The honorary doctorate will recognize not only more than thirty years of academic and journalistic work of Professor Garton Ash, but also his social attitudes, which are an inspiring and important voice for Central and Eastern Europe’s future direction, especially in the difficult period the regions are going through.
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Invitation to the Launch of the Horizon Europe Project COLUMN
You are kindly invited to two unique academic events marking the launch of the COLUMN project (Colonial Past of Universities: Materiality and New Forms of Cooperation): a lecture by Prof. Loretta Feris and the premiere screening of the documentary film UnRest.
This year’s only ERC Advanced Grant in the Czech Republic goes to the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. It was awarded to the historian Kateřina Čapková
Only one project from the Czech Republic has succeeded in the most prestigious European ERC Advanced Grant competition this year: the research of historian Kateřina Čapková from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies.
New ERA-AREAS Project Brings International Experts in Area Studies to CU Faculty of Arts
On 22 May, the Charles University Faculty of Arts (CU FA) hosted the kick-off meeting of the ERA-AREAS project, supported by the prestigious ERA Chair scheme under the Horizon Europe programme. The five-year project aims to establish the Centre for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).
Food Production Was Brought to the Nile Valley by New Populations. Czech Scientists Help Unravel Migration Events Dating back Eight Thousand Years
Transition from hunting-gathering to food-production represented a global turning point in human history. New results from archaeological and anthropological research in the Middle Nile Valley show that this innovation was brought to the area by new human groups that arrived in the 6th and 5th millennia BC.
Prof Eva Voldřichová Beránková from the Department of Romance Studies at CU FA Received a Major French Award
The Vice-Rector for International Affairs of Charles University has been awarded the French title of Knight of the National Order of Merit. She received it on 6 March from His Excellency Stéphane Crouzat, Ambassador of France to the Czech Republic.
Charles University Coordinates the Initial Phase of Research into the Colonial Histories of Universities
Charles University has secured funding for an ambitious project called „Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations“ (COLUMN). This initiative is co-financed by the EU Horizon Europe Programme and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI). The first phase will be coordinated by Prof. Markéta Křížová from CU FA.
Latin Medieval Studies Represented Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in the USA
The packed programme on the East Coast of the United States included a series of lectures, roundtables, and workshops that strengthened and opened new opportunities for mutual cooperation. The faculty was represented by Prof Lucie Doležalová and Dr Karel Pacovský and students Martin Roček, Jakub Kozák, and Ondřej Fúsik.
Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Discussed Further Cooperation at Brown University
A series of meetings at the partner Brown University were held on 14–18 October 2024 by a delegation of members of the College led by Dr Eva Lehečková, Dean of CU FA. The visit took place on the occasion of the renewal and extension of the Cooperation Agreement between Brown University and Charles Unviversity.
A Gift Marks the Beginning of a Cooperation between the Department of Sinology at CU FA and Leiden University
At the end of the international Prague Summer School of Chinese Poetry, organized by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinology Centre att Charles University in early September, Prof Maghiel van Crevel from the University of Leiden presented Dr Šárka Masárová with a precious gift for the library of the Department of Sinology at CU FA.
