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22 April 2024

Nature Based Solutions: an opportunity to regenerate climate resilient cities and to improve a sustainable use of resources

The lecture will present how green infrastrucures and in general a multifunctionalised public and private green space in cities, can provide useful ecosystem services, generate savings and revenues, ensure mechanisms for dealing with the expleted planetary bounderies. We therefore will focus on wastewater reuse an recycling, urban and agricultural runoff management, rainwater harvesting, nutirents recovery from human and animal excreta, all managed by constructed wetlands, greenwalls, green facades, green roofs, bioretention trenches, bioswales, and other alternative ecological means.


23 April 2024

Concert for 100 Metronomes and soundwalk around FHS by Berg orchestra

Let yourself be drawn into the soundscape on 23th April, and then let the rhythm set the pace. We invite you to a unique evening full of sounds and music, prepared especially for the Faculty of Humanities by the Berg Orchestra.


24 April 2024

Kostas Biliūnas' lecture on landscape influence on the architecture of Late Baroque churches

The presentation outlines a research that focuses on the aesthetic-psychological relationship between Late Baroque churches and the natural elements of the place. The very idea of such a relationship is based on philosophical and Baroque theoretical arguments. It is the approach of architectural phenomenology that enables one to research this theme. Theoretical and practical ways have been opened up by Christian Norberg-Schulz, who, however, has not provided a precise practical tool. As a result, a combined contextuality method is being developed, incorporating several methods from architectural phenomenology. A pilot research of 11 churches, together with their natural environment in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in Trakai Voivodeship, has been carried out. This research has highlighted common specific features suggesting the landscape as an important factor shaping the expression of Late Baroque architecture.


25 April 2024 – 27 April 2024

Not-idylic Bohumil Hrabal conference

Hrabal is a synonym for idyll, at least for most of society, which perceives Bohumil Hrabal's works mainly through film adaptations. But his work has a more hidden and surprisingly far more abundant aspect: non-idyllicity. Why this feature of Hrabal's texts appeals more to foreign readers will be discussed by experts or translators of his books from France, Japan, Germany, or Poland, where he is still one of the most-read authors. They will be joined by leading experts on Hrabal's work from Czechia.


25 April 2024

Sociological coffee seminar on discourse, its analysis and music

What is discourse analysis and what are its most important assumptions? What is critical discourse analysis? How can discourse analysis be used in studies on music and society? These are the most important questions around which the lecture will be focused.

Barbara Jabłońska is an associate professor at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University. Her research interests focus, among others, on issues related to the theory of culture and art, communication theories, and methods of qualitative research. She deals in particular with the issues of the sociology of music, media communication, and the public sphere, as well as discourse analysis.


7 May 2024

Brunch for Expat Women in Czech Science

We invite you to a brunch for expat women scientists working in Czech research institutions. The guest speaker at the event will be Zsófia Csajbók, who works at the Faculty of Humanities as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Life Sciences. The Brunch is organised by the NKC - Gender and Science and all women researchers across disciplines are invited. Registration is required for the event.


23 May 2024

Mary Maggic: Art Talk (Alien Knowledging)

FHS cordially invites you to a public event Mary Maggic: Artist Talk. Alien Knowledging, in the FHS UK Jan Sokol Auditorium on 23 May 2024 at 6:00 pm. This talk will provide a glimpse into the artistic practice of one of the key contemporary posthumanist feminist manifestos, Xenofeminism, which advocates the exploration of the potential of technology to achieve gender liberation. Exploring the alienation found in our bodies, environments, and molecules, the event will delve into artistic practice of Mary Maggic, who often uses biohacking as a Xenofeminist practice of care that serves to demystify the invisible lines of molecular biopower. The event will begin with a welcome by Dr. Denisa Tomková (FHS), an introduction to the project by Zai Xu (SVĚTOVA 1), and will be followed by Mary Maggic’s artist talk.


3 June 2024 – 4 June 2024

Biographical Research in Central and Eastern Europe: Traditions and Challenges

The workshop aims to bring together scholars focusing on theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of biographical research (mainly) set in Central and Eastern European countries and to initiate their discussion with key figures in the biographical network: Professor Hans Renders and Doctor David Veltman, both from the Biography Institute at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Netherlands. The goal is to discuss general topics as well as (potential) regional specifics.


