On 23 November 2022 Dr Katja Castryck-Naumann (GWZO Leipzig) will present her research called „Expertise and International Politics. Polish Economists in the UN Secretariat (1946 to the 1960s)“. The presentation will be followed by commentary of Dr Jan Surman (Masarykův ústav). The seminar take place both in room 001 (Filozofická fakulta, Nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, Praha) […]
We invite you to an international workshop Politically motivated violence in Southeastern Europe in the 20th century when: Tuesday, November 8, 11:00 where: Faculty of Arts (nám. J. Palacha 2, Prague 1), Historical cabinet (2nd floor, room no. 203) The research seminar will focus on various forms and concrete examples of politically motivated violence […]
Visiting Professor Lecture organized by Institute of World History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prof. Erik GOLDSTEIN (Boston University, United States of America) The Long Road to Pearl Harbor and Beyond: The Quest for Naval Mastery in the Pacific Held on: 2nd November 2022 Faculty of Arts, Charles University Náměstí J. Palacha […]
The Institute of World History, Faculty of Arts, Chares University invite you for the Visiting Proffesor Lecture of Robert Schmidtchen of University of Bayreuth, Germany, called “Hands off Iran!” The ambivalent Relationship between Iran and the German Democratic Republic The lecture will be held on 21st October, in room P301, at 10:50 a.m. […]
On 29 September, our PhD candidate Martin Šenk and Zuzana Smetanová won the MA and PhD student competion in honour of Jiřina Šiklová with the article called The sexuality of Alcuin of York and the methodological question of the study of “queer” sources of the Middle Ages. The article will be published in Faculty’s Journal Slovo […]
On 3 – 4 November 2022, the international conference “The League of Nations: The First Global Peacekeeping Organization in the Changing World – Interdependences and Reflexions” will take place. The conference is organized by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Science, the Department of Global History ať Facility od Arts at the […]
Serbian translation of Jan Pelikan’s book “Novými cestami. Kosovo v letech 1958-1969” The prestigious Belgrad’s publishing Služebnik glasnik published the Serbian translation of Jan Pelikán’s book „Novými cestami. Kosovo v letech 1958-1969“, whihc was originally published in FF UK Publishing in 2014. More information can be found here.
The Institute of World History hosted the lecture of Dr Therese Garstenauer from Universität Wien. The English delivered lecture was hybrid and was dedicated to Civil Servants, Gender, and Family in the late Habsburg Empire and the Austrian First Republic. The lecture took place on Friday 29 April 2022. The tradition and legal framework […]
The Institute of World History hosted a seminar by Professor Augustynowicz. The seminar handled the possibilities of exchange study at Universität Wien. The students were introduced both in English and German to the possibility to study at the eminent Austrian academic-pedagogic institution. The lecture took place on Thursday, 7 April, from 12.30.
The Institute of World History hosted the lecture of Dr. Mateusz Sokulski from the Institute of History, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Silesia in Katowice. The English delivered lecture was on Yugoslav Relations with Eastern Bloc in the Cold War. The lecture took place on Moday 4 April 2022, from 12.30. Mateusz […]
The anonymous electronic evaluation of courses takes place from 9 to 22 January 2023. The results including comments are to be published at the beginning of February.
Associate Professor Jan Sýkora from the Institute of Asian Studies at CU FA has been to Japan on countless occasions. The most influential stay was at Saga University on the island of Kyushu, where he studied between 1991 and 1994.
Due to an energy-saving reason, the operation of the Česká Spořitelna building will be reduced from 23 December 2022 to 12 February 2023. Though only slightly heated, its premises will remain accessible. Employees may briefly come in to deal with paperwork, but staying there throughout the working hours will not be possible due to the cold temperature.
The three-day conference, which was held at the beginning of November at the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, addressed the current rise of antisemitism, xenophobia, and racism, highlighted the role of education, and called for redressing the wrongs of the Holocaust. The event also focused on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
Traditional Christmas book sale co-organized by the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA will take place on 8 December from 2–7 pm in front of P104. Anyone can donate books on 5–7 December in the English and Romance Studies Library during its opening hours. All money raised will go to the People in Need charity. All books are welcome.
The 18th century Czech composer Josef Mysliveček is at last getting the attention he deserves, says acclaimed American musicologist for Forum Radio. If so, it is in no small part thanks to Freeman’s own extensive research into the composer’s music and life that has been recently translated by Petra Johana Poncarová from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA.
A year ago, the Czech-Uzbek expedition discovered 60 graves from the 3rd–2nd century BC on the outskirts of the Iskandar Tepa settlement in Uzbekistan. Now, the archaeologists opened six of them to acquire data about the population that lived there. Some of the graves have provided extremely valuable data, artifacts, skeletal remains, and samples for further analysis.
On the 17 November, Czechs are marking the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution sparked when communist police brutally cracked down on students in 1989. How Czechs look back on those days now is the subject of the interview with well-known social historian and Vice-Dean of CU FA doc. Jakub Rákosník.
