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
Dr Monika Kocot: Alan Spence and the Japanese Poetic Tradition
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites you to the lecture ” Alan Spence and the Japanese Poetic Tradition” by Dr Monika Kocot (University of Lodz). The lecture will be held on Monday 11 November in Room 111 (CUFA main building) at 17:30. Abstract: It could be argued that the intricate beauty of Alan Spence’s […]
Prof. Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow): Edinburgh and Smart Cities of the Enlightenment
Professor Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow): “Edinburgh and Other Smart Cities of the Enlightenment: The Analogue Age of Data, Diversity and Adaptability, 1660-1750” The lecture will take place on Wednesday 6 November at 14:00 in Room 111 (Faculty of Arts main building, nám. Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1). All welcome. Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor […]
Prof. Caroline McCracken-Flesher: Stevenson, Wilde, and the West of the Imagination
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites you to a guest lecture ” Stevenson, Wilde, and the West of the Imagination” by Professor Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming). The lecture will be held on Tuesday 5 November in Room 200 at 14:10. All welcome. In 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson set out across America. The transcontinental railway had […]
Dr Ken Ó Donnchú: Literary Remnants of Irish Franciscans in Prague
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites you to a guest lecture “Deite mi chliba: Literary Remnants of the Irish Franciscans in Prague?” by Dr Ken Ó Donnchú (University College Cork, Ireland). The lecture will be held on Thursday 31 October 2019 in Room 111 (CUFA main building) at 17:30-19:10. All welcome. Ken Ó Donnchú […]
Dr Alan Rawes: Alfieri, Byron and the Politics of Tyranny
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures invites you to a guest lecture ‘Alfieri, Byron and the Politics of Tyranny’ by Dr Alan Rawes (Manchester). The lecture will be held on Wednesday 30 October in Room 111 at 14:10. All welcome. This lecture contributes to the recent ‘international turn’ in the study of British Romanticism. It explores […]
Irina Turner: Does Facebook Eat Up Public Airwaves? The Impact of Media Convergence on Radio in South Africa
Radio remains the most widespread medium in South Africa. It, nevertheless, struggles with dwindling audiences and is thus pushed to marry with other media formats such as social media to maintain relevance. While entertainment and information remain radio’s main mandates, content and actors have to adjust to accommodate another elephant in the room; i.e., the commercial […]
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 […]
Prof. Samuel Putnam (Bowdoin College, USA): Temperament – Measurement, Structure, Stability and Cultural Correlates
lecture: Wednesday 5 June 2019, 16:00 – 17:30, Celetná 20, Room 332 workshop: Thursday 6 June 2019, 15:00 – 17:00, Celetná 20, Room 119 Professor Putnam specializes in social development. He teaches a survey course in child development, a lab in developmental research methods, introduction to psychology, and a seminar in social development. His research interests involve exploring interactions between […]
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 […]
The Anthropologist as Spy? Prof. Katherine Verdery on fieldwork in Romania and her secret police file
The Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is pleased to invite you to the lecture “The Anthropologist as Spy? Notes on a Secret Police File” by prof. Katherine Verdery (Graduate Center, City University of New York). The lecture is a part of „Balkans and Anthropological Imagination“ series organized by the Department of Ethnology. The series is […]
