Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA invites you to a lecture by Daniela Heilmann (Munich) as part of the “Current Issues in Archaeology” lecture series. This lecture investigates shifts in social structures in the Southern Balkans during the Bronze and Iron Ages through an analysis of grave furnishings, including attire, jewelry, and other burial goods such as […]
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Current events
Lauren Morris | Opening a New Door: Fresh View into Rural Economic Developments in Antique Northern Bactria through Fieldwork at Kulal Tep, Uzbekistan
Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA invites you to a lecture by Lauren Morris (Prague, Czech Republic) as part of the “Current Issues in Archaeology” lecture series. In the Central Asian region of northern Bactria, the Kushan period (1st–3rd centuries CE) has long been understood to witness a peak in the territory’s development, reflecting the hand of a powerful state. […]
Past events
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 […]
Polish Sex Positivity Discourse and Its Queer Potential
We are pleased to invite you to the online lecture Polish Sex Positivity Discourse and Its Queer Potential by Katarzyna Lisowska, Ph.D. In the presentation, Polish sex positivity discourse and its relationship to queer theory will be discussed. The author will analyze selected Polish publications which represent this movement, focusing on the typical features of […]
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, […]
Isidora Stojanović: Some Reflections on Valence in Aesthetic Judgments
The Department of Aesthetics sincerely invites you to an online lecture “Some Reflections on Valence in Aesthetic Judgments” by Isidora Stojanović (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France) which will take place on Thursday at 6PM via Zoom: http://tiny.cc/stojanovic-may2021 Annotation Adjectives such as ‘harrowing’, ‘disturbing’, ‘terrifying’ and ‘shocking’ have a negative valence, at least looking from a lexical point of […]
Iris Vidmar Jovanović: Dangers of Art. Plato’s Call to Censorship in Contemporary Aesthetics
Iris Vidmar Jovanovič (Rijeka University), researcher specialized in literary philosophy and Kant’s aesthetics, secretary of the European Society for Aesthetics. She will give a lecture as part of the lecture series Contemporary European Aesthetics organized by the Department of Aesthetics at CU FA in cooperation with the Czech Society for Aesthetics (Czech Academy of Sciences). The lecture series […]
Mothering and Politics in Art
The online lecture From Elite Reversal Agents to Red Lighting Bolts: Mothering and Politics in Art by Zuzana Štefková sets to explore the terrain at the intersection of art, situated mothering, and activism. Based on examples of contemporary art dealing with various aspects of mothering and the refusal of reproduction, the presentation examines artistic critical […]
Hanne Appelqvist: Art’s Part in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy (Contemporary European Aesthetics)
Hanne Appelqvist (University of Helsinki) is a docent of theoretical philosophy and editor in chief of the journal Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics. She will give a lecture as part of the lecture series Contemporary European Aesthetics organized by the Department of Aesthetics at CU FA in cooperation with the Czech Society for Aesthetics (Czech Academy of Sciences). […]
Lecture: Predictive Processing of Language in Children
We would like to invite you to the next installment in the Department of Linguistics‘s series Lingvistická kolokvia (Linguistic Colloquium) which will take place on Tuesday, April 27 at 5.40 pm. Filip Smolík will give a talk entitled Predictive processing of language in children. The talk will take place on-line on Zoom. You are welcome to join us. […]
Darach Ó Scolaí: “Ón Nua-Litríocht Siar agus Aniar Arís”: From Contemporary to Ancient Literature and Back Again
Darach Ó Scolaí is an Irish novelist, playwright, publisher, and artist living in the County Galway Gaeltacht of Connemara. He was awarded the Oireachtas Prize for Literature in 2007 for his novel, An Cléireach. The lecture is organised by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague in cooperation with EFACIS. Poster
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, […]
