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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Sport Psychology in Practice 2015: A Different Point of View
The Association of Sport Psychologists and the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Prague, organise the 6th year of the international conference Sport Psychology in Practice. Confirmed guest speakers include: Daniel Birrer (Switzerland), Tomáš Gurský (Slovakia), Ross Hall (Great Britain), Gregor Kuhn (Germany), Oliver Stoll (Germany), Michal Šafář (Czech Republic), Mauro Murgia and Fabrizio Sors […]
State and State Capacities, Democracy and Development
Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague and Taipei Cultural and Economic Office in Prague cordially invite all those who are interested to the international conference State and State Capacities, Democracy and Development, which will be held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague on 19th November 2015. The […]
2nd Prague Colloquium on Hebrew Book
A series of seminars, lectures, and presentations on the topic of Jewish book culture in the 16th – 18th century. Participants include renown scholars from Israeli universities. See the full programme of the colloquium at the Prague Centre for Jewish Studies website.
Jan Zábrana: Poet, translator, reader
On 6-7 November 2015, the Department of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, hosts an international conference devoted to Jan Zábrana. The conference will focus on three major areas of his work: his own poetry and fiction, translations of modern English, American, Russian, French and Spanish literature, and finally his literary journalism where Zábrana introduced his […]
Conference of Young Slavicists
On 5 – 6 November, the 11th year of the Conference of Young Slavicists will be held at the Faculty of Arts. The theme of the conference is “The Slavs: Concord and Conflict”. The participants include young academics from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. All parts of the program will […]
Beyond the Café/Pub Split: Interlocking Urbanity and Rurality in the Popular Culture of East Central European Societies
Given the specificity of nation-building processes in East Central Europe, the narrative axis of national movements has linked the city and the village. The linear process of urbanisation has relied on a logic that interlocks rural and urban spaces in this region. Both capitalist and state socialist modernisation brought an influx of rural migrants from the […]
Encuentro de Jóvenes Cervantistas
Students and researchers from the Czech Republic and abroad focusing on Miguel de Cervantes will meet at the Faculty of Arts. The conference is held to mark the anniversary of the publishing of Don Quixote (II. part) in 1615.
Symposium “DISCOVERING TAIWAN IN EUROPE”
The Chiang Ching-kuo International Sinological Center, in cooperation with Inter-University Center for Sinology at Harvard University organizes an international symposium DISCOVERING TAIWAN IN EUROPE. The symposium is dedicated to the position of Taiwan in sinology and Chinese studies in a broader sense. The discussion will take place within the following panels: Methodological challenges, Taiwan literature and culture, Sinology […]
BEING JEWISH IN CENTRAL EUROPE TODAY
The conference will be held in English and is free of charge – registration is not required. The event is supported by the Embassy of Israel in the Czech Republic. See the full programme at the conference website.
International Conference “21st Century: Modernity Today?”
On 25 and 26 September, the international conference 21st Century: Modernity Today? will be held by the Centre for Portugal Studies at the Department of Romance Studies, in cooperation with the Prague branch of the Camões Institute and the Society for Lusitan Studies in the Czech Republic. Twenty-five participants include leading Portugalists such as Hélder Macedo (Kingʼs […]
