2 June 2025
A talk by Prof. Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main) consists of two parts: in the first, he is attempting to delineate a "cultural logic of infection" based on Deleuze & Guattari’s distinction of "filiation" and "infection." In a second part, professor Herzogenrath will present a "series" from his international pandemic arts project ©ovid’s metamorphoses, linking play and infection to an artistic assemblage. Joy is an act of resistance (in both the political and medical sense).
6 June 2025
The culmination of the Music from Nature summer school with university teacher and artist David Rothenberg. The concert will feature the participants of the summer school, presenting the outputs of their week's work as well as David Rothenberg himself, who has "played" with cicadas and whales in the past. The summer school is organised by Zuzana Jurková and Oldřich Poděbradský.
27 August 2025 – 29 August 2025
At the end of August 2025, the Faculty of Humanities will host a conference on the impact of depopulation in Europe. It will focus on how the depopulation of peripheral rural areas and urban centres affects cultural and natural heritage in the broadest sense, as well as the relationship between humans and nature. We are accepting proposals for papers on various aspects of depopulation in both urban and rural areas, focusing on cultural heritage, cultural transmission, relationship to place, memory, demographic anxiety or the effects of demographic change on local communities.
27 August 2025 – 29 August 2025
The Faculty of Humanities will host the international midterm conference of the ESA Research Network RN05 Sociology of Consumption on 27-29 August 2025.
The conference Uncharted Territories in the Sociology of Consumption focuses on new perspectives in the study of consumption, seeks to deepen the understanding of the dynamics of consumer behaviour in contemporary society, and emphasises the Eastern European dimension and research on understudied areas. The aim is to stimulate an interdisciplinary debate on innovative methodologies and theories in the sociology of consumption.
4 September 2025 – 5 September 2025
The history of emotions helps us understand human experience by showing how feelings influence behavior, decision-making, and social interactions. Faculty of Humanities PhD candidates organizes a workshop on role of feelings in shaping everyday life in history. The workshop will take place on 4th and 5th September 2025.
Charles University
Faculty of Humanities
Pátkova 2137/5
182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
Czech Republic
