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Code:
YMH328 |
Lecturer:
Kumsa,A. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The aim of this course is to elucidate the development of African society through their long journey of political systems, their various economic sectors, the indigenous African religion, the expansion of Christianity and Islam- the three main influential faiths in the continent. The course is divided into three parts: the first part of the course illustrates the long period of African society’s historical independent development, before the colonial era, the second part explains the short period of colonial overrule of Africa and its consequences and finally the longest part of the course concentrate on post-independent period of contemporary Africa, in which the political, economic, religious movements and various violent conflicts will be discussed. |
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Code:
YBAJ083 |
Lecturer:
Říha,D. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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This course is designed for those students who have the interest in animation movies. The production process is realized in a software Moviestorm, that allows to produce original animation without prior knowledge of 3D animation softwares. |
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Code:
YBA334 |
Lecturer:
Verbuč,D. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Ethnography is the art and science of studying and writing about human culture and society. It is one of the most important methods in qualitative research, not only in anthropology, but also in other social science disciplines. It helps scholars and students to effectively approach and address, as well as to gain valuable and in-depth understanding of, relevant social and cultural phenomena. Students learn in this course about the main ethnographic fieldwork methods and techniques (participant-observation, interviewing, grounded theory, coding, eliciting of meaning, textual analysis, Internet ethnography, ethnography of [music] performance). In addition, they also practice how to develop a research design (including research questions, and a thesis statement), as well as how to present, analyze, and interpret ethnographic data in writing (in papers, articles, theses). In regard to the latter, students will master different forms of ethnographic writing for this course (fieldnotes, vignettes, ethnographic description, analysis of data, transcription). Furthermore, class topics also address the issues of positionality, reflexivity, and research ethics. Students are required to submit weekly reading and writing assignments, design and conduct a small fieldwork study, and present it in a final paper. The course also prepares the students for the writing of their BA theses in the field of anthropology and other related disciplines (including ethnomusicology). Advisably for the second year BA students. This class is taught in two interconnected classes (co-requisites: YBA334 and YBA082), and it is mandatory to register for both, in order to successfully complete either of them. |
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Code:
YBAJ082 |
Lecturer:
Verbuč,D. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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Ethnography is the art and science of studying and writing about human culture and society. It is one of the most important methods in qualitative research, not only in anthropology, but also in other social science disciplines. It helps scholars and students to effectively approach and address, as well as to gain valuable and in-depth understanding of, relevant social and cultural phenomena. Students learn in this course about the main ethnographic fieldwork methods and techniques (participant-observation, interviewing, grounded theory, coding, eliciting of meaning, textual analysis, Internet ethnography, ethnography of [music] performance). In addition, they also practice how to develop a research design (including research questions, and a thesis statement), as well as how to present, analyze, and interpret ethnographic data in writing (in papers, articles, theses). In regard to the latter, students will master different forms of ethnographic writing for this course (fieldnotes, vignettes, ethnographic description, analysis of data, transcription). Furthermore, class topics also address the issues of positionality, reflexivity, and research ethics. Students are required to submit weekly reading and writing assignments, design and conduct a small fieldwork study, and present it in a final paper. The course also prepares the students for the writing of their BA theses in the field of anthropology and other related disciplines (including ethnomusicology). Advisably for the second year BA students. This class is taught in two interconnected classes (co-requisites: YBA334 and YBA082), and it is mandatory to register for both, in order to successfully complete either of them. |
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Code:
YBAJ175 |
Lecturer:
Halbich,M. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The aim of the course is to introduce tourism as a multifaceted global phenomenon, which is mainly related to travel in travel-for-leisure and as such offers a range of interesting research topics across different disciplines. Tourism-oriented ethnographic research has come a long way from the almost total disinterest of anthropologists, who have ignored tourism and tourists in their research, to its gradual inclusion in corpus of courses in many social anthropology, sociology, etc. departments around the world. Tourism is nowadays usually seen as an example of global currents that blur traditional territorial, social and cultural boundaries and creating their various hybrid forms. Their objectives are clearly adapting very quickly to global trends and the global market, but at the same time they seek to maintain or even increase their local differences. This conflict of the “global” with the “local” then raises the question of how this “local” is created or reshaped through the practices of “touristified representations”. On the one hand, they play a key role in these processes global marketing companies and national and local authorities, which are jointly involved in creating and selling image of certain destinations. On the other hand, however, it is tourism that, to a greater or lesser extent, generates the for transforming the local. In this way, tourism can be seen as a dynamic process that helps to renew competing socio-culturally defined local identities. |
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Code:
YBAJ200 |
Lecturer:
Doležalová,L. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Most medieval writing is in some way related to the Bible: some texts are very close to it, others are linked in less obvious ways. This course will introduce a number of medieval stories, always focusing on their relationship to their biblical inspiration. Students will thus get acquainted with both the Bible and medieval literature. Emphasis will be placed on joints discussions and interpretation of the assigned texts. |
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Code:
YBAJ212 |
Lecturer:
Novotná,M. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course aims to delineate a space for ideas about the body found in Old Norse literature and, in the context of contemporary analyses in body-related research, to search for other polarities than the body- soul dualism. The themes analysed in detail will be: somatic displays of emotions; change of form in the context of battle ecstasy and of magic; corporeality of revenants; physical aspects of Old Norse terms for "soul" and the human-animal relationship. |
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Code:
YBAJ192 |
Lecturer:
Lorenz - Meyer,D. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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This course introduces students to interdisciplinary social scientific scholarship of bodies, affect and society. We explore how bodily materiality is shaped by societal norms and practices and is active and indispensable for modes of disidentification, refusal and acting otherwise. The course will examine modalities of bio- and necropolitics and focus on alternative approaches to a pervasive body-mind divide through examining the mutual constitution of reason and emotion, body and society, flesh and signification. How are bodies sexed, gendered and racialised? What are methods to research and represent bodies and affects, including what might be unavailable to verbalisation? Inspired by the method of memory work, students will also experiment with writing from the body. |
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Code:
YBAJ165 |
Lecturer:
Váša,O. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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The course will confront contemporary art with selected philosophical texts and essays, following a question that has haunted the avant-garde movement ever since it started. If art is supposed to negate all the restraints and norms that the world imposes on it, does not a murder - as a radical action - represent an ultimate temptation of avant-garde art (as thematized by Lars von Trier in The House that Jack Built, 2018)? Naturally, such a conclusion would be wholly absurd. However, it provokes a series of questions of prime importance for contemporary art: issues of limits of art, its relation to politics, public space, life, etc. As for the topics, we will discuss the relationship between art and politics, art and freedom, art and its critical potential, limits of art, paradoxes of the avant-garde movement, alienation of the contemporary world, etc. We will also read the excerpts from authors like Adorno, Chalupecký, Ranciere or Danto. |
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Code:
YBAJ204 |
Lecturer:
Pfaus,J. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Follow-up course to Introduction to brain course. |
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Code:
YBH238 |
Lecturer:
Tourek,J. |
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Semester:
Fall + spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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In the summer semester 2023 we are going to read Peter Hall's classic book Cities in Civilisation.… THIS COURSE IS INTENDED FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDENTS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ENROL BUT THE LIMIT OF STUDENTS IS FULL DO NOT HESITATE AND LET ME KNOW. |
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Code:
YMH522 |
Lecturer:
Šubrt,J. + Coman,A. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course presents the essential paradigms of collective memory research. Besides French and German authors that extensively influenced the discourse of collective memory, such as Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Jan Assmann and others, the representatives of more Euro-Atlantic school of thinking are also presented (e. g. Jeffrey C. Alexander). The seminar further presents these concepts in particular instances and exposes various research agendas of collective memory studies. The main purpose of the seminar is to familiarize students with various possible approaches to collective memory and through concrete examples highlight the topical relevance of collective memory research in today’s social sciences. Students finish the course by writing a paper on the field of collective memory, employing, as much as possible, data and sources from their MA thesis research, i.e. analyzing them specifically through the approaches to collective memory presented throughout the course. |
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Code:
