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. […]
Past events
Migration and Public Discourse
Plenary Lecture: Ruth Wodak (linguistics, Lancaster University): Language of Walls Matěj Spurný: to be specified (history, FA CU) Alena Pařízková: Metaphors we live with the refugee situation (anthropology and sociology, FF ZČU) Eva Lehečková, Michal Hořejší: The role of political correctness in public discourse on immigration (linguistics, FF UK)
Syria: What´s going on?
The Syrian conflict has been ongoing for 4 years, claiming 300,000 lives so far and with no end in sight. But do we actually have an idea of what’s happening in the country, and why it all started? On Wednesday 18th November at the Faculty of Arts (room nr. 200) we will have an opportunity […]
Professor CHARLES RAMBLE: Towards a Holistic Representation of Tibetan Ritual: Three Case Studies from a Himalayan Bonpo Community
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. Towards a Holistic Representation of Tibetan Ritual: Three Case Studies from […]
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 […]
