Charles University and its faculties are buying a lot of bibliographic and full-text databases. Take a look at the list of databases that can be used in 2021. Some of the resources are available to all users of the whole Charles University and some are accessible only by the users from particular faculties. In bold are resources […]
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A New Dimension of Partnership between the Capital City of Prague and Charles University: Campus Hybernská is Now a Registered Institute (z. ú.)
The Rector of Charles University and the Mayor of Prague signed a partnership agreement at the end of the year and, thus, founded a joint project that significantly contributes to an enhanced connection of the academic, city, and general public activities. A newly registered institute Kampus Hybernská, z.ú. has begun its operation.
The Best International Education Projects 2020 Awards the Faculty of Arts
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 […]
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, […]
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.