Center for African Studies and the Department of Czech History of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University are inviting you to the discussion „Africa’s Place in World History“ that will také place on Tuesday, October 11, at 5 p.m. in the main building of the Faculty of Arts, náměstí Jana Palacha 2 (room 104). In the […]
In the winter semester 2022/2023, you can enroll in the CAFR course Colonial Propaganda in Cinematography, which will be held every Monday at 17:20 in 3D or via zoom, in English. Taught by Vojtěch Šarše. (ACAFR0007 – https://is.cuni.cz/studium/predmety/index.php?id=be152ccabaac6795466ca7b1082e07e3&tid=&do=predmet&kod=ACAFR0007) “Lectures on the history of colonial propaganda in cinematography and sub-Saharan francophone cinematography will be studied from a […]
On Wednesday, 14 September, there will be a panel discussion on the Russian presence in Africa, starting at 5pm in the main building of the Faculty of Arts, Palach Square (room 201). The event will also be held in a hybrid format and in English. If you are unable to participate at our event in […]
This year, the CAFR is also organising Africa Week, albeit in a slightly shortened version – on 13-14 September. On Tuesday 13 September at 5pm Martin Páv (MUP) will present his research on skin bleaching, followed by a short debate. On Wednesday, 14 September, there will be a panel discussion on the Russian presence in […]
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 anonymous electronic evaluation of courses takes place from 9 to 22 January 2023. The results including comments are to be published at the beginning of February.
Associate Professor Jan Sýkora from the Institute of Asian Studies at CU FA has been to Japan on countless occasions. The most influential stay was at Saga University on the island of Kyushu, where he studied between 1991 and 1994.
Due to an energy-saving reason, the operation of the Česká Spořitelna building will be reduced from 23 December 2022 to 12 February 2023. Though only slightly heated, its premises will remain accessible. Employees may briefly come in to deal with paperwork, but staying there throughout the working hours will not be possible due to the cold temperature.
The three-day conference, which was held at the beginning of November at the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, addressed the current rise of antisemitism, xenophobia, and racism, highlighted the role of education, and called for redressing the wrongs of the Holocaust. The event also focused on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
Traditional Christmas book sale co-organized by the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA will take place on 8 December from 2–7 pm in front of P104. Anyone can donate books on 5–7 December in the English and Romance Studies Library during its opening hours. All money raised will go to the People in Need charity. All books are welcome.
The 18th century Czech composer Josef Mysliveček is at last getting the attention he deserves, says acclaimed American musicologist for Forum Radio. If so, it is in no small part thanks to Freeman’s own extensive research into the composer’s music and life that has been recently translated by Petra Johana Poncarová from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA.
A year ago, the Czech-Uzbek expedition discovered 60 graves from the 3rd–2nd century BC on the outskirts of the Iskandar Tepa settlement in Uzbekistan. Now, the archaeologists opened six of them to acquire data about the population that lived there. Some of the graves have provided extremely valuable data, artifacts, skeletal remains, and samples for further analysis.
On the 17 November, Czechs are marking the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution sparked when communist police brutally cracked down on students in 1989. How Czechs look back on those days now is the subject of the interview with well-known social historian and Vice-Dean of CU FA doc. Jakub Rákosník.
