Calendar: Lecture

Current events

Current Issues of Archaeology | E. Ottenwelter (ARUP AV ČR): Technical Study of Elite Medieval Jewellery from Bohemia and Moravia

The Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA invites you to a lecture by Estelle Ottenwelter from ARUP AV ČR that will be held on 9 April 2025 at 4:00 pm in Kampus Hybernská in lecture room A.3.

Current Issues in Archaeology | D. Heilmann (LMU München): Shifting Identities. A Diachronic Analysis of Funerary Practices in Macedonia during the 1st Millennium BC

The Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA invites you to a lecture by Daniela Heilmann z LMU München that will be held on 2 April 2025 at 4:00 pm in Kampus Hybernská in lecture room A.3.

Current Issues in Archaeology | A. Sotgia (University of Groningen): The Agro-Pastoral Exploitation of Pre-Etruscan Southern Etruria

The Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA invites you to a lecture by Agostino Sotgia z University of Groningen that will be held on 5 March 2025 at 4:00 pm in Kampus Hybernská in lecture room A.3.

Current Issues in Archaeology | A. Scarci a H. Baitinger (LEIZA Mainz): Fragments of Devotion? Exploring the Practice of Breaking Votive Offerings in Early Iron Age Olympia

The Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA invites you to a lecture by Azzurra Scarci and Holger Baitinger from LEIZA Mainz that will be held on 26 February 2025 at 4:00 pm in Kampus Hybernská in lecture room A.3.

Past events

Benjamin C. Fortna (University of Arizona): Researching the History of Marginality in the Ottoman Context: An Introduction to ‘Outcasts and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire’

Please note that this talk is part of the Conference “Outcasts and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire”.

Robbie Love: The Spoken BNC2014: design, compilation and… bad language

Robbie Love is a PhD Research Student, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University „The Spoken BNC2014: design, compilation and…bad language“

Mikel J. Koven (University of Worcester): Paul Wegener’s Das Golem (1920) as Folk Horror

Mikel Koven is the author of Blaxploitation Film (2010), Film, Folklore & Urban Legends (2008) and La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006); he co-edited Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment (2007) and a special issue of Western Folklore on the topic of “Folklore & Film”. He was formerly Editor of the journal Contemporary Legend before […]

Olivier MARIN (Université de Paris-Nord): Délocaliser Dieu. Les Hussites et les lieux de culte – L’ecclésioclasme hussite : un panorama

Mikel J. Koven (University of Worcester): Mythic Cinema and Contemporary Biblical Epic

Mikel Koven is the author of Blaxploitation Film (2010), Film, Folklore & Urban Legends (2008) and La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006); he co-edited Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment (2007) and a special issue of Western Folklore on the topic of “Folklore & Film”. He was formerly Editor of the journal Contemporary Legend before […]

Mikel J. Koven (University of Worcester): Found Footage Horror Cinema and the Rhetoric of Truth and Legend

Mikel Koven is the author of Blaxploitation Film (2010), Film, Folklore & Urban Legends (2008) and La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006); he co-edited Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment (2007) and a special issue of Western Folklore on the topic of “Folklore & Film”. He was formerly Editor of the journal Contemporary Legend before […]

Jean-Louis Gaulin (Université de Lyon 2): La restitution des biens mal acquis (male ablata)

Alan Spence at the Faculty of Arts

The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures is pleased to invite you to a lecture by the acclaimed Scottish poet, playwright, novelist and short-story writer Alan Spence. During his talk, professor Spence will discuss his multifaceted writing career, his relationship to Scottish culture and literary traditions, and he will also read extracts from his works. The […]

dr. Hans-Christian Trepte (Univerzita v Lipsku): Between Documentary and Provocation: Jewish Topics in Polish Culture

The Prague Centre for Jewish Studies (CUFA) is delighted to invite you to a lecture by Dr Hans-Christian Trepte (University of Leipzig) co-organised together with the Prague Jewish Museum. The lecture will be held in English, free entry.

Yoshiyuki Asahi: Old and new trends in Japanese dialect research

Yoshiyuki Asahi is an associate professor of sociolinguistics at National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. In his talk, he will introduce Japanese dialects from both traditional and innovative perspectives. Despite the large impact standard Japanese has had on the dialects, dialects still do exist and seem to be assuming a new role in the contemporary […]