3 June 2024 – 4 June 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Charles University
Faculty of Humanities
Pátkova 2137/5
182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
Czech Republic
