Post-socialism is a unique social, economic, and cultural phenomenon. One particularly interesting aspect of this period was the rapidly changing demographic dynamics. These included falling birth rates, changes in morbidity and mortality statistics, new domestic migration streams, and the suddenly appearing mass international migration as well. The talk focuses on to what extent these trends were […]
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What Meets the Eye: Lessons in Visual Anthropology
The Department of Ethnology would like to invite you for the lecture course What Meets the Eye: Lessons in Visual Anthropology (AET500174) given by invited anthropologist Tereza Kuldova (University of Oslo/University of Vienna). The lecture course will be held in winter semester from 16th October until 27th October 2017. Poster
Middle East Speaker Series Inaugural Lecture: Eugene Rogan (St. Antony’s College, Oxford), “The Wartime Context of the Balfour Declaration.”
Professor Eugene Rogan BA Columbia, MA PhD Harvard, MA Oxf Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History Director, St Antony’s College Middle East Centre Eugene Rogan is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia, and his M.A. and PhD in Middle Eastern history from […]
His Excellency Roland Galharague (Ambassador of France): EU: A New Start?
Rector of Charles University is inviting you to the lecture entitled „EU : a new start ?”, given by H.E. Roland Galharague, Ambassador of France to the Czech Republic on Thursday 22th of June 2017 at 5.00 p.m. in the Patriotic Hall of Carolinum, Ovocný trh 3, Prague 1. The lecture and the following discussion will […]
Brown Lecture Series: Tara E. Nummedal & Jonathan P. Conant (Associate Professors in History)
Tara E. Nummedal: Alchemy in Code: Digitizing Atalanta fugiens This talk will explore the German physician Michael Maier’s 1618 musical alchemical emblem book, Atalanta fugiens (Atalanta fleeing). In the seventeenth century, Maier deployed all of the technologies of the early modern book to provoke a particular form of reading, inviting readers (and viewers and listeners) to activate […]
Patrick Juola: Cross-Linguistic Regularities in Authorship Attribution
Anotation: Authorship attribution is a well-studied problem in corpus and quantitative linguistics, with many applications ranging across forensic science, history, journalism, and beyond. We begin by reviewing some case studies and discuss some of the major findings common to the field as a whole, as well as the psycholinguistic basis for authorship attribution. One key methodological weakness […]
Deirdre Jackson: „The Colours of Fortune“
Capable of granting riches and honours and abruptly withdrawing her favours, the capricious figure of Fortune, inspired by the pagan goddess, was one of the most alarming constructs inherited by medieval thinkers from their Roman predecessors. From Boethius onwards, writers and artists sought to describe the paradoxical nature of Fortune, personified as a female figure whose […]
Helen Cooper: “The Living and the Dead” (the ‘three living and the three dead’, the Dance of Death, and the Towneley play of Lazarus)
The preoccupation with death in the premodern age often took the form of images, notably those of the Three Living and the Three Dead, the Dance of Death, and the cadaver tomb. This paper will look at some of the texts associated with each of those images, and also at a further text that relates to […]
Jasmina S. Ćirić (Univerzitet u Beogradu): Portals and Translation: Meaning of Portals in the Late Byzantine Architectural Setting
The paper addresses the issues of the construction, translation, and transformation through the meaning of portals and state of the believer in the church within Constantinopolitan examples, and their echoes on the Balkans. As suggested by the roots of the word transformation “to change in the form and appearance” or to carry across, there is […]
Mary Carruthers: “The Geometry of Creativity: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages”
This lecture will explore the close relationships in medieval creative practice among geometric shapes, meditation, and the human ability to create original works. Focused on materials crafted in the twelfth century chiefly on the basis of Biblical texts, and then disseminated widely during the thirteenth century, I will investigate the fundamental cognitive insight of medieval diagram […]
