Research group Hegel in Interdisciplinary Perspective (HIP) invites all interested to a lecture by Prof. Thomas Lewise (Brown University) “On Religion and Nationalism: Hegel and the Bulwarks of Political Order.” The lecture is to be held on Tuesday 17 December 2019 at 5:30 pm in the room 225V, main building of Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Jana Palacha […]
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Martin Maiden: Folk Etymology, Contamination, and Morphological Change. Examples from the Romance Languages
In this lecture, Professor Maiden will illustrate from various Romance languages two related types of morphological change, namely folk etymology and contamination. Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. His main interests are in Italian and Romanian linguistics and […]
Darina Martykánová: Global Engineers – Building Global Capitalism from the Periphery
The expansion of global capitalism in the decades around the turn of twentieth century included growing investment in all kinds of projects and enterprises that required technical expertise. Railways were built crossing the territories of several countries, canals opened up new routes for ships by separating isthmuses and continents, irrigation systems enabled agricultural production on […]
Melissa Feinberg: “Is It Democracy If the Husband Makes Decisions Autocratically?” Gender, Citizenship and the Meaning of Democracy in Interwar Czechoslovakia
The public lecture will examine debates over gender and citizenship in interwar Czechoslovakia and put these debates into the wider East-Central European context. It will concentrate on intersections between the private and public realm, as in family and marriage law. It will argue that debates over women’s rights in the Czech lands stemmed from fundamental […]
Workshop: Romanticism and Periodization
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University is pleased to invite you to the workshop “Romanticism and Periodization”. Programme: Professor David Duff (Queen Mary University of London) “Introduction: Phases of British Romanticism” Professor Nicholas Halmi (University of Oxford) “Period and Epoch-making Event: Romanticism and the French Revolution” Professor Fiona Stafford […]
Lectures by Prof. Aleida Assmann & Prof. Jan Assmann
The Faculty of Arts, Project KREAS (Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World) and Karolinum Publishing House cordially invite you to the lectures: Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann (Universität Konstanz): Forms of Forgetting Prof. Dr. Jan Assmann (Universität Konstanz): Akhenaten. Damnatio Memoriae and the Return of the Repressed: Some […]
KREAS Workshop: “Frankenstein: Emancipatory Narrative and the Role of the Reader”
The KREAS Project and the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures are pleased to invite you to a workshop “Frankenstein: Emancipatory Narrative and the Role of the Reader”. The 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s landmark novel Frankenstein has provided an opportunity for scholars to reconsider its significance in light of emergent critical perspectives. […]
Workshop: Northern Europe and Transnational Reception of Arts and Literature
The Department of Scandinavian Studies cordially invites everyone interested to the workshop “Northern Europe and Transnational Reception of Arts and Literature”. Full programme is available from here.
Rage Against the Algorithm
On the anniversary of the “Velvet Revolution,” an international meeting of artists, activists & theorists from diverse backgrounds will take in Prague to discuss & plan strategies & tactics for creative emancipation & insurgency under a global regime of algorithmic control & co-option. Subjects will range from Xenofeminism to Sinofuturism, Accelarationism, Alienism, the Anthropocene, Big Data & the “Technological Singularity.” The three-day […]
Lecture by Slovenian anthropologist Alenka Janko Spreizer “Mobile ethnographies: ethnography of mobility”.
Department of Ethnology invites you to attend a lecture by Alenka Janko Spreizer “Mobile ethnographies: ethnography of mobility” on November 14th, 12:30 pm, room 138, Celetná 20, Prague. The lecture is a part of „Ethnography and Theory“ series that presents various forms of ethnography and discusses its possibilities, limits and current transformations. The series is supported by KREAS […]
