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.
News
Professor Hilský to Receive the Most Prestigious Czech Research Award
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.
Academic journals published at the Faculty of Arts are now available online
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”
CEFRES epistemological seminar “Exploring Interdisciplinarity” will start on Thursday 15 October, from 3.30 at CEFRES.
Significant Contribution to Celtic Philology
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.
Marc Smith: Picturing political social media discourse networks – mapping the shape of the virtual crowd
The Social Media Research Foundation’s NodeXL project makes analysis of social media networks accessible to most users of the Excel spreadsheet application. The lecture will be held on 1st of October 2015.
The Centre for Irish Studies hosted an International Conference on Flann O’Brien
From 16 to 19 October, the Centre for Irish Studies hosted Metamorphoses: The III International Flann O’Brien Conference devoted to the Irish novelist, playwright and satirist.
Petr Daněk’s Phenomenal Discovery: Missing Parts of “The Czech Lute”
The printed edition of New York Times has informed about the discovery of the missing ritornellos from “The Czech Lute” by Adam Michna, one of the great works of the Czech Baroque, in the Franciscan library in Slaný.
Professor Klápště’s Research Wins Recognition Abroad
“Modern archaeology no longer works with excavations only. It also combines a number of non-intrusive approaches which do not affect the terrain,” explains Jan Klápště from the Department of Archaeology.
New collective monograph edited by members of the Department of Ethnology: The Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind
Members of the Department of Ethnology FF UK Barbora Půtová and Václav Soukup edited a highly presentable international collective monograph The Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind (Karolinum Press).
