Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to an another installment of the Middle East Lecture Series! Dr. Richard Wittmann (Orient-Institut Istanbul) will giver his lecture on the topic of For They Cannot Speak: Two Early Examples of Animal Protection Laws in the Islamic World on Thursday, 13. 12. […]
Call for Papers: “Rethinking Genre in the Islamicate Middle East” (Conference) University of Hamburg, September 5-6, 2019 Deadline: January 15, 2019 Studying the nature, development and formation of genres belongs to one of the most important disciplines within literary studies, since “genre is a universal dimension of textuality” (J. Frow). As scholars have noticed, genres […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites you to the viewing of a documentary Divorce Iranian Style, followed by a discussion! Divorce Iranian Style is a 1998 documentary film directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini which chronicles the legal battles of three Iranian couples as they go through the various legal processes and cultural barriers […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to an another installment of the Middle East Lecture Series! Professor Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS University of London) will giver her lecture on the topic of Gendering Authoritarianism & Resistance: The Significance of Body Politics in the Middle East on Thursday, 29. 11. […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites you to a projection of a movie West Beirut (1998) followed by a discussion. This French-Lebanese-Belgian co-production is an autobiographical drama. In 1975 after Tarek and Omar witness the start of civil war, they are picked up by Tarek’s mother Hala. Hala wants to flee, but her husband won’t […]
Call for Applications for the 6th Annual MUBIT Doctoral Workshop in Late- and Post-Ottoman Studies in Basel, a workshop with Assistant Professor Dr. H. Akın Ünver (Kadir Has University/Oxford University/Alan Turing Institute) This two-day workshop immerses students in comparative studies of Islamist politics in the Middle East and North Africa through the lens of how violent and non-violent Islamist state […]
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (Workshop) LATE-OTTOMAN IDENTITIES: THE NATIONAL, TRANSNATIONAL AND MARGINAL With Hasan Kayalı (University of California, San Diego), Ebru Akcasu (Charles University, Prague), and Stefano Taglia (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) The annual “Identities in the Middle East Workshop,” organized and hosted by the Institute of Near Eastern and African […]
Join us for the next instalment of the Middle East Movie Nights series! Film: Caramel (2007). Introduced and Moderated by: Ebru Akcasu and Michal Láznička (Turkology, Department of Near Eastern and African Studies). Summary: Is Caramel something sweet or is it also something that inflicts pain? A simple recipe with a few basic ingredients can create an edible […]
Information meetings for all the students applying for places at the Department of Near Eastern and African Studies will be held on Thursday, 26 April 2018 at 18:00 and Saturday 28 April 2018 at 13:00. The prospective students will be able to meet the members of the Department, ask any question about the entrance exams […]
Kurt and Ursula Schubert Centre for Jewish Studies cordially invites you to a lecture by Tobias Smolik – The Rabbinic Social Network in the 19th Century: Letters by Joachim Pollak from Třebíč The lecture will be held on Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 17:00 at the CJS library (tř. Svobody 26, Olomouc 1st floor).
On Saturday 12 January 2019, the Faculty of Arts invites all prospective applicants to the annual Doors Open Day. The programme includes presentations of all BA and MA programmes, a Student Café, and presentations of the Student Council and various student clubs and societies.
PROGRES Q07 (“Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages“), Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague, offers 2–3 nine-month scholarship (March – December 2019) to postdocs or PhD students working in any field of medieval studies.
On December 4, 2018, Czech National Corpus (CNC) has been officially approved as one of the K-centres of CLARIN, a European infrastructure (ESFRI) focused on language resources and tools for Humanities and Social Sciences. The aim of the CNC K-centre is to provide information, consulting and technical assistance in the area of corpus linguistics with the emphasis on Czech.
Do you want to improve the level of your communicative competence in Czech? Sign up for the Intensive Course that will take place on January 21 – January 25, 2019 (one-week course) and on January 21 – February 1, 2019 (two-week course).
MOVES is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network project funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Deadline for applications is 15 February 2019.
Faculty of Arts, Charles University (CUFA) and the East and Central European Studies program (ECES) are pleased to announce that Kristiana Yao, UPrague (part of the ECES international program) alumna, has been awarded the highly regarded Rhodes Scholarship.
Paper proposals representing postgraduate projects in the area of Irish Studies are invited for an international conference that follows the success of “The Politics of Irish Writing” (2009), “Boundary Crossings” (2011), “Tradition and Modernity” (2013) and “Influences, Intersections, Interactions” (2017). As in previous years, we wish to offer discussion space for graduate students working in Irish Studies. We particularly welcome those working outside the Anglophone academic environment.
Performativity and creativity have often been used vaguely in a number of discourses in cultural studies, economics, political ideologies or advertising. The purpose of this conference is to explore the force of these concepts in pragmatic approaches to cultures and closely related industrial production (“creative industries”), in technological developments connected with performing arts and cultural communication, as well as in commercial entertainment.
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.
