Dr. Richard Wittmann (Orient-Institut Istanbul) shall give a lecture entitled For They Cannot Speak: Two Early Examples of Animal Protection Laws in the Islamic World. All welcome! Abstract: The legal protection of animals in the pre-modern Islamic world is a largely understudied topic among students of the Middle East. Idealized depictions of the interaction of humans with […]
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Prof. Gisle Andersen: “The Pragmatic Turn in Studies of Borrowing and Language Contact”
Prof. Gisle Andersen will give an overview of the ‘pragmatic turn’ towards functional approaches to language contact, followed by an account of some case studies drawn from his own previous work on Anglicisms. These cover topics such as borrowing of expletives and politeness markers, the chance of semantic prosody of borrowings over time, and phraseological […]
Gendering Authoritarianism & Resistance: The Significance of Body Politics in the Middle East
Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Studies (CGS), SOAS University of London. She is currently chair of the Centre for Gender Studies but will leave SOAS to take up a new position in anthropology with reference to the Middle East at Brown University in January. Her main research interests revolve […]
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Charles University
Lecture presented by PhDr. Milada Sekyrková, CSc., Deaprtment of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies. It is a part of a new academic initiative for the ECES program – an annual lecture series. This year’s theme is “University and Republic”, focusing on this year’s centennial celebrations. Lecture 1: The USA and the Origins of Czechoslovakia, Tuesday, October […]
Ian Brodie: Stand-up Comedy: A Folkloristic Approach
The Department of Ethnology, CUFA, cordially invites everyone interested to a lecture by Ian Brodie (Associate Professor in Folklore, Cape Breton University, Canada): The lecture will cover Prof. Brodie’s academic work on stand-up comedy and how to approach it from a folklore standpoint: namely, that by being rooted and, in many ways, by emulating the forms of talk […]
Ian Brodie: Canadian Folklore and Folkloristics: The Shaping of a Discipline
The Department of Ethnologz, CUFA, cordially invites everyone interested to a special lecture by Ian Brodie (Associate Professor in Folklore, Cape Breton University, Kanada). The lecture will cover the contextual differences – namely a history based in colonial expansion and colony establishment – that make folklore scholarship in North America and specifically Canada different from European models. […]
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 […]
Marcin Wodziński (University of Wrocław): What is Hasidism?
What is Hasidism? Why do we know so little about one of the most intensively researched phenomena in Jewish history? Which historiographical presumptions hinder the development of our knowledge about Hasidism? How is it related to the basis of sources and methodological approaches? What would Hasidism look like if approached from a different, anti-elitist perspective, from […]
