Calendar: Lecture

Current events

Daniela Heilmann | Shifting Identities: A Diachronic Analysis of Funerary Practices in Macedonia during the 1st Millennium BCE

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 […]

Lauren Morris | Opening a New Door: Fresh View into Rural Economic Developments in Antique Northern Bactria through Fieldwork at Kulal Tep, Uzbekistan

Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA invites you to a lecture by Lauren Morris (Prague, Czech Republic) as part of the “Current Issues in Archaeology” lecture series. In the Central Asian region of northern Bactria, the Kushan period (1st–3rd centuries CE) has long been understood to witness a peak in the territory’s development, reflecting the hand of a powerful state. […]

Past events

Prof. Ekaterina V. Rakhilina  (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow): Russian Learner Corpus (RLC)

Institute of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Ekaterina V. Rakhilina, Professor of Faculty of Humanities at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Ekaterina V. Rakhilina is a linguist with a focus on the lexicography of nouns, semantic models, general semantics, lexical typology, construction Grammar. She […]

prof. M. Pützer (Universität des Saarlandes): Theorie und Praxis der computergestützten Stimmdiag-nostik

James Bryant Lewis: Silk-Silver-Ginseng Trade

Dr Marilynn Richtarik: Brian Friel and Field Day

The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Centre for Irish Studies, invites you to a lecture “Brian Friel and Field Day” by Dr Marilynn Richtarik (Georgia State University). Marilynn Richtarik is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University and a leading expert on Northern Irish theatre and drama. She is the author of an acclaimed monograph on […]

Tomáš Klír: “Images that heat – stove tiles in late medieval Bohemia”

Housing culture changed dramatically in the high and late medieval period across all social milieus in the Czech lands. One of the crucial changes concerned heating facilities. The heated but smoke-free rooms with stoves emerged, primarily in castles, later in towns and finally in peasant farmsteads. Designed tile stoves, situated usually in the most spectacular […]

Martina Deuchler: Confucian Ancestor Worship

Prof. Matthew Guterl (Brown University): Donald Trump, Capitalism, and the Endings of America

Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Matthew Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies Chair of American Studies at Brown University. Matthew Pratt Guterl is a historian of race and nation, with a focus on United States history from the Civil War to […]

Emily Guerry: “Passion relics and Patrons between Paris and Prague”

The symbolic significance of the Crown of Thorns forever changed when the relic arrived in Paris. King Louis IX of France (1214, r. 1226–1270, canonized 1297) received the Crown as part of a diplomatic exchange with Emperor Baldwin II (1217, r. 1237–1273). For the kingdom of France, the subsequent acquisition of more Byzantine reliquaries between 1241 […]

Vincent Gillespie: “Man of Sorrows”

The talk will explore cognitive stillness and affective movement in the tradition of Christ as The Man of Sorrows.

Helena Znojemská: „The Franks Casket and the Appositive Style“

In his seminal book, Beowulf and the Appositive Style, Fred C. Robinson presented the complex structure of the epic as a creative application, on a large scale, of the principle underlying the Old English poetic technique of variation. Since then, the semantically open juxtaposition of contrastive, parallel or subtly modified statements has been traced and explored in […]