In 2015, Europe was in a tense debate on the topic of so-called refugee crisis. Amongst the students that went to help in the Balkan was Jakub Múčka now a PhD student at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at CU FA. Around him emerged a team that has been building the online Atlas of the Current World.
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Job Offer: Czech Institute of Egyptology & Department of Middle Eastern Studies
The Faculty of Art, Charles University offers the following two positions. Czech Institute of Egyptology – field and specialization: Egyptology, Egyptian archaeology, Old Kingdom architecture and iconography. Department of Middle Eastern Studies – field and specialization: Turkish Language, Didactics of Non-European Languages
Temporal Access to eBooks on Oxford Scholarship Online and SAGE Knowledge
The students and staff of Charles University have temporal access to multi-discipline collections of eBooks: to more than 18,000 eBooks on Oxford Scholarship Online and 4,000 eBooks on SAGE Knowledge.
Where Did Slav Come From? A New Collective Monography Offers Some Answers
Publication “New Perspectives on the Early Slavs and the Rise of Slavic. Contact and Migrations” has been published in cooperation with the Heidelberg University (Slavisches Institut) and the Institute of the Czech Language at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Translation of Scottish Gaelic Literature into Czech: Petra Johana Poncarová Has Won Josef Hlávek Award for Her Dissertation
Based on her research on an eminent Gaelic author Derick Thomson, Dr Petra Johana Poncarová (Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA) has laid a foundation of new philological discipline in the Czech Republic – studies of Gaelic language and literature.
