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. […]
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 […]
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University announces an open competition for - Lecturer / Assistant Professor. Field and specialization: English Linguistics. Applications by 30. 4. 2019.
The conference will be held on October 17-19, 2019 in Prague. Invited speakers are L. Alweiss, C. Majolino, J. Čapek, D. Manca, D. De Santis, A. Pugliese, A. Djian, I. Quepons, M. Doyon, E. Trizio, and S. Heinamaa. Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2019.
The KREAS Project and the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures are pleased to invite you to a workshop “Frankenstein: Emancipatory Narrative and the Role of the Reader” on 12 March at 14:00 (Room 111).
On 13 February 2019, Her Excellency, Ambassador of Thailand to the Czech Republic, Ms Ureerat Chareontoh, met with the Faculty of Arts dean doc. Michal Pullmann to discuss further cooperation.
The Third World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, on 24-28 June 2020. The Congress’s main theme, “Transnationalism and Minor Cultures”, invokes the crucial importance of transcultural communication, migration and social interconnectivity for the development of Scottish literatures.
The New Faces consortium* is pleased to announce that its third intensive programme, held under the project’s general title “Facing Europe in Crisis: Shakespeare’s World and Present Challenges”, will be hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universidade do Porto (Portugal), from the 17th to the 29th June 2019.
The prestigious publication "Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today: A Legacy of Fifty Years" has come out from Routledge. Doc. Marek Jakoubek and the socio-cultural anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen prepared the book for the 50th anniversary of the publication of the famous volume "Ethnic Groups and Boundaries".
The expert meeting #2 of the Gate Theatre Research Network, “The Gate: Alternative Histories, Marginal Identities”, will be hosted by Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic on 14-15 June 2019.
D-Theatre, a society of current and former students of the Faculty of Arts, presents Oliver Goldsmith's famous comedy of manners "She Stoops to Conquer".
