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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Viva Africa 2021: Africa and (the Other) Europe: Imageries – Discourses – Exchanges
Conference venue: rooms 200 and 201, Jan Palach Square 1/2 and ZOOM Date: 15–17 September 2021 ——————————– Cultural program venue: HYB, Hybernská 4, Bar Date: 14 September 2021 ——————————– Twelfth VIVA AFRICA international conference invites participants to engage in a discussion of mutual encounters, inventions, constructions and relations of all kinds taking place between Africa and […]
EFACIS 2021 Conference: Interfaces and Dialogues
Hosted online by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague. The conference is part of the European Regional Development Fund project “Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World” (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/ 0000734), is supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland, and organised in partnership with the Irish […]
7th International Language Management Symposium: Standardization as Language Management
Standardization as a process based on intervening in variation is usually aimed at efficient communication on a larger scale. It not only covers the emergence of standard varieties of languages, but also language cultivation, the elaboration of genres and terminologies, and language teaching as well as the development of norms and standards for industry, commerce and intercultural […]
On Liberal Education: The Autopoietic Function of Universities
The conference deals with (mainly but not only) the role of universities in contemporary societies, the selfconstituting aspect of universities, as well as with more current topics such as question of trust between universities and democratic societies, the position of expertise and its change during the covid pandemic or sources of continuing differences between universities […]
Summer School of Slavonic Studies Online
In 2021, we’re hosting the first ever LŠSS (Summer School of Slavonic Studies) online for those who cannot come to Prague due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The MEYS scholarships do not apply to LŠSS online. Dates: 23. 7. – 8. 8. 2021 Czech language level: A2, A1 Number of students in a group: 8 max. What’s included in […]
Memory in Central and Eastern Europe: Past Traumas, Present Challenges, Future Horizons
The conference focuses on a number of issues related to history, memory, media, policy and their future development in Eastern and Central Europe. The conference is intended for MA and PhD students who are engaged in studies of history, memory, sociology, anthropology, law, political science, literature, gender, area and other studies. Main sections: Theory and methodology […]
Adaptation and Creativity along Borderzones. Concepts, Strategies, Transformations
The past two decades (and likely even more than that) have witnessed an unpreceded upsurge in rather complex discussions of various ‘-isation’ phenomena, acculturation processes, and migration theories. At the same time, the long-held views of concepts of core, periphery, and margins as well as models of interaction within them had come, after closer scrutiny, […]
10th Annual German Studies Conference PRAGESTT
The 10th annual German studies conference PRAGESTT is an international conference intended for German scholars and students. It offers an open panel for scientific exchange among young German scholars, primarily for exchanging the results of their Bachelor, Master, and Dissertation thesis and other scientific projects. The conference’s subjects rest upon synchronic and diachronic German linguistics, […]
Conference: Dialogue, Performance and the Body Politic in the Twenty-First Century
Co-convenors: Ondřej Pilný and Clare Wallace from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, invite you to an online conference Dialogue, Performance and the Body Politic in the Twenty-First Century. A feature of the cascading crises of the twenty-first century is the fragmenting impulse of polarisation. In what ways […]
Conference of the Young Slavists XV: Russia and Slavic World: A Century of Coexistance and Conflicts
The 15th year of a traditional international two-day Conference of the Young Slavists intended for the graduates from the BA and MA studies, PhD students, and researchers under 35. The event aims to provide a platform for gathering of young experts, create a space for presenting the results of their researches and forum for a confrontation of various research […]
