The position is opened for academics in ethnology or cultural anthropology with any specialization or linguistics or literary studies, historiography (or political science or social science) who focus on Central or Southeastern Europe. Expected start is on 1 January 2024, the deadline for applications is by 23 October 2023.
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Dr Radvan Markus Published a Monograph in Irish on the Most Prominent Irish-Language Work of Modernism
The publication Carnabhal na Marbh was written by an academic from the Centre for Irish Studies which discusses the novel Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain in the context of the period when translations of the novel started to circulate outside of Ireland. The monograph assesses its place in the canon of world literature.
CU FA’s pronunciation app a “dream come true”
It’s no secret that learning Czech can be tricky when it comes to grammar, vocabulary, or pronunciation. Some would say especially the pronunciation of words sprinkled with Czech diacritics is tough. Recently CU FA rolled out what it hopes will be a game-changer: ProCzeFor, an online state-of-the-art pronunciation app that makes it easier and more fun to learn Czech.
As of 1 July 2023, the Office of Commercial Programmes and Cross-Sectoral Cooperation Was Established at CU FA
The Office of Commercial Programmes and Cross-Sectoral Cooperation is mainly responsible for the organisation of semester and short-term teaching programmes for international students and individual payers from abroad, their promotion, and coordinating the preparation of new ones and the development of existing commercial study programmes and summer schools.
Medievalists from CU FA Co-Organised Conference on Medieval Studies in the Digital World in Bergen
On 19–23 June 2023, thirteen medievalists from CU FA participated in an international conference organised in cooperation between Charles University and Universitetet i Bergen within the project of the EEA and Norway Grants Bilateral Initiative.
New Issue of Litteraria Pragensia “Ireland and Scotland: Cultural Intersections Across the Irish Sea” Has Been Published
The latest issue of the journal, edited by Dr Petra Johana Poncarová and Dr Radvan Markus from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA, has just been released. The journal is available in open access.
Karel Och: At KVIFF, we are a close-knit team that lives for film
Any discussion about a good film inevitably ends up being a discussion about life,” says Karel Och, the artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. A graduate of film studies at Facuty of Arts, Charles University, Och says he himself hardly goes to the films during the festival. He simply does not have the time because of his workload.
Applications to a New Study Programme, Russian Studies, Are Open until 14 August 2023
Russian Studies (Boris Nemtsov’s Study Program) is a new follow-up master’s full-time study programme conceived as territorial studies, taught in Russian with a wide range of lectures and seminars in English. The programme focuses on the study of Russia, emphasizing the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Results of the Spring Entrance Examinations to the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Have Been Published
The results of the entrance examinations to bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes were published on Friday, 23 June 2023, and to PhD programmes on Thursday, 29 June 2023. Each candidate can see the results in their SIS account.
CU FA Holds the Summer School of Scandinavian and Central European History of the 20th Century
The summer school, which takes place from 22 June to 1 July 2023, is an interdisciplinary platform for students of history and Scandinavian studies to learn about the grey areas in studies of World War II, the politics of memory, and the war in literary representations.
