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
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 […]
Stephen Burt (Harvard University): “Is American Poetry Still a Thing?”
Professor Stephen Burt is co-editor of the recent Cambridge History of American Poetry (2015), and author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2009) and The Art of the Sonnet (2011). The foremost poetry critic in the United States, he reviews regularly for a range of outlets. His lecture “Why People Need Poetry” was a TED talk in 2013. A poet also, […]
Lecture by Professor Zhao Dingxin: Collective Actions in Post-Mao China
The International Sionogical Centre at Charles University is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Zhao Dingxin, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and author of the book Power of Tiananmen (2001). The topic of the lecture is “Collective Actions in Post-Mao China: Between Chao and Subjectizenfication”. The lecture shall be held on Wednesday […]
Geoffrey Sampson: Two Lectures in Prague
We are pleased to announce that Professor Geoffrey Sampson has accepted the joint invitation of the Institute of the Czech National Corpus and the Cercle Linguistique de Prague to give two lectures at the Faculty of Arts, on Monday October 5th and Tuesday October 6th 2015. Both lectures are open to the public. Due to limited space, please use this page to register for the Tuesday […]
Professor Robert Campany: Remembering Past Lives in Early Medieval China
The International Sinological Center at Charles University is happy to invite you to the last guest lecture of this term: Prof. Robert Campany, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA): REMEMBERING PAST LIVES IN EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINA Abstract: Buddhism famously teaches that we are born not once but repeatedly and that our rebirths are a function of our […]
Lecture by Zahi Hawáss
“Pyramids, Mummies and Cleopatra: Recent Discoveries”: lecture by Zahi Hawáss, former Egyptian state secretary for ancient monuments and one of the main experts on the Giza necropolis who made numerous important archaeological discoveries in Egypt.