YBAJ024 |
Lecturer:
Heřmanský,M. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course will introduce students to selected issues in sociocultural anthropology through the means of reading and interpretation of anthropological papers. It aims to develop critical anthropological thinking and interpretiveskills. Each class will deal with one controversial issue in anthropology which remains unresolved. Each issue will be presented in two papers holding antagonist positions. Students will be expected to read both papers designated for each week in advance, before each class, and comprehend them to that extent to be able to discuss them in class. |
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Code:
YBAJ058 |
Lecturer:
Převrátilová,S. + Lukešová,L. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
Czech
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ECTS credits:
4
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Czech language courses are for full degree (or Erasmus) students of the Faculty of Humanities. Full degree students from other faculties should take Czech lessons in their home faculty.Topics covered in previous semester will be reviewed and extended for the students to become more confident in communication in Czech in every-day situations, such as social interaction, shopping, travel, illness etc. The course provides insight into the Czech language system as well as Czech culture. The key aspect of the class is communicative competence, with emphasis on speaking and listening. Grammar is simplified and students will learn it through texts, tables and exercises that help them discover and apply the rules in real-life contexts. Every lesson, students will be assigned homework to practise and extend the topics covered in class. For the course, students need to have the coursebook ČESKY KROK ZA KROKEM 1 (this is what it looks like http://eshop.czechstepbystep.cz/p/191/cesky-krok-za-krokem-1-anglicka). By the end of the course students will reach level A1 according to the CEFR. The course may reach level A2. In order to get the credit for the course, attendance is mandatory (min. 75%). |
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Code:
YBAJ210 |
Lecturer:
Partridge,J. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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This course will explore the history and development of Czech film in the twentieth century. This is not a chronological history of Czech film, but rather a discussion and analysis of films in the following categories: historical, political, lyrical, realist, comedy, literary adaptations, animations, fairy tales (pohádky), Second World War, surreal / avant-garde. We will watch excerpts (with English subtitles) from a number of films from each category and discuss content, film-making techniques and other aspects of the films. The films have been chosen so that wherever possible students can watch the complete versions either on DVD or on streaming services such as Netflix, YouTube, Kviff.tv and others. More information on this will be provided at the start of the course. |
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Code:
YBAJ056 |
Lecturer:
Převrátilová,S. + Lukešová,L. |
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Semester:
Fall + spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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This course is designed for the students of Faculty of Humanities.It the spring semester, both full degree students as well as the Erasmus students can attend. In the fall semester, this coures is open primarily for the full degree students only.The aim of this course is to acquire basic language skills to deal with every-day life in the Czech Republic, including cultural awareness. |
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Code:
YBAJ057 |
Lecturer:
Převrátilová,S. + Lukešová,L. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course will be taught on-line as long as necessary. Registered students will receive a link to the vitrual classroom.This course is primarily for ERASMUS students.It targets students that are staying in the Czech Republic for a limited period of time and need to cover the basis of the language in order to communicate in everyday situations. The ultimate aim is to provide the students with basic skills, grammar and vocabulary to deal with the life in the Czech Republic, to give them an idea of the Czech language system as well as Czech culture. |
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Code:
YBAJ186 |
Lecturer:
Partridge,J. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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This is a new course intended for foreign students studying in the Czech Republic who would like to learn more about Czech literature, culture and (some) history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. No knowledge of Czech is assumed or required for this course. We will study a cross-section of some of the most important works of Czech literature (poems, short stories and extracts from novels) from a variety of authors including K. H. Mácha, K. J. Erben, Jan Neruda, Karel Čapek, Vladislav Vančura, Josef Škvorecký, Bohumil Hrabal, Ota Pavel, and others if we have time. All the works we study are available in English translation, and where possible are chosen so that students can read not just the examples we study in class, but also other works by each author, with a better understanding of historical and literary context. |
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Code:
YBF224 |
Lecturer:
Kunca,T. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Summer semester 2023 Students are advised to apply for registration in MS Teams group David Hume Seminar here:https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3a13d8a88db9324032a4d0f1af6bd387a2%40thread.tacv2/Obecn%25C3%25A9?groupId=7ac53d4a-c892-45ae-b290-10b0e120f18e&tenantId=e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2Course is designed not only for students interested in Hume studies and history of the British philosophy but for everyone who would like to write an essay in Philosophy. Hume´s mastery in essay writing is well known and established fact. Therefore a student is free to make a choice to write an essay in Hume studies and history of the British philosophy (inspired by seminar programme) or write an independent 2000 - 3000 words essay and attend at least three face-to-face tutorials checking her/his progress in essay writing.Course main focus in the Summer semester 2022/23 are topics and arguments treated in two probably most controversial essays of Hume, Of Miracles and Of National Characters. |
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Code:
YMSKA51 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
5
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This course will introduce students to recent debates on decolonizing museums by focusing on two core aspects: provenance research to understand the biographies of objects and their rightful owners or authors, and secondly, processes of restituting/repatriating objects. Students will be introduced to strategies of decolonization and actively engage with the social life of objects, their pasts, and their futures. The course centers around the call by art historian Bénédicte Savoy and economist Felwine Sarr on the restitution of material culture looted during colonial times and what restitution must entail to become effective. Students learn to assess current debates on restitution and provenance research also in light of earlier concerns articulated by art historians, anthropologists, and post-colonial scholars. As part of the seminar, students will be introduced to provenance research by exercises and case studies in which they will have to conduct research on objects themselves, as well as discuss current – and formulate new – strategies for decolonizing museums. The course will also feature an excursion to the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures. |
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Code:
YBAJ211 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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This course will introduce students to recent debates on decolonizing museums by focusing on two core aspects: provenance research to understand the biographies of objects and their rightful owners or authors, and secondly, processes of restituting/repatriating objects. Students will be introduced to strategies of decolonization and actively engage with the social life of objects, their pasts, and their futures. The course centers around the call by art historian Bénédicte Savoy and economist Felwine Sarr on the restitution of material culture looted during colonial times and what restitution must entail to become effective. Students learn to assess current debates on restitution and provenance research also in light of earlier concerns articulated by art historians, anthropologists, and post-colonial scholars. As part of the seminar, students will be introduced to provenance research by exercises and case studies in which they will have to conduct research on objects themselves, as well as discuss current – and formulate new – strategies for decolonizing museums. The course will also feature an excursion to the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures. |
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Code:
YMH537 |
Lecturer:
Coman,A. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course presents qualitative research methodology, focusinged on analysis of public discourse. The theoretical part provides an essential orientation in the origins of discourse analysis (DA) and DA’s current applications (critical discourses analysis [CDA] in particular). Initially, two original sources are identified: a) symbolic interactionism with its interest in the interaction order, b) post-structuralist tendency with its focus on language and discourse. Thus, besides Foucault's discourse attention is paid to Goffman's frame analysis, including application to picture frames. In the practical part students independently engage their own themes and identify specific research and methodological issues of DA and CDA. Students should acquire the knowledge and skills to be able to carry out an independent research based on DA and CDA. |
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Code:
YBAJ216 |
Lecturer:
Doyle,C. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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This course will introduce students to the oldest literary texts written in the English language, as well as introducing the language of the texts, Old English. The surviving texts range in tone from bawdy, double-entendre-laden riddles to religious lyrics and heroic verse, with prose texts including rich sources for the history of early medieval England. The language more closely resembles modern German than modern English in terms of its syntax and grammatical structure but it was written with additional letters of the alphabet which now only survive in the Icelandic language.The politics of translation was a deep concern of those authors who undertook the translation and adaptation of Latin texts into English, as well as being a primary concern, alongside considerations of aesthetics quality and accuracy, to translations of Old English literature into Modern EnglishAll texts will be studied in modern English translation, but the course will introduce the basics of the language, mostly found written in manuscripts dating from 900-1100 AD, enabling students to critique a translated text with reference to a text in the original language, and undertake translations of short extracts.A good standard of modern English will be required to follow this course, and some knowledge of modern German would be an advantage, but is not a prerequisite.Language of Instruction: English |
