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The Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, launched its internet shop. The site at e-shop.ff.cuni.cz contains a selection of over 500 titles of books, periodicals and e-publications, largely from the Faculty´s own production.

The Institute of Phonetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, has now launched, for the first time, a seminar of forensic phonetics, with an ambition to satisfy the demand for such specialists. Doc. Mgr. Radek Skarnitzl, Ph.D. is the instructor.

The Linguistics and Geography departments at the Charles University were rated in the top 100 in the World University Rankings by Subject, as composed by the British company Quacquarelli Symonds.

At a meeting of the Research Council on Thursday 18th April, 2013, the Silver Medal of the Faculty of Arts was awarded to British scholar and translator Patrick Corness.

The golden pen and hammer used by Emperor Franz Josef I in 1907 at the ceremonial start of building work on the new building of the Klar institute are amongst the exhibits on show at an exhibition being held to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of the founder of care for the blind in Bohemia, Aloys Klar.

On Wednesday, 10 April 2013, the Faculty of Arts, CU, las launched the first year of its Children’s University. Entitled Hledá se Sofie (Finding Sofie), the project is targeted at children in years 2-5 of primary school.

The Czech scientific expedition under the auspices of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, CU FA, discovered in Central Sudan one of the largest cemeteries of hunter-fisher-gatherers in North Africa, containing according to the estimates ca. 400–450 burials.

Michal Ježek, one of chief managers, was interviewed about a memorial to the anniversary of Jan Palach’s self-immolation.