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Calendar
Prof. Eva Zettelmann (Universität Wien): Cultural Memory and the Contemporary British Poetry Scene
This lecture focuses on contemporary British poetry (Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage, Alice Oswald, Patience Agbabi, Kate Tempest et al.). It tries to shed light on the specific character of the British poetry scene by referring to the notion of ‚cultural memory‘, i.e., the body of culture-specific knowledge centring on the past which, through its […]
The rise and development of the solar cult and architecture in Ancient Egypt
We would like to cordially invite you to the workshop entitled The rise and development of the solar cult and architecture in Ancient Egypt. This one-day workshop is organized as a final event of the first year of the GAČR project “The rise and development of the solar cult and architecture in Third Millennium BC Egypt”, […]
International Workshop. Reconsidering the Cold War: New Approaches, Methodologies and Theories
Advance registration required on https://goo.gl/forms/432aIcE8Vl3Tar8A3 Frank Gerits (Utrecht University), The Unexpected Turn in International History: Multi-centrism and the Ambivalent Place of the Postcolonial Archive in Rethinking the International History of the 20th century Since 2000, transnational and international history have defined the cutting edge of historical research. Particularly innovative was the introduction of the multi-centric […]
Perspectives on Classical Archaeology (PeClA) 2017
PeClA 2017 is a two‐day conference in Classical Archaeology and Classics aimed at postgraduate / doctoral students traditionally offering a space for presenting research results, discussion, and an exchange of ideas, in a friendly and supportive environment. This year’s theme of the conference is RESOURCES: POWER AND CONNECTIVITY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN.
Founding Conference of the Institute for the Study of Strategic Regions
The aim of this founding conference is to gather and confront different approaches to research on broadly understood concept of a “region” and demonstrate its potential for our understanding of contemporary world in its historical, cultural and geopolitical terms. An important part of the discussion will also comprise different approaches to terminology and methodology outside the […]
Dr. Iivi Zájedová: Estonian Folklore Festivals
Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University cordially invites you to cycle of public lectures and screenings by dr. Iivi Zájedová. The central objective of the course is to give a comprehensive overview of Estonian folklore festivals process and role of festivals since the 19th century until today. Estonian language and folklore is at the […]
Peter Kosta (Universität Postdam): Animacy, Gender and Agreement in Typologically and Genetically Cognate and Non-Cognate Languages – Explorations into the Syntax-Semantic Interfaces of Human Language Faculty
The following project goes back to our research on grammatical categories with special reference to syntax and semantics of Slavic languages compared to a small set of typologically and genetically non-cognate languages usually referred to as indigenous languages. This kind of comparison aims at discovering overt and hidden properties of human mind encoded as grammatical categories […]
Hilde Hasselgård (Univerzita Oslo): Corpus-based contrastive analysis: some methodological issues and a talking case study
Hilde Hasselgård Professor, English language, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo „Corpus-based contrastive analysis: some methodological issues and a talking case study“
Benjamin C. Fortna (University of Arizona): Researching the History of Marginality in the Ottoman Context: An Introduction to ‘Outcasts and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire’
Please note that this talk is part of the Conference “Outcasts and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire”.
“…and the Word Became Music”: Virtual Exhibition
The virtual exhibition “…and the Word became Music” invites you to the world of books made many centuries ago to record the musical ideas of the people of that era. Music is what connects us with the world of our ancestors living during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Do not miss this […]
Current events
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. […]