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Code:
YMGS635 |
Lecturer:
Lorenz - Meyer,D. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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This course introduces students to feminist approaches to affective processes, embodiment and the senses that have gained increasing attention in gender studies. The course will examine conceptions of the interrelation of body and mind, flesh and signification, organism and environment. What insights into social life, dispossession, and bodily transformation including what is withdrawn and unavailable to verbalisation can be gained if we attune to sound, gestures, rhythm, ruptures and affective resonances? How are researcher-bodies involved in affective methodologies? What alternative histories and futures emerge in gestures of refusal, discarded photographs and sounds and movements? Case studies will focus on trans*bodies; black lives; debility; hospitality and slow death, and students will experiment with walking methodolgies and with producing a piece of embodied writing.Note: The course methods are shaped by conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic. Depending on epidemiological situation in Prague we will combine class sessions held on MS teams online – including interactive lecture and student-led discussions using breakout rooms – and ‘walkshops’ in the area of the university in Troja, where we will have group discussions while walking in small groups with masks through particular terrain. |
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Code:
YMGS625 |
Lecturer:
Helman,I. |
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Semester:
Fall + spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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This course introduces students to the intersection of feminism and the environmental movement. Together we explore why feminism grounds itself in a deep concern for the environment as well as the link between feminist theory and the current environmental crisis. We survey the background and history of the movement as well as its contemporary diversity. In addition, this course investigates the origins of the current environmental crisis in Western science, philosophy and religion and devotes considerable time to the following topics in ecofeminist thought: politics, responsible citizenship, economics, materialism, ethics, animals, vegetarianism and religion. While examining various feminist critiques of this situation, we concentrate mostly on feminist solutions to the crisis. |
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Code:
YMGS643 |
Lecturer:
Sokolová,V. + Helman,I. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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This course will explore feminism in art and popular culture. First, it will examine what constitutes art from a feminist perspective as well as what is feminist art. In this section of the course, there will be philosophical discussions surrounding feminist epistemology as it relates to art as well as feminist art as activism. In addition, the course will survey the history of feminist art beginning in the early 1970s, paying particular attention to the impact of Judy Chicago as well as art created by “women’s culture” and (lesbian) separatism. In the second half of the semester, the course will focus on specific topics in art including: Chicana and Black representation in art, television, and/or film; fairytales and science fiction; and finally social media in a patriarchal world. |
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Code:
YMGS614 |
Lecturer:
Kobová,Ĺ. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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The course covers three major topics of feminist political-theoretical thinking: the feminist challenge of foundational categories (public/private, state), democracy, and the state of feminist movements and political action today. Besides explaining the most important strands of feminist political theorizing in the past 30 years, the course aims at critical understanding of recent happenings and their theoretical redescription. The course is taught seminar-style, i.e. it consists mainly of the discussion of assigned readings and other materials. Formal lecturing will be kept to a minimum. |
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Code:
YMGS629 |
Lecturer:
Sokolová,V. + Helman,I. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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In this course, the student will trace the historical relationship between the earliest days of feminist interaction with the peace movement in which feminists have attempted to create (a) better future(s). We will discuss feminist involvement in anti-slavery campaigns to anti-nuclear arms protests and from prohibition to utopian visions of the future. This course will pay particular attention to feminist philosophical discussions about time, peace, and gender (including gender roles). Finally, we will look at imagined feminist futures through their most often visible lens: science-fiction literature and utopia/dystopia |
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Code:
YMGS626 |
Lecturer:
Helman,I. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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AnnotationIn this course, the student will explore a variety of themes at the intersection of gender and psychology, including gendered concepts of moral development, feminist insights and critical theory and current trends and concerns. In addition, this course will explore gender as a cateogry within psychological theory as well as the construction of masculinity and feminity. Specific topics include: sexual harassment; women in prison; domestic abuse; disease and mental health; and body images and mental health. |
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Code:
YMGS601 |
Lecturer:
Knotková,B. + Helman,I. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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In this course, students explore the combination of feminism and religion. Students will be introduced to feminist engagement within religion, religious studies and th(e/a)ology, focusing on six major religious traditions (Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, the Goddess Movement (sometimes called feminist spirituality), and Hinduism). This course pays special attention to three main areas of feminist engagement with religion: the feminist critique of religion; feminist methodology; and feminist reconstructive the(a/o)logy. Key concepts considered time and again throughout the duration of the course are dualism, reform, revolution, sex, gender, images of the divine, leadership roles, rituals, sacred texts, ethics, power and authority, roles, feminism, and religion. |
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Code:
YMGS627 |
Lecturer:
Lorenz - Meyer,D. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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AnotaceThis course introduces students to the feminist scholarship on the body, embodiment and the senses. We explore the place of the body in gender theory and activism and address the questions: How do bodies get sexed, gendered and racialised? What is the importance of biological and environmental knowledges for feminist scholarship of the body? What methods and frameworks are used to understand the agency of bodily materiality and its relations to cultural discourses and meanings? How do we evaluate bodily transformations (e.g. modifications through surgery) and ‘bodily integrity’ if bodies are always relationally constituted and in flux? How is writing and conceptualising an embodied activity, and how can we attune our senses in research exercises? Throughout the course we will reflect on the affects and orientations produced by reading – and hopefully walking together – and discussing key texts of established and emerging feminist scholars. The course introduces students to walking methodologies and creative writing in the context of Covid-19 pandemic. Depending on epidemiological situation in Prague we will combine class sessions held on MS teams online – including interactive lecture and student-led discussions using breakout rooms – and ‘walkshops’ in the area of the university in Troja, where we will have group discussions while walking in small groups with masks through particular terrain (see more on methods below). |
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Code:
YBAJ206 |
Lecturer:
Čapská,V. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course introduces students to gender history. We will explore the analytical conceptual apparatus of gender studies, look at various definitions of gender and employ gender as a socio-cultural organizing principle, a category of difference and an axis of power. We will discuss the debate between constructivist and essentialist approaches to gender history and explore the so called turn to intersectionality. We will therefore look at how the category of gender intersects with other categories of social structure. We will pay attention to the broader developments of gender history and study such themes as the pre-modern domestic violence, the "world upside down" theme, advice literature for household heads, manuals for midwives, gendered visual and textual representations, early modern forms of masculinity etc. There will be special focus on the historical material and examples from Central and East-Central European contexts. We will also explore how the gender sensitive perspective is utilized in various subfields of history, such as textual history, labour history, material culture history etc. The main emphasis will be on reading and discussing texts. |
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Code:
YMGS628 |
Lecturer:
Lorenz - Meyer,D. |
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Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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AnnotationIn this course we explore the entanglements of gender, nature and culture that have been at the heart of feminist theory and activism. These concerns have gained renewed feminist attention in the era some call the Anthropocene where human activities irreparably have impacted on geological, biotic and climatic processes. What does it mean to live in the ruins of capitalism and what life and specifically feminist and queer politics can be generated when there is no simple cure or going back to pre-industrial times? These questions will take us to theories of racism and colonialism as much as gender and queer studies and human animal studies.The course will proceed through engaging case studies, as well as an exercise of creative ‘energy writing’ that will take us out of the classroom to expand our always more than human sensorium, train our writing skills and attune us the environment.Topics1. Welcome to the Anthropocene2. Thinking with Natureculture Entanglements3. Queer Animals? Thinking Trans* with Nonhuman Animals4. Nonlinear Biology and Sympoeisis5. Queer Ecologies and Politics6. Petro- and Plastic Capitalist Cultures7. (Non)Western Ontologies: Querying Life and Nonlife & Midterm Review8. Expanding the Human Sensorium: The Art of Noticing & Fieldtrip9. Caring for Nonhuman Kin10. Agential Realism11. Nuclearity: Memory, Affect and Politics of Nonhuman Witnessing12. The Politics of Waste & Review of Concepts13. The Politics of Nature: an (Eco)Cosmopolitan Proposal & Roleplay |
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Code:
YBAJ160 |
Lecturer:
