The curator of the GLBT Museum in San Francisco will present materials, approaches, and exhibitions of this special museum – the second in the world to be created on this topic. This will include the social context and communication of this topic towards the general public.
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Tomáš Klír: “Images that heat – stove tiles in late medieval Bohemia”
Housing culture changed dramatically in the high and late medieval period across all social milieus in the Czech lands. One of the crucial changes concerned heating facilities. The heated but smoke-free rooms with stoves emerged, primarily in castles, later in towns and finally in peasant farmsteads. Designed tile stoves, situated usually in the most spectacular […]
Prof. Matthew Guterl (Brown University): Donald Trump, Capitalism, and the Endings of America
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Matthew Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies Chair of American Studies at Brown University. Matthew Pratt Guterl is a historian of race and nation, with a focus on United States history from the Civil War to […]
Emily Guerry: “Passion relics and Patrons between Paris and Prague”
The symbolic significance of the Crown of Thorns forever changed when the relic arrived in Paris. King Louis IX of France (1214, r. 1226–1270, canonized 1297) received the Crown as part of a diplomatic exchange with Emperor Baldwin II (1217, r. 1237–1273). For the kingdom of France, the subsequent acquisition of more Byzantine reliquaries between 1241 […]
Vincent Gillespie: “Man of Sorrows”
The talk will explore cognitive stillness and affective movement in the tradition of Christ as The Man of Sorrows.
Helena Znojemská: „The Franks Casket and the Appositive Style“
In his seminal book, Beowulf and the Appositive Style, Fred C. Robinson presented the complex structure of the epic as a creative application, on a large scale, of the principle underlying the Old English poetic technique of variation. Since then, the semantically open juxtaposition of contrastive, parallel or subtly modified statements has been traced and explored in […]
Dr Mark Nixon: Samuel Beckett – The Manuscripts and the Library
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Centre for Irish Studies invite you to a lecture “Samuel Beckett: The Manuscripts and the Library” by Dr Mark Nixon (University of Reading). Mark Nixon is Associate Professor at the Department of English Literature and Beckett Fellow at the University of Reading in the UK. He is also a director of […]
Prof. Pura Nieto (Brown University): Homer: The Intimacy of battle and a lion’s heart
As Emily Vermeule, Jean-Pierre Vernant and other scholars have demonstrated, in Greek, and more precisely in Homeric poetry, encounters of warriors on the battlefield and meetings of lovers in amorous contexts are described with the same language and images. An unarmed, defeated warrior may, for example, be compared to a woman. But there are many other […]
Prof. David Konstan (NYU): Remorse: The Origins of a Moral Idea
It is commonly supposed that the interrelated notions of guilt, remorse, penitence, and forgiveness are specific to the Judeo-Christian tradition. Did the Greeks and Romans in the pre-Christian era have a concept of remorse? If not, when and how did it arise? The problem is complicated because there was no change in terminology; rather, old terms […]
Karoline Kjesrud: “From the Mother of God to the Mother of Mary”
Mary was the most important saint in European Middle Ages. Texts and images from all over Europe are depicting her in different positions indicating that people have perceived her differently in various contexts and periods of time. In this talk I would like to ask how a development in Mary’s positions can reflect societal and church political […]
