Section of Finnish Studies and Section of Scandinavian Studies of the Department of Germanic Studies at CU FA organize international symposium Minority Languages and Language Policies in the Nordic Countries, which will be held at CU FA on 25–26 April 2024. The official language of the symposium is English, but other languages are also used during the […]
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Current events
Internationalisation as a Tool to Support the Study Success of Foreign Students
Institute for Languages and Preparatory Studies is celebrating 50 years as part of Charles University. It prepares foreign and international applicants for study (in Czech and English) in terms of language, field, and adaptation, works with students of accredited study programmes, provides language certification, and prepares teachers who teach Czech as a foreign or second language. […]
PRAGESTT (Prager Germanistische Studierendentagung)
Die PRAGESTT (Prager Germanistische Studierendentagung) stellt eine internationale germanistische Studierendenkonferenz dar. Sie bietet eine offene Plattform für wissenschaftlichen Austausch junger Germanistinnen und Germanisten, die insb. die Ergebnisse ihrer Bachelor-, Master- und Dissertationsarbeiten sowie anderer wissenschaftlichen Projekte präsentieren. Ausdiskutiert werden die Bereiche der germanistischen synchronen und diachronen Linguistik, der neueren und älteren Literaturwissenschaft, Translatologie und Didaktik. […]
International symposium on Minority Languages and Language Policies in the Nordic Countries
Section of Finnish Studies and Section of Scandinavian Studies of the Department of Germanic Studies at CU FA organize international symposium Minority Languages and Language Policies in the Nordic Countries, which will be held at CU FA on 25–26 April 2024. The official language of the symposium is English, but other languages are also used during the […]
Conference | Mongolia through Historical Photographs
The international conference “Mongolia through Historical Photographs” is organized by the Department of Mongolian Studies of the Institute of Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts, Charles University) in cooperation with the Department for the Study of Religions (Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University) and the National Museum of Czech Republic with the intention to create a forum for […]
Past events
Ulkomaisen fennistiikan syyskoulu Praha 2018 / International Autumn School of Finnish Studies Prague 2018
The International Autumn School of Finnish Studies Prague 2018 is part of a four-year cooperative project run by departments and centers for Finnish studies at universities in Warsaw, Greifswald, Cologne, and the Faculty of Arts in Prague. The project has achieved financial support of the Finnish state organisation Opetushallitus, which is part of the Finnish Ministry […]
Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment
Canada has been a transnational country from its inception: founded on the ideas of Métis identities, forged by the metropolis-colony relationship, and modernized under the cross-boundary flow of American goods and capital. The revival of transnationalism as a widely respected lens of scholarly research in manifest fields provides us with very useful multidisciplinary bridges to study both […]
Beckett & Technology Conference
In April 1981, having devoted considerable time to resolving the technicalities that surrounded his TV play Quad, Samuel Beckett confessed to Ruby Cohn: “Not long back from Stuttgart. Unsatisfactory. Television is beyond me.” Frustrating as it may have been at times, technology held its fascination for Beckett and often became enmeshed with his work. It […]
The Crossroads III. A Stranger in the House – Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies of the Bronze Age
We are happy to announce the third international Crossroads conference – “The Crossroads III – A Stranger in the House. Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies of the Bronze Age”, which will be held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague) between September 10 and 13, 2018. For more information about the programme, see […]
Ballads and Memory. International Conference of the Ballad Commission/Kommission für Volksdichtung
Songs are often thought of as capturing the memories of a people or community. They reflect cultural experience and, as David Buchan put it, they give expression to the “cultural preoccupations of—and sometimes the sense of identity of—a given group”. They are a record of human experience. But how is that record constructed? Whose memories are being […]
Ballads and Memory. International Conference of the Ballad Commission/Kommission für Volksdichtung
Songs are often thought of as capturing the memories of a people or community. They reflect cultural experience and, as David Buchan put it, they give expression to the “cultural preoccupations of—and sometimes the sense of identity of—a given group”. They are a record of human experience. But how is that record constructed? Whose memories are being […]
7th Annual International Conference of the European Popular Culture Association
EUPOP 2018 is the seventh annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. Keynotes: Professor Petr A. Bilek (Charles University, Prague) Distant Encounters of the Third Kind: Why Is Popular Culture Not Popular within Central European University Curricula? Professor Hilary Radner (University […]
The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice
Collegium Europaeum, CUFA & Insitute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences are delighted to invite you to the 13th international symposium The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice.
Prague German Studies Conference PRAGESTT
We invite you to the 8th annual German studies conference PRAGESTT, which is held on 23th and 24th March 2018 in the main building of the Faculty of Arts on náměstí Jana Palacha. This student conference offers an opportunity for fellow students from various European universities to present their research in the fields of German […]
Postgraduate and Post-doctorate Colloquium on Low Countries Studies
The Centre for Dutch language and Culture, Charles University, organizes the sixth postgraduate and post-doctorate colloquium on 7 – 10 March 2018 with the generous support of the Dutch Language Union, Charles University, the Flemish representation, and the Embassy of The Netherlands. Postgraduate and post-doctorate researchers will present papers on various topics Dutch language and […]
