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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CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SLAVISTS XII: NON-SLAVIC ELEMENTS IN SLAVIC CULTURES AND LANGUAGES
The conference is intended for senior students, graduates, alumni, PhD students and young scholars under 35 years of age. As usual, the languages of the conference shall be all the Slavonic languages. Conference Programme
Humanities at Scale Winter School
The winter school will be organized as 10 thematic half-days, both theoretical and pragmatic, including lectures, presentations and practical workshops about: Open Access & Open Edition The status of data in scientific publication, in social sciences and humanities Relationship between Data Management Plan (DMP) & research design Issues of persistent identification Open critical edition as […]
20th FORUM 2000 Conference: Courage to Take Responsibility
The life and work of Václav Havel, an intellectual, an author, a political prisoner, a human rights defender and a president of a country, is an amazing example of democratic leadership and of taking personal responsibility for the state of public affairs and the world as a whole. Nevertheless, today´s democratic leadership seems to be in crisis, contending with a lack […]
Charles IV (1316-1378) and the Musical Legacy of His Era
International musicological conference on the musical culture of the late medieval Central Europe.
Vielfältige Konzepte – Konzepte der Vielfalt: Interkulturalität(en) weltweit
Die Tagung findet unter der Schirmherrschaft des Regionspräsidenten Herrn Oldřich Bubeníček und der Oberbürgermeisterin der Stadt Ústí nad Labem Frau Ing. Věra Nechybová statt. Datum: 4. – 9. Oktober 2016 Ort: Ústí nad Labem (Aussig) und Praha (Prag) Annotation: Die Tagung gilt einer Bestandsaufnahme interkultureller Konzepte. Dabei geht es darum, einen Überblick über Modellierungen interkultureller Phänomene […]
4th Biennial Conference of the Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA)
Social anthropology produces a specific kind of knowledge with sensitivity to ambiguities or even contradictions. The deeper anthropologists immerse themselves into local modes of thinking and action, the more likely paradoxes and ambiguities arise and scholars face the challenge of representing them. Such phenomena may be perceived as constitutive parts of social reality, results of semiosis […]
Community and Exclusion. Collective Violence in the Multiethnic (East) Central European Societies before and after the Holocaust (1848–1948)
The Prague Centre for Jewish Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences cordially invite you to attend an international conference Community and Exclusion. Collective Violence in the Multiethnic (East) Central European Societies before and after the Holocaust (1848–1948) which will be held in September 25-27, […]
VIII. International Symposium on Czech as a Foreign Language: “Czech as an European and World Language?”
Symposium held at the occasion of 60th Summer School of Slavonic Studies and the 700th anniversary of the birth of Charles VI. The event is open to both Czech and international researchers working in Czech studies.
Symposium on Turkish-Czech Relations
The Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, and Türkiye Halk Kültürü Araştırmaları Kurumu organize a Symposium on Turkish-Czech relations, which will take place in Prague on July 10-14, 2016, with the participation of scholars from various universities in Turkey and representatives of the Institute of Near […]
Cultural Linguistics for Today’s Europe: Man, Languages, Values
Given the way Europe is becoming more and more integrated, cultural linguistics is certainly a very relevant approach. When it comes both to exploring individual national languages and the linguistic worldviews that form within them and also when looking for unity in diversity, e. g. searching for common European values, culturally based linguistics should prove an […]
