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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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 […]
Maria Todorova: What is Useful about the “post-” in East European Studies? On post-colonialism, post-socialism, and historical legacies
Department of Ethnology, Charles University, is delighted to welcome Prof. Maria Todorova (Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), who will give a lecture What is Useful about the “post-” in East European Studies? On post-colonialism, post-socialism, and historical legacies. The lecture will assess the use and utility of post-colonialism, among other “posts”, as an […]
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 […]
Nina Power & Daniel Miller on “Performing Naughtiness”
1. Performing Naughtiness, Nina Power Humour in the internet age is in trouble. The ‘Alt-Right’ appears to have a monopoly on laughter in the form of memes, jokes, ‘edgelordism’, disrespect for the po-faced and an ability to make rare steaks out of liberal sacred cows. The left have responded by taking up a cliched ‘humourless’ posture, often regarding words […]
Dr Michael D’Arcy: Krapp’s Last Tape and the End of Art
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures / Centre for Irish Studies invites you to a lecture “Krapp’s Last Tape and the End of Art” by Dr Michael D’Arcy (St. Francis Xavier University) on Wednesday 24th April, 9:10-10:40 in Room 111. Michael D’Arcy is Associate Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada. His […]
Jasmina S. Ćirić – Serbian Medieval Architecture: The Age of Knez Lazar and Despot Stefan Lazarević
Department of South Slavonic and Balkan Studies and Serbian language office cordially invites you to the lecture by Jasmina S. Ćirić (University of Belgrade): Serbian Medieval Architecture: The Age of Knez Lazar and Despot Stefan Lazarević. The lecture will take place on April 17th 2019 at Faculty of Arts main building (nam. Jana Palacha 1/2, […]
Jasmina S. Ćirić – Architecture of Dečani: Rites of Passages
Department of South Slavonic and Balkan Studies and Serbian language office cordially invites you to the lecture by Jasmina S. Ćirić (University of Belgrade): Architecture of Dečani: Rites of Passages. The lecture will take place on April 16th 2019 at the Celetna 20 (Room 221). Добро дошли!
Dr Barry Shiels (Durham): W.B. Yeats & the Scale of Poetry
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures / Centre for Irish Studies invites you to a lecture W.B. Yeats & the Scale of Poetry by DR BARRY SHIELS (Durham University, UK) on Thursday 11 April, 12:30-14:00 in Room 111 This lecture considers the problem of scale in Yeats’s poetry, specifically the way that certain of his poems […]
doc. Csaba Horváth: “Literary Text or Reality?” – Imre Kertész and the Representation of the Totalitarianism
We cordially invite you to a lecture by doc. Csaba Horváth, Head of the Department of Hungarian Literature at the Gáspár Károli University in Budapest. „Literary text or reality?“ – Imre Kertész and the Representation of the Totalitarianism This provocative sentence of Kertész evokes the two most important problems of Fatelessness: namely the capacity of language […]
