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. […]
Graduate of the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA, Dr Františka Schormová, received an honorary mention in the Bernheimer Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association for her dissertation “African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia.”
Since the beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine, our faculty has accepted more than 40 students from Ukraine. Most of them are “freemovers” – students who still study at Ukrainian universities but cannot continue there with their studies.
The international conference with the subtitle “Role of Science, Knowledge Transfer, Education and Youth Social Care” takes place in the Pedagogical Museum of J. A. Comenius and at the Department of Education on 23–24 June. The main topics of the conference are the significance of pedagogical institutions and organizations, forming of professional and personal identity.
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On 22–26 June, the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA will welcome around 150 delegates from all over the world at the congress, the main programme of which will take place in the main building of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The congress is co-organized with International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures.
The goal of the JUNIOR Fund is to attract prospective international post-doc researchers, who will carry out research within a specific field. The main initiative is always on the relevant research establishment or a faculty or other unit of Charles University that is interested in researching a particular research project.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is flying a rainbow flag in support of the LGBT+ community during Pride Month because equality, freedom, and respect are not values that would appear in the public space once and stay there. It is necessary to introduce them to it continuously.
For the last two years, Dr. Anežka Kuzmičová (Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication) has conducted creative research into children’s reading. Researchers often emphasise literacy and language acquisition but there has been little study of what children experience as they read: what they take in from stories and what stays with them afterwards.
The third and last meeting of the Teaching European History in the 21st Century project took place on 20–22 May. The focus of the ISP was mainly the critical discussion about selected chapters from the forthcoming transnational textbook of European history along with a collective production of video lectures, on which students cooperated with the authors of the chapters.
