PhD STUDENTS / Do you need to present your work, your institute, your projects and/or your research at international conferences? Are you afraid of presenting? Would you like to keep your audience engaged and simultaneously make impact? Do you need to boost your general public speaking skills? Would you like to master some basic principles of graphic design and thus create more effective slides? This workshop will help you with the above and more.


12 June 2019

7th GRAINES Summer School „Experts and Expertise in Motion“

Ever since its establishment Transnational History, however loosely defined, has focused on connections, on flows of people, goods, ideas as well as processes, interconnections and exchange of information in its various forms, that stretch over political and territorial borders. This process-oriented perspective challenges the notion of both the nation and the state as a principal historical category.


12 June 2019

Darina Martykánová: Global Engineers – Building Global Capitalism from the Periphery

The expansion of global capitalism in the decades around the turn of twentieth century included growing investment in all kinds of projects and enterprises that required technical expertise. ...


12 June 2019

Darina Martykánová: Global Engineers – Building Global Capitalism from the Periphery

The expansion of global capitalism in the decades around the turn of twentieth century included growing investment in all kinds of projects and enterprises that required technical expertise. 


14 June 2019 – 15 June 2019

Conference: Social Processes, Events and Historical Breakthroughs

The Department of Historical Sociology, Faculty of Humanities cordially invites you to join the student conference "Social Processes, Events and Historical Breakthroughs from the Perspective of Historical Sociology".


17 June 2019 – 27 July 2019

Summer FLAS Prague (Praha)

The Czech language programme – SUMMER FLAS PRAGUE is an intensive seven week language course arranged exclusively for US undergraduate and graduate students who are in receipt of a summer fellowship from the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship programme. The Czech language programme – SUMMER FLAS PRAGUE meets criteria set by U. S. Department for Education for approving overseas summer programmes.


19 June 2019

Richard Price: Maroons and their Communities in the Americas

Today, Maroons—self-liberated slaves and their descendants—still form semi-independent communities in several parts of the Americas, for example, in Suriname, French Guiana, Jamaica, Belize, Colombia, and Brazil. ..


19 June 2019

Irina Turner: Does Facebook Eat Up Public Airwaves? The Impact of Media Convergence on Radio in South Africa

Radio remains the most widespread medium in South Africa. It, nevertheless, struggles with dwindling audiences and is thus pushed to marry with other media formats such as social media to maintain relevance.


20 June 2019

Sally Price: Drawing on slavery – Maroon art and contested stories of its origin

The Maroons, descendants of Africans who liberated themselves from plantation slavery in the colony of Suriname, are famous throughout the world for their rich arts. The women produce stunning textiles and sinuous engravings on the fruit of the calabash tree and the men carve elegant designs on everything from canoes and housefronts to combs and kitchen utensils.


30 June 2019 – 3 July 2019

4th CEREPS Summit 2019 in Prague

“Quality criteria and outcome standards for Physical Education and School Sport”


1 July 2019 – 28 July 2019

Czech Summer School (Praha)

The Czech Summer School (Prague) is an intensive course focusing on language and communication. We strike a balance between spoken and written communication, as well as between reading and listening skills, without overlooking grammar. The course is constructed according to long-term experience in language teaching and is based on modern language teaching methods. It corresponds to the Common European Framework for Languages.


19 July 2019 – 16 August 2019

Czech for Compatriots (Poděbrady)

The course is aimed at Czech compatriots living abroad, who want to learn (or just brush up on) the language of their forefathers, learn about Czech culture and visit the most beautiful places in the Czech Republic. All participants are encouraged to take part in an extensive extracurricular programme, as well as in sports activities. Full-day and half-day trips are also on offer.


29 July 2019 – 23 August 2019

Czech Language And Culture Course (Praha Albertov)

This original summer Czech language course called CZECH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE is held under the auspices of the Czech Ministry of Culture and the City of Prague. The course is suitable for those who are interested not only in Czech language, but also in Czech culture and life. The topic of the 18th re-run of the course will be: what did the Czech give the world?


23 August 2019

Continuity, Discontinuity and Change in the Saqqara New Kingdom Necropolis

This lecture proposes to study the development of the New Kingdom (1539–1078 BCE) necropolis at Saqqara (near Memphis) by focusing on the day-to-day use of the site. The built environment (a mix of contemporary tomb structures and older monuments) provides the setting for human activity.


27 August 2019 – 30 August 2019

7th PTOLEMAIC SUMMER SCHOOL

On behalf of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University, we would kindly like to invite colleagues to the 7th Ptolemaic Summer School. The event will be held from Tuesday August 27 (morning) to Friday August 30 (early afternoon), 2019 in the Green Lecture Hall (“Zelená posluchárna”) on the first floor in the street Celetná 20.


13 September 2019 – 14 September 2019

IRELAND IN EUROPE: 5th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies

Paper proposals representing postgraduate projects in the area of Irish Studies are invited for an international conference that follows the success of “The Politics of Irish Writing” (2009), “Boundary Crossings” (2011), “Tradition and Modernity” (2013) and “Influences, Intersections, Interactions” (2017).


18 September 2019 – 21 September 2019

Summer School of Clinical Acid-Base and Homeostasis

Summer School of Acid-Base and Homeostasis is a 4-day course organised jointly by Charles University and University of Copenhagen and Milan, supported by 4EU start-up grant. We will take you from basics to advanced level in 4 days of lectures and practical workshops in small groups on real patients’ cases in the very heart of medieval Prague.




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