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History & Generalism: Perpetrating Humanities inside of Assyriology

Czech Institute of Egyptology, CUFA, cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr Setha F. C. Richardsona (University of Chicago) which will be held on 16June at 2 p.m. in Room C419 in Celetná 20, Prague 1.

Exhibition Launch: Peru’s New Chronicle and Good Governance by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala

The Embassy of Peru and Charles University, Faculty of Arts, are pleased to present an exhibition of 32 posters, with drawings by the indigenous chronicler Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535-1616), who toured the ancient Inca Empire.

Video Recording of Professor Griffin’s Lecture “Post-soviet Modernity and the Rise of Xenophobic Populism”

Professor Roger Griffin from the University of Oxford started the conference Fascism_Modernism_Populism on 23 May with a lecture “Post-Soviet Modernity and the Rise of Xenophobic Populism”.

Dr Haig Utidjian Receives Honorary Affiliation from CUFA

On 18 May 2017, Dr Haig Utidjian, British conductor, musicologist, and philologian of Armenian descent, received a diploma of the honorary affiliated member of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

Professor Tomáš Halík Will Receive the Award of the Pontifical Council for Culture

The award Per artem ad Deum (Through Art to God) is bestowed every year by the Pontifical Council for Culture for excellent achievements in culture, especially for supporting intercultural dialogue.

Armenian Delegation Launches the Armenian Books Collection at CUFA

At the end of April, a delegation from the Armenian Embassy in Prague launched a collection of Armenian literature at CUFA.

The Czech Summer School of Linguistics

he aim of the Summer School of Linguistics is to give an opportunity to students and young researchers who are interested in language and its use to get acquainted with the range of current achievements in linguistic research.

Invitation to the Workshop “The Language Contact and the Early Slavs”

The workshop is addressed to one of the most controversial issues in contemporary medieval studies, which is the extremely fast expansion of the Slavic language across great parts of Europe in the Early Middle Ages.

CfP: Regions of Strategic Importance: geographical spaces, cultural and political constructs, and analytical tools

The “Regions of Strategic Importance” conference will inaugurate the establishment of the Institute for the Study of Strategic Regions and delineate its research agenda.

Lectures by Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara) on Corpus Linguistics

Stefan Th. Gries teaches at the University of California in Santa Barbara. The lectures are going to take place on 26 and 27 April 2017.