Wir laden Euch zum 14. Jahrgang der germanistischen Studierendenkonferenz PRAGESTT herzlich ein. Dieser Jahrgang findet am 21. und 22. März 2025 an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Karls-Universität in Prag statt. Die Konferenz bietet eine einzigartige Plattform für den Austausch unter Germanistikstudierenden über Themen ihrer Abschlussarbeiten und anderer wissenschaftlichen Projekte. Wir ermutigen alle, ihre neuesten Arbeiten zu […]
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Music and Sound Between Tradition and Innovation
An International Conference co-sponsored by NYU, NYU Prague and Charles University.
7th International Postgraduate Conference PeCla 2018
PeClA 2018 is a two‐day conference in Classical Archaeology and Classics aimed at postgraduate / doctoral students traditionally offering a space for presenting research results, discussion, and an exchange of ideas, in a friendly and supportive environment. This year’s theme of the conference is: POLEMOS – BELLUM: Archaeology of conflict in the antiquity.
Ulkomaisen fennistiikan syyskoulu Praha 2018 / International Autumn School of Finnish Studies Prague 2018
The International Autumn School of Finnish Studies Prague 2018 is part of a four-year cooperative project run by departments and centers for Finnish studies at universities in Warsaw, Greifswald, Cologne, and the Faculty of Arts in Prague. The project has achieved financial support of the Finnish state organisation Opetushallitus, which is part of the Finnish Ministry […]
Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment
Canada has been a transnational country from its inception: founded on the ideas of Métis identities, forged by the metropolis-colony relationship, and modernized under the cross-boundary flow of American goods and capital. The revival of transnationalism as a widely respected lens of scholarly research in manifest fields provides us with very useful multidisciplinary bridges to study both […]
Beckett & Technology Conference
In April 1981, having devoted considerable time to resolving the technicalities that surrounded his TV play Quad, Samuel Beckett confessed to Ruby Cohn: “Not long back from Stuttgart. Unsatisfactory. Television is beyond me.” Frustrating as it may have been at times, technology held its fascination for Beckett and often became enmeshed with his work. It […]
The Crossroads III. A Stranger in the House – Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies of the Bronze Age
We are happy to announce the third international Crossroads conference – “The Crossroads III – A Stranger in the House. Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies of the Bronze Age”, which will be held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague) between September 10 and 13, 2018. For more information about the programme, see […]
Ballads and Memory. International Conference of the Ballad Commission/Kommission für Volksdichtung
Songs are often thought of as capturing the memories of a people or community. They reflect cultural experience and, as David Buchan put it, they give expression to the “cultural preoccupations of—and sometimes the sense of identity of—a given group”. They are a record of human experience. But how is that record constructed? Whose memories are being […]
Ballads and Memory. International Conference of the Ballad Commission/Kommission für Volksdichtung
Songs are often thought of as capturing the memories of a people or community. They reflect cultural experience and, as David Buchan put it, they give expression to the “cultural preoccupations of—and sometimes the sense of identity of—a given group”. They are a record of human experience. But how is that record constructed? Whose memories are being […]
7th Annual International Conference of the European Popular Culture Association
EUPOP 2018 is the seventh annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. Keynotes: Professor Petr A. Bilek (Charles University, Prague) Distant Encounters of the Third Kind: Why Is Popular Culture Not Popular within Central European University Curricula? Professor Hilary Radner (University […]