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”.

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 […]