The Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 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 […]
The Prague Centre for Jewish Studies, CU FA and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, CU FA cordially invite you to a guest lecture by Dr. Ahuva Liberles (Tel Aviv University) titled Constructing Jewish Heritage in Medieval Ashkenaz. 🕑 Wednesday November 19th, 14:00 📍 Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Celetná 20 Prague 1, room 240 […]
The scholarly article by Tereza Jermanová, “Beyond Coordination: The Authoritarian Constitution at the Centre of Intra-Regime Conflict in Post-1979 Iran”, presented earlier this year at the Political Studies Association (PSA) conference in the UK, has been awarded the 2025 PSA Autocracy and Regime Change Specialist Group Best Paper Award. The expert jury members, Dr. Anne […]
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a research group leader in comparative area studies. As part of the project funded by Horizon Europe (ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies, ERA-AREAS), this post holder will be responsible for coordinating a newly created Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in comparative area studies. As part of the project funded by Horizon Europe (ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies, ERA-AREAS), this post holder will participate in the newly created Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS). The applicant will work closely with the ERA Chair holder, […]
Only one project from the Czech Republic has succeeded in the most prestigious European ERC Advanced Grant competition this year: the research of historian Kateřina Čapková from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies.
On June 27, 2025, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies will host a workshop exploring environmentalism across diverse social and cultural contexts. The program will feature, among others, a lecture by Dr. Rosemary Hancock from the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Those interested in attending are kindly asked […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies cordially invites you to a lecture by Syrian writer and literary critic Nabil Suleiman. The lecture, titled “Syrian Mirrors: 55 Years of Novel Writing in the Syrian and Arab Context”, will take place on Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 17:30 at Celetná 13, Prague 1, room 1.08. The lecture […]
The Prague Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, cordially invite you to a guest lecture by Dr. Roni Cohen from the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. The lecture, titled “Philosophy, Parody and Playing Ball: The Medieval Dance of the Players”, will take place […]
On March 28 2025, our colleague, a member of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Kateřina Čapková, received the Reimar Lüst Award in Bamberg from the hands of the president of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Prof. Robert Schlögl. According to the laudation, Kateřina Čapková is a „leading […]
On January 30, 2025, the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art in Tel Aviv launched an exhibition called “Common Language”. This exhibition showcases four new projects exploring the evolution of Hebrew script design. Among them, typographer Ben Nathan and our colleague, architect Daniel Ziss, presented their project Sahara, which is one of the outcomes […]
The first drill takes place on Wednesday, 26. 11. 2025, at the Sweerts-Sporck Palace, starting at 10:00 AM. The second drill will take place a week later, on Wednesday, 3. 12. 2025, also starting at 10:00 AM, in the main CU FA building at Jan Palach Square.
Humanities Week will take place from Monday, 17. 11., until Friday, 21. 11. 2025, and will offer a rich programme full of lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and other interesting events. The main program at CU FA will take place in the main building at náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2 and is suitable for the general public, high school students and their teachers, as well as academics.
Charles University is pleased to offer an online onboarding course designed to support newly admitted international students in their transition to university life. Sessions are held every Wednesday online and are open to both full-degree and Erasmus students.
The honorary doctorate will recognize not only more than thirty years of academic and journalistic work of Professor Garton Ash, but also his social attitudes, which are an inspiring and important voice for Central and Eastern Europe’s future direction, especially in the difficult period the regions are going through.
You are kindly invited to two unique academic events marking the launch of the COLUMN project (Colonial Past of Universities: Materiality and New Forms of Cooperation): a lecture by Prof. Loretta Feris and the premiere screening of the documentary film UnRest.
Renowned political scientist Robert L. Funk from the University of Chile will explore the leading candidates, the key issues shaping the campaigns, and what is at stake for Chilean democracy.
Prof. Paul Chaisty, a leading researcher in area studies and political science specializing in Russia and Ukraine, is offering a block seminar entitled Area Studies for Researchers: Opportunities, Challenges, and Controversies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, for the 2025/2026 academic year.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in comparative area studies. As part of the project funded by Horizon Europe (ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies, ERA-AREAS), this post holder will participate in the newly created Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a research group leader in comparative area studies. As part of the project funded by Horizon Europe (ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies, ERA-AREAS), this post holder will be responsible for coordinating a newly created Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).
