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 […]
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 […]
Kent Schull’s lecture has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience. Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to next installment of the Middle East Lecture Series! Professor Kent Schull (Binghamton University) will give his lecture on the topic of Forced Migration in the Middle East: […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to next installment of the Middle East Lecture Series! Profesor Frédéric Volpi (The University of Edinburgh) will give his lecture on the topic of Protest Movements and Islamist Mobilisation in North Africa: Looking Beyond the Arab Uprisings on Thursday, […]
Merouan Mekouar’s lecture has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience. Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to next installment of the Middle East Lecture Series! Dr. Merouan Mekouar (York University) will give his lecture on the topic of Drawing the Wrong Lessons: Morocco and the […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to next installment of the Middle East Lecture Series! Dr. Necati Alkan (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) will give his lecture on the topic of Scientific method guides their steps: Two Late Ottoman Officials between Modernity and Tradition in the Province of […]
How do religious concepts and expressions in introductonary sections of Persian media thematize discourse and shape the mind of Iranian society? Dr. Jalilifar will explore the position of these expressions, the functions they serve and the targets they address. Date and time: 4 June 2019 at 17:00 Place: Room 238, Celetná 20, 110 00 Prague Poster: Generic Analysis […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to next installment of the Middle East Lecture Series! Professor Charles Tripp (SOAS University of London) will give his lecture on the topic of Power and Ridicule: political mockery and subversion in the Middle East and North Africa on Thursday, 16 […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to next installment of the Middle East Lecture Series! Professor Alain Dieckhoff (CERI, Sciences Po) will give his lecture on the topic of After the General Elections of April 9th: Whither Israel? on Thursday, 11. April 2019, 17:45 at Jan […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to next installment of the Middle East Lecture Series! Professor Marilyn Booth (University of Oxford) will giver his lecture on the topic of Authorizing feminist readings of Islamic history: Zaynab Fawwaz and the gender politics of Egyptian public discourse […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to next installment of the Middle East Lecture Series! Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS University of London) will giver his lecture on the topic of The Changing Meanings of the Word ‚Sultan‘ in the History of Islamic Rulership on Thursday, 28. […]
A word from prof. Milena Králíčková, Rector of Charles University, at the beginning of the 2022/2023 academic year.
The public sport event and charity run takes place on 27 September at the running track at the Faculty of Physical Education, Charles University. Free entry to the main relay race and the accompanying programme.
The first week in September saw the opening of the Didaktikon Educational and Creative Centre at Kampus Hybernská, successfully bridging cooperation between Charles University and the City of Prague. Ten interdisciplinary and interactive exhibits and a number of events, which have been largely prepared by teachers from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, await visitors. It is free for schools.
Seventy languages are taught at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, which is unique not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Europe. On 30 September, the faculty platform Library of Languages organizes the European Day of Languages which focuses this year on supressed languages.
The summer school held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, ended on 19 August bringing to a close a month of intensive Czech language study. The programme featured not only regular Czech language classes but also workshops, lectures, day trips and other events highlighting Czech history, arts, and culture. In short, an unforgettable experience.
Over the past four years, the Faculty of Arts, Charles University has participated in European Economic Area (EEA) grant projects which have given dozens of our students and employees the opportunity to travel for work or study in Norway and Iceland. As the last two mobility projects of this type will be coming to an end in August, we would like to offer the following overview of their realization.
Did you know that it is possible to sleep overnight within the Carolinum complex? Charles University offers accommodation in its buildings to university guests (including esteemed recpients of honorary degrees). The most representative accommodation facility is known as Opitz House, just a few steps from the Old Town Square.
The Czech Institute of Egyptology at CU FA (CIE) organises in collaboration with the International Committee for Egyptian and Sudan Archaeological Museums and Collections (CIPEG) and ICOM a half-day symposium to present to aninternational group of curators of Egyptological museum collections an overview and update on recent research and excavations in Egypt.
In the spring of 2022, an archaeological team from the Czech Institute of Egyptology at CU FA discovered and carefully documented the tomb of an ancient Egyptian dignitary named Wahibre-mery-Neith during fieldwork in Abusir, Egypt. Although it was looted in antiquity, the site has provided valuable information.
