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 […]
On an international conference “The Role of Christians in the Process of European Integration” in Krakow, Prof Halík received Bishop Pieronek’s Award for his outstanding stances and achievements in connecting Christian and European values.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, commemorates the Velvet Revolution by symbolically lighting up the building in nám. Jana Palacha in the colours of the Czech tricolour. Many others important buildings have lit up in the commemoration on 17 November at 17:11.
His work reflects the history of almost the entire discipline. Professor Leopold Pospíšil, an expert in the anthropology of law, professor emeritus of Yale University and former lecturer at Faculty of Arts, Charles University, passed away on 25 October 2021 aged 98 in New Haven, USA.
The Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature was established in 2010 at the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. It aims to study literature related to the Shoah/the Holocaust and Jewish cultures in the Czech Lands and Central Europe.
One of the two winners of the popular stand-up comedy show held annually at Charles University was a doctoral student of history, Jakub Mazanec, from the Faculty of Arts whose outstanding performance wowed not only the audience but the expert panel of judges at the multi-functional Kampus Hybernská.
On Wednesday 20 October, the Mathesius Awards and Martin Hilský Awards for 2020 and 2021 were presented by representatives of the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology.
The main entrance will be closed due to a film project and will be opened again on Sunday, 24 October, at 5 am. The building will be accessible through the back entrance in Valentinská street.
With great grief, we inform that on Monday, 11 October 2021, a long-term teacher of Mongolian studies and researcher of Mongolian philology, docent Jugder Luvsandorj, passed away aged 82 years.
The new issue of Prague Egyptological Studies is out. The open access academic journal is now published only in English and has got a new faculty layout.
