24 May 2021 – 17 September 2021
The Exam Period in the Summer Term at the Faculty of Humanities starts on May 24th and ends on September 17th.
Between August 1st and August 31st there are summer holidays. Exam period is interrupted on this date.
30 June 2021
On June 30, 2021 the regular meeting of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Humanites is held.
6 July 2021
On July 6 we commemorate John Hus, a Czech priest, philosopher, religious reformer and master at Charles University who was burned at the stake in 1415.
18 August 2021 – 20 August 2021
The Faculty of Humanities, CU invites you to an international conference "Proximité et distance en même temps: Jean-Paul Sartre et Emmanuel Lévinas en dialogue" / "Gleichzeitige nähe und ferne: Jean-Paul Sartre und Emmanuel Levinas im dialog". The conference takes place in a hybrid form (online / Vila Lanna) from August 18 to August 20, 2021.
17 September 2021
Dear colleagues, dear friends,
we cordially invite you to the Celebrating Connections event, which will be a celebration of twenty years of ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. On Friday, September 17, from 3 pm CET, you can enjoy a rich program full of live and streamed contributions from renowned world academics to exceptional local musicians at our new faculty building (in Troja)! Join us in our celebration of two decades of various inspiring connections on both the academic and applied levels, as well as of the 60th birthday of the ethnomusicology program founder and leader doc. Zuzana Jurková.
23 September 2021 – 26 September 2021
On September 23 - 26, 2021 the international book fair and literary festival "Book World Prague 2021" is held at the Prague Exhibition Grounds in Holešovice.
FHS`s book production will be presented and you will find it in the right part of the Industrial Palace at the Carolinum stand.
28 September 2021
Wenceslas was the duke of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935. He was murdered on September 28 by his younger brother Boleslaus the Cruel. Immediately after his death Wenceslas was considered a martyr and a saint.
All classes for this day have been cancelled.
30 September 2021 – 1 October 2021
The Faculty of Humanities and the Central-European Institute for Philosophy invite you to a workshop "Haushaltungen. Erprobungen des oikologischen Denkens". The workshop takes place in Libeň / online on September 30 – October 1, 2021.
Working languages: English, German
1 October 2021
The 2021/2022 academic year commences on 1 october 2021 and finishes on 30 September 2022.
4 October 2021 – 7 January 2022 | Winter semester
21 February 2022 – 20 May 2022 | Summer semester
1 October 2021
The dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, dr. Marie Pětová invites you to an informal Faculty gathering on the occasion of the beginning of the new academic year 2021/2022 which will be organized on Friday, October 1, 2021, at the Faculty headquarters.
All students, academic staff and employees of the Faculty of Humanities are welcome.
3 October 2021
The Faculty of Humanities and the Kruh Association invite you to the "World Architecture Day" festival. The Faculty building opens to the public on Sunday, October 3, 3 PM – 6 PM.
The new faculty building opened in 2020 was created by rebuilding the canteen according to a design by Kuba & Pilař architects.
4 October 2021 – 7 January 2022
The tuition in the Winter Term 2021/22 starts on October 4th, 2021 and ends on January 7th, 2022.
Between 23/12/2021 and 2/1/2022 will be winter holidays.
5 October 2021 – 6 October 2021
The Prague City Archives; the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences; the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University; the Faculty of Arts of J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem; the Institute of History and Archival Studies of Pedagogical University of Cracow and the Prague ZOO invite you to 40th international conference on Urban History "Animals in the City".
6 October 2021
The CU Point invites all international Bachelor´s, Master´s and Doctoral degree programmes students beginning their studies at Charles University in the academic year 2021/2022 to their Welcome Day. The event will take place on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 from 3 p.m.
27 October 2021
Hello fellow English-speaking students, we would like to invite you to an informal meeting with your colleagues from the Faculty of Humanities. The meeting will be held on Wednesday 27th of October, in an amazing pub Popocafepetl, situated on Michalská 15 near Staromětské náměstí. The official start is at 8 p.m. However, you are welcome to come a bit earlier (around 7:30 p.m.).
28 October 2021
This national holiday is to commemorate the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918.
29 October 2021
The matriculation ceremony for first-year students will be organized on Friday, October 29 in the Great Hall of Carolinum (Ovocný trh 5, Prague 1).
4 November 2021
CU Point would like to invite all international full-degree, non-EU students to the online integration course "WELCOME TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC" The course is going to take place online on November 4, 2021, from 1 PM.
More information about the course is available here.
12 November 2021 – 13 November 2021
The Faculty of Humanities and the Eugen Fink Zentrum Wuppertal invites you to an international conference „Neuere Forschungen zu Fink“. The conference takes place at Vila Lanna on November 12 – 13, 2021.
12 November 2021 – 13 November 2021
Faculty of Humanities, CU invites you to the 6th International Balkan Studies Conference "Balkan Express". This year the conference will aim to rethink the Balkans through concepts and ideas of neighbors, neighborhood and neighborly relations.
16 November 2021
The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University cordially invites you to lectures delivered by prof. Rudolf Simek (University of Bonn). The lectures takes place at the FHS on November 16, 2021: "Fornaldarsögur and Riddarasögur Motifs and manifold intertextual connections" at 8.00 AM & "Fornaldarsögur and medieval Christian ideas of demonology" at 11.00 AM.
23 November 2021
The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology invites you to a lecture by dr. Franze Krause (University of Cologne) "Inhabiting a Transforming Delta. Volatility and Improvisation in the Canadian Arctic". The lecture takes place at the FHS on November 23, 2021.
