22 February 2016 – 20 May 2016
Tuition in the Summer Term 2015/16 starts on February 22, 2016 and ends on May 20, 2016.
1 March 2016 – 31 March 2016
The exhibition of photographs focused on 14th century Gothic plastic art will take place in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague and in the Chapel of the Holy Cross at Karlštejn, where Master Theodoric will be emphasised. The exhibition will inaugurate the celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Charles IV in Charles University.
16 March 2016 – 19 March 2016
Faculty of Humanities invites you to the international conference "Space of the Nordic Literature“. The conference program consists of two sections: I. "Boundaries and transformations in Old Norse genres – synchronic and diachronic perspectives" and II. "Modernity in Modern Scandinavian literature".
19 March 2016
Are you considering studying at Great Britain's most elite universities? Interested in academic essays and their evaluation at Oxford, Cambridge or King's College London ("KCL")? And want to discuss this and more with the holder of the KCL Teaching Excellence Award and a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge?
If so, do not miss the Academic Essay Workshop, which will feature Dr. Adrian Blau of King's College London. The workshop will be held in English and is open to students and teachers alike.
21 March 2016
Department of Historical Sociology invites you to the lecture "Social Causality“ by professor for Social Theory and Cultural Sociology Helmut Staubmann (Department of Sociology, University of Innsbruck).
22 March 2016
Department of Historical Sociology invites you to the lecture "The Rolling Stones – Sociological Perspectives" by professor for Social Theory and Cultural Sociology Helmut Staubmann (Department of Sociology, University of Innsbruck).
23 March 2016
Need to address your audience in English? Want to know how to prepare an entertaining presentation? Interested in the basics of graphic design? If that is the case, the seminars are exactly right for you. The first two 180 minute lessons will take place on March 23 and April 24, respectively, and will be followed by a practical part two weeks later, which will include presentations by the students themselves, who will be given feedback. The seminars will take place in English and are aimed at doctoral and post-doctoral students of CU.
24 March 2016
On March 24, 2016 the Dean’s Day has been scheduled. All FHS classes for this day have been cancelled.
31 March 2016
Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Humanities, CU invites you the public lecture “Over the Rainbow: Labelle, Black Feminist Musical Self-Fashioning, and 1970s Freedom Dreams”. The lecture will be presented by Gayle Wald from George Washington University. The lecture shall take place in the university area Vokovice on March 31, 2016. The lecture and the follow-up discussion will be held in English. Admission is free.
1 April 2016 – 15 April 2016
Students’ Association “Studenti FHS UK” is happy to invite you to the Festival of Humanity and Solidarity. The theme of this year is migration and its consequences in culture – music, theatre, photography and gastronomy – but also in the personal experience of volunteers, not only from FHS, who help manage the dismal situation of refugees on the borders of the European Union and at the places of conflict.
4 April 2016 – 8 April 2016
Department of German and French Philosophy, Erasmus Master Mundus EuroPhilosophie, is hosting Prof. Pierre Rodrigo from Université de Bourgogne in the week of 4 April 2016. Prof. Rodrigo will give seminars in the framework of the « Phénoménologie de l’image cinématographique » course. The relation between philosophy and cinema will be discussed from different points of view.
All students and colleagues are cordially invited.
14 April 2016
On April 14, 2016 the regular meeting of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Humanites is held in Jinonice.
15 April 2016
Are you taking at least one UPCES class? Than use the opportunity to join the trip.
Litoměřice is one of the oldest Czech towns ever founded. To this day, it remains untouched by the tourist crowds, and in many ways offers a picture into life in the Czech Republic outside of Prague.
16 April 2016
On 16 April, the traditional Day of Lifelong Learning and Graduation Festival, aimed at UK graduates and the public, will get under way. As part of the programme, three prominent experts on the life and times of Charles IV will give their lectures. One of them is Professor Jan Royt, Vice-chancellor of Charles University, who is an expert on the fine arts of the period under review.
18 April 2016
Charles University in Prague would like to invite you to the lecture: "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets", which will be given by professor Michael Sandel.
20 April 2016
Need to address your audience in English? Want to know how to prepare an entertaining presentation? Interested in the basics of graphic design? If that is the case, the seminars are exactly right for you. The first two 180 minute lessons will take place on March 23 and April 24, respectively, and will be followed by a practical part two weeks later, which will include presentations by the students themselves, who will be given feedback. The seminars will take place in English and are aimed at doctoral and post-doctoral students of CU.
21 April 2016
The seminar on the 700th anniversary of the birth of Charles IV will be held in the large auditorium of the Institute of Anatomy. The contributions will focus on the life and death of Charles IV. Charles’s inheritance from his ancestors, his fatal injury and the medical-anthropological interpretation of his skeletal remains will be discussed in the light of the latest research.
29 April 2016 – 30 April 2016
Department of Germany and French Philosophy invites all colleagues and students to attend a block seminar on topics in early phenomenology. The seminar is organised in cooperation with Universität Kassel and will include presentations by Dr. Karen Joisten (Universität Kassel) a doc. Hans Rainer Sepp (Faculty of Humanities, CU in Prague).
30 April 2016
Application deadline for PhD studies is April 30, 2016.
Further information is available in the section Postgraduate.
1 May 2016
Labour Day is a national holiday in the Czech Republic,
celebrated on May 1. It is synonymous with International Worker`s Day. It is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers.
2 May 2016 – 6 May 2016
Department of German and French Philosophy and Erasmus Master Mundus EuroPhilosophie programme invites all colleagues and students to lectures presented as part of the EMM course „Philosophie de la religion: approches phénoménologique et métaphysique“. The lectures entitled The theological and the linguistic turn of XXth Century Philosophy will be presented by Dr Urszula Idziak-Smoczyńska, a member of the Institute for the Study of Religions at the Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
3 May 2016 – 31 May 2016
The exhibition focuses on the development of medicine and the Medical Faculty from the times of Charles IV to the present. Visitors will have the opportunity to see extracts from period textbooks, examine various medical instruments and photos from the history of the First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University. Information on the origin and development of many medical disciplines and architectural curiosities of buildings that belonged or belong to the First Faculty of Medicine will also be presented.
4 May 2016
Healthy body - healthy mind! Come and join the Rector's Sports Day on Wednesday 4th May 2016. This year you can try almost 30 different sports and watch an exhibition of some other disciplines. All FHS classes for this day have been cancelled.
7 May 2016
Charles IV’s birthday celebration for the general public will take place on Charles Square. A medieval town will be set up with swordsmen, jugglers, musicians and craft markets, while workshops will be available for children. In the afternoon a historical procession will take the route to the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Charles the Great in Karlov, Prague. The Jaksi Taksi, Imodium and Blue Effect bands will play in addition to a rich accompanying programme.
9 May 2016
The Orchestra and Chorus of Charles University will perform the concert that was rehearsed for the Office of the President. The concert will include pieces by Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and George Händel. It will take 70 minutes in total. The concert will also open the conference "Charles IV, Lands of the Bohemian Crown and Europe".
9 May 2016 – 12 May 2016
In collaboration with The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, an international scientific conference will be held and attended by notable experts on the life and time of Charles IV. Contributions to the program will include lectures on general history as well as the history of art.
12 May 2016 – 31 August 2016
The exhibition, organised with the collaboration of the National Gallery, will look at the person of Charles IV through the prism of centuries. His legacy in the sphere of the arts is irreplaceable, as is his political and representative image. The vernissage will take place on 12th May 2015.
13 May 2016 – 14 May 2016
The Department of German and French Philosophy, Erasmus Master Mundus EuroPhilosophie Program and the Central-European Institute of Philosophy in Cooperation with the International Association of the Comparative Study of China and the West (IACSCW) are pleased to invite you to an international conference Ethics and Politics China vs. the West. The conference participants include a number of professors from Czech Republic, China, Germany, Ireland and Swiss. Please consult the conference program for details.
Venue: Villa Lanna, Prague, May 13–14, 2016
14 May 2016
Cardinal Dominik Duka will lead a ceremonial mass on 14th May 2016, the day Charles IV was born. The st. Vitus cathedral, the most eastern Gothic Cathedral in Europe is the very place, where all Bohemian kings were crowned and which has been the spiritual heart of the country for many centuries.
23 May 2016
Department of Management and Supervision in Social and Health Care Organizations, Faculty of Humanities, CU invites you to the international student conference "Cross-cultural management issues in contemporary social and health care services".
3 June 2016 – 4 June 2016
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague invites you to 3rd International Conference "BALKAN EXPRESS" which shall take place in Prague from 3 to 4 June 2016. The event will be held in English and Czech.
6 June 2016 – 28 June 2016
Faculty of Humanities Charles University in Prague, is organizing three ethnomusicology summer schools for local and international students:
I. Music and Youth Cultures: Between Global and Local/Czech
II. Ethnomusicological Method from the Ground-Up
III. Contemporary Issues in Ethnomusicology
15 June 2016
Department of German and French Philosophy invites you to an international workshop dedicated to the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. The event is hosting students and researchers from the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Université Paris IV, Meiji University Tokyo and Polish Academy of Sciences. The workshop is supported by the PRVOUK P18 „Phenomenology and Semiotics“ research programme.
16 June 2016 – 17 June 2016
The first edition of the Night of Philosophy in Prague – June 2016, 16/17th – will offer a round-the-clock series of 20-minute lectures and larger roundtable discussions presented by 55 leading international philosophers from France and the Visegrad Group, on the topic “Images, Sciences and Politics.”
23 August 2016
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague; Czech Association for Social Anthropology; Masaryk Czech Sociological Association and Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to 158th Gellner`s seminar. The seminar will be held on Tuesday August 23, 2016 in AKC, Czech Academy of Sciences (Husova 4a, Prague 1).
Assoc. Prof. Natasha Myers (York University, Toronto, Canada) will give lecture “Becoming Sensor in an Oak Savannah Photosynethetic Mattering, Kinesthetic Attunements, and Protocols for an Ungrid-able Ecology”.
31 August 2016 – 3 September 2016
The science of human nature is the centre-piece of Hume's philosophy and it is, he tells us, "the only solid foundation for the other sciences". This conference seeks to understand Hume's science of man from the perspective not only of his epistemology and philosophy of mind, but also of his ethics, political theory, history and his reflections on natural religion.
5 September 2016 – 13 September 2016
Summer School of Oral History, under the patronage of Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague, aims to introduce students from all over the world to the newest trends and procedures of oral history, as well as to its theoretical aspects and practical impacts of new media and technology on oral history.
20 September 2016 – 23 September 2016
During the first week of the semester, before the teaching period itself, the FHS International Office organizes the Orientation Programme to welcome new non-degree (exchange) international students in Prague and at CU.
The programme aims both to introduce students to academic issues and to help them with some practical arrangements related to their study stay.
20 September 2016 – 16 October 2016
In the Winter Term 2016/17 courses are open for Registration from September 20, 2016 to October 16, 2016.
Registration for students from other faculties starts on September 21, 2016.
28 September 2016
Wenceslas was the duke of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935. He was murdered on Sptember 28 by his younger brother Boleslaus the Cruel. Immediately after his death Wenceslas was considered a martyr and a saint.
3 October 2016 – 9 January 2017
The tuition in the Winter Term 2016/17 starts on October 3, 2016 and ends on January 9, 2017.
(From 23. 12. 2016 to 2. 1. 2017 there are winter holidays).
4 October 2016 – 5 October 2016
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, along
with its partner institutions invites participation in the annual conference on urban historiography from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. The chief themes of the 2016 conference is urban historiography, private or corporate; the second is historical works written about specific cities.
6 October 2016
Application deadline for study stays abroad within Erasmus+ programme is 06/10/2016 at noon.
Further information at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-448.html
11 October 2016
Faculty of Humanities, Programme of Developing Academic Fields - Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite all colleagues and students to the lecture "Chains of Power and their Representation" by Isaac A. Reed (University of Virginia).
12 October 2016
Matriculation ceremonies to welcome new students will be held in the university’s Karolinum building on Wednesday 12 October 2016. The timetable of ceremonies is published in SIS (section Graduation).
All FHS classes have been cancelled for this day.
12 October 2016 – 14 October 2016
Department of German and French Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic invite all colleagues and students to an international colloquium Natur und Kosmos Entwürfe der frühen Phänomenologie.
28 October 2016
There are no FHS classes on October 28 as it is a national holiday. This holiday commemorates creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918.
31 October 2016
Department of Historical Sociology invites you to the lecture “New Challenges for Historical Sociology“ by Professor Dennis Smith (Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK).
Charles University
Faculty of Humanities
Pátkova 2137/5
182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
Czech Republic
