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”.

Together with the NFA, we invite you to a debate with South African filmmaker Phumi Morare. She “is an NAACP Image Award-winning, Oscar-shortlisted writer/director from South Africa. She is passionate about redeeming the African and feminine identity in cinema. She explores the Black female gaze in telling intimate stories of ordinary heroes, people of color, […]