3 June 2024

Protest System Collapse!

At its meeting on 24 May, the Academic Senate of Charles University supported the upcoming protest action System Collapse!, which aims to draw attention to the imminent instability of Czech higher education due to possible budget cuts for the education sector. The demonstration will take place before the Chamber of Deputies debates on the state budget for 2025. The rally will take place on Monday, 3 June, on Jan Palach Square at 16:00, where opening speeches will be given. It will then pass by the Office of the Government, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.


10 June 2024

Lecture of A. Dirk Moses Genocide and Armed Conflict: The Construction of an Artificial Distinction

The lecture reconstructs and explores how the construction of armed conflict as a legitimate practice of state violence was severed from genocide during the codification of genocide in law in the late 1940s and since. This distinction was entrenched in the postcolonial conflicts in Africa and Asia in the 1960s and 1970s, and has sedimented in the international law being applied in the Israel-Palestine war today, as the ICJ proceedings reveal. The distinction allows any state to justify its action as in terms of military necessity despite its seemingly genocidal consequences. Taking the approach of the history of concepts, this paper reveals the instability of this distinction and the purposes it serves.

A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York. He is the author of the books German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007) and The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021).

The lecture is organised by Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, CU and Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, CU.


13 June 2024 – 15 June 2024

Doctoral Conference: Rewriting the History: Changing the Reading of the Past

How is history ideologised and the creation of myths of the exceptionality of individual states and nations such as the USA, Israel, the Soviet Union or North Korea? And what role does political interest and propaganda play in such processes? How is historical memory related to national, religious or gender identity? And how does it relate to migration? The international interdisciplinary doctoral conference entitled Rewriting the History: Changing the Reading of the Past will seek answers to these and other interesting questions. The event is organized by the Department of Historical Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University, at the faculty headquarters and online on the 13th-15th. June 2024. The main expert guarantor of the conference is Dr. Alena Marková.


21 June 2024

International conference: Enhancing Personal and Household Services in Europe

We invite you to the final conference of the international project PERHOUSE Enhancing Personal and Household Services in Europe: Lessons from Central and Eastern European Countries, which will take place online on Friday, June 21, 2024, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.


24 June 2024 – 25 June 2024

International conference After Kant

What was the influence of Immanuel Kant's thought on later philosophy of art and aesthetics and the perception of beauty in general? On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Enlightenment philosopher from Königsberg, the Faculty of Humanities will host an international conference entitled After Kant: What do art and literature owe to Kant? Ian Alexander Moore of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and James Reid of Metropolitan State University of Denver will deliver keynotes at the conference. Associate Professor Aleš Novák from the Department of Philosophy is organizing the event on behalf of our faculty.


29 August 2024 – 30 August 2024

International conference Military Reenactment, Military Heritage, and Historical Conflicts and Traumas in Czech Lands

At the end of August, the Faculty of Humanities will host an international conference on military historical reenactment entitled Military Reenactment, Military Heritage, and Historical Conflicts and Traumas in Czech Lands. "This is the first-ever professional event in Czechia on the topic: the so-called reenactment studies, well established in the Anglo-Saxon academy, are still in their infancy in the Czech environment. The activities and publications associated with our GAČR project 'History and culture of contemporary Czech military re-enactment in an interdisciplinary perspective' are changing this situation," says Petr Wohlmuth, the event organiser. Passive participation in an audience is possible at the conference. However, it is necessary to register at Petr.Wohlmuth@fhs.cuni.cz.


2 September 2024 – 3 September 2024

Workshop Thinking the "other" from the Historical Perspective

How can we look at the "other" in different historical periods? Faculty of Humanities PhD candidates invite you to a workshop on various representatives of "otherness" which will take place on 2nd and 3rd September. You can find a workshop program(me) down below. Topics of all papers cover the otherness and you can look forward to topics such as witches, tuberculosis, postmodern hermeticism, representation of African otherness in modern Czech travelogues and others. All faculty students are kindly welcome to the workshop.


3 October 2024

Echoes of FHSfest

The Students of FHS UK club cordially invites you to the "Echoes". The Faculty of Humanities will be filled with the echoes of summer and the June FHSfest, as well as music and poetry. Come and enjoy the exhibition or chat around the campfire.


7 October 2024

Opening of the FHSwap

On Monday, October 7, there will be an opportunity to open the new swap at FHS together. In addition to the long-standing opportunity to bring your own clothes, dishes, and other items, there will be a crochet workshop on site that day for beginners and advanced. Equipment will be on site. There will also be an opportunity to learn about the theory of circular economy in a short and intense talk by PhD student Varvara Borisova, and we will be visited by FHS Dean Vera Sokolova for an introduction. Along with the Echoes of FHSfest, there will be a walkthrough the artworks on display in the faculty atrium, and the afternoon programme will be rounded off with two evening concerts by Drozd and Hyjé in the Jungle, where we will then dance by the fire with Pučmeloud.


7 October 2024

First Feminist Reading Group and performance by Natalie Mariko

The first meeting of the Feminist Reading Group on 7 October will be a special one: at 7 pm in the room 0.32 it will be followed by a public lecture and a performative reading by poet Natalie Mariko, current Garage Gallery resident, from her forthcoming book God of Knuckles. On literary voice, poetics and the dissolution of memory.


11 October 2024 – 13 October 2024

Akutes Denken – Die Andere Studierenden Konference: Neuer Materialismus in Theorie and Praxis

Graduate students of the study programme Deutsche und Französische Philosophie at the Faculty of Humanities organise a summer school at FHS (room 1.21) on the topic of New Materialism in Theory and Practice (in German) together with participants from Christan-Albrecht Universität, Kiel and Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Over two semesters, students at these universities have formed reading groups in this new field and will present and discuss their work together. Keynote lectures will be given by Dr Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer (FHS), Prof Hans Rainer Sepp (FHS), Prof Christian Thies (Universität Passau). The event will be held in German.


11 October 2024

Reza Negarestani's lecture But Where Do You All Zombies Come From? in Prague

The Academy of Fine Arts & The Faculty of Humanities are hosting a talk by Reza Negarestani, one of the leading thinkers of our time. Negarestani has not only popularized theory-fiction (Cyclonopedia) but also developed a vast neo-rationalist project on intelligence. In his first-ever lecture in Prague, Negarestani will outline his program of (general) intelligence, as featured in Intelligence and Spirit. Negarestani's lecture will be complemented by a shorter position paper from Václav Janoščík. Mohammad Salemy will moderate this discussion.


30 October 2024

Faculty Hour at FHS

Faculty Hour - an informal meeting with our student organisations, student ambassadors and other international students. Come and get to know each other, find out about extra-curricular activities and ask about anything you can think of after your first few weeks of study.


1 November 2024

Timothy Morton lecture at FHS

For the first time in Czechia, Timothy Morton will appear on 1 November ina live teleconference at the Jan Sokol Auditorium of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague and at the Inspiration Forum of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. Here they will present their new book Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology and offer a lecture on the climate “hell that is not the end of the world” and the unexpected combination of ecology and Christianity against the climate crisis.


4 November 2024

Screening the experimental documentary Writing the Time Lag by Lee Tzu Tung

FHS will host a screening of Writing the Time Lag, an experimental documentary by Taiwanese artist Lee Tzu Tung, along with a short discussion afterwards. The film is open to all students and faculty staff.


4 November 2024

Berg Orchestra concert The Fabrication of Light at FHS CU

The Berg Orchestra returns to FHS with another program and a truly monstrous one at that. "This is not a composition. It's a monster. But so beautiful!" Enno Poppe, composer and conductor of its world premiere, said of The Fabrication of Light, which will be performed in our atrium on November 4.


11 November 2024

The lecture by Nicola Zengiaro: The Biosemiotic Interpretation of Cosmological Understanding of Life

On 11 November, an excellent young researcher from the University of Bologna, Nicola Zengiaro, will visit Prague. He will come to FHS with a lecture The Biosemiotic Interpretation of Cosmological Understanding of Life.


16 December 2024

The Giverny Suite film screening and discussion with the author

Do you feel safe? The central question for the documentary poem The Giverny Suite was posed by its author Ja'Tovia Gary to many African American women on a New York City street. The audiovisual result of this questioning, which recently appeared at MoMA in New York, will be presented by the artist to students and interested members of the public at FHS in December.


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