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Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague and August Boeckh Antike Zentrum (Universität zu Berlin) invite you to the conference ''Aristotle and His Predecessors on Heat, Pneuma and Soul'', supported by the Czech Science Foundation (coordinator doc. Hynek Bartoš).
Prof. Jan Sokol gave the speech within the "Creative Mornings Prague" project.
Further information at Facebook.
Date of Entrance Exams for the Academic Year 2014/2015 - Ph.D. Degree Programme (Historical Sociology) in English is June 6, 2014 at 1 pm.
In 2012–2014 Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague participated in the international project MEN AND BOOKS, supported by the European Commission (Reg. No. 2012-0920/001-001, coordinator Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Austria).
The main objective of the project was to find a solution to exterminate mould with a substance and method harmless to men and books. This would be beneficial for all European users of archival material. The Archives of the Protestant Parish of the Holy Trinity in Świdnica (PL) were chosen as the representative material for the research within the project.
Further information here.
Date of Entrance Exams for the Academic Year 2014/2015 - Bachelor's Degree Programme (Liberal Arts and Humanities) in English is June 4, 2014.
Registration starts at 9:30 am
Exam starts at 10:00 am
Between May 12 and May 23, 2014 Department of Management and Supervision in Social and Health Care Organizations, Faculty of Humanities hosted, in the framework of the Erasmus Intensive Programme, 30 students from 5 universities (Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland; HAMK University of Applied Sciences in Hämeenlinna, Finland; Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom; University of Évora, Portugal and Kazakh National Medical University named after S. D. Asfendiyarov, Kazakhstan). The main topic of the program was Management of human resources in social and health care organizations in the 21st century.
Last week lectures engaged in the Old Norse literature and religion met at the Faculty. They agreed on the details of the project Supernatural spaces in the Old Norse perspective. It is a multilateral exchange of lecturers within the Erasmus programme, which involving eight European universities.
The project starts next academic year. In the next seven years we can therefore look forward to an every year lecture by leading religionists, literary scholars and archaeologists from Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Germany, Poland, Italy and Estonia, who will speak on aspects of the numinous Old Norse thinking.
Six Faculty publications were awarded in the competition of high-quality monographs at the Charles University:
· Karel Černý, Svět politického islámu: Politické probuzení Blízkého východu
· Hans Reiner Sepp, Bild. Phänomenologie der Epoché I
· Ladislav Benyovszky, Cesty k neskrytosti
· Richard Zika, Jednota transcendence. Studie k chápání transcendence ve Fenomenologii vnímání Maurice Merleau-Pontyho
· Marie Pětová, Myšlení počátku a konce metafysiky. K Heideggerovu titulu počátek (der Anfang)
· Annabelle Dufourcq, Merleau-Ponty: Une ontologie de l'imaginaire
Congratulations to all the award-winning authors!
Do you have any study, family, personal or other problems? Feel free to visit free psychological counselling for international students.
Contact: Mgr. Milan Polák (counsel@ruk.cuni.cz)
Office hours: Monday 12.00 – 2.00 pm (Školská 13a, Prague)
Further information at: http://www.cuni.cz/UK-317.html
The Summer Semester is quickly coming to its end.
Buy a university souvenir before your departure to re-live your studies abroad!
Charles University souvenirs can be bought from the Gift shop at the UK point (Celetná 14, Prague 1).
Is your semester abroad coming to an end? Here are some tips what to do before you leave:
· Have a group dinner
· Get the “Confirmation of Study Period”
· Take pictures of people
· Make a list of your favourite memories
· Close your bank account
· Buy some souvenirs from the university
· Weigh your luggage
· Prepare for reverse culture shock
The rector of the Charles University in Prague financially supports leisure activities of CU students. Single events, as well as regular events are supported.
The deadlines are as follows:
Single events: January 2, May 2, September 15 and November 15
Regular events: January 2, May 2 and August 31
The request for financial support is to be submitted in written form to Rector and in electronic form to zajmova-cinnost@ruk.cuni.cz.
For further information, including links to current university legislation, please visit the website of the Academic Senate: http://www.cuni.cz/UK-5695.html
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague and Chiang Ching-kuo International Sinological Centre at Charles University invite you to the lecture entitled “East Asia Philosophy on Good Government: Confucian Meritocracy as Ideal and Practice“. The lecture will be given by Doh C. Shin.
WHERE: University Area Jinonice (U Kříže 8, Prague 5), building B, room 5021
WHEN: May 12, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague and Czech Association for Social Anthropology invite you to the conference Transition 2.0? Anthropology of the world(s) in reform.
Keynote speakers: Michal Buchowski (University of Poznań) and Dimitris Dalakoglou (University of Sussex).
Panel topic proposals are due June 10, 2014.
Paper proposals (max. 300 words) shall be sent to the Organising Committee by June 25, 2014.
Mail submissions and panel proposals at 2014conference@casonline.cz
On May 2, 2014 UPCES students visited Dresden, Germany.
See the pictures on Facebook.