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

Tilman Meyer (Universität Konstanz): Subjektkultur des Frühhumanismus: Der Briefwechsel zwischen Petrarca und Johannes von Neumarkt

Professor Françoise Letoublon (Université Grenoble): Living in Iron, Dressed in Bronze: Metal Formulas in Homer and the Chronology of the Ages

How Do We Call the Urban Change? The Case of Central and Eastern Europe

Lecture by Professor Lydie Coudroy de Lille organised by CEFRES as part of the Visegrad forum at the UN conference European Habitat. Reservation necessary

Yugoslavia’s “Other” Civil War, 1914-1918

Department of General History, Seminar of General and Comparative History cordially invites to the lecture: Yugoslavia’s ‘Other’ Civil War, 1914-1918, by John Paul Newman, PhD (National University of Ireland, Maynooth).

Prof. Brian Ó Conchubhair: NEW MODERNIST STUDIES AND THE   IRISH LANGUAGE

Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Centre for Irish Studies invite you to a lecture by Professor Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame, USA). Prof. Ó Conchubhair is Associate Professor at the Department of Irish Language and Literature, University of Notre Dame. His monograph Fin de Siècle na Gaeilge: Darwin, An Athbheochan agus Smaointeoireacht na hEorpa (2009) presents a detailed intellectual history of the Irish […]

Salt in Ancient Europe: Recent Research

The Institute of Classical Archaeology is happy to invite you to a lecture by the prominent British archaeologist Professor Anthony Harding (currently Univerität München) about the present state of research on extraction, use, and distribution of salt and its importance in Ancient Europe.

Bronze Age Contacts between Greece and the Eastern Adriatic

Aegean connections with northern lands have been a subject of intense interest over the past few decades and were explored by a number of scholars, such as Jan Bouzek, Anthony Harding, or Joseph Maran. However, the eastern Adriatic and its hinterland have often been omitted in this context. This area has so far produced meager evidence for […]

Edward Said/Mahmoud Darwish: Contrapuntal Implications

The Department of Near Eastern and African Studies is happy to invite you to a lecture entitled “EDWARD SAID/MAHMOUD DARWISH: CONTRAPUNTAL IMPLICATIONS” by renowned Syrican literary critic Subhí al-Hadídí. Abstract: Both friends for decades, and fellow Palestinian exiles, Edward W. Said and Mahmoud Darwish had many points of agreement, but also a few disagreements. Far from being discrepancies […]

Lecture by Martin Henzelmann on Morphology of Contemporary Russian (lecture in Russian language)

Морфология является важной темой в области исследования славянских языков. Поэтому, в настоящем докладе рассматриваются разные аспекты в науке о форме слов и грамматических единицах. Будут также представлены разные разделы в рамках морфологии и показано их конкретное отражение в структуре современного русского языка.

PATRICK WEIL : FRONTIÈRES, MIGRATIONS ET IDENTITÉS EN EUROPE AUJOURD’HUI

A l’invitation des Instituts français de République tchèque, d’Autriche, de Hongrie et de la Faculté des Lettres de Prague, Monsieur Patrick Weil prononcera la conférence inaugurale du Fonds d’Alembert 2016 consacrée aux « Frontières, migrations et identités en Europe aujourd’hui ». Patrick Weil est Directeur de recherche au CNRS au Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle de […]