Prof. László Kulcsár, professor of rural sociology and demography and the head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education at the Pennsylvania State University will on October 17th 4pm at the main building of Faculty of Arts (Jan Palach square), room nr. 200 give a lecture: The demography of post-socialism: Social and economic challenges Post-socialism is a unique […]
From 1 December 2020, CU FA libraries will start again to loan books to the students and employees of Charles University in a restricted mode.
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.
Docent Pavel Hartl, a university pedagogue, psychologist, and psychotherapist, promoter of science, and author, passed away on 14 November 2020 aged 86.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, commemorates the Velvet Revolution by symbolically illuminating the building nám. Jana Palacha in the colours of the Czech tricolour on 17 September at 17:11.
After the translation of Neruda’s Tales of the Lesser Quarter (Povídky malostranské), which has reached the Vietnamese readers already in two editions (the last one in 2019), the enthusiasts of Czech literature in Vietnam will also get to know the satirical dark comedy novel by Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923) called The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války).
The Czech Institue of Egyptology is looking for an Assistant Professor specialized in Egyptology, Egyptian archaeology, Old Kingdom architecture and iconography.
Last year, the FFousáči team from the Faculty contributed 52,925 CZK to the Movember project. The collected sum goes to the tranparent account of the foundation Muži proti rakovině (Men Against Cancer). It is possible to contribute as an individual or as a whole team until the end of November.
Charles University defended its position on the Best Global Universities amongst the best world research-oriented universities. In the seventh year of the rating, it ranked the 210th position from fifteen hundred compared research universities from more than eighty countries in the world.
On 4 November 2020, the Rector of Charles University, prof. Tomáš Zima, by the Rector’s measure No. 46/2020, declared a state of emergency at the entire university, effective from 5 November 2020. All measures taken so far remain in effect.