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Historian Timothy Garton Ash to receive an honorary doctorate degree based on the proposal by CU FA

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.

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.