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 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.
A word from prof. Milena Králíčková, Rector of Charles University, at the beginning of the 2022/2023 academic year.
The public sport event and charity run takes place on 27 September at the running track at the Faculty of Physical Education, Charles University. Free entry to the main relay race and the accompanying programme.
The first week in September saw the opening of the Didaktikon Educational and Creative Centre at Kampus Hybernská, successfully bridging cooperation between Charles University and the City of Prague. Ten interdisciplinary and interactive exhibits and a number of events, which have been largely prepared by teachers from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, await visitors. It is free for schools.
Seventy languages are taught at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, which is unique not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Europe. On 30 September, the faculty platform Library of Languages organizes the European Day of Languages which focuses this year on supressed languages.
The summer school held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, ended on 19 August bringing to a close a month of intensive Czech language study. The programme featured not only regular Czech language classes but also workshops, lectures, day trips and other events highlighting Czech history, arts, and culture. In short, an unforgettable experience.
Over the past four years, the Faculty of Arts, Charles University has participated in European Economic Area (EEA) grant projects which have given dozens of our students and employees the opportunity to travel for work or study in Norway and Iceland. As the last two mobility projects of this type will be coming to an end in August, we would like to offer the following overview of their realization.
Did you know that it is possible to sleep overnight within the Carolinum complex? Charles University offers accommodation in its buildings to university guests (including esteemed recpients of honorary degrees). The most representative accommodation facility is known as Opitz House, just a few steps from the Old Town Square.
The Czech Institute of Egyptology at CU FA (CIE) organises in collaboration with the International Committee for Egyptian and Sudan Archaeological Museums and Collections (CIPEG) and ICOM a half-day symposium to present to aninternational group of curators of Egyptological museum collections an overview and update on recent research and excavations in Egypt.
In the spring of 2022, an archaeological team from the Czech Institute of Egyptology at CU FA discovered and carefully documented the tomb of an ancient Egyptian dignitary named Wahibre-mery-Neith during fieldwork in Abusir, Egypt. Although it was looted in antiquity, the site has provided valuable information.