Čapská,V. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course will analyse modes of gift exchange in pre-modern Europe. It strives to de-romanticize our contemporary idealized understanding of gift-giving as a purely altruistic practice. Thus, it will make use of the concepts of social and cultural anthropology and show how gift exchange worked in the societies in which individuals were more vulnerable and more dependent on each other than today. It will draw students'attention to the so-called ego-documents as useful sources for tracing economic behaviour, including the practices and ideas of gift exchange. We will, for example, ask how people in the past communicated through gifts, what steps they took to forge fair exchange deals and to cultivate more balanced relationships. We will explore what people donated most and in what ways their life stages and religious affiliations shaped their perception and practices of giving. We will also pay attention to past representations of greed and generosity.In April 2023 there will be a guest visit in the course - Dr. Alena Drieschová from the University of Cambridge will come to discuss with us the limits of postcolonial views on eurocentrism and to what extent the "Other" Europe can play a role in criticizing and decentring this concept.LiteratureZoltán Biedermann – Anne Gerritsen – Giorgio Riello (edd.), Global Gifts. The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia, Cambridge 2018.Natalie Z. Davis, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France, Madison 2000.Engin Isin – Ebru Üstündag, Wills, Deeds, Acts: Women's Civic Gift Giving in Ottoman Istanbul, Gender, Place and Culture 15, 2008, 519–532.Marcel Mauss, The Gift, London 1990.Joshua Teplitsky, A “Prince of the Land of Israel” in Prague: Jewish Philathropy, Patronage, and Power in Early Modern Europe and Beyond, Jewish History 29, 2015, 245–271.Irma Thoen, Strategic Affection? Gift Exchange of Seventeenth-Century Holland, Amsterdam 2006, 9–44. |
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Code:
YMHA44 |
Lecturer:
Čapská,V. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
5
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The course will analyse modes of gift exchange in pre-modern Europe. It strives to de-romanticize our contemporary idealized understanding of gift-giving as a purely altruistic practice. Thus, it will make use of the concepts of social and cultural anthropology and show how gift exchange worked in the societies in which individuals were more vulnerable and more dependent on each other than today. It will draw students'attention to the so-called ego-documents as useful sources for tracing economic behaviour, including the practices and ideas of gift exchange. We will, for example, ask how people in the past communicated through gifts, what steps they took to forge fair exchange deals and to cultivate more balanced relationships. We will explore what people donated most and in what ways their life stages and religious affiliations shaped their perception and practices of giving. We will also pay attention to past representations of greed and generosity.In April 2023 there will be a guest visit in the course - Dr. Alena Drieschová from the University of Cambridge will come to discuss with us the limits of postcolonial views on eurocentrism and to what extent the "Other" Europe can play a role in criticizing and decentring this concept.LiteratureZoltán Biedermann – Anne Gerritsen – Giorgio Riello (edd.), Global Gifts. The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia, Cambridge 2018.Natalie Z. Davis, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France, Madison 2000.Engin Isin – Ebru Üstündag, Wills, Deeds, Acts: Women's Civic Gift Giving in Ottoman Istanbul, Gender, Place and Culture 15, 2008, 519–532.Marcel Mauss, The Gift, London 1990.Joshua Teplitsky, A “Prince of the Land of Israel” in Prague: Jewish Philathropy, Patronage, and Power in Early Modern Europe and Beyond, Jewish History 29, 2015, 245–271.Irma Thoen, Strategic Affection? Gift Exchange of Seventeenth-Century Holland, Amsterdam 2006, 9–44. |
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Code:
YMH501 |
Lecturer:
Šubrt,J. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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The lecture course introduces the students to the theoretical basics and to the basic thematic direction of their master's degree program. Attention is paid to the beginnings, developments and current state of historical sociology, which are primarily observed with regard to the thinking of its main representatives (Weber, Elias, Tilly, Wallerstein, Eisenstadt, etc.). The aim of the lecture is to give students a comprehensive overview of the state and perspectives of historical sociology, to orient them in its basic questions and problems and to prepare them for further study of this field especially on the theoretical side. |
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Code:
YMH730 |
Lecturer:
Kumsa,A. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The aim of the courseThe aim of the course is to elucidate the problem of genocide in human history, its causes and consequences. Sociologically, genocide is defined as a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are defined by the perpetrator. In this course different approaches to genocide will be discussed; we illustrate a types of genocide based on motives of the perpetrator. This course from historical perspective concentrates on modern era genocide.The structure of the course1. The concept of genocide2. Different approaches to the study of genocide and its typology 3. Classical and Middle Ages genocide 4. Genocidal Massacres in Early Modern South East Asia5. Genocide during Spanish Conquest of New World6. Colonial North America and genocide in the USA7. Genocidal violence in 19th century Australia & Tasmania8. Colonial genocides in Africa 9. Genocides in independent Latin American states10. Armenian Genocide &Holocaust under Nazi Germany11. Genocides in Asia in the 20th century12. Genocides after independence in AfricaLiteratureBernard Jessie. 1949. American Community Behavior. New York: Dryden.Braudel Fernand. 1967. Capitalism and Material life: 1400-1800. New York: Harper and Row.Chalk Frank and Jonassohn. 1990. The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and case studies. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.Chorover Stephan L. 1979. From Genesis to Genocide. The Meaning of Human Nature and the power of Behavior control. Cambridge: MIT Press. Dadrian Vahakn. N., A Typology of Genocide. International review of Modern Sociology. 5 (Fall 1975): 201-12Fein Helen.1984. Scenarios of Genocide: Models of Genocide and Critical Responses. In Toward the understanding and Prevention of Genocide. Israel W. Chary (ed.). Boulder and London: Westview Press.Gellately Robert & Kiernan Ben (Eds.). 2003. The spectre of genocide: Mass murder in the historical perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University press. Hannah Arendt. 1958. The Origin of Totalitarianism. Cleveland: World Publishing.Kiernan Ben.2007. Blood and soil. A world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.Kuper Leo. 1981. Genocide: Its political use in the twentieth century. New York: Penguin Books.Kuper Leo. 1985. The prevention of Genocide. New Haven: Yale University Press.Lemkin Raphael. 1944. Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. Washington, D.C. Carnegie Endowment. Maimark Norman M. 2017. Genocide: A World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Naranch Bradley and Eley Geoff (eds.). 2014. German Colonialism in A Global Age. Durham and London: Duke University.Prunier Gérard. 1995. The Rwandan Crisis: History of a Genocide. London: Hurst & Company.Prunier Gérard. 2009. From Genocide to Continental War. The ‘Congolese’ conflict and crisis of Contemporary Africa. London: Hurst & CompanyShelton Dinah L. (ed.). 2005. Encyclopaedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. New York and London: Thomson Gale. |
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Code:
YMH546 |
Lecturer:
Německý,M. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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Traditional sociology was based on so called methodological nationalism, as when it non-reflectively identified the society with the national state. The aim of the lecture is to exceed this narrow conception and introduce a historical sociology of politics in a global context. The lecture is methodologically based on a theory of international relations and mainly on historical-sociological approaches toin the theory of international relations. |
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Code:
YMH503 |
Lecturer:
Havelka,M. + Coman,A. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course uses the perspective of historical sociology in order to study various aspects of knowledge, culture, and religion. By reading the works of prominent sociologists, historians, and historical-sociologists, students will learn of different theories pertaining to the development of these fields throughout history. Through a comparative and critical reading of the texts, students will learn how similar phenomena might be given a variety of interpretations when studied with different tools and looked at from different perspectives. |
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Code:
YMH511 |
Lecturer:
Německý,M. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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This course focuses on the historical construction of the modern political system. The state, the citizenship, nationality and globalization are the main points of focus. Therefore, course graduates should be able to analyse the social and historical context of the political process, understand issue frame construction and the weight of structures within social evolutions. |
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Code:
YBAJ205 |
Lecturer:
Muhič Dizdarevič,S. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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The main goal of the course is to present students with a history of the concept of human rights in the Western intellectual history; with historical and current forms of institutions in place to promote and enforce human rights; with current controversies related to the human rights agenda in the multi-cultural globalized world. |
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Code:
YMN0HHR |
Lecturer:
Muhič Dizdarevič,S. |
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Semester:
Fall + spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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The goal of the course is to introduce students to the following topics: current definitions of human rights, controversy over different generations of human rights, history of human rights from ancient Greece up to contemporary philosophical and political science definitions, differences between natural and human rights, disputes with moral relativism, moral vs. legal rights, claim rights and liberty rights, scope and justification of human rights, HR as the dominant geopolitical doctrine of modern times, HR in international law and HR within the UN. Special attention will be paid to theories of international relations and place of the HR agenda in it. Students will be encouraged to discuss current HR issues and illustrate the theories with political events.The creation of this course was funded by the Operational Programme Prague - Adaptability, cofinanced by the European Social Fund. |
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Code:
YBAJ191 |
Lecturer:
Doyle,C. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course will introduce methods and topics for the study of pre modern Western medicine, that is medicine practiced primarily in Western Europe from the time of the Roman Empire to the establishment of prestigious medical faculties at Universities throughout Europe. The history of medicine is not just the history of great doctors, but is also the history of the diseases that every human suffered, from deadly pandemics such as the Black Death to the natural processes of birth, aging and death.Weekly primary source readings will be taken from the book: Winston Black, 'Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents' (Ontario, 2020)I will also recommend reading selected chapters of Seb Falk, 'The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery' (Allan Lane, 2020)Additional readings will be uploaded via SIS.Both of these books will be available in the Faculty Library. Please be considerate when borrowing. |
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Code:
YBAJ019 |
Lecturer:
Marková,A. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course deals with the phenomenon of Soviet jokes (anecdotes) which were very popular during the existence of the Soviet Bloc. Jokes covered every aspect of daily life under socialism – the shortages, leisure, sport, propaganda of the media, ideology and many other aspects. They were told in each Soviet Bloc state as a Poland, Czechoslovakia, and others because they shared the same culture and live conditions of that period. The term “Communist jokes” could be more precisely described as anti-Communist or anti-Soviet jokes because this term better captures the sense of shared culture. There are many reason why Communist political jokes were very special. They had a unique homogeneity: the absolute monopoly of state power meant that any joke about any aspect of politics, the economy or media was a joke about Communism. Communism regime was inherently “funny” because of a unique combination of factors. The ineffectiveness of its theories, the mendacity of its propaganda and the ubiquity of censorship were all important. The cruelty of its methods interacted with the sense of humor of the people on whom it was imposed.The aim of the course is to introduce students to the reality of everyday life under the Soviet rule in the countries of the Soviet Bloc through Communist Jokes. |
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Code:
YMSMK028PV |
Lecturer:
Váša,O. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
5
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What does Botticelli’s Venus have in common with the contemporary Instagram stars? How did the influential renaissance concept of “figura serpentinata” become a pornographic backbone of contemporary sexual imagery? How did Michelangelo’s infernal orgies survive into the present time, disguised as the images of destruction? While addressing these questions, the course will provide a practical introduction to iconology as it has been defined and practiced by Aby M. Warburg and Ernst Cassirer in the 1920s and 1930s. Concerning their mutually influenced methodology, the course will interpret the critical aspects of the “nameless science” by (and while) exposing and analyzing complicated genealogy of the specific spectrum of surprisingly interrelated images like selfies, underwear advertising, cloud imagery, abstract painting, war atrocities or hygiene-related illustrations. |
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Code:
YBK052 |
Lecturer:
Říha,D. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Introduction to 3-D Graphics:This turorial-based course will allow students to learn the essentials in 3-D design with software Cinema 4D by Maxon. |
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Code:
YBAJ001 |
Lecturer:
Verbuč,D. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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In this introductory class to sociocultural anthropology, students will acquire a basic knowledge about the histories, theories and methods in sociocultural anthropology. Moreover, students will engage in critical understanding of many relevant anthropological concepts and issues, with a special emphasis on the following topics: cultural relativism, culture and difference, language and power; gender and culture; religion and culture; cross-cultural understanding of art; orientalism; cultural appropriation; social and historical construction of ethnicity, race, and nation/nationalism; anthropological perspectives on social class; anthropology of emotion; colonial and postcolonial cultures and economies; anthropology of global migration, and refugee discourse. Anthropological approaches of familiarization/defamiliarization (Rosaldo), and anti-essentialist concept of culture (Abu-Lughod), will provide for the main framework of analysis of various case studies employed during the course. Areas of study will include both Western and non-Western societies, historical and contemporary. Classes will combine lectures with participatory discussions based on film materials, and mandatory weekly readings. In addition, students will learn how to analyze, understand, and critique media images, sounds, and cultural and academic texts as related to the main topics of the course. Grading is based on participation, weekly reading and writing assignments, and a final exam. |
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Code:
YBAJ199 |
Lecturer:
Synek,S. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course is an introduction to Aristotle's Ethics. Close reading of selected passages of the Nicomachean Ethics will help us understand the main concepts of this line of ethical thinking. We will focus on the topics elaborated in books one (eudaimonia), two (ethical virtue), three (deliberated choice), six (rational virtues) and ten (pleasure and the highest good). |
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Code:
YMH518 |
Lecturer:
Kumsa,A. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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The aim of this course is to elucidate the process of civilization and globalization as the widening, deepening, and speeding of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of social life, from economics to politics, finance, culture, and crime. Globalization is therefore also about connectivity. In this course we explain different theories of globalization, historical waves of development of globalization and various aspects of globalization processes. |
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Code:
YBAJ220 |
Lecturer:
Wohlmuth,P. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Oral history is often seen primarily as a practice, as a research method, consisting of recording and analysing memories. However, OH rather represents an elaborate interdisciplinary paradigm of historiography, situated at the intersection of new cultural history, historical anthropology and memory studies. Its main aim is to explore the culturally modulated ways in which people understand themselves in history, how they construct their historical subjectivity (identity) through their recorded narratives. The course will introduce students to the theoretical basis of the current dominant post-positivist oral history brand, typical of Euro-American academia. At the end of the semester, we will take a seminar reading of several key oral history texts. |
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Code:
YBAJ014 |
Lecturer:
Hanyš,M. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course provides students with a brief introduction to Western political philosophy by examining some of the major texts of classical authors suchas Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, and the modern (Mill, Weber, Arendt, Strauss, Rawls, etc.). The course has the character of a seminar and requires the student to read the texts regularly (20-30 pages every weekend), prepare a presentation, and prepare weekly short answers to the reading questions. |
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Code:
YBAJ010 |
Lecturer:
Csajbók,Z. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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Introduction to Psychology course is meant to be an introduction to psychology as a scientific discipline. It covers basic and essential knowledge from psychology disciplines: developmental psychology, social psychology, general psychology and personality.The lectures will be taught in person.Literature:Gleitman, H., Gross, J., Reisberg, D.: Psychology. 8th Edition. W.W. Norton and Company Ltd. 2011.Assessment:Written test |
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Code:
YBAJ189 |
Lecturer:
Urban,M. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course will provide a step-by-step introduction to quantitative research methodology and quantitative data analysis. It will introduce you to statistical thinking and allow you to carry out your first quantitative research. The course will be especially beneficial to students who are interested in psychology and sociology. |
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Code:
YBAJ009 |
Lecturer:
Wladyniak,L. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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The course is an introductory class in sociology. The objective is to bring the students basic and essential knowledge in the field. It comprises both contemporary academic debates and topics, as long as sociological classics and main methodological approaches. |
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Code:
YMH731 |
Lecturer:
Německý,M. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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The course deals with the science of socities from a macro perspective. Various types of societies and methods of their research are discussed. The classification of socities is viewed from a historical and institutional perspective. The aim is to create an overall map enabling the inclusion of individual societies in the overall framework. |
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Code:
YBAJ214 |
Lecturer:
Hopkins,B. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The renowned British mathematician and philosopher A.N Whitehead once commented on Plato’s thought: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them”.This course will explore a portion of the wealth of ideas in Plato’s writings alluded to by Whitehead that are foundational to European philosophy by focusing on the most basic ones, which the course divides under these three headings:1. Socratic Method: The Most Blameworthy Ignorance: Thinking You Know What You Don’t Know.2. Meno’s Paradox: Is Learning Possible?3. The Philosophical Conversion of the Soul: The Philosophical Life Plato presented his philosophy dramatically, in written dialogues that portrayed philosophers in conversation with non-philosophers in the process of examining all aspects of life. Significantly, Plato never speaks in his own voice in any of his dialogues. In light of this, the principial aim of this course will be to facilitate the skills requisite for the student of Plato’s philosophy to read his texts with comprehension and to interpret them in a manner that elicits critically their philosophical content. |
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Code:
YBA278 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Romani music and music criticism - Date: May 29 to June 4, 2023; One-week course organized in the framework of the Khamoro Romani Festival, intended for university students. In the morning lectures, the students become acquainted with the main areas in which Roma participated in the creation of distinctive music styles and primarily with music of the Roma in Central Europe. Moreover, the topics of music representation, and music in connections to social memory will be discussed within the context of music(s) of the Roma. Two workshops on music criticism will be held in the afternoons. In the evenings, students will attend festival concerts. Study materials are available on-line for students. |
