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Dr. Nicholas Groom: From gene sequencing to genre sequencing: A corpus-based analysis of British patents of invention, 1711 – 2011

This lecture has three aims. The first aim is to present a novel corpus – based methodology for the diachronic analysis of generic text structure, which combines previous work in corpus – based genre analysis with ideas and techniques drawn from the field of computational genomics. The second aim of the lecture is to present the […]

Language Contact and the Early Slavs

THE WORKSHOP The workshop addresses one of the most controversial issues in contemporary medieval studies, which is the extremely fast expansion of the Slavic language(s) across great parts of Europe in the Early Middle Ages. While traditional scenarios assume unity of language, ethnicity, and material culture, leading alternative models emphasize the active role of material […]

The demography of post-socialism: Social and economic challenges

Post-socialism is a unique social, economic, and cultural phenomenon. One particularly interesting aspect of this period was the rapidly changing demographic dynamics. These included falling birth rates, changes in morbidity and mortality statistics, new domestic migration streams, and the suddenly appearing mass international migration as well. The talk focuses on to what extent these trends were […]

What Meets the Eye: Lessons in Visual Anthropology

The Department of Ethnology would like to invite you for the lecture course What Meets the Eye: Lessons in Visual Anthropology (AET500174) given by invited anthropologist Tereza Kuldova (University of Oslo/University of Vienna). The lecture course will be held in winter semester from 16th October until 27th October 2017. Poster  

Middle East Speaker Series Inaugural Lecture: Eugene Rogan (St. Antony’s College, Oxford), “The Wartime Context of the Balfour Declaration.”

Professor Eugene Rogan BA Columbia, MA PhD Harvard, MA Oxf Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History Director, St Antony’s College Middle East Centre   Eugene Rogan is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia, and his M.A. and PhD in Middle Eastern history from […]

Acts of Justice, Public Events: World War II Criminals on Trial

This conference originates from the encounter of three projects: a Russian-French project on trials in the USSR (FMSH/RGNF), the micro-project of the Labex Création, Arts, Patrimoines ‘Images de la justice”, and the WW2 CRIMES ON TRIAL1943-1991 project supported by the French National Research Agency. The conference will highlight the specificity of the publicized trials within the […]

Let’s Help the Library!

Let’s help the Library! (Pomozme knihovně!) is a charitable fundraiser organized in order to aid the restoration of the Mosul University library which has been almost destroyed during the occupation and the military conflict with the so-called Islamic State. The fundraiser is organised by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in cooperation with People in Need.  […]

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Seminar on Information Literacy Open for Sign-Up

In the academic year 2017/18 (winter / summer term), CUFA Library organises an elective seminar focused on Information Literacy. The seminar is open to all students at Charles University (SIS code for English version: AKFF00002). The seminar will be taught in blocs in the Jan Palach library. On completion, students will receive 4 credits. Tentative […]