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Calendar
Gendering Authoritarianism & Resistance: The Significance of Body Politics in the Middle East
Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Studies (CGS), SOAS University of London. She is currently chair of the Centre for Gender Studies but will leave SOAS to take up a new position in anthropology with reference to the Middle East at Brown University in January. Her main research interests revolve […]
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Charles University
Lecture presented by PhDr. Milada Sekyrková, CSc., Deaprtment of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies. It is a part of a new academic initiative for the ECES program – an annual lecture series. This year’s theme is “University and Republic”, focusing on this year’s centennial celebrations. Lecture 1: The USA and the Origins of Czechoslovakia, Tuesday, October […]
Call for Applications: European Joint Doctorate MOVES – Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges
MOVES is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network project funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. EJD MOVES has been designed to provide an understanding of the historical, cultural and social roots of migration as a necessary prerequisite for effective political solutions to present migration problems in global terms. EJD MOVES’ […]
Workshop: Northern Europe and Transnational Reception of Arts and Literature
The Department of Scandinavian Studies cordially invites everyone interested to the workshop “Northern Europe and Transnational Reception of Arts and Literature”. Full programme is available from here.
Ian Brodie: Stand-up Comedy: A Folkloristic Approach
The Department of Ethnology, CUFA, cordially invites everyone interested to a lecture by Ian Brodie (Associate Professor in Folklore, Cape Breton University, Canada): The lecture will cover Prof. Brodie’s academic work on stand-up comedy and how to approach it from a folklore standpoint: namely, that by being rooted and, in many ways, by emulating the forms of talk […]
Ian Brodie: Canadian Folklore and Folkloristics: The Shaping of a Discipline
The Department of Ethnologz, CUFA, cordially invites everyone interested to a special lecture by Ian Brodie (Associate Professor in Folklore, Cape Breton University, Kanada). The lecture will cover the contextual differences – namely a history based in colonial expansion and colony establishment – that make folklore scholarship in North America and specifically Canada different from European models. […]
Rage Against the Algorithm
On the anniversary of the “Velvet Revolution,” an international meeting of artists, activists & theorists from diverse backgrounds will take in Prague to discuss & plan strategies & tactics for creative emancipation & insurgency under a global regime of algorithmic control & co-option. Subjects will range from Xenofeminism to Sinofuturism, Accelarationism, Alienism, the Anthropocene, Big Data […]
Lecture by Slovenian anthropologist Alenka Janko Spreizer “Mobile ethnographies: ethnography of mobility”.
Department of Ethnology invites you to attend a lecture by Alenka Janko Spreizer “Mobile ethnographies: ethnography of mobility” on November 14th, 12:30 pm, room 138, Celetná 20, Prague. The lecture is a part of „Ethnography and Theory“ series that presents various forms of ethnography and discusses its possibilities, limits and current transformations. The series is supported by […]
Call for Papers: Performativity and Creativity in Modern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference
22–24 November 2019, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague Performativity and creativity have often been used vaguely in a number of discourses in cultural studies, economics, political ideologies or advertising. The purpose of this conference is to explore the force of these concepts in pragmatic approaches to cultures and closely related industrial production (“creative industries”), in […]
Marcin Wodziński (University of Wrocław): What is Hasidism?
What is Hasidism? Why do we know so little about one of the most intensively researched phenomena in Jewish history? Which historiographical presumptions hinder the development of our knowledge about Hasidism? How is it related to the basis of sources and methodological approaches? What would Hasidism look like if approached from a different, anti-elitist perspective, from […]
