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Manfred Herbert: Language Problems in Employment Law: A Critical Analysis of the Relevant Jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and the German Federal Labour Court

The Language Management Research Group at Faculty of Arts, Charles University, cordially invites you to a lecture on the language problems in German labour law and its concord or discord with the linguistic rights of EU. Program

KREAS Workshop: Minority Languages in a Globalized World

About: The purpose of the workshop is to explore the contemporary relevance of ‘small’ or minority languages, especially in relation to literature and culture. While in the revival period the main rationale for keeping these languages alive was their role as a marker of national or ethnic identity, today it seems less relevant. Other important roles […]

Kent Schull: Forced Migration in the Middle East

The Department of Middle Eastern Studies at CUFA and the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences cordially invites you to a lecture of Middle East Lecture Series! Dr. Kent Schull (Binghamton University) will present a lecture with the name “Forced Migration in the Middle East: The Current Refugee Crisis as Inheritance of WWI and its […]

Mina Đurić, University of Belgrade: Poetical Changes in the 20th and 21st century Serbian Literature

We would like you to join us on a journey through the poetical changes of Serbian literature during which we will meet some extraordinary writers, learn some fascinating things not only about literature. Добро дошли! Dobro došli! Poster 1 Poster 2

Alenka Janko Spreizer: Romantic scenery, boat cemetery, national disgrace or Texas: The Canal of Sv. Jernej as a contested liminal landscape

The lecture will be based on anthropological approaches to the studies of landscapes and seascape as an aspect of the cultural landscape. Janko Spreizer will start with the working definition of McCall Howard, Wickham-Jones, C., Ingold, and Arnason in accordance with understanding the seascape as a holistic term that describes the depth and complexity of human […]

Alenka Janko Spreizer: Borders and Borderlines in North Adriatic

Borders and borderlines in the case of Istria and the North Adriatic Assoc. Professor Alenka Janko Spreizer, University of Primorska, Koper (Slovenia) Venue: Celetná 20, room 138 The lecture will be based on the anthropology of the Mediterranean, maritime anthropology and bring analysis of ethnic, cultural and symbolic boundaries in a micro region within the Mediterranean […]

Two Germanys: Ethnographic Museums, (Post)colonial Exhibitions, and the ‘Cold Odyssey’ of Pacific Objects between East and West

A KREAS lecture by Philipp Schorch from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Program

Prof. Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh): Gaelic in Canada

The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites you to the guest lecture “Gaelic in Canada” by Professor Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh). Thursday 20 February, 10:50 – 12:25, Faculty of Arts (nám. Jana Palacha 2), Room 200 Gaelic has been spoken in Nova Scotia (Cape Breton Island) and on the north-eastern mainland of […]

Lecture: Eric Nelson on Human Values “The Theology of Liberalism”

Centre for Philosophy, Ethics and Religion (CUFA) and Generali Investments invite all interested to Generali Investments Public Lecture on Human Values “The Theology of Liberalism” addressed by Prof. Eric Nelson (Harvard University). Date & time: čtvrtek 13. 2. od 17:30 Place: room 217, ÚFAR FF UK, nám. Jana Palacha 2 Abstract: We think of modern liberalism as the […]

Lecture by dr. Florian Dolberg: „all (of) this is about Variation in Discourse-Deixis“

The lecture will take place on Wednesday 12. 2. at 14:10 in room P104 (nám. Jana Palacha 2). Abstract: Contemporary variation between the pronominal constructions all this and all of this warrants some closer look at the diachronic development of the two. Serving as “discourse deictic demonstratives” (Diessel 1999:100-105) in “’strict’ anadeictic” (Cornish 2011:757-758) reference to propositions […]