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 […]
The annual “Identities in the Middle East Workshop,” organized and hosted by the Department of Near Eastern and African Studies at Charles University, will be inaugurated with a two-day discussion of late-Ottoman identities.
A consorcium of universities whose members include Charles University, University of Kent, Freie Universität Berlin, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III and Universidade do Porto has received a grant from the European Union as part of the scheme Horizon 2020 for its project Migration and Modernity – Historical and Cultural Challenges (MOVES).
The 7th annual "Screen Industries in East-Central Europe" (SIECE) conference, which took place in Prague on 22-23 May 2018, focused on current developments in online distribution of audiovisual content. The main conference themes also included Internet television and European Commission’s Digital Single Market strategy.
The winners of the 2018 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, Europe’s top honour in the field, were announced on 15 May by the European Commission and Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage network. St. Wenceslas Rotunda in Prague won the award in the category "CONSERVATION".
On 28 April 2018, the fifth year of the Open Square Festival was held on Jan Palach Square. Visitors could attend exhibitions, lectures, workshops, concerts, guided walks, and boat trips.
Attentat 1942, a historically-accurate video game about the Nazi occupation of former Czechoslovakia, recently won the “Most Amazing Game Award” at the prestigious A MAZE 2018 Festival in Berlin.
As part of the Ibero-American Week, organised on 19 - 27 April by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with representatives of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in Prague, the Centre for Ibero-American Studies at CUFA organised a symposium Cien años de relaciones entre Checoslovaquia/República Checa y el mundo hispánico/lusobrasileño.
Linguistics Prague is a conference aimed at graduate students of linguistics and related fields. This year, the programme consists of thre days of plenary talks, sessions, workshops, and social activities.
Charles University is happy to invite the academic community to an honorary degree ceremony in which the title of doctor of philosophical sciences, honoris causa, will be awarded to the renowned archaeologist, professor Thomas Evan Levy.
