The Czech National Agency for International Education and Research released the results of their award that evaluated the most interesting internationalisation projects in 2020. Some of the best projects are connected with the Faculty of Arts, Charles University: CEEPUS exchange programme “Study of Religions” at the Institute of Asian Studies and the Online Summer School […]
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Hilský – Shakespeare’s England: Portrait of an Age
Professor emeritus of English Literature Martin Hilský is one of the country’s most prominent translators of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets into Czech. In 2011, his translations were published in a single volume The Complete Works (Dílo). Now, Academia has followed up with Shakespeare’s England: Portrait of an Age.
Archaeologist and Historian Jiří Sláma Passed Away
With great sorrow we inform you that on 26 December 2020, archaeologist and historian Professor Jiří Sláma passed away, he worked for many years at the Department of Archaeology. Professor Sláma was born in 1934 in Prague, graduated in archaeology and history at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, where he worked as an assistant, […]
Closure of CU FA Libraries from 4 January 2021
Due to the application of the level 5 PES index, the libraries are closed from 4 January 2021 until further notice. More information about the closure is in the post.
The Operation of CU FA Libraries at the End of 2020
Please, pay attention to the following information regarding the operation of CU FA libraries at the end of 2020.
Online Evening Czech Course for Foreigners
Czech Studies programme (Institute of Czech Studies at CU FA) opens an online evening Czech course for foreigners – A1, A2, B1 proficiency. You may enrol to the summer by 18 December 2020.
Former Students of Charles University Are Building an Atlas as a Political Google Map
In 2015, Europe was in a tense debate on the topic of so-called refugee crisis. Amongst the students that went to help in the Balkan was Jakub Múčka now a PhD student at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at CU FA. Around him emerged a team that has been building the online Atlas of the Current World.
Job Offer: Czech Institute of Egyptology & Department of Middle Eastern Studies
The Faculty of Art, Charles University offers the following two positions. Czech Institute of Egyptology – field and specialization: Egyptology, Egyptian archaeology, Old Kingdom architecture and iconography. Department of Middle Eastern Studies – field and specialization: Turkish Language, Didactics of Non-European Languages
Temporal Access to eBooks on Oxford Scholarship Online and SAGE Knowledge
The students and staff of Charles University have temporal access to multi-discipline collections of eBooks: to more than 18,000 eBooks on Oxford Scholarship Online and 4,000 eBooks on SAGE Knowledge.
Where Did Slav Come From? A New Collective Monography Offers Some Answers
Publication “New Perspectives on the Early Slavs and the Rise of Slavic. Contact and Migrations” has been published in cooperation with the Heidelberg University (Slavisches Institut) and the Institute of the Czech Language at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
