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 Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague) invites applications for the position of a Visiting Professor in Social Sciences and/or Area Studies. The aplication deadline is January 31, 2019.
The renowned American historian and expert on Central and Eastern Europe is going to take part in a debate with Professor Pavel Barša on 22 November 2018 at 16.00 in the CUFA main lecture hall. The main topic of the debate is the resurrection of authoritarianism.
Dr Lupač's monograph Beyond the Digital Divide: Contextualizing the Information Society revises the existing research of the digital divide, i. e. the relation between the use of the Internet and social inequality, and its key thesis that unequal acess to the Internet has become the new source of social inequality.
Professor Josef Opatrný, head of the Centre for Ibero-American Studies at CUFA, received the prestigious Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honour awarded to foreigners. Professor Opatrný received the order for his lifelong work in promotion of Mexican culture and history in the Czech Republic and for his support of Czech-Mexican relations.
The Department of Adult Education and Personnel Management cordially invites you to three presentations by Professor Marcella Milana (University of Verona) on various topics related to education of adults.
After two weeks of work at its archaeological concession on the Abusir pyramid field, the current expedition of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University discovered a unique burial complex of the royal confidant and priest Kaires.
Martin Šorm, PhD student at the Department of Czech History, CUFA, has won the prestigious Visegrad Group Academies Young Researcher Award. The award is designated for young researchers under 35 from the Visegrad countries.
The aim of the project is to organise annual meetings of students and teachers of Finnish studies from four universities in three different countries. The meetings include lectures, conference papers, research projects presentations, and exchanges of experience. The event is also an opportunity to network and to discuss other forms of cooperation.
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.
