ELF (English as lingua franca) researchers have had a successful series of thirteen international ELF conferences so far. This year, the conference named “ELF14: From Global Englishes to bot-English. Language change in the era of AI” will take place at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University on 11–14 September 2024. The title of the conference suggests […]
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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 […]
The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice
Collegium Europaeum, CUFA & Insitute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences are delighted to invite you to the 13th international symposium The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice.
Prague German Studies Conference PRAGESTT
We invite you to the 8th annual German studies conference PRAGESTT, which is held on 23th and 24th March 2018 in the main building of the Faculty of Arts on náměstí Jana Palacha. This student conference offers an opportunity for fellow students from various European universities to present their research in the fields of German […]
Postgraduate and Post-doctorate Colloquium on Low Countries Studies
The Centre for Dutch language and Culture, Charles University, organizes the sixth postgraduate and post-doctorate colloquium on 7 – 10 March 2018 with the generous support of the Dutch Language Union, Charles University, the Flemish representation, and the Embassy of The Netherlands. Postgraduate and post-doctorate researchers will present papers on various topics Dutch language and […]
Sharp Power: Rising Authoritarian Influence
We invite you to the “Sharp Power: Rising Authoritarian Influence” conference to take place on February 26, 2018 at 3 pm in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The discussion elaborates on the ways in which China and Russia influence the media, academic and cultural spheres, and think tanks in democratic countries, and how they shape public opinion. Do these interferences into the internal spheres of sovereign countries still fall under the category of “soft power,” the catch-all term for non-violent forms of developing and spreading […]
Género, política y religión en España e Iberoamérica: una perspectiva a largo plazo
En la primera mitad del siglo XX, el cliché sobre la mayor religiosidad de las mujeres moldeó lacampaña por el sufragio femenino en muchos países católicos. Si, por otra parte, miramos hacia la Edad moderna, los varones se consideraban dotados de una fuerza espiritual y moral mayor que la de las mujeres, lo que les […]
