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Lecture by prof. Simcha Emanuel (Hebrew University in Jerusalem), leading world expert on medieval Ashkenazi rabbinic literature. The lecture will be held in Hebrew.

The investigation of the uses and functions of discourse and pragmatic markers, as well as of the processes through which they acquire (and sometimes lose) such functions over time has intensified in recent years, but this increase in the number of available studies has not solved some of the main questions connected to the nature […]

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence de l’historienne Laure Teulières. Entrée libre. Traduction simultanée assurée. Maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine à l’Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, Laure Teulières est spécialiste de l’immigration italienne en France et s’intéresse au fait migratoire comme à l’histoire des représentations collectives, aux phénomènes mémoriels et à la […]

Institute of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Ekaterina V. Rakhilina, Professor of Faculty of Humanities at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Ekaterina V. Rakhilina is a linguist with a focus on the lexicography of nouns, semantic models, general semantics, lexical typology, construction Grammar. She […]

Affectivity was a recurrent element in public communication in the Middle Ages, an era in which an emotion-based rhetoric was more important than other strategies to influence and instruct the population. Verbal and visual elements were often employed in synergy, to impress the public and to help the memory. These new communication types are particularly typical […]

In this final lecture, we look at a specific instance of collapse known from the archaeological record – that of the palatial Late Bronze Age of Greece and the Aegean. The competing theories will be introduced and recent responses examined, including the proposal that climate change caused collapse. One focus will be on how the period […]

The nineteenth century saw the explosion of questions: the Eastern, social, Jewish, Polish, worker and many other questions were hotly discussed in representative bodies, at treaty negotiations, and above all in the daily press. What brought about the “age of questions,” and what was its trajectory into the twentieth century? How did the “Jewish question” […]

Institute of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Ekaterina V. Rakhilina, Professor of Faculty of Humanities at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Ekaterina V. Rakhilina is a linguist with a focus on the lexicography of nouns, semantic models, general semantics, lexical typology, construction Grammar. She […]

Housing culture changed dramatically in the high and late medieval period across all social milieus in the Czech lands. One of the crucial changes concerned heating facilities. The heated but smoke-free rooms with stoves emerged, primarily in castles, later in towns and finally in peasant farmsteads. Designed tile stoves, situated usually in the most spectacular […]

Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Matthew Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies Chair of American Studies at Brown University. Matthew Pratt Guterl is a historian of race and nation, with a focus on United States history from the Civil War to […]

The symbolic significance of the Crown of Thorns forever changed when the relic arrived in Paris. King Louis IX of France (1214, r. 1226–1270, canonized 1297) received the Crown as part of a diplomatic exchange with Emperor Baldwin II (1217, r. 1237–1273). For the kingdom of France, the subsequent acquisition of more Byzantine reliquaries between 1241 […]

The talk will explore cognitive stillness and affective movement in the tradition of Christ as The Man of Sorrows.