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 […]
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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 […]
Marilyn Booth: Authorizing Feminist Readings of Islamic History
The Department of Near Eastern Studies, CUFA, and the Department of Oriental Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, cordially invite your to another event in the Middle East Lecture Series. Professor Marilyn Booth (University of Oxford) will deliver a lecture on “Authorizing feminist readings of Islamic history: Zaynab Fawwaz and the gender politics of Egyptian public discourse […]
Middle East Lecture Series: Prof. Hugh Kennedy
Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS University of London) will deliver a lecture entitled “The Changing Meanings of the Word ‘Sultan’ in the History of Islamic Rulership”.
Richard Wittmann: For They Cannot Speak
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 […]
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. […]
