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.
Calendar: Lecture
Current events
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
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 […]
Dr Mark Nixon: Samuel Beckett – The Manuscripts and the Library
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Centre for Irish Studies invite you to a lecture “Samuel Beckett: The Manuscripts and the Library” by Dr Mark Nixon (University of Reading). Mark Nixon is Associate Professor at the Department of English Literature and Beckett Fellow at the University of Reading in the UK. He is also a director of the […]
Prof. Pura Nieto (Brown University): Homer: The Intimacy of battle and a lion’s heart
As Emily Vermeule, Jean-Pierre Vernant and other scholars have demonstrated, in Greek, and more precisely in Homeric poetry, encounters of warriors on the battlefield and meetings of lovers in amorous contexts are described with the same language and images. An unarmed, defeated warrior may, for example, be compared to a woman. But there are many other […]
Prof. David Konstan (NYU): Remorse: The Origins of a Moral Idea
It is commonly supposed that the interrelated notions of guilt, remorse, penitence, and forgiveness are specific to the Judeo-Christian tradition. Did the Greeks and Romans in the pre-Christian era have a concept of remorse? If not, when and how did it arise? The problem is complicated because there was no change in terminology; rather, old terms were […]
Karoline Kjesrud: “From the Mother of God to the Mother of Mary”
Mary was the most important saint in European Middle Ages. Texts and images from all over Europe are depicting her in different positions indicating that people have perceived her differently in various contexts and periods of time. In this talk I would like to ask how a development in Mary’s positions can reflect societal and church political […]
Prof. Pura Nieto (Brown University): Female choruses in Pindar
Although the original performance of Pindaric poetry is still an open question, there are good reasons to understand the compositions as intended for choral performance. The numerous references to the chorus that the poems themselves include always address it as a group of men. Nevertheless, and in contrast to this, there are also several female choruses […]
