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).
Ulpan Scholarships, funded by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, are now available through the World Union for Jewish Studies. These scholarships are intended for European graduate students and early career researchers of Jewish Studies to undertake Hebrew language intensives in Israel during the Summer of 2018. Applicants may apply for study at any of the Summer […]
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.
The renowned American historian and expert on Central and Eastern Europe is going to take part in a debate with Professor Pavel Barša on 22 November 2018 at 16.00 in the CUFA main lecture hall. The main topic of the debate is the resurrection of authoritarianism.
Dr Lupač's monograph Beyond the Digital Divide: Contextualizing the Information Society revises the existing research of the digital divide, i. e. the relation between the use of the Internet and social inequality, and its key thesis that unequal acess to the Internet has become the new source of social inequality.
Professor Josef Opatrný, head of the Centre for Ibero-American Studies at CUFA, received the prestigious Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honour awarded to foreigners. Professor Opatrný received the order for his lifelong work in promotion of Mexican culture and history in the Czech Republic and for his support of Czech-Mexican relations.
The Department of Adult Education and Personnel Management cordially invites you to three presentations by Professor Marcella Milana (University of Verona) on various topics related to education of adults.
After two weeks of work at its archaeological concession on the Abusir pyramid field, the current expedition of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University discovered a unique burial complex of the royal confidant and priest Kaires.
Martin Šorm, PhD student at the Department of Czech History, CUFA, has won the prestigious Visegrad Group Academies Young Researcher Award. The award is designated for young researchers under 35 from the Visegrad countries.
The aim of the project is to organise annual meetings of students and teachers of Finnish studies from four universities in three different countries. The meetings include lectures, conference papers, research projects presentations, and exchanges of experience. The event is also an opportunity to network and to discuss other forms of cooperation.
The international conference on Samuel Beckett and Technology, organised by the Centre for Irish Studies (Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures), was hold at the Faculty of Arts in Prague on 13 - 15 September 2018. The conference was attended by researchers from all over the world, including Canada, Japan, and Trinidad and Tobago.
