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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Current events
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. […]
Michael Lebsak | Metal of Power: The Political Economy of Iron in the Central European Younger Early Middle Ages
Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA invites you to a lecture by Michael Lebsak (Brno, Czech Republic) as part of the “Current Issues in Archaeology” lecture series. In the younger Early Middle Ages (700–1000 AD), essential resources such as iron were a pivotal element within political-economic relations, shaping resource access, consumption, and distribution in a top-down perspective. This period witnessed […]
Past events
Roger Chartier: Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? Réponses à une question de Kant
Roger Chartier est historien, professeur au Collège de France titulaire de la chaire « Ecrit et cultures dans l’Europe moderne » depuis 2007, directeur d’études à l’EHESS (au Centre de recherches historiques) depuis 1984 et Annenberg Visiting Professor à l’Université de Pennsylvanie à Philadelphie depuis 2001. Il est spécialiste de l’histoire du livre, de l’édition et de […]
Anne Cheng: Confucian Conceptions of Chinese Universality
The Chiang Ching-kuo International Sinological Center invites to its Open sinological seminar: Professor Anne Cheng, College de France, a leading French sinologist: „Confucian conceptions of Chinese universality” From the abstract: The advent of the universality of human rights is generally seen as a pure product of the Enlightenment in Europe, which itself represented the “triumph of Reason”; whereas Chinese […]
Jitka Štollová: “Beyond Shakespeare: Richard III in the Seventeenth Century”
The hasty burial of Richard III in Leicester in 1485 gave rise to one of the most fascinating literary afterlives in English history. In the next two centuries, historians, poets, and playwrights kept examining this controversial figure. Shakespeare’s mesmerising king-villain ultimately became the most iconic and influential portrayal: partly thanks to the intrinsic qualities of […]
Spirituality for Secularised Society
PROGRAMME Wednesday 11 May 2016 16.30 opening 17.00 Introduction (Laurence Freeman OSB) Prof. Ivana Noble: Spirituality and Loneliness in the Post-Secular Societies Laurence Freeman OSB: Mystery in the Technological Age discussion panel 19.45 expected end of the programme THURSDAY 12 May 2016 16.30 opening 17.00 Introduction (Laurence Freeman OSB) Prof. Charles Taylor: Shapes of Spirituality Today […]
Dr Barbara Titus: Maskanda and Globalization. Commercial and Political Dimensions of a World Music Style
The Department of Musicology is happy to invite you to a lecture by Dr Barbara Titus (Universiteit van Amsterdam), focusing on the popular South African musical style maskanda which has become a global phenomenon.
LES ÉLITES PEUVENT-ELLES ÊTRE DÉLINQUANTES ?
Dans le cadre des Grandes conférences de la Plateforme CEFRES, le sociologue Pierre Lascoumes, directeur de recherche émérite du CNRS, donnera une conférence sur « Les élites peuvent-elles être délinquantes ? » Sa présentation sera discutée par Pavol Frič (ISS FSV UK), spécialiste de la corruption dans les relations entre les élites et la sphère publique en République […]
Dr Barbara Titus: Recognizing Music as an Art Form, Friedrich Theodor Vischer and German Music Criticism, 1848–1887
The Department of Musicology is happy to invite you to a lecture by Dr Barbara Titus (Universiteit van Amsterdam), focusing on her recently published book of the same title (published by Leuven University Press). The book is an outcome of her doctoral dissertation, defended in 2005 at St Anne’s College, Oxford University. The lecture shall be held in […]
Prof. Dr. Hans Sauer: Shakespeare’s Language
This talk provides a general introduction to Shakespeare’s language, which is now roughly 400 years old. Although it is recognizably English, it nevertheless differs in many details from Present-Day English. Today it is not always easy to understand even for native speakers of English – of course it is the English language that has moved on, whereas […]
Maharal and Italy: The Trans-National Perspective
Professor David Malkiel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) shall discuss the relationship of Jehuda Levy ben Becalel, known as Maharal (?1525-1609) to Italy, especially his response to the treatise by the Italian Jewish polyhistor Azarji de´ Rossi. The lecture shall contribute to the perception of Maharal as a significant Jewish theologian of the sixteenth century, not only as the […]
