The centre is going to provide a platform for experts, cooperate with other research and academic institutions, and organise public lectures, summers schools, research seminars and conferences.
News
CEFRES 2018 Campaign for PhD Fellowships is Open
CEFRES offers year-long fellowships at the center to 2nd year and above PhD students from France and the Visegrad countries (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic).
CfP: Changes, Crises and Crucial Moments. 5th conference on the Middle Ages in Britain
The conference, designed as a meeting space for students and beginning researchers of Medieval Britain from across the Humanities, is the fifth in a series after Prague 2012, Giessen 2013, Bonn 2014, and Prague 2016. We invite both full papers and work in progress reports on all aspects of medieval literature, language and culture.
Doc. Michal Pullmann Becomes the New Dean of CUFA
Doc. Michal Pullmann is a CUFA alumnus, having studied History and Sociology. Since 2010, he has been Director of the Department of Economic and Social History, CUFA, where he made his habilitation in 2014 with a thesis on The End of the Experiment. Reconstruction and Fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia.
Boris Nemtsov Academic Centre for the Study of Russia Established at CUFA
On 17 January, Mirjam Friend, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Zhanna Nemtsova, founder of the Boris Nemtsov Fund, signed a contract establishing the Boris Nemtsov Academic Centre for the Study of Russia at the Faculty of Arts.
Postgraduate and Post-doctorate Colloquium on Low Countries Studies
The Centre for Dutch language and Culture organizes the sixth postgraduate and post-doctorate colloquium on 7 – 10 March 2018 with the generous support of the Dutch Language Union, Charles University, the Flemish representation, and the Embassy of The Netherlands
Fundraiser for the Mosul University Library Continues Until 31 January
Let’s help the Library! (Pomozme knihovně!) is a charitable fundraiser organized in order to aid the restoration of the Mosul University library. The fundraiser is organised by the Faculty of Arts in cooperation with People in Need. As of 15 January, the fundraiser has managed to collect 201 567 CZK.
Czech Game Attentat 1942 Nominated for the “Gaming Oscar”
Czech game “Attentat 1942” has been selected for one of the most presitigous competitions of the gaming industry, 2018 Independent Games Festival Awards.
Jan Čermák and Michal Švec Received the Order of the Lion of Finland
On 6 December 2017, Professor Jan Čermák and the chairperson of the Scandinavian House in Prague Mgr. Michal Švec received the Order of the Finnish Lion from the Ambassador of Finland to the Czech Republic, HE Helena Tuuri.
The Largest Grant in the History of the Faculty of Arts – Half a Billion Crowns for the Project KREAS
The Faculty of Arts is to receive the largest grant in its history: half a billion crowns for the project KREAS, which had been proposed within the European Structural Funds, Operational Programme Research, Development and Education, the call “Excellent Research”.
