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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IRELAND IN EUROPE: 5th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies
CFP for IRELAND IN EUROPE The 5th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Prague 13–14 September 2019 Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University Website: http://ualk.ff.cuni.cz/centre-for-irish-studies Contact e-mail: praguepostgraduate@gmail.com Paper proposals representing postgraduate projects in the area of Irish Studies are invited for an international conference that follows the success of “The Politics of Irish Writing” […]
EAIS 8th Annual Conference on Israel Studies 2019 – Democracy in Challenging Times: Israel, Europe and the World
The European Association of Israel Studies is proud to confirm that our 8th Annual Conference will be taking place at Charles University, Prague from 8-10 September 2019. The conference will be held in English. 8 September 2019 16.00 – 16.30, Official opening of the conference (Magna Aula, Faculty of Law, Charles University) Welcome of Prof. Lenka […]
PRAGESTT IX
PRAGESTT / Prager Germanistische Studierendentagung /, gegr. am Institut für germanische Studien der Philosophischen Fakultät der Karls-Universität zu Prag, stellt eine internationale germanistische Studierendenkonferenz dar. Sie bietet eine offene Plattform für wissenschaftlichen Austausch junger Germanistinnen und Germanisten, die insb. die Ergebnisse ihrer Bachelor-, Master- und Dissertationsarbeiten sowie anderer wissenschaftlichen Projekte präsentieren. Ausdiskutiert werden die Bereiche […]
International Conference World War II: History and Memory
BOHEMs (PRIMUS Research Project), Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, cordially invites you to the international conference entitled „World War II: History and Memory.“ The conference aims at deepening the discussion on the role of WWII in modern history, echoing even in the present times. It seeks to grasp the phenomenon of the Second World […]
International Conference “Things in Poems – Poems of Things”
The object-poem conference will explore the presence of things and the representation of objects in a broad manner, from the antiquity to contemporary poetry. Objects have been present in the oldest known poetry (e.g. Homer’s shield of Achilles). In modern times, the thing-poems appear in the works of post-symbolist, modernist and avantgarde poets. German critic Kurt […]
Music and Sound Between Tradition and Innovation
An International Conference co-sponsored by NYU, NYU Prague and Charles University.
7th International Postgraduate Conference PeCla 2018
PeClA 2018 is a two‐day conference in Classical Archaeology and Classics aimed at postgraduate / doctoral students traditionally offering a space for presenting research results, discussion, and an exchange of ideas, in a friendly and supportive environment. This year’s theme of the conference is: POLEMOS – BELLUM: Archaeology of conflict in the antiquity.
Ulkomaisen fennistiikan syyskoulu Praha 2018 / International Autumn School of Finnish Studies Prague 2018
The International Autumn School of Finnish Studies Prague 2018 is part of a four-year cooperative project run by departments and centers for Finnish studies at universities in Warsaw, Greifswald, Cologne, and the Faculty of Arts in Prague. The project has achieved financial support of the Finnish state organisation Opetushallitus, which is part of the Finnish Ministry […]
Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment
Canada has been a transnational country from its inception: founded on the ideas of Métis identities, forged by the metropolis-colony relationship, and modernized under the cross-boundary flow of American goods and capital. The revival of transnationalism as a widely respected lens of scholarly research in manifest fields provides us with very useful multidisciplinary bridges to study both […]
Beckett & Technology Conference
In April 1981, having devoted considerable time to resolving the technicalities that surrounded his TV play Quad, Samuel Beckett confessed to Ruby Cohn: “Not long back from Stuttgart. Unsatisfactory. Television is beyond me.” Frustrating as it may have been at times, technology held its fascination for Beckett and often became enmeshed with his work. It […]
