The Department of Middle Eastern Studies at CU FA cordially invites all interested to a lecture by Dr Julian Rentzsch from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Annotation Across Eurasia, numerous inscriptions in runic writing systems can be found, including commemorative stelae from the Second Turkic Empire in the Orkhon Valley in present-day Mongolia, but also inscriptions from other […]
Calendar: Lecture
Current events
Julian Rentzsch: A General Survey on the Turkic Languages
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies at CU FA cordially invites all interested to a lecture by Dr Julian Rentzsch from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Annotation The Turkic languages are a group of about 40 genealogically related languages spoken in a vast territory extending from Eastern Europe throughout Western and Central Asia to Northeast Siberia by roughly 200 million […]
Past events
Professor CHARLES RAMBLE: Understanding Himalayan Buddhist Communities through the Prism of Civil Religion
Department of South and Central Asia cordially invites you to attend a talk by CHARLES RAMBLE, Director of Studies (Director d’études) at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Member of CRCAO (Centre for Research on East Asian Civilisations), Paris Lecturer at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University. Understanding Himalayan Buddhist Communities through the Prism of Civil […]
Lectures: Professor Scott Madry (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Department of General History is happy to invite you to a series of lectures and workshops with Professor Scott Mudry (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). The events are organised as part of the programme Erasmus Mundus TEMA. 4 November 2015: Introduction to Historical GIS and Historical Cartography, 14.10 – 15.40, room 201 + workshop […]
Lecture: Classical Archaeology, Submarine Archaeology, and Archaeobotany of the Vanished Ancient Cities: PYRGI A CASTRUM NOVUM
Lecture by the Italian archaeologist and director of the museum in the Etruscan site in Pyrgi (Santa Severa) about the archaeological research in the ancient localities Pyrgi and Castrum Novum on land and under the sea level. The presentation of the research will be accompanied by information about the long-term cooperation of the Italian archaeologists […]
Greece’s Image in FYROM’s Education System
Lecture by Dr Stavrouly Mavrogeni from the University of Macedonia – Thessaloniki.
Meeting of potential volunteers (helping the refugees in the Balkan)
Meeting of volunteers interested in helping the refugees in the Balkans. People who have already been to the borders will talk about their experience. We will attempt to coordinate the volunteers at the Faculty of Arts in order to work more efficiently. All those who are interested in volunteering, or are considering another trip to […]
Prof. Michelle Yeh – MODERN CHINESE POETRY: CHALLENGES AND PARADOXES
The International Sinological Center at Charles University in Prague is happy to announce a lecture by Professor Michelle Yeh, author of essential studies of modern poetry in Chinese and especially of poetry from Taiwan (Modern Chinese poetry: theory and practice since 1917, Sailing to Formosa: a poetic companion to Taiwan, and many others). Title of the lecture: MODERN […]
Christopher Whyte: “MacDiarmid and Shame”
Whyte will start out by explaining the huge impact made on him by discovering the poetry and prose of MacDiarmid in the early 1970s. Independence was then a distant mirage, a Scottish parliament seemingly impossible, and MacDiarmid’s work known only to a happy few, not all of whom were doctrinaire nationalists. Looking at a couple of early lyrics, he […]
Dr. Dragan Jakovljević: Uticaj prosvetiteljskog pokreta na kulturu i obrazovanje Srba u Ugarskoj
The movement of the European urban bourgeoisie against the dogma and belief of the Middle ages, which set foundation to the modern European system of social equality, was organized first in England, and then through France and Germany spread to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through the XVIII century, the members of the Age of Enlightenment managed […]
Dr. Aleksander Urkom: Migration of identities – identity characteristics in languages and their manipulation
The study of identity, as a complex phenomenon, is a subject of various scientific disciplines. Although each discipline, which has the identity as a subject of research, tries to examine and describe it, however, only an interdisciplinary analysis of identity, as a phenomenon, can get a clearer picture and more tangible, more precisely map of identity. The lecture is based […]
Margery Palmer McCulloch (University of Glasgow): “Karel Čapek and Early Twentieth-century Dystopian Writing”
The lecture will discuss Čapek’s creative exploration of dystopian social and political contexts in plays such as R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots, 1920), From the Life of the Insects (1921), and The Makropulos Case (1922), together with his 1936 novel The War with the Newts; and will compare and contrast this with the imaginative procedures adopted in […]
