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The Artful – Launch of the 4th Issue

The 4th Issue of The Artful, the annual collection of works by students, graduates, and academic staff of the English and American Studies has been published under the auspices of the Schwa Student Society. The launch will take place on 18 May 2023, at 7 pm, in Kampus Hybernská. The launch will host authors’ readings […]

Presentation of Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction

Prof Jíří Holý from the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature at CU FA and several others researchers from CU FA have participated in the creation of the publication “Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction” (De Gruyter, 2021). The presentation will take place online via Herden Institute in Marburg on Tuesday, 28 September, from 6 […]

Book Launch: The Last Ghetto, An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (Oxford University Press, 2020)

The Institute of Economic and Social History (CU FA), Institute of Political Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Charles University), The Herzl Center for Israel Studies (Charles University), and Faculty of Humanities (Charles University) cordially invites you to an online launch of the book The Last Ghetto, An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (Oxford University […]

Knihex

Knihex is a place where publishers and readers meet in a pleasant atmosphere on an open-air summer festival at Karlín Barracks. The Faculty of Arts Press will be traditionally there with its own stall.

The Artful: Launch of a New Student Magazine

The first issue of The Artful, a semestral collection of creative writing by students and graduates of the English and American studies at Charles University, will be launched on 24 May at 6:30 pm at Café Jedna (Veletržní palác, Dukelských Hrdinů 530/47). The launch will feature the authors‘ readings and the almanach will be available for […]

Lectures by Prof. Aleida Assmann & Prof. Jan Assmann

The Faculty of Arts, Project KREAS (Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World) and Karolinum Publishing House cordially invite you to the lectures: Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann (Universität Konstanz): Forms of Forgetting Prof. Dr. Jan Assmann (Universität Konstanz): Akhenaten. Damnatio Memoriae and the Return of the Repressed: Some […]

Litteraria Pragensia 56: Frankenstein at 200

The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites you to the presentation of the latest issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal Litteraria Pragensia. The topic of the 56th issue is “Frankenstein at 200: A Literary Celebration”. The issue will be introduced by guest editors, Cassandra Falke (The Arctic University of Norway) and Jessica Allen Hansen […]

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 the nexus between imperial practices, foreign policy, religion, and ethnic conflicts. Taking a comparative approach, the book looks at […]

Handbuch der deutschen Literatur Prags und der Böhmischen Länder

Das Handbuch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Literatur einer mitteleuropäischen Region und ihre Entwicklung seit der Aufklärung. Es bietet eine transkulturelle und transregionale Neuverortung der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Böhmischen Länder im komplexen Wirkungs- und Spannungsfeld von deutscher, jüdischer, tschechischer und habsburgischer Literatur und Kultur. Das Handbuch wurde herausgegeben von: Peter Becher, Literaturhistoriker, Geschäftsführer des […]

Cré na Cille: Launch of the Czech Translation

The Centre for Irish Studies, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, is pleased to invite you to a launch of the Czech translation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille, one of the greatest novels of Irish modernism. The book is going to be launched on Wednesday 31 January at 19:00 at Café Kampus (Náprstkova 10, Prague […]