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 […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Film Festival ÍRÁN:CI cordially invite you to a lecture by Professor Dr Abbas Vali „Jin, Jiyan, Azadi: The Revolutionary Rupture and New Horizons in the Politics of Liberation in Iran“. The lecture will be held on Friday,13 January 2023 at 15:00 in Celetná 13, room 1.08. The revolutionary rupture […]
Iran is experiencing the most turbulent period since 2009. The protests after the death of Mahsa Amini will be lasting for eight weeks on 11/11. They have surpassed recent waves of social unrest in social, geographic, and ethnic scope. The presence of women and demands for personal freedom are changing both the nature of political […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies (Faculty of Art, Charles University) is currently accepting research proposals from PhD applicants for the academic year 2023/2024. 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 […]
On Monday, 24 October 2022 Christ Church Library will host an international one-day in-person conference on ‘500 Years of Hebrew Teaching, Hebrew Studies and Hebrew Collecting in Oxford’. We have invited 6 speakers to Oxford from Israel, the US, Germany and the Czech Republic, one of them being Olga Sixtová from the Department of Middle […]
The research team from Jewish Traces in the Southern Morocco published an article on the project and its technical aspects “Earthen Jewish Architecture of Southern Morocco: Documentation of Unfired Brick Synagogues and Mellahs in the Drâa-Tafilalet Region”, which was published in the periodical Applied Sciences. We congratulate our colleagues on the publication and wish the […]
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 […]
The anonymous electronic evaluation of courses takes place from 9 to 22 January 2023. The results including comments are to be published at the beginning of February.
Associate Professor Jan Sýkora from the Institute of Asian Studies at CU FA has been to Japan on countless occasions. The most influential stay was at Saga University on the island of Kyushu, where he studied between 1991 and 1994.
Due to an energy-saving reason, the operation of the Česká Spořitelna building will be reduced from 23 December 2022 to 12 February 2023. Though only slightly heated, its premises will remain accessible. Employees may briefly come in to deal with paperwork, but staying there throughout the working hours will not be possible due to the cold temperature.
The three-day conference, which was held at the beginning of November at the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, addressed the current rise of antisemitism, xenophobia, and racism, highlighted the role of education, and called for redressing the wrongs of the Holocaust. The event also focused on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
Traditional Christmas book sale co-organized by the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA will take place on 8 December from 2–7 pm in front of P104. Anyone can donate books on 5–7 December in the English and Romance Studies Library during its opening hours. All money raised will go to the People in Need charity. All books are welcome.
The 18th century Czech composer Josef Mysliveček is at last getting the attention he deserves, says acclaimed American musicologist for Forum Radio. If so, it is in no small part thanks to Freeman’s own extensive research into the composer’s music and life that has been recently translated by Petra Johana Poncarová from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA.
A year ago, the Czech-Uzbek expedition discovered 60 graves from the 3rd–2nd century BC on the outskirts of the Iskandar Tepa settlement in Uzbekistan. Now, the archaeologists opened six of them to acquire data about the population that lived there. Some of the graves have provided extremely valuable data, artifacts, skeletal remains, and samples for further analysis.
On the 17 November, Czechs are marking the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution sparked when communist police brutally cracked down on students in 1989. How Czechs look back on those days now is the subject of the interview with well-known social historian and Vice-Dean of CU FA doc. Jakub Rákosník.