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Code:
YMH504 |
Lecturer:
Marková,A. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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The main goal of the course is to improve students' research and writing skills. The course introduces students to the historian's craft and acquaints them with the key principles of historical research. The main focus of the classes will be on the critique of sources (i.e. how should we read and interpret written primary and secondary sources, printed sources, literature etc.). We will study different theoretical and methodological approaches in history. Yet the attention will be focused on interrelated theoretical questions of historical research such as What is the relation between political power and history? How not to be fooled by propaganda? How reliable are dates and facts in history? Is a total historical reconstruction possible? Does an „objective historical truth“ exist? Can history and the historian be objective? The Methodology class is a creative lab where students will try to create and improve their own research project (such as a master thesis, future academic research, research proposal for a fellowships or scholarships etc.). Therefore, the main aim of the course is to improve students' ability to create a viable, coherent and well-formulated project proposal with clear objectives, methodological frame, and clear data (and/or sources) collection strategy. |
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Code:
YMH549 |
Lecturer:
Štemberk,J. + Marková,A. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The aim of the course is to shed light on the key milestones of European history framed within their broader historical, cultural, and sociological context. The main attention will be focused on explaining the continuity of European historical development as well as on the interpretation of the significant historical events such as revolutions, wars, societal and cultural transformations, religious conflicts etc. throughout the European history. The lectures will be organized around key problems and topics (e.g., Enlightenment and its ideas, national identity and nationalism etc., see syllabus), which will be analysed and interpreted. The main attention will be focused on the process of transformation (social, cultural, religious, change in collective and national identities and others) in traditional, modern, and post-modern societies throughout the history. |
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Code:
YBAJ219 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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A four-day seminar for students at all levels on how to make music with the sounds and structures of the natural world. We will review the music and writings of others who have worked in this way, and go out in the field listening with our ears, and our technologies, then return to the classroom and studio to work in our own diverse ways, culminating in an informal performance for the group and for the public.The course will be taught by hosting profesor David Rothenberg, New Jersey Technological University, USA. |
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Code:
YMSKA52 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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A several-day seminar for students at all levels on how to make music with the sounds and structures of the natural world. We will review the music and writings of others who have worked in this way, and go out in the field listening with our ears, and our technologies, then return to the classroom and studio to work in our own diverse ways, culminating in an informal performance for the group and for the public. |
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Code:
YBAJ196 |
Lecturer:
Verbuč,D. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Technology forms an immediate material basis of music culture, both in a sense of general technology (industrialization, mechanical and digital technologies), and music technology (music instruments, recording and music reproduction technologies). This class provides an insight into how historical technological changes affected music (its form, content, style), and its surrounding culture (listening modes, aesthetics, copy-right laws, social interaction, lifestyles), and vice versa. We start our journey with the pre-20th century music technologies (acoustic and mechanic music instrument technologies), and then spend most of the time with 20th and 21st century music technologies (electric and electronic music instruments and devices: gramophone, radio, tape, analog and digital music technologies). Class topics include: (1) an impact of the early recording formats and music technologies on the early-20th century reconfigurations in music, culture, and society, (2) relationship between music technology (recording formats, electric and electronic instruments, studio production) and music genres (especially jazz, rock, electronic dance cultures, and avant-garde music), (3) music-related technology as social power (standardization, control of behavior, laws, cultural appropriation) vs freedom (democratization, empowerment), (4) race, class, gender and music technologies, (5) cultural associations (authenticity), prejudices, and fears as related to music technologies (e.g., technophobia), (6) the role of technological mediation at live music events, (7) relation between place/space and technology (acoustics, urban soundscapes), and (8) retro(-futuristic) technological music trends. We approach these topics from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary frameworks, including anthropology, ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, sound studies, and critical theory. With an aid of assigned readings, listening examples, film viewings, and class debates, we look into a variety of case studies discussing particular music technologies and their musical and cultural effects, both in Western and non-Western societies. We also have two class excursions: (1) visit of Prague’s Synth library (http://www.zvukpraha.cz/synthlibraryprague/; feminist approach to music technologies; demonstration of modular synth), (2) visit of Ankali club (https://anka.li/; presentation of nightclub technologies, and DJ technologies and techniques). |
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Code:
YBAJ213 |
Lecturer:
De Pablo Aguilar,D. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The first class has been postponed, therefore it will take place on 23.02.2023 Traditionally, the Middle Age has been studied exclusively associated with western and Christian Europe, however, a very important part of the main problems in this period (even for western and Christian Europe) happened or had their origin in the Muslim world. Therefore, this course seeks to analyze and understand Muslim history, so the students will have a better comprehension of the past. This course is a course about the other, from the European perspective, and its history, which has a high value nowadays if we take into consideration that Europe has become a multiethnic and multi-religious space, and Europe's history and space have been shaped by the contact with the Muslim world. Hence, the emphasis will not be only on the event, but on the problems (sciences, cities, art, etc.).Thus, the course address topics such as pre-Islamic history, Muhammad and the formation of Islam, Rashidun Caliphates, the Umayyad Empire, the Abbasid Empire, the Fatimid Caliphate, the crusade from the Muslim perspective, the Mamluk dynasty, Turkic kingdoms (Seljuks and Ottomans), Muslim Italy and Spain, etc. |
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Code:
YBAJ201 |
Lecturer:
Lehečka,M. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Accelerating complexity and diversity of city life has been a critical issue for many social and cultural anthropologists since the early 20th century. Along with the rise of global connectedness, contemporary urban research has to take into account the assemblage of dynamic flows of migration, transportation, thoughts, or goods. Anthropologically speaking: our research should focus on the fact that urbanites have to deal with plenty of awkward or even distant socio-material phenomena, that are affecting their local lives.Based on fieldwork trips and excursions, students will be introduced to perspectives on urban environments, basics of research practice, ethics and methodology for the anthropology of the city. Various urban niches in Prague such as multicultural neighborhoods, segregated areas, urban non-places, urban jungles, infrastructures, etc., will be visited and observed through the lens of ethnography. |
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Code:
YBAJ048 |
Lecturer:
Wohlmuth,P. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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This course aims to provide an introduction to oral history using the historical phenomena of the Cold War with special emphasis at ex-communist countries such as Czechoslovakia, Eastern Germany, Soviet Union, and China and also actors of Western leftist groupings. Most histories emphasize major political events or structures of economic development. Professor Donald A. Ritchie, the author of the influential book Doing Oral History, once explained the core of the discipline in these telling words: we do not do oral history to confirm what we already know, but rather to question what we consider to be supposedly clear. So, our main goal will be entirely different from the usual perspectives on Cold War: we will avoid major narratives and attempt to understand the structures and meaning of the historical subjectivity of so-called „ordinary people“, living under these oppressive regimes. How was life beyond the Iron Curtain for them? In which terms they had conceptualized their life experience? How did they relate to people, ideas, and material objects from the West? Oral history understands „ordinary people“ to be much more than just „onlookers“ to the actions of major historical actors. |
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Code:
YBAJ187 |
Lecturer:
Marek,J. |
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Semester:
Fall + spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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This seminar will allow serious students interested in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy to participate in the tradition of close reading of primary texts. The purpose is to understand the prerequisites for understanding challenging philosophical works that require careful and perceptive reading. In the Winter 2022 semester, we will begin with Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety. We will arrange the next text with the course participants. |
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Code:
YBAJ193 |
Lecturer:
Novák,A. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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“To philosophize is to learn to die.” [« Philosophiser c’est apprendre a mourir »]. These are the famous words declared by the French essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), echoing the ancient statesman Cicero (106 – 43 BCE). And in this proclamation is an invitation for one to reflect on what it means to truly live. What sorts of persons are we? How can and do we come to define ourselves? What is the nature of the relationship between the individual and society? And most importantly, how ought we to edify and conduct ourselves in our lives and in the world at large? This course will survey these themes from prominent thinkers throughout the 19th and 20th century.
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Code:
YBAJ207 |
Lecturer:
Synek,S. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Reading and commentary of selected texts of Plato and Aristotle.An introductory course about rhetoric in ancient Greece from the points of view of Plato and Aristotle. After presenting the historical and political context, that led to emergence of orators and sophists in ancient Greece, and introducing some key orators of the 5th century Athens, we will move on to Plato's depiction of oratory in Gorgias and Protagoras. Then we will compare these views with passages from Aristotle's Rhetoric. |
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Code:
YMGS616 |
Lecturer:
Jiroutová Kynčlová,T. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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AnotaceKurz představuje disciplínu postkoloniálních studií jak v rámci literární vědy a kulturních studií, odkud vzešla, tak v rámci kritických analýz historických i soudobých mocenských struktur, sociálních norem a kulturních reprezentací, jakož i v kontextu tzv. globalizovaného světa a mezinárodních vztahů. Kurz zkoumá kulturní a společenské praxe vztahující se k diverzitě, diferenci a zjinačování z pozice centra a okraje, analyzuje koncepty objektivizace „druhé/ho“ a s využitím feministických teorií a genderu jako analytické kategorie kontrastuje universalismus a kulturní relativismus. Vedle paralel mezi postkoloniálním a dekoloniálním myšlením sleduje též svébytný přínos feminismu k diskutovaným teoriím.Tematické okruhy1. Kolonialismus, imperialismus a kapitalismus – reflexe základních pojmů a průnik s genderovými studii2. Koloniální mapa světa, stručné dějiny kolonizace3. Globalistické koncepce světového řádu4. Orientalismus5. Formy lokální modernity6. Nacionalismus a národní stát7. Hybridita, reprezentace minorit, migrace8. Feminismus a multikulturalismus9. Patriotismus, kosmopolitanismus, kulturní relativismus, universalismus10. Filosofická a sociální pojetí kritérií diskriminace11. Teorie hranice, kulturní identita jako „hraniční“, hybridní, nomádská, posthumanistická12. Dekoloniálním myšlení13. Postkolonialismus a epistemologie14. Praktická cvičení – postkoloniální/dekoloniální analýza kulturních artefaktů |
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Code:
YBH335 |
Lecturer:
Suchý,M. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Upon completion of the course students will have an overview of European history from antiquity through the Middle Ages to modern history. Students will learn the importance of basic historical terms, such as the Reformation, the Lenten System, the Papal Schism and many others. The course will consist of thematic-oriented lectures and will be finished by a written test concentrated on important historical concepts. Completition of said course will help students with their preparation for following mandatory examination from European History. |
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Code:
YMH539 |
Lecturer:
Štemberk,J. + Marková,A. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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The main aim of the course Procedures and Methods of Historical Research is to get practical knowledge on how to create and formulate the research topic, how to formulate the goals, hypothesis and objectives of the research, and how to find, process, and interpret relevant sources (secondary literature, printed sources, archive sources, etc.). In other words, the main aim of the course is to create a strong and solid methodological frame for the future student’s future research, especially within the master thesis, as well as to improve the student's writing and research skills. Besides improving practical academic skills, we will study different theoretical and methodological approaches in history. The attention Attention will be focusedbe given to on interrelated theoretical questions of historical research such as What is the relation between political power and history? How reliable are dates and facts in history? Is a total historical reconstruction of a historical event possible? Does an „objective historical truth”“ exist? Can history and the historian be objective? How could we interpret the history? |
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Code:
YMH552 |
Lecturer:
Šubrt,J. + Brown,L. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
5
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The course is conceived as a block of theoretical lectures along with relevant practical exercises.We will begin by examining the practical methodologies which are utilised in qualitative research, followed by an overview of the major theoretical approaches and finally the ethical considerations of doing such research. The practical part of the course consists of analysis and discussion of specific studies as examples of the use of different methods. Students should identify specific methodological and practical research issues based on their own work with particular studies. The course aims to equip students with knowledge of qualitative research methods for the given research terrain.The examinations for the course will consist of two parts: a project (selected from the list provided) and an oral examination of the project and other elements of the course.Each student will be required to attend and contribute to all lessons unless substantial justification is given for their non-attendance/non-contribution. If a student does not attend a lesson or fails to contribute, then they should submit a 1500-2000 word summary of the lesson's key reading and / or the topic of that class. This may apply to a maximum of half the lessons after which the student will fail the course. The course syllabus, material and reading can been found on the moodle course: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=12411#section-3 |
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Code:
YMH551 |
Lecturer:
Hampl,S. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
5
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The main aim of this course is to teach students the principles of the general methodology of quantitative sociological research. The course provides students with knowledge of basic quantitative research methods and is focused mainly on the preparation of questionnaires. Attention will be paid to the formulation of research problems, identification and conceptualization, the choice of appropriate research strategies and also on instrument, operationalization, research project preparation and lastly the construction of questionnaires. |
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Code:
YMGS644 |
Lecturer:
Kolářová,K. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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The course focuses on cinematic and cultural representations of gender and sexual differnce in international and Czech films. It introduces students to queer film and feminist, GLBTI and queer film studies in the context of critical reflection on global and transnational changes and influences. Since part of the course is an intensive workshop connected with the Mezipatra Film Festival, the course also discusses the role that gender and sexual identity politics play in international film festivals, and what role they play in shaping society's approach to alternative gender and sexual identities and life experiences and choices.The course runs concurrently at George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA. The two study groups join at workshop during Mezipatra and participate in the festival together.The workshop is intended to be a space for two groups of students from different cultural, political and linguistic contexts. Our discussion partners are George Washington University students and Professor Robert McRuer. Robert McRuer is, among other things, a leading theorist of queer theory and "queer theory," focused on critical deconstruction of the category of "disability." Discussion of the films we will watch together during the festival open up a space for confrontations of different perspectives, as well as a more contextualized and concrete discussion of transnational dimension of film festivals. This year's date for Mezipatra in Prague is: November 3-10, 2022. During this time, the course will meet everyday. You will be provided a detailed schedule for the workshop at the beginning of the semester.Passes/admissions to the films in the film festival are paid by the student(s) themselves. In individual cases, where this would form a barrier to participation in the course, we will seek a solution. In such a case, please contact me. |
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Code:
YMGS636 |
Lecturer:
Sokolová,V. + Lorenz - Meyer,D. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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The frequency of dramatic weather events, floods, droughts, and the mobilisations around environmental and climate justice bring matters of rapid environmental degradation, species extinction and global warming into critical visibility, and underscore the urgency for collective action. This course introduces students to feminist, queer and indigenous knowledges and activisms around the nexus of ecological and sexual politics. The course examines feminist critiques of the nature-culture divide, human exceptionalism, eco-heteronormativity, petrocultures and their alternatives. Case studies into companion species, petro-sexual relations and queer and speculative feminisms investigate the implications for rethinking bodies, care, reproduction and queer feminist politics with and beyond rights-based frameworks. |
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Code:
YMH502 |
Lecturer:
Německý,M. + Coman,A. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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The seminar focuses on reading and discussing important historical sociological texts. |
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Code:
YMH5033 |
Lecturer:
Voříšek,M. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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The course introduces students to how historical sociology is analyzing modern science. Upon completing this course, the students will be informed about the basic historical transformations that science and scientific knowledge have undergone in modern society and will be able to identify and grasp the main analytical methods applied in social studies of science. The first part of the course focuses on key structural presuppositions of modern science: scientific disciplines, intellectual market, professions and bureaucracy as ways of organizing knowledge, and political ideologies. Second part focuses on the main methods used in analysis and critique of scientific knowledge: the approach of Michel Foucault, sociology of science, social constructionism, post-colonial and feminist studies of science. The course concludes by a discussion of contemporary society as a “knowledge-based society”. |
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Code:
YBAJ198 |
Lecturer:
Urban,M. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The Seminar in Social psychology aims to familiarize students with core texts in the field, develop academic skills and foster critical thinking of students in themes associated to social psychology. The Seminar will be organized around reading core academic texts in social psychology, watching related audiovisual materials, discussions and written assessments. |
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Code:
YMH542 |
Lecturer:
Voříšek,M. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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This seminar provides an insight into select theories of modernization. In parallel, it offers an overview of the process of modernization of European societies. It outlines the role that social sciences played in the process as both a reflexion and a normative guidance for social action. In the seminar, the Czech lands will serve as an example of interconnection between social sciences and modernization. Upon completing this course, the students will be have basic understanding of the changes that Czech society underwent in the 18th to 21st centuries. They will also have an idea about how Czech social scientists reflected and reacted to these changes. They will be able to connect this knowledge to the history of modernization of European societies, and contextualize it in the history of modern social sciences. |
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Code:
YBAJ218 |
Lecturer:
Novák,A. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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This course proposes to apply philosophical thinking and ethical theories to some of the most pressing problems confronting contemporary society: Against the background of growing populism and ever more interconnected global communities, how should we navigate the dynamics between nationalism and globalism? What moral claims do migrants have, and whatare states’ rights and obligations in relation thereto? What challenges persist in women’s rights movements across the globe, and how can we meet them? What do we owe the environment and non-human animals? Can political revolutions and civil disobedience be justified? This course will present perspectives from all sides of such questions in a fair and balanced manner, encouraging students to encounter new ideas, question preconceptions, and engage carefully and critically with sensitive and important matters. |
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Code:
YMH519 |
Lecturer:
Vávra,M. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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The aim of this course is to introduce students to the techniques of quantitative and qualitative sociological data processing. |
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Code:
YBAJ197 |
Lecturer:
Wladyniak,L. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course is an introduction to the sociological theory and offers a closer analysis of the main sociological concepts (both classic and contemporary). In a form of a lecture, the course offers a comprehensive overview of the most influential theories and theoreticians. Individual lectures are devoted to particular issues in sociological theory. The course is recommended for the students, who already graduated from the course Introduction to Sociology. |
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Code:
YBAJ172 |
Lecturer:
Černý,K. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The lecture deals with sociology of conflict (K. Marx, L. Coser, R. Dahrendorf, Ch. W. Mills) and with the main approaches to the sociology of revolution (P. Sorokin, J. Davies, T. Gurr, Ch. Tilly, C. Brinton, J. Alexander) including selected case studies (for example the Czechoslovac Velvet revolution of 1989, Arab Spring of 2011). It also partly deals with proto-sociology of war, (K. Marx, C. Clausewitz, T. Malthus, V. Lenin, J. Hobson, I. Kant), selected examples of sociology of war (P. Sorokin, Ch. Tilly, M. Kaldor, H. Joas, M. Klare, H. Dixon, S. Huntington), and sociology of terrorism (sociology of religious terrorism of M. Juergensmeyer, suicide terrorism covered by R. Pape). |
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Code:
YMH541 |
Lecturer:
Kumsa,A. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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The aim of the subject is to elucidate the politico- historical division of the contemporary world into industrial and developing societies. The main focus of the course is different models of modernization after World War II in which different theories emerged. The first part of the course discusses models of modernization theories, whereas the second part illustrates key problems of developing countries and different proposals for their solutions from various viewpoints of experts and local knowledge on each topic of the problems |
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Code:
YBAJ020 |
Lecturer:
Marková,A. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course deals with symbolical figures of the Czech history (e.g., St. Wenceslaus, Jan Žižka, Jan Hus and many others) and changes in the interpretation of their role throughout history. The attention will be focused on an interaction between ideology and history, history and historical myths, collective memory and historical consciousness. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with significant milestones and symbolical figures of the Czech history as well as to demonstrate the ambiguity of their interpretation due to different political and historical contexts. An educational excursion (National Memorial on the Vítkov Hill) is a part of the syllabus. |
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Code:
YBAJ215 |
Lecturer:
Klepal,J. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Sociocultural anthropology in general, and medical anthropology in particular, has been questioning predominant understandings of human body, health, and sickness. This course focuses on anthropological encounters with beliefs and practices through which embodiment, wellbeing, and afflictions are experienced, communicated, and enacted in the contemporary cross-cultural context and globalized world. Topics covered include medical pluralism, disability, (bio)medicalization, reproduction, mental health, complementary and alternative medicine, and (bio)medical technologies. By the end of the course, students will have a better grasp of concepts and methods of sociocultural anthropology; they will be able to critically reflect on their own and others’ embodied experiences of health and disease; and they will be able to apply findings of medical anthropology beyond the field. |
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Code:
YBAJ208 |
Lecturer:
Vondráček,J. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Based on the concept of “militant democracy” developed by the jurist Karl Loewenstein, this seminar explores how the First Czechoslovak Republic was able to defend itself against changing domestic and foreign threats in the years 1918-1938. Furthermore, the aim is to investigate how Czechoslovakia and the democratic system was perceived abroad. For each session, there will be a selected text that approaches a specific topic using a particular historical method. By writing a short excerpt for each session, the foundation for a fruitful discussion will be created and at the same time, academic writing will be practiced. The aim of this seminar is on the one hand to give an insight into the different aspects of the First Czechoslovak Republic and on the other hand to get familiar with different methodical approaches. In addition, academic reading as well as the clear and structured presentation of knowledge through excerpts and a presentation will be learned. |
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Code:
YMH509 |
Lecturer:
Marková,A. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The aim of the course is to explain the process of state- and nation-formation in modern and contemporary European history. These processes will be discussed in the context of social, political, economic, and cultural transformation of Europe which took place from 17th till 20th century. In addition to that the attention will be focused on the processes of the construction of national identity as well as on the special case of Soviet state- and nation-formation. |
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Code:
YBAJ190 |
Lecturer:
Vondráček,J. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The historiography of the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" has so far been dominated by a narrative that primarily perceives political actors, i.e. occupiers and perpetrators on the one hand, resistance organizations and the government in exile on the other. In the seminar, the focus will be directed beyond these dichotomies to structures of rule, administration and everyday life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. For each session, there will be a selected text that approaches a specific topic using a particular historical method. By writing a short excerpt for each session, the foundation for a fruitful discussion will be created and at the same time, academic writing will be practiced.The aim of this seminar is on the one hand to give an insight into the different aspects of the Protectorate and on the other hand to get familiar with different methodical approaches. In addition, academic reading as well as the clear and structured presentation of knowledge through excerpts and a presentation will be learned. |
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Code:
YBAJ188 |
Lecturer:
Marek,J. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Ulysses, this greatest nostalgic (Kundera), is the archetype of philosophy itself. Philosophy is a remarkable human activity that touches not only thought but the person of the philosopher. And the philosopher is someone who embarks on an odyssey of homecoming, a homecoming that is motivated by deep homesickness. In this lecture series, we will try to understand philosophy as an idea of human life that is a journey toward home, a longing for home (nostalgia), and a movement of human self-realization. |
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Code:
YMH513 |
Lecturer:
Šalanda,B. + Brown,L. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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In short, this course examines everyday life through various theoretical approaches, mainly in perspective of historical social sciences and anthropology. This topic incorporates several key themes; the everyday context of symbolic interaction and dramaturgy, places, non-verbal communication, fashion, consumption, things and violence. We will also study how social identities are formed and maintained. With the help of some major authors, we will begin to study the form and content of “everydayness” and where it sits within sociological scholarship. |
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Code:
YBAJ217 |
Lecturer:
Bauer,K. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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The course deals with a sociological and historical perspective of Violence. The theoretical part of the course will provide basic orientation in the phenomenon, its particular fields, issues, topics, ideas and concepts. The practical part should mediate the view of violence through the eyes of people specializing in violence on daily basis (f.e. armed forces personnel with foreign mission experience, lawyer, professional fighter). The main aim is to provide better understanding of violence at different levels and from different perspectives. In other words, the main goal of the course is to open the door to the mysterious world of violence, which whether we like it or not, it's a part of human lives. |
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Code:
YMH544 |
Lecturer:
Šubrt,J. + Německý,M. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
6
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The aim of this subject is to familiarize students with the basic issues linked to the topic of social change. Social change may relate to demographic processes, social structures, cultural patterns, societies and their subsystems, organizations, institutions or groups. They may have different scopes (total - partial), severity and depth (deep - surface level), durations (long - short term) and speed (fast - slow). The problem of social change is explained through theories aimed at describing change in a theoretical way as well as explaining it. The theoretical descriptions on which the class is based primarily focus upon the nature of the expression and direction of change (replacing what with what; what increases or decreases? Is it linear, cyclic or jumping?). Explanations focus primarily on issues such as: what are the sources of dynamism and innovation? What are the agents of change and what factors influence its course? |
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Code:
YBA211 |
Lecturer:
Špecián,P. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Is strategic thinking confined to battlefield? Or is it an important part of our everyday lives? The seminar in strategic interaction and decision-making will show the omnipresence of strategic deliberation. We will get acquainted with an approach known in economics as well as other social sciences as "game theory". It will allow us to see the behavior of rational agents like firms, political parties and (at least sometimes) also ourselves from a new angle. Despite the name of the seminar, our interest in games and strategies will not be just theoretical. |
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Code:
YBAJ171 |
Lecturer:
Suchý,M. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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The course provides students with insights into different aspects of early modern time travelling. Source criticism to contemporary sources (chronicles, travel accounts, itineraries, books of travels, charters, etc.) within major topics (such as war campaigns, pilgrimage, university peregrination, diplomacy, trade and crafts) constitutes an important feature of the course. |
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Code:
YBAJ194 |
Lecturer:
Suchý,M. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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The course provides students with insights into different aspects of medieval travelling. Source criticism to contemporary sources (chronicles, travel accounts, itineraries, books of travels, charters, etc.) within major topics (such as war campaigns, pilgrimage, university peregrination, diplomacy, trade and crafts) constitutes an important feature of the course. |
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Code:
YBAJ036 |
Lecturer:
Kunca,T. |
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Semester:
Fall
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Are the good, amiable qualities of man, virtues, or the bad, hateful ones, vices, the true foundation of human sociability, and consequent formation of society towards its civil and commercial stage? Dilemma famously exposed by Mandeville and still acute not only thanks to his disturbing arguments which are quite frequently misunderstood. What Mandeville really said, what was the main set of arguments proposed by his antagonists, what is say anthropological background of the debate? This kind of questions is to be posed and discussed when reading a selection of primary sources, state-of-art interpretations and even confronting these with observations of present social sciences.Students are expected to submit a 2500 words final academic essay. The word count should include all footnotes, endnotes, and quotations but should exclude the bibliography. Please include the word count on the title page of your coursework. Moreover, students are free to make a choice to write an essay on topics discussed and inspired by seminar programme or write an independent essay.Students are encouradged to sign for Virtue_Kunca MS Team here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3a40c5f99f3fc34026b075dfdd737e7836%40thread.tacv2/Obecn%25C3%25A9?groupId=01a59a2f-1022-408b-852b-4834ad7d1e26&tenantId=e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2 and explore files attached. |
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Code:
YMH550 |
Lecturer:
Šubrt,J. |
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Semester:
Spring
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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The course is outlined as a block of theoretical lectures and practical exercises in the field of visual research methods. |
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