News

On 17 November 2015, at the International Students’ Day, students of Charles University were demeaned and the significant national holiday was abused for the promotion of specific political aims.

The academic community of the Faculty of Arts is shaken by the the news about the terrorist attacks on 13 November 2015 in Paris. We want to express our deep sympathy with the survivors and those who have lost their loved ones.

The library of the Department of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics is now open to all readers of the FA library.

A research team, consisting of Czech, Uzbek, and French participants, was exploring the settlement of the Jáz I culture in Uzbekistan. The expedition yielded several remarkable findings.

On 5 – 6 November, the 11th Conference of Young Slavicists will be held under the auspices of the Department of East European Studies. The theme of the conference is “The Slavs: Concord and Conflict”.

Jan Palach Square as a space for neighbourly meetings, art and living culture – this is the concept of the festival Open Square organised by four institutions: Faculty of Arts; Czech Philharmonic; Museum of Decorative Arts; and the Prague Institute of Planning and Development.

The Faculty of Art is delighted to announce that Martin Hilský, professor of English literature and renown Shakespearean scholar, has been awarded the prestigious National Award Česká hlava 2015.

Faculty of Arts Press has published a new catalogue of journals that are now available online as part of the Open Access program.

CEFRES epistemological seminar “Exploring Interdisciplinarity” will start on Thursday 15 October, from 3.30 at CEFRES.

Doc. Ondřej Pilný (Centre for Irish Studies, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures) has arranged for a book donation from Ireland – a unique collection of books dealing with Celtic literatures and languages.