The expansion of digital genealogical research tools has sparked immense growth in this field. A report commissioned by Europeana found that interest in genealogy research doubled between 2008 – 2013 and now online genealogy research is a three billion (US) dollar business. This increased demand has led to a race for market share in the provision of digital […]
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Profesor Marc David Baer (London School of Economics and Political Science): Sultans as Saviours: Early Modern Mediterranean Jewish Accounts of the Ottoman Rulers
Profesor Marc David Baer (London School of Economics and Political Science) will give a lecture on “Sultans as Saviors: Early Modern Mediterranean Jewish Accounts of the Ottoman Rulers” “Messianic impulses lie at the core of early modern Mediterranean Jewish accounts of the Ottoman sultans. Jews’ affective disposition compelled them to be grateful to the rulers of […]
The USA and the Origins of Czechoslovakia
The lecture series presented by prof. PhDr. Ivan Šedivý, CSc., Head of the Department of Czech History, forms 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, […]
Judith Okely: Boundaries between Anthropology and Autobiography
Department of Ethnology invites you to attend a lecture „Boundaries between Anthropology and Autobiography“ by Judith Okely, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. The lecture will be delivered on October the 17th at 12:30 at room 138 (Celetná 20, Prague 1).
Professor Marcella Milana (University of Verona): lectures and seminar on adult education
The Department of Adult Education and Personnel Management cordially invites you to three special presentations by Professor Marcella Milana (University of Verona): methodology and employment of comparative research in education (of adults) – Friday 12 October, 10:50 – 13:15, Room C138 creation and analysis of education policy – Monday 15 October, 15:50 – 18:15, Room […]
prof. W. Schniedewind (UCLA): The Finger of the Scribe: The Emergence of Scribal Curriculum in Ancient Israel and How it Shaped the Hebrew Bible
This talk illustrate the development of scribal curriculum in ancient Israel at the end of the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age using comparative evidence from cuneiform scribal curriculum from the periphery including Egypt, Canaan, and Ugarit. It shows that the categories of cuneiform scribal curriculum were adapted in early Israel and in alphabetic […]
Prof. Alden Smith: Where Character is King: Leadership and Epicureanism in Aeneid 1
The notion that Epicureanism shapes Virgil’s thought process is quite old, going back to Servius. That notion can also be derived from several factors, from the historical Virgil’s friendship to the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus and his circle, to his friendship with Horace and Maecenas, to the thematic progression of Epicurean imagery from the Eclogues through […]
Suzanne Ryan (Editor in Chief, Humanities at Oxford University Press): Navigating the Academic Book Publishing Process
The Department of Musicology is happy to invite everyone interested to a lecture by Suzanne Ryan, Editor in Chief, Humanities at Oxford University Press.
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Dark Hero
Tronege Hagen and the Sinister Thread of the Middle High German Nibelungenlied Young German scholar Florian Deichl (Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität München) will speak about the sinister figure of Hagen in the German medieval Song of the Nibelungs and try to uncover the origins of the human fascinations by so called “dark heroes”. poster The series is organized by the […]
Starvation, Rationing, and Black Markets in the Soviet Union During World War II
How did the Soviet people survive the war? After the Nazi invasion, the Soviet state quickly established a hierarchical rationing system to ensure food to the population. Yet the loss of the occupied territories created severe shortages. By 1942, people had begun to starve. Even industrial workers, who received the highest rations, were living on a single […]
