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3 October 2022 – 6 January 2023

Tuition in Winter Term

Classes in the Winter Semester 2022/23 start on October 3rd, 2022 and ends on January 6th, 2023.

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Between 23/12/2022 and 1/1/2023 will be winter holidays.


1 December 2022

Guest Lecture by Jürg Glauser: The Simultaneity of Media

The Faculty of Humanities cordially invites you to a guest lecture by Jürg Glauser, professor emeritus at the University of Zürich and the University of Basel: The simultaneity of media. Manuscripts and printed books in late medieval and early modern Europe. The lecture takes place at the FHS (room No. 0.03) on December 1 at 11.30 am.


12 December 2022

Workshop: Jómsvíkinga saga, aspects and attitudes

The Faculty of Humanities cordially invites you to a workshop: Jómsvíkinga saga, aspects and attitudes.

The workshop takes place at Café Liberál on December 12, 2022.


14 December 2022 – 15 December 2022

Workshop: Peirce's Semiotics and the Arts

The Faculty of Humanities and The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague invite you to a unique workshop with the two leading experts in the field of semiotics, philosophy and humanities. Francesco Bellucci and Frederik Stjernfelt. 


16 December 2022

Guest Lecture by prof. James G. Pfaus: The Chemistry of Sexual Desire

The Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science invite you to a guest lecture by prof. James G. Pfaus: The Chemistry of Sexual Desire. The lecture takes place at the FHs on December 16 at 2.00 PM.


9 January 2023 – 10 February 2023

Exam period in Winter Term

The exam period in the Winter Term starts on January 9, and ends on February 10, 2023. 

Good luck on your exams!


18 January 2023

Faculty Open House

Faculty of Humanities, Charles University cordially invites you to an Open House which will be held in Liben (Pátkova 2137/5, Prague 8) on January 18, 2023.


23 February 2023

Guest Lectures by Sif Ríkharðsdóttir & Torfi H. Tulinius

The Faculty of Humanities cordially invites you to guest lectures by Sif Ríkharðsdóttir and Torfi H. Tulinius (University of Iceland). The lectures take place at the FHS building (room No. 2.41.) on Thursday, February 23, 2023.


23 February 2023

Guest Lecture: Haraldur Bernharðsson (University of Iceland), Old Norse phonology and morphology

The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University would like to invite you to lecture "Old Norse phonology and morphology: a gently introduction", which will be given on Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. in classroom 2.41 by Haraldur Bernharðsson (University of Iceland).


23 February 2023

Breakfast with a rector of CU on FH

Dear employees, students and members of the academic community of the Faculty of Humanities! What are the current challenges faced by Charles University? What creative ideas could benefit CU? What is holding us back? Where do we want to be in five years’ time?

We cordially invite on February, 23, 09:00 – 10:00, both students and all FH employees to breakfast meeting with the Rector of CU, where you can jointly discuss a number of topics affecting the University in a relaxed environment.


23 February 2023 – 24 February 2023

International conference: Prague Medieval DH Storming

The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Arts of Charles University would like to invite you to the international conference on Digital Humanities in Medieval Studies, Prague Medieval DH Storming, which will take place in the form of presentations and discussions on Thursday, February 23 at the Hybernská Campus (Hybernská 4, Cirkulární hub) and in the form of practical parallel workshops on Friday, February 24, 2023 in Voršilská 1.


13 March 2023

Concert "Slow" of the Berg Orchestra at the FHS UK

The Berg Orchestra in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University is pleased to invite you to the concert "SLOW | ... different flow of time", which will take place on Monday 13 March 2023 at 7:30 pm at the Faculty's headquarters.


18 March 2023

Guest Lecture by Hartwig Bischof

The Faculty of Humanities, CU cordially invites you to a lecture by the Austrian painter Hartwig Bischof. The lecture takes place at the FHS (room No. 2.32) on Saturday, March 18 at 2.00 PM.


23 March 2023

Sociological Coffee at 2:30 p.m. with Birgit Althans

The Faculty of Humanities of Charles University invites you to the seminar Sociological Coffee at 2:30 p.m., organized by the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University on Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 2:30 p.m. in room 2.32. The seminar will feature a presentation by Birgit Althans, professor of pedagogy at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts, on "Researching landscapes as affective and political spaces: new material research methods and/or aesthetic practice".


23 March 2023

Presentation of the proposed candidates for the position of Dean of FH CU

Faculty of Humanities, Charles University would like to invite you to the public pre-election meeting of the Academic Senate of FH CU, the only item on the agenda being the presentation of the proposed candidates for the position of Dean of FH CU. The meeting will take place on Thursday 23 March 2023 at 16:00 in the Jan Sokol Auditorium.


30 March 2023

Lectures by Dr. Rebecca Merkelbach

The Faculty of Humanities CU invites You to the lectures "Berserkr and hamrammr: Monstrous Bodies in the Sagas of Icelanders" and "Traumaand Transformation in the 'Post-Classical' Sagas of Icelanders" by Dr. Rebecca Merkelbach from the University of Tübingen. The lectures will take place on Thursday 30 March at 10:00 and 11:30 at the Faculty of Humanities CU, room 2.41.


6 April 2023

Dean's day (Maundy Thursday)

On April 6, 2023 the Dean’s Day has been scheduled. All FHS classes have been cancelled for this day (and also on public holidays April 7 and 10).

Happy and peaceful Easter!


7 April 2023

Good Friday

On the Friday before Easter the Czech Republic observes Good Friday as a national holiday. Therefore, there are no classes on April 7, 2023.


10 April 2023

Easter Monday

Easter Monday is a public holiday in the Czech republic. There are no classes on April 10, 2023.


4 May 2023

Guest Lecture by Béatrice Laurent and Nina Elfdrige

The