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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Prof. Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck): How to use EDD Online: a practical introduction
Professor Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck) is a specialist in English historical and corpus linguistics, with research and teaching interests also in Dialectology, Varieties of English and Middle English Literature. He was chairholder for English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the University of Innsbruck from 1981 to 2009, Director of the Innsbruck project that created […]
Prof. Barend J. ter Haar (University of Oxford): Sounds in Chinese Religious Culture
Sound plays a central role in Chinese religious culture, also and maybe even more so from a historical perspective. Since sound, like smell, taste, and a variety of tactile experiences are extremely hard to recover historically, it is not surprising that little attention has been paid to this dimension of religious life. Nonetheless, the situation sounds worse than […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Villain
The Growth of the Biography of Dismas and Gesmas in Medieval Sources German medievist and germanist Wilhelm Heizmann (Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität München) will speak about the constitution of lives of the two prototypic villains of the European Middle Ages: Dismas and Gesmas, the two thieves on the Cross. poster The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian […]
Prof. Timo Müller: Transnational Mobility on the American Road
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Timo Müller (University of Regensburg) “TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY ON THE AMERICAN ROAD”. Timo Müller is Professor and interim Chair of American Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His research areas include modernism, environmental studies, and […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Saint
Holy Lives. How you Make a Saint? Famous Austrian medievist Rudolf Simek (*1954) from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn will speak about the constitution of the lives of the medieval saints. poster The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in […]
Dr Sonja Lawrenson: Popular Fiction in Romantic Ireland
The Centre for Irish Studies, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, invite you to a lecture on POPULAR FICTION IN ROMANTIC IRELAND by Dr Sonja Lawrenson (Manchester Metropolitan University). Sonja Lawrenson is a lecturer in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research centres on women’s writing from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Founder of a Holy Dynasty
Through the Secular and Saintly Eyes of his Sons: A Comparative Consideration of Two Biographies of Stefan Nemanja, the Founder of the Serbian Medieval State Serbian scholar Slavica Rankovic will compare two lives of Stefan Nemanja, the Grand Prince of Serbia and challenger of Byzantine Emperors, written by two of his sons: Stefan the First-crowned, the […]
Bruno Blau – ein deutsch-jüdischer Statistiker im Exil in Prag (1937-1939)
Der Vortrag stellt den deutsch-jüdischen Statistiker und Bevölkerungswissenschaftler Bruno Blau (1881-1954) vor. Blau gehörte im Berlin der Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg und der Zwischenkriegszeit zu den Pionieren einer statistischen Wissenschaft des Judentums und war lange Jahre Herausgeber der „Zeitschrift für Demographie und Statistik des Judentums“. Von den Nationalsozialisten verfolgt, floh Blau 1936 zunächst über […]
