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.
Calendar: Lecture
Current events
Current Issues in Archaeology | Athanasios Sideris (Prague): Treasuring the Ostentatious Past: Ancient Luxury, Modern Sensationalism and Historical Figures
The Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA invites you to a lecture by Athanasios Sideris from the Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA that will be held on 24 April 2024 from 4:30 pm in Campus Hybernská.
Past events
‘When Brethren Dwell Together in Disunity’: Jewish Communities at the End of the Middle in the Takkanot ha-Kahal Literature
The Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages cordially invites you to a guest lecture ‘When Brethren Dwell Together in Disunity’: Jewish Communities at the End of the Middle in the Takkanot ha-Kahal Literature by Martin Borýsek (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Medieval Literature, University of York). The lecture is organised as part of the interdisciplinary course Medieval Social […]
Prof. Pier Luigi Sacco: Digital Humanities and the Future of Universities
What is digital humanities? How is this area linked with the current concept of universities? And what is, in this context, Culture 3.0? Both the CUFA academic community and general public are invited to this lecture and subsequent discussion. The event will take place in English (without interpreting). Moderated by Mgr. Josef Šlerka. Pier Luigi […]
Paul Katz (Academia Sinica) – Religion and Society in Modern Taiwan: Adaptation and Continuity
he Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Center invites you to an interdisciplinary lecture series Professor Paul Katz, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Religion and Society in Modern Taiwan: Adaptation and Continuity October 17 – 20, 2016 Monday October 17, 2016, 15:50 – 17:25 1) Taiwanese Religious Life – An Introduction Tuesday October 18, 2016, 10:50 – 12: […]
Karen Fishman: Behind the scene from Library of Congress
Department of Information Studies and Librarianship, Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Czech Information Society is happy to announce a lecture with Karen Fishman called Behind the scene from Library of Congress. Karen Fishman is supervisor for the Recorded Sound Research Center and the Motion Picture and Television Research Center at the Library of Congress. She […]
Prof. R. L. Górski: Historical linguistics and stylometry. Can the corpus tell us how to periodize the history of a language?
How do we know when, say, Early Modern period of a given language expires and Late Modern commences? Typically coarse-grained periodizations are based on changes of the grammatical system, whereas fine-grained ones take as an evidence some sociolinguistic or philological arguments. Instead we propose a corpus driven approach. Using text categorisation methods, in a stepwise fashion we divide […]
Prof. R.L. Górski: Translationese and stylometry
In the talk I shall present three case studies examining translationese with the tools of stylometry (Stylo package for R): Victorian translations from French to English, modern Polish literature contrasted to translations from English to Polish, and the style of “translations without translations”. Victorian literature exhibits is a clear separation of translations and non-translations both on lexical […]
Broken Voice; Broken Soul: Conflicts over Music in Late Medieval Northern Europe
Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, Faculty of Arts, Charles University would like to invite you to the inaugural lecture of the course Medieval Social Conflicts and Contrasts: Broken Voice; Broken Soul: Conflicts over Music in Late Medieval Northern Europe delivered by Matthew Champion, Lecturer in Medieval History Birkbeck, University of London.
Danny Yung in Prague: CREATIVE ON/OFF STAGE – ONE COUNTRY TWO SYSTEMS ON/OFF STAGE – HONG KONG CHINA ON/OFF STAGE
The International Sinological Center at Charles University is happy to invite you to a meeting with Danny Yung, an experimental art pioneer and one of the most influential artists in Hong Kong.
The Syrian Christians and the Question of the Future Role in Post-War Syria: Any Role Whatsoever?
Students for Solidarity and the Ecumenical Institute (ETF CU), in cooperation with the platform Dominikánská 8, are happy to invite you to a lecture: Dr. Phil; Dr. Theol. Habil Najiba George Awada: The Syrian Christians and the Question of the Future Role in Post-War Syria: Any Role Whatsoever? Doc. Awada will be introduced by Professor Ivana Noble, […]
