The Department of Middle Eastern Studies (DMES) provides education and research in the languages, literature, and history of the region as well as in its relation to Europe and the present and past of the region’s cultures that originated in the Middle Eastern region. Currently, the department offers education in the following programmes: Middle Eastern […]
On September 26, the International CEFRES-EHESS PhD Students Workshop with the topic Dynamics of Political Participation: Disciplinary Knowledge through the Prism of “Area Studies” is being held in Prague. The workshop is organized by Lucie Drechselová, the graduate of Faculty of Arts and associate professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in […]
In late September our department will host a block course “History of Jews in Eastern Europe” taught by Dr. Alex Valdman (dr. Alex Valdman) from Tel Aviv University, an expert on the history of Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. The lectures of the course will focus on the […]
The Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Arts, Charles University invite you to the Summer course of Sogdian taught by our colleague Mgr. Ľubomír Novák, Ph. D., and the advanced Summer course of Chaghatay led by Dr. Eric Schluessel. The classes will take place from 19 to 23 June at Faculty of […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies of Charles University and Madžlis Student Association would like to cordially invite you to a panel discussion called ” Iran – Current Development”. Four speakers will take part in the panel, distinguished guest Dr Afshin Shahi among them. The panel will address Iran’s human rights issues by highlighting the […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Film Festival ÍRÁN:CI cordially invite you to a lecture by Professor Dr Abbas Vali „Jin, Jiyan, Azadi: The Revolutionary Rupture and New Horizons in the Politics of Liberation in Iran“. The lecture will be held on Friday,13 January 2023 at 15:00 in Celetná 13, room 1.08. The revolutionary rupture […]
Iran is experiencing the most turbulent period since 2009. The protests after the death of Mahsa Amini will be lasting for eight weeks on 11/11. They have surpassed recent waves of social unrest in social, geographic, and ethnic scope. The presence of women and demands for personal freedom are changing both the nature of political […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies (Faculty of Art, Charles University) is currently accepting research proposals from PhD applicants for the academic year 2023/2024. The Middle Eastern Studies Programme is organised together with the Oriental Institute (The Czech Academy of Sciences). We welcome historical, philological and interdisciplinary projects, especially focusing on modern and contemporary issues […]
On Monday, 24 October 2022 Christ Church Library will host an international one-day in-person conference on ‘500 Years of Hebrew Teaching, Hebrew Studies and Hebrew Collecting in Oxford’. We have invited 6 speakers to Oxford from Israel, the US, Germany and the Czech Republic, one of them being Olga Sixtová from the Department of Middle […]
The research team from Jewish Traces in the Southern Morocco published an article on the project and its technical aspects “Earthen Jewish Architecture of Southern Morocco: Documentation of Unfired Brick Synagogues and Mellahs in the Drâa-Tafilalet Region”, which was published in the periodical Applied Sciences. We congratulate our colleagues on the publication and wish the […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies (Faculty of Art, Charles University) is currently accepting research proposals from PhD applicants for the academic year 2021/2022. The Middle Eastern Studies Programme is organised together with the Oriental Institute (The Czech Academy of Sciences). We welcome historical, philological and interdisciplinary projects, especially focusing on modern and contemporary issues […]
Czech mission of the Czech Institute of Egyptology at CU FA working in the transitional zone between the pyramid fields of Abusir and Saqqara has made a rare discovery. During two archaeological seasons of 2022 and 2023 it located and thoroughly explored a lost tomb which belonged to a high official Ptahshepses living during the 25th and 24th centuries BC.
Martin Hilský is a professor emeritus from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and a household name in Czechia most famous for his translations of William Shakespeare – not just every single play but also the Sonnets.
On Monday, 2 October 2023, there will be concerts, science stand-ups, FameLab competition, an exhibition opening, Didaktikon Open Day, and more. The programme starts at 4 pm and will go on until midnight.
Dr Anežka Kuzmičová from the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication at CU FA has won a prestigious ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million Euro for a five-year research project exploring children's affective engagements with facts and nonfiction, making her the first ever recipient of an ERC grant in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Charles University.
The publication <i>Jaroslav Róna: Apocalypses and Visions</i> was written by an academic from the Institute of Ethnology at CU FA and presents the work of a sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and glass artist. He belongs among the prominent personalities of the contemporary Czech art scene.
The position is opened for academics in ethnology or cultural anthropology with any specialization or linguistics or literary studies, historiography (or political science or social science) who focus on Central or Southeastern Europe. Expected start is on 1 January 2024, the deadline for applications is by 23 October 2023.
The publication Carnabhal na Marbh was written by an academic from the Centre for Irish Studies which discusses the novel <i>Cré na Cille<i /> by Máirtín Ó Cadhain in the context of the period when translations of the novel started to circulate outside of Ireland. The monograph assesses its place in the canon of world literature.
It’s no secret that learning Czech can be tricky when it comes to grammar, vocabulary, or pronunciation. Some would say especially the pronunciation of words sprinkled with Czech diacritics is tough. Recently CU FA rolled out what it hopes will be a game-changer: ProCzeFor, an online state-of-the-art pronunciation app that makes it easier and more fun to learn Czech.
The Office of Commercial Programmes and Cross-Sectoral Cooperation is mainly responsible for the organisation of semester and short-term teaching programmes for international students and individual payers from abroad, their promotion, and coordinating the preparation of new ones and the development of existing commercial study programmes and summer schools.
