The Czech Association for African Studies invites you to a guest lecture “‘Who are you to say how we should run our country?’ Western scholars, democracy promotion, and politics in Africa” by prof. Nic Cheeseman (professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham and fellow of the Institute of Global Innovation ). The lecture is going to […]
The ninth year of the international conference ‘Ethnology Without Borders‘ titled “The Global or Local”: Challenges In and Beyond the Field will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on the premises of Charles University. The conference will take place from 25th to 27th November. The event will be organized by the Antre ethnology students’ society […]
The photogallery from the conference VIVA AFRICA 2021 (15–17 September 2021 ).
The conference VIVA AFRICA is held both physically and online. All active participants are going to receive the program with ZOOM links to each section of the conference automatically. Broad and academic public, especially students are most welcome to attend physically or online. Write to viva.africa.conference@gmail.com to receive the conference ZOOM links. Please, do not forget to […]
Twelfth VIVA AFRICA conference invites participants to engage in a discussion of mutual encounters, inventions, constructions and relations of all kinds taking place between Africa and Europe, in the past, present and future. The conference will start on Tuesday the 14th of September with our cultural program. Conference will be held in hybrid form, but we […]
Vilnius Academy of Arts invites you to sumbit your papers for a conference titled ”Art beyond the Politics: Africa and the ‘Other’ Europe during the Cold War”. The international conference will be exploring transcontinental cultural relations, representations, and imaginations that occurred and developed between the countries of Africa and Eastern and Central Europe during the Cold War […]
The 2021 edition of Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! Conference on African Philosophy will explore the theme: The genre of reality: African Philosophy in the Covid-19 crisis.
Submissions for VIVA AFRICA 2021 are extended to 30th April 2021. For more information check the website.
We are happy to announce Prof. Dr. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni as the confirmed keynote speaker at our VIVA AFRICA 2021 conference. He is a leading decolonial theorist with over a hundred publications in the fields of African history, African politics, African development and decolonial theory. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is currently Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the […]
Twelfth VIVA AFRICA conference invites participants to engage in a discussion of mutual encounters, inventions, constructions and relations of all kinds taking place between Africa and Europe, in the past, present and future. Especially – although by no means exclusively – we invite scholars studying the exchanges and entanglements between African countries and those parts of Europe that are not conventionally associated with […]
The dean of CU FA, Eva Lehečková, has been awarded Hillel J. Kieval from Washington University in St. Louis for his contribution to Jewish history in Central Europe and his persisting support of Jewish Studies in the Czech Republic.
The anonymous electronic evaluation of courses take place from 10 to 29 May. The results including the comments will be released in the middle of June.
Universidad de Chile and Charles University co-organize Ibero-American Week that is to take place from 9 to 13 May. As part of the event, the 27th Ibero-American Prize for student essays will be awarded and the Centre for Ibero-American Studies at CU FA will hold a conference on the bicentennial of the independence processes in Brazil, Mexico and Peru.
The presentations for the upcoming elections (to be held from 10 am on 17 May to 5 pm on 18 May) for the period 2022–2025 have been published.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and the Faculty of Humanities CU cordially invites you to a cycly of lectures by Prof. Helen Frances Leslie-Jacobsen (University of Bergen) that will be held at both faculties from 26 to 29 April 2022.
Candidates can submit their nominations until 23 April 2022, the elections will be held online from 10 am on 17 May to 5 pm on 18 May 2022.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is looking for academic, technical, and economic staff. All offers are both in Czech and English.
In relation to the armed conflict in Ukraine, the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom, the Zimin Foundation, and the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, announce five two-year scholarships for Ukrainian citizens.
Charles University brought together top members of the legislative branches in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, to mark 100 years since the Czechoslovaks recognised the independence of the three Baltic states. Doc. Kristina Ante (Department of East European Studies at CU FA) had a presentation on how these countries are viewed by the Czechs.
