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Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Will Host the International Conference on Chinese, Indian, and Japanese Philosophy

The conference “Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy: Philosophical Encounters” will be held on 16–18 September 2024 at the main building of CU FA. The co-organisers are the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Centre at CU, the Department of Sinology at CU FA, the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at CU FA.

Two Academic Groups from CU FA Are Successful in the Competition The University Research Centers (UNCE)

The competition is aimed at supporting young promising academics and researchers in the framework of the highest quality group basic research. Amongst them are now projects by the main researcher Prof Miroslav Petříček from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at CU FA and Prof Václav Cvrček from the Institute of the Czech National Corpus.

Prof Tomáš Halík Received Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk I. Class

On 28 October 2023, the anniversary of the founding of independent Czechoslovakia, the President of the Czech Republic awarded an academic from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at CU FA with one of the highest orders in the Czech Republic. He was awarded for his outstanding contribution to the development of democracy, humanity, and human rights.