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

Penny M. Von Eschen: Paradoxes of Nostalgia

Who is telling the story of the Cold War, where and to whom? American historian Penny M. Von Eschen will present her new book Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989 (Duke University Press, 2022) on 9 March at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, room 111, at 17:30. In it, […]

Prof. Ivan Krastev: International Order of Broken Mirrors: Development Prospects in the World Shattered by War

Charles University in cooperation with the European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) invites you to a lecture by a prominent Bulgarian political scientist and political advisor, which will take place on 7 March 2023 at 5 pm in the Patriotic Hall of the Karolinum. The lecture is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of […]

Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health: Comparing and Contrasting the US and the Czech Republic

Department of Socialogy at CU FA cordially invites you to a lecture by a visiting Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Dawn Norris (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse). Abstract A substantial amount of research in the United States examines the relationship between unemployment and mental health, but it often focuses on financial strain. Recent research has begun to use a social-psychological approach to explore […]

Psychology Meets Behavioral Economics: Interdisciplinary Evidence about Cooperation, Discrimination and Conflict.

The Section of Intercultural Psychology of the Czech-Moravian Psychological Society in cooperation with the Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences invites you to an international webinar to be held on 22 February 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00. During the webinar, doc Michal Bauer and doc. Julie Chytilová from CERGE-EI and the Institute […]

Lecture Series: Current Issues in Archaeology

The Institute of Classical Archaeology cordially invites you to a lecture series by Paolo Rondini (Pavia) „Through the Centuries, on the Rocks: New Research in the Quattro Dossi Area, Valle Camonica, Italy“ that will take place on 14 December from 4:30 pm in Campus Hybernska.

Ancuta Mortu: A Script-Based Understanding of Art Appreciation

Czech Society for Aesthetics cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr Ancuta Maria Mortu that will take place on 8 December from 5:30 pm to 7 pm in Jan Čejka Gallery in Campus Hybernská. Annotation of the lecture: In cognitive psychology, scripts are defined as mental structures that play an important role in organising experiences occurring frequently […]

Clevering Lecture: “Europe after the Zeitenwende” by Prof Luuk van Middelaar

Charles University, Václav Havel Library, and Embassy of the Netherlands in the Czech Republic cordially invite you to a lecture “Europe after the Zeitenwende“, delivered by Prof Luuk van Middelaar as part of the The Cleveringa Lecture cycle. It will take place on 5 December from 5 pm in Vlastenecký sál in Carolinum, Ovocný trh 3, Prague […]

Bourdieu’s Legacy in Literary Studies: Expanding Territories, Changing Concepts

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Pierre Bourdieu’s death, CEFRES in collaboration with the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature at CU FA organize a round table on the development of Bourdieu’s central concepts during last two decades. The event will be held in English. Participants: Anna SCHUBERTOVÁ (Charles University) Csaba SZALÓ (Masaryk University) Jan VÁŇA […]

Lecture Series: Current Issues in Archaeology

The Institute of Classical Archaeology cordially invites you to a lecture series by Sabine Hornung (Saarland) “The Caesarian fortress at Hermeskeil: latest research on Titus Labienus’ conquest of the Treveri.”  

Timothy Garton Ash: From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe – and Back

The lecture by a British historian and journalist is organized on the occasion of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU under the patronage of Mikuláš Bek, Minister for European Affairs. It is to be held on Wednesday, 16 November, from 10 am to 12 noon in the auditorium of the Faculty of Arts, […]