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Robbie Love: The Spoken BNC2014: design, compilation and… bad language

Robbie Love is a PhD Research Student, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University „The Spoken BNC2014: design, compilation and…bad language“

Mikel J. Koven (University of Worcester): Paul Wegener’s Das Golem (1920) as Folk Horror

Mikel Koven is the author of Blaxploitation Film (2010), Film, Folklore & Urban Legends (2008) and La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006); he co-edited Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment (2007) and a special issue of Western Folklore on the topic of “Folklore & Film”. He was formerly Editor of the journal […]

Olivier MARIN (Université de Paris-Nord): Délocaliser Dieu. Les Hussites et les lieux de culte – L’ecclésioclasme hussite : un panorama

La rhétorique de la vie affective : Susciter, comprendre et nommer les émotions

Premier colloque international organisé dans le cadre du Laboratoire d’excellence créatif VOICE par l’Institut d’études romanes et l’Institut de philosophie et d’études religieuses de la Faculté des lettres, en partenariat avec le CEFRES, à l’occasion de l’intégration de l’Université Charles au sein de l’Agence universitaire de la francophonie. Le colloque est placé sous le haut […]

Mikel J. Koven (University of Worcester): Mythic Cinema and Contemporary Biblical Epic

Mikel Koven is the author of Blaxploitation Film (2010), Film, Folklore & Urban Legends (2008) and La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006); he co-edited Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment (2007) and a special issue of Western Folklore on the topic of “Folklore & Film”. He was formerly Editor of the journal […]

Mikel J. Koven (University of Worcester): Found Footage Horror Cinema and the Rhetoric of Truth and Legend

Mikel Koven is the author of Blaxploitation Film (2010), Film, Folklore & Urban Legends (2008) and La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006); he co-edited Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment (2007) and a special issue of Western Folklore on the topic of “Folklore & Film”. He was formerly Editor of the journal […]

Міжнародна конференція україністів у Празі

Program konference (ukr.) / Програма конференції: http://bit.ly/2jD5CUi Tisková zprava / Прес-реліз (чеськ.):http://bit.ly/2zrm93R Doprovodný program / Супровідна програма: pátek, 24. 11. 2017: Jaremčuk, Belej: Duch doby aneb divokou Ukrajinou sobota, 25. 11. 2017: Ljubov Jakymčuk (Ukrajina) neděle, 26. 11. 2017: Zahájení fotografické výstavy “UkraJINÁ” Organizátoři: Východoevropský klub Česká asociace ukrajinistů Ústav východoevropských studií Za finanční podpory / За фінансової підтримки Embassy of […]

Jean-Louis Gaulin (Université de Lyon 2): La restitution des biens mal acquis (male ablata)

Alan Spence at the Faculty of Arts

The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures is pleased to invite you to a lecture by the acclaimed Scottish poet, playwright, novelist and short-story writer Alan Spence. During his talk, professor Spence will discuss his multifaceted writing career, his relationship to Scottish culture and literary traditions, and he will also read extracts from his works. The […]

dr. Hans-Christian Trepte (Univerzita v Lipsku): Between Documentary and Provocation: Jewish Topics in Polish Culture

The Prague Centre for Jewish Studies (CUFA) is delighted to invite you to a lecture by Dr Hans-Christian Trepte (University of Leipzig) co-organised together with the Prague Jewish Museum. The lecture will be held in English, free entry.

Yoshiyuki Asahi: Old and new trends in Japanese dialect research

Yoshiyuki Asahi is an associate professor of sociolinguistics at National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. In his talk, he will introduce Japanese dialects from both traditional and innovative perspectives. Despite the large impact standard Japanese has had on the dialects, dialects still do exist and seem to be assuming a new role in the contemporary […]

Richard Maltby: Approaches to Classical Hollywood History

The film historian Richard Maltby, a world-famous expert on the history of Hollywood, is going to give three lectures at the Department of Film Studies. Students can register for the lecture by e-mailing Dr Jindřiška Bláhová (jindriska.blahova@ff.cuni.cz). Registration deadline: 8 November 2017. Programme

L’Europe centrale s’invite sur France Culture!

LA FABRIQUE DE L’HISTOIRE : L’Europe centrale, ses nostalgies historiques et l’avenir de l’Europe À l’occasion de la venue de l’équipe de l’émission La Fabrique de l’Histoire pour un cycle d’émissions consacré à l’Europe centrale et diffusé du 18 au 21 décembre 2017 sur France Culture, le CEFRES organise un atelier sur « Les utilisations […]

Marie-Madeleine de CEVINS (Université de Rennes): Les migrations dans la construction de l’image des Hongrois au Moyen Âge

Prof. Laura Kolbe “Finland 100 – myths and reality in the building of a nation 1907-2017”

The Embassy of Finland in Prague cordially invites you to a keynote lecture by Professor Laura Kolbe (University of Helsinki), with the presence of H. E. Helena Tuuri, Ambassador of Finland to the Czech Republic. Laura Kolbe is a Finnish professor of European history at the University of Helsinki. She is also a Helsinki City Council member. Kolbe earned […]

Os Guinness: Time for Truth – Who can we really trust?

Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where […]

John C. Lennox: Time for Science – What can we really know?

John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics (emeritus) at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School, Oxford University, and teaches for the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme. In addition, he is an Adjunct Lecturer at […]

CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SLAVISTS XIII

 Thursday 2 November  10:00 Образы Минина и Пожарского в культурно-исторической памяти России    (Ольга Лешкова) Svobodní zednáři v Ruském impériu druhé poloviny osmnáctého století jako kulturní fenomén (Anežka Hrebiková) Politická filosofie Ivana Iljina a její kontexty (Ladislav Zemánek) 11:30–12:30 Break 12:30     Slovinské vzpomínky na alexandrinky ‒ včera a dnes (Alena Klvaňová) Neprimjene, nevidljive, intrigantne? Socijalističke plastičke strukture […]

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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.  […]