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 […]
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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 […]
CFP: Multimedia Encounters: Experimental Approaches to Ethnographic Research
The UCL Multimedia Anthropology Lab is inviting submissions for our upcoming conference, Multimedia Encounters: Experimental Approaches to Ethnographic Research. The conference will take place online in January 2021 and will be accompanied by an exhibition. The deadline for submissions of abstracts is the 2nd of December 2020.
III. Ukrainian Studies in Prague Conference
Anthony Smith famously claimed that historical traumas and memories of collective suffering constitute a nation out of a heterogeneous population. This recipe of nation-building was propped up in the late 20th century by “the rise of the victimhood culture” (Campbell & Manning 2018). Inspired by the anti-colonial discourses and the symbolic capital gained by all sorts of oppressed […]
Political Discourse in Poland and the Czech Republic after 1989: Genres, Communication Strategy, Media Portrayals
International conference “Political Discourse in Poland and the Czech Republic after 1989: Genres, Communication Strategy, Media Portrayals” pursues the discussion of a topic related to the political communication in Poland and the Czech Republic, to define differences and analogies in the pre-election practices of political and media circles of both countries as well as to draw […]
Jemina Napier: Examining the Multimodal Research Trend in Dialogue Interpreting Research
The Institute of Translation Studies cordially invites you to an online lecture by Prof Jemina Napier (Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh) as a part of the course Theory of Interpreting on a Particularly Topical Subject (see the abstract and additional information on the research activities of this eminent academic who should have lectured in Prague as a visiting professor […]
Reproductive Rights in Poland – Historical Aspects and Current Struggles
On October 22, 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal, Poland’s Supreme Court, has ruled that abortions in cases of foetal defects are unconstitutional. This decision has resulted in wide protests that are currently taking place throughout the country. We would like to react to the current situation by inviting you to the lecture Reproductive Rights in Poland […]