25 November 2021
On Thursday, November 25 at 4:00 PM regular meeting of the AS FHS CU is held. The meeting takes place in a hybrid format (room No. 0.31 / MS Teams).
30 November 2021
The Faculty of Humanities, CU cordially invites you to guest lectures by prof. Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir (University of Iceland). The lectures take place at the FHS (room No. 2.42.) on November 30.
2 December 2021
The Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, in collaboration with Association for Integration and Migration invite you to the international symposium Borders, Mobility of Care and Translocal Social Reproduction.
4 December 2021
Musical project "Fakulta Hledající Sound" announces its return after a highly successful event in 2019.
We aim to introduce students and employees of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University to the alternative music scene and enable them to personally experience it, especially the rich world of [not only] electronic music.
8 December 2021 – 9 December 2021
The Faculty of Humanities and the Institute of Philosophy cordially invite you to a workshop "Faces of Nature: Phenomenology and Ecology". The workshop takes place at the FHS from 8 to 9 December 2021.
23 December 2021 – 2 January 2022
The winter holidays start on December 23, 2021 and end on January 2, 2022. The public holidays are as follow:
December 24 - Christmas Eve
December 25 - Christmas Day
December 26 - St. Stephen's Day (The Second Christmas Day)
January 1 - Restoration Day of the Independent Czech State; New Year's Day
10 January 2022 – 11 February 2022
The exam period in the Winter Term starts on January 10, and ends on February 11, 2022.
Good luck on your exams!
13 January 2022
"Open Days" are online Zoom events for applicants and prospective students who would like to learn more about the application process.
3 February 2022
On Thursday, February 3 at 4:00 PM regular meeting of the AS FHS CU is held. The meeting takes place in a hybrid format.
Further information in the Academic Senate section.
21 February 2022 – 20 May 2022
Tuition in the Summer Term 2021/22 starts on February 21, 2022 and ends on May 20, 2022.
24 March 2022
The Faculty of Humanities invites you to a public lecture by Dr Nuno Palma (University of Manchester). The lecture "Prices and wages in pre-modern Europe: methods, antiquity, the middle ages and the early modern period" takes place in Liben on March 24, 2022 at 12:30 pm.
25 March 2022
The Faculty of Humanities invites you to a workshop by Dr Nuno Palma (University of Manchester). The workshop "The measurement of standards of living" takes place in Liben on March 25, 2022 at 10:00 am.
29 March 2022
The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Arts cordially invite you to a lecture delivered by prof. Daniel Sävborg (University of Tartu). The lecture "Depiction of Emotions in Icelandic Sagas" takes place at the FHS (Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8) on March 29 at 11.00 am.
29 March 2022
The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Arts cordially invite you to a lecture delivered by prof. Daniel Sävborg (University of Tartu). The lecture "Passion and Witchcraft in Old Norse literature" takes place at the FHS (Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8) on March 29 at 8.00 am.
30 March 2022
The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Arts Charles University cordially invite you to a lecture delivered by prof. Daniel Sävborg (University of Tartu). The lecture "Emotional Texture of Old Norse Skald-Sagas. With a special reference to Kormáks saga and Bjarnar saga" takes place at the Faculty of Arts (Na Příkopě 584/29, Praha 1) on March 30 at 9.00 am.
30 March 2022
The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Arts Charles University cordially invite you to a lecture delivered by prof. Daniel Sävborg (University of Tartu). The lecture "Supernatural and Fantastic in Old Norse Prose Íslendingasǫgur and fornaldarsǫgur" takes place at the Faculty of Arts (Celetná 20, 110 00, Praha 1 – Staré město, room No C503) on March 30 at 12.30 pm.
31 March 2022
The Faculty of Humanities invites you to a public lecture by Dr Nuno Palma (University of Manchester). The lecture "Prices and wages in the modern period after 1800" takes place in Liben on March 31, 2022 at 12:30 pm.
7 April 2022
On Thursday, April 7 at 4:00 PM regular meeting of the AS FHS CU is held. Further information in the Academic Senate section.
14 April 2022
On April 14, 2022 the Dean’s Day has been scheduled. All FHS classes have been cancelled for this day.
Happy and peaceful Easter!
20 April 2022
The Department of Sociology invites you to a lecture by prof. Barbara Thériault (Université de Montréal): "Die Bodenständigen. Exploring the Sober Middle of Society". The lecture takes place in Liben (room No. 2.42) on Wednesday, April 20 at 5 pm.
20 April 2022
The Department of Philosophy invites you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Daniela Camhy, Dr. h. c. (Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz): Ludwig Wittgenstein: Architecture as Gesture. The Lecture takes place in Liben on Wednesday, April 20 at 2 pm.
21 April 2022
The Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities Charles University invites you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Daniela Camhy, Dr. h. c. (Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz): Digital Ethics. The lecture takes place in Liben on Thursday, April 21 at 12.30 pm.
21 April 2022
The Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities Charles University invites you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Daniela Camhy, Dr. h. c. (Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz): Cosmopolitanism and Community of Inquiry. The lecture takes place in Liben on Thursday, April 21 at 5 pm.
26 April 2022
The Faculty of Humanities cordially invites you to a lecture by prof. Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen (University of Begen): Legal, Religious and Medical Spheres of Madness in Medieval Norway and Iceland. The lecture takes place on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 (room No. 2.41) at 11.00 am.
26 April 2022
The Faculty of Humanities cordially invites you to a lecture by prof. Helen Frances Leslie-Jacobsen (University of Begen): Law Books in Norway and Iceland. The lecture takes place on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 (room No. 2.41) at 8.00 am.
Charles University
Faculty of Humanities
Pátkova 2137/5
182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
Czech Republic