New call for Erasmus+ 2024/2025. Application deadline: September 9, 2024, by 10:00 All information about the current call here More general information about the programme here
New call for Erasmus+ 2024/2025. Application deadline: September 9, 2024, by 10:00 All information about the current call here More general information about the programme here
Just released: Litteraria Pragensia 34.67, “Revisiting Brendan Behan,” edited by Nathalie Lamprecht and Ondřej Pilný. Challenging the notion that little may be added to existing research into the work of Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and rebel Brendan Behan, the issue brings together eight articles prompted by the international conference “Brendan Behan at 100: Legacy […]
We are delighted to announce that Dr Radvan Markus became the recipient of the 2023 American Conference for Irish Studies Prize for Books in the Irish Language. Awarding his monograph Carnabhal na Marbh: Cré na Cille agus Litríocht an Domhain (The Carnival of the Dead: Cré na Cille and World Literature), the jury noted in […]
BA Finals 4-5 Sept (Wed, Thu) application: 9 July SIS check: 13 August thesis in SIS: 7 August MA Finals 9-10 Sept (Mon, Tue) application: 9 July SIS check: 13 August thesis in SIS: 12 August
Professor Martin Procházka was elected member of The European Academy – Academia Europaea (https://ae-info.org/), whose aim is “to promote European research, advise governments and international organisations in scientific matters, and further interdisciplinary and international research”. Among 31 Czech members in all scientific disciplines, he is the only representative of literature and theatre studies.
The Protagonist announces a call for papers for the issue on The Language of Wars, Genocides, and Conflict. Contributors can submit their essays, reviews, responses, as well as poetry, prose, and visual art through the website: https://theprotagonistpress.com/submit-your-work/ Key words: issues of language and terminology, communal memory and generational experience of war, cultural guilt, genocide, humanitarianism, journalism […]
Wednesday 22 May 2024, 18:30 DOX Centre for Contemporary Art – Gulliver Airship (Poupětova 1, Praha 7) Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Embassy of Ireland and the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. Moderator Ondřej Pilný. ALL WELCOME! Tickets How do contemporary authors perceive their position in a Europe that is being […]
Conamara Chaos cordially invites You to their concert in Vagon Klub – be there and enjoy it on Tuseday, May 21, 2024 at 8:30 PM.
From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of empirical authors, through collaborative authorship and authorship as ‘cultural capital’, to the shifting roles of authors in recent autofiction and biofiction. In response to Roland Barthes’ ‘removal of the Author’ and its substitution […]
May 17, 2024 American and Canadian Literature 2: Civil War to WWII (test), PhDr. Hana Ulmanová, Ph.D., 14:10 – 15:40, room 111 May 20, 2024 American and Canadian Literature 2: Civil War to WWII (test), Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D., 9:00 – 10:30, room 104 American and Canadian Literature 3 (comprehensive exam), doc. Erik Sherman Roraback, […]
As part of the HR Excellence in Research initiative, Charles University is continuously striving to improve working conditions for its employees and foster greater job satisfaction. The university believes that only satisfied employees can deliver the best performance.
This year, Charles University is defending the prestigious HR Award certificate and one of the evaluated criteria is ethics. As part of creating an inclusive environment, the university adopted its first Equal Opportunities Plan to create an inclusive environment, created the position of CU ombudsman and established the CU Equal Opportunities Board.
The symposium within the OP JAK CoRe project titled “Preaching and Conflict: 24th International Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium” took place on 11–16 July 2024 in Prague. The conference was co-organized by Prof Lucie Doležalová from the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies at CU FA and Dr Pavel Soukup from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the CAS
Faculty of Arts, Charles University (CU FA), was awarded a grant for a prestigious ERA-AREAS project from the Horizon Europe programme (ERA Chair scheme). In collaboration with Prof Mariana Llanos from the German Institute of Global and Area Studies, the project team will carry out research of contemporary critical phenomena in non-European regions over the next five years.
During July and August, the buildings on Jan Palach Square 1/2 and in Hybernská 3 are closing at 7:30 pm.
It had been five years since CU received the prestigious award “HR Excellence in Research” from the European Commission. This autumn, a team of international evaluators will come to CU, and the university will need to demonstrate that it has met its obligations and that it intends to continue making improvements in the HR area and in caring for its employees.
On 13 June 2024, the President of the Czech Republic and the Minister of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic appointed professor psychologist Filip Smolík, Italianist Pavel Štichauer, and Slavist Alla Arkhanhelska.
What can contemporary readers find in Franz Kafka's work and do any unanswered questions remain? The matter is one of continuing importance for Prof Marek Nekula, who has been studying Kafka's work since the early 1990s, when he worked at CU FA. Today he lectures at the University of Regensburg, where he heads the Bohemicum Center for Czech Studies.
The academic from the Department of Political Science at CU FA, who is also a guarantor for the multi-university research project CoRe, has published Geopolitics of Global Catholicism: Politics of Religion in Space and Time. The work will be formally presented to a professional audience for the first time on Friday 7 June 2024 at the Gregorian University in Rome.
New call for Erasmus+ 2024/2025. Application deadline: September 9, 2024, by 10:00 All information about the current call here More general information about the programme here
BA Finals 4-5 Sept (Wed, Thu) application: 9 July SIS check: 13 August thesis in SIS: 7 August MA Finals 9-10 Sept (Mon, Tue) application: 9 July SIS check: 13 August thesis in SIS: 12 August
May 17, 2024 American and Canadian Literature 2: Civil War to WWII (test), PhDr. Hana Ulmanová, Ph.D., 14:10 – 15:40, room 111 May 20, 2024 American and Canadian Literature 2: Civil War to WWII (test), Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D., 9:00 – 10:30, room 104 American and Canadian Literature 3 (comprehensive exam), doc. Erik Sherman Roraback, […]
BA Finals 19-20 June (Wed, Thu) Application: 9 May SIS check: 29 May Thesis submission in SIS: 22 May MA Finals 12-13 June (Wed, Thu) Application: 9 May SIS check: 29 May Thesis submission in SIS: 15 May
Due to unexpected health and family reasons, Dr Ulmanová has to cancel her classes and office hours on Wednesday, March 20, and Thursday,March 21. We are not skipping any reading. Thanks for understanding.
New call for Erasmus+ 2024/2025. Application deadline: February 29, 2024, by 10:00 All information about the current call here
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites all students interested in applying for the 2-year MA programme in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures to an orientation meeting. Members of DALC staff will be present to discuss the application procedure as well as the basic aspects of the MA programme. Applicants will have the opportunity […]
Bylo vyhlášeno výběrové řízení na stipendia Anglo-Czech Educational Fund 2024/25. Toto stipendium je určeno na několikaměsíční až roční studijní a vědecké pobyty mladých vědeckých pracovníků (ve věku do 35 let) a doktorandů ve Velké Británii. Jedná se o stipendium pro osoby s českým nebo slovenským občanstvím. podrobné informace Uzávěrka podávání přihlášek je 12.00 dne 15. 3. […]
We are devastated by yesterday’s atrocities, and our deepest sympathies go out to everyone. Our thoughts are with the bereaved and the injured. All DALC staff are unharmed, but we are still waiting for information about our students. Please don’t hesitate to seek help – there are helplines available here. Take care, we are with […]
Dr Horová’s office hrs are cancelled today (20 Dec) due to a rescheduled seminar. Apologies for any inconvenience.
