(translated from Czech from the faculty website) The first trip to sub-Saharan Africa as part of the Erasmus+ credit mobility program took place at the turn of January and February 2026 and was undertaken by Vojtěch Šarše from the Centre for African Studies and the Department of Romance Studies, Jan Koura from the Department of […]
Ghana Culture Week, Prague is an initiative of Accra Art Week which brings core elements of Ghanaian Culture as a showcase to audiences in the Czech Republic. Bringing Ghanaian Culture closer to audiences who may otherwise not have any access to it. Between 6th-10th March. With support from the Embassy of Ghana in Prague, the […]
The screening will be followed by a discussion with film director Nii Kwate Owoo and a panel on the current state of museum restitutions, featuring Vjera Borozan (AVU), Vojtěch Šarše (Center for African Studies, Charles University), Edwin Otta (Acra Art Week), Kafui Danku (National Film Authority of Ghana), and Kwesi Essel-Blankson (Ghana Museums & Monuments Board). The […]
V pátek 7. listopadu od 16:00 v budově Boldhalle bude část spoluautorstva prezentovat chystanou knihu Hlasy dekoloniálního feminismu – která brzy vyjde v Nakladatelství Karolinum – na Feministické konferenci 2025 v Brně, jež pořádá feministický kolektiv SdruŽeny. Hlasy dekoloniálního feminismu je připravovaná kniha, která vznikla z kolektivního překladatelského projektu v rámci semináře na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity […]
The Horizon Europe-funded scientific project “Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations – COLUMN” will officially launch on Wednesday, 15 October 2025, from 14:30-17:00 at the Hall of Patriots in the Rectorate Building of Charles University, Prague (Ovocný trh 560/5, Prague 1) The event will feature a presentation of the project by Gertjan Plets, […]
Renomovaný martinický spisovatel a dramatik debutoval v literatuře v roce 1982 svou divadelní hrou Manman Dlo contre la fée Carabosse. Je nositelem několika francouzských literárních cen, např. Prix Goncourt či Řádu umění a literatury. Kromě doby, kdy studoval v Paříži práva, prožil celý život na Martiniku, v jeho hlavním městě Fort-de-France, a věnoval se práci […]
The event was cancelled due to serious personal reasons. We invite you to Françoise Vergès’ lecture entitled Decolonizing Feminisms and to the book launch of the Czech translation of her book Decolonial Feminism (Karolinum 2025). The lecture will take place on March 11, 2025 at 4 pm in the main building of the Faculty of […]
You are cordially invited to the third edition of the AfroFilmes festival, subtitled “At the Bottom of the Atlantic”, which this year focuses on the cinematic, cultural and historical connections between sub-Saharan African countries and Latin American and European African diasporas. The programme is run in collaboration with the Portuguese Centre Instituto Camões in Prague, Czech […]
Film as Historical Evidence: Representations of Conquest and White Savior Complex – AIH520105 Monday 15:50-17:20 Mgr. Monika Brenišínová, Ph.D. Mgr. Vojtěch Šarše, Ph.D. The course deals with the issue of film as a historical source. It deals thematically with two areas: the European exploration and conquest of the New World and the White Savior complex […]
Arba Minch University (AMU) Internationalization and Collaboration Directorate in collaboration with Charles University Faculty of Arts of Czech Republic held a public lecture on how language, gest, and visuals shape the “White Savior” in action films on February 11/ 2025 at Chamo Campus. The Public speaker and a lecturer at Faculty of Arts and a member of CAFR FF UK Vojtěch Šarše (PhD), speaking on his analyses of the post of the “White Savior” or the major character in cinema and action movies, said, the concept of the “White Saviorism” is used to build the white character to be depicted as if innately having heroic character traits of superiority and any sort of goodness whereas the non-white (black and caucasian) is to the post of evil generally and all sorts of weaknesses and inferiority in “The great Wall”, “The Last Samurai”, “Avatar”, and in many other action movies professionally enforcing the language, gest, gesture, and visuals to shape the “White Savior”.