CCK-ISC cordially invites you to a new academic year’s lecture from its Taiwan series: Chang Lung-chih: Taiwan: From a Qing Dynasty Frontier to the First Colony of the Japanese Empire Date: 18.10. 2018, 12:30–15:00 Venue: 118/C CCK-ISC Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague, Celetná 20, Praha 1 Abstract: The talk will explore Taiwan’s transition from a […]
CCK-ISC cordially invites you to this academic year’s opening lecture of its Open seminar programme: Prof. Chen Hsi-yuan (Academia Sinica): Different Faces of State Confucianism: The State Li Sacrifice and the Ghost Festival in Late Imperial China Abstract: The sacrificial altars were the nucleus of the official religious system in imperial China. Ideally, through […]
From June 28 to July 1, 2018, CCK-ISC organizes an international symposium “Symposium on Mapping China’s Footprint in the World”. The symposium is open to registered participants only. Abstract: China’s growing presence in the world is a complex phenomenon that defies traditional analysis with established tools of political science, international relations or area studies. What exactly […]
We invite you to Kaiser Kuo’s lecture on contemporary culture in China at Faculty of Arts, Celetná 20 (room no. 118) on May 18, 14:10-15:50. While Kaiser Kuo is mainly known through his involvement in 1980’s Beijing rock scene, today is the editor of China news aggregator website SupChina and creator of Sinica Podcast. At […]
We cordially invite you to the Workshop on Warring States Bamboo-strip Manuscripts with Professor Edward L. Shaughnessy The international workshop will take place at the Institute of East Asian Studies, Charles University in Prague, on May 22, 2018 – May 24, 2018. Tuesday May 22, 18:00-19:30 – Opening Lecture (Green lecture room) Wednesday, May 23, […]
We cordially invite you to the lecture given by Professor Barend J. ter Haar (University of Oxford), on the anniversary pf the foundation of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange in Taiwan “Sounds in Chinese religious culture” Karolinum, Malá aula, Ovocný trh 3, Prague 1 Friday April 27, 2018, 16.00 hrs Abstract: Sound […]
Lecture by Professor Martin Slobodník from Comenius University, Bratislava “Hell on Earth” – Tibet in Chinese propaganda March 22, 2018, 17.00-18.30 at Kampus Hybernská 4, Prague 1.
We would like to invite you to the workshop Chinese Independent Film and Censorship, with the documentary director ZHU RIKUN. The workshop is hosted by CAS FAMU (Haruna Honcoop) on 9 March 2018. Location: FAMU screening room (1st floor), Smetanovo nábřeží 2, Prague 1 Capacity: 65 (FAMU screening room capacity is 72 seats) Optional for: […]
To kick-start the new semester, we invite you to the series of lectures on Chinese literature Professor Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia Thursday October 19, 16:40-18:15 (room118, Celetná) Of Cannibal Eunuchs and Waggon Hunters: The Swindle Story around the World Friday October 20, 14:10-15:45 (místnost 118, Celetná) The Age of Irreverence: A New History […]
The international conference on Samuel Beckett and Technology, organised by the Centre for Irish Studies (Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures), was hold at the Faculty of Arts in Prague on 13 - 15 September 2018. The conference was attended by researchers from all over the world, including Canada, Japan, and Trinidad and Tobago.
On Saturday 8 September 2018, the Indidan president Rám Náth Kóvind visited Charles University in Prague as part of his official visit to the Czech Republic. The president met with four Czech students of Indian Studies at the Faculty of Arts delivered short speeches in Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, and Tamil.
59 experts in Czech Studies from the Czech Republic and from abroad have met in Prague to present the results of their work and exchange latest findings and experience, and to establish professional and personal contacts. Workshops introduced new electronic applications for teaching Czech as a foreign language.
Why does not Czech cinema have its own museum? Precious and diverse Czech film heritage has been hidden in archives and depositories for far too long. To address this situation, Adéla Mrázová and Terezie Křížkovská from the Department of Film Studies, CUFA, together with Jakub Jiřiště, alumnus of the same department, founded NaFilM (National Film Museum).
The paper contains an in-depth analysis of 22 ancient Egyptian artefacts currently stored in the Egyptian Museum of Leipzig University (Germany). The analytical work performed by Czech scholars deepens our understanding of the use of copper in the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom.
From 18 to 30 June 2018, seven students from CUFA participated in the project NEW FACES, "Facing Europe in Crisis: Shakespeare’s World and Present Challenges", a European Strategic Partnership between nine European universities, which took place in Montpellier, France.
The international conference "Things in Poems – Poems of Things" (30th January – 2nd February 2019) will explore the presence of things and the representation of objects in poetry in a broad manner, from the Antiquity to contemporary poetry. The call for papers is open until 31 July 2018.
On 6 July 2018, students of the 19th installment of a summer course organised by the Centre of Ibero-American Studies for the Monterrey Institute of Technology received their certificates of attendance at the Sporck Palace.
Officials at Charles University have presented to the public two historical documents dating back to the foundation of the university in Prague 670 years ago. The documents resurfaced only recently and were acquired from a private collection: the first is a papal letter and the second a notarial instrument. Both are of enormous historic significance and date back to 1347.
