Calendar: Conference

Current events

Call for Papers: PRAGESTT 2025

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 […]

Past events

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 […]

European Civilisation and the World Between Conflicts, Cooperation and Dialogue

Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, will host on 18 September 2015 this conference devoted to a broad range of themes. In view of this we formulated the wide scope of the conference topics to highlight as much as possible interdisciplinary cooperation in the humanities. As the name indicates, the individual papers should be conceptual […]

Metamorphoses: The III International Flann O’Brien Conference

Written at a time of profound transformation in post-independence Ireland and war-torn Europe, and displaying an acute awareness of the epochal changes bearing on modern notions of literature and the self, Flann O’Brien’s œuvre offers a sustained engagement with the representation of cultural, political, and personal metamorphosis. This is a body of writing in which the human always […]

Forum 2000 Conference Democracy and Education

Dear Sir or Madam, We cordially invite you to attend the 19th annual Forum 2000 Conference titled “Democracy and Education” which will be held September 13–16, 2015 in Prague and other Central European cities. If you are interested in attending the conference, please register via our online registration system. Registration is open until Monday, August […]

XXIV. Colloquium of Young Linguists

Every year in autumn, young researchers meet at the Colloquium of Young Linguists. The conference is organised by the Slovak Linguistic Society at the Ľudovít Štúr Linguistic Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences. The XXIV. colloquium will be held in Prague at the Faculty of Arts. The colloquium is an occassion for young linguists to share […]

Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2015

In June 2015, the Czech Institute of Egyptology organizes the already fourth international conference on Abusir and Saqqara area. The conference aims to cover all principal fields of Egyptology connected to relevant aspects of the history, archaeology, environmental features, philology, art history, religion and other related subjects concerning the pyramid fields and cemeteries of Abusir […]