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. […]

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

Wolf Feuerhahn: Historical Semantics in a Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspective: the Case of ‘Milieu’

A lecture by CNRS researcher Wolf Feuerhahn, co-director of the Alexandre Koyré Center and the editor-in-chief of Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines, in the frame of the CEFRES Platform Lectures. Transnational History is nowadays a flourishing field of research. In the last ten years, history of concepts has been impacted by this historiographical turn. It lays much more […]

Prof. Michael Sandel: What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Charles University in cooperation with the student society Agora, Faculty of Education CU, Faculty of Law CU, Faculty of Arts CU, and Faculty of Social Sciences CU are happy to invite you to a lecture What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Professor Michael Sandel, one of the most influential contemporary philosophers who lectures at the […]

Prof. Koichiro Matsuda: Transformation of Key Political Terms in Modern Japan and China (lecture series)

The Department of East Asian Studies in cooperation with the International Sinological Centre are happy to invite you to a series of lectures by Professor Koichiro Matsuda (College of Law Rikkyo University, Tokio) Essentially Contested Concepts: Tradition and Transformation of Key Political Terms in Modern Japan and China. Lectures shall take place from Monday to Friday from […]

Andrea Bréard: Searching the truth though numerical facts – the changing role of numbers in early 20th century China

The International Sinological Centre is happy to invite you to a lecture by Professor Andrea Bréard, Universität Heildelberg (Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context): Searching the truth through numerical facts – the changing role of numbers in early 20th century China.

Prof. Peter Clark: Urban Wasteland from the Middle Ages to the Present Time

TEMA MA programme (Department of General History) is happy to invite you to the second lecture by Professor Peter Clark.

Darina Martykánová (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Masculinity, Nation and Civilization in Spain (1830–1930)

Mark Davies in Prague

We are pleased to announce that prof. Mark Davies of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA has accepted the invitation of the Institute of the Czech National Corpus (Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague) and will be presenting two lectures on corpus linguistics, on Monday April 11th at 6 PM at the Faculty of […]

Dr. Thomas L. Gertzen (Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum, Potsdam): “He should have had a job at the tower of Babel” – The Life and Works of Nathaniel Julius Reich (1876–1943)

Prague Centre for Jewish Studies and the Czech Institute of Egyptology are happy to invite you  to a lecture entitled “He should have had a job at the tower of Babel”: The Life and Works of Nathaniel Julius Reich (1876–1943) by Dr. Thomas L. Gertzen (Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum, Potsdam).  The lecture shall be held in English.

Dr. Anastasiya Astapova: Belarussian Political Folklore and Nationalism Within the European Context

Eight-day lecture series complemented by presentations will acquaint the participants with selected topics in Belarussian unofficial culture with special focus on anecdotes, political folklore, and other informal manifestations of political resistance. The course shall be held in English and is open to BA and MA students. The lectures shall take place from 11 April 2016 […]

Prof. Peter Clark: A Global Perspective on the European City

TEMA MA Programme (Department of General History) is happy to invite you to a lecture by the visiting professor Peter Clark.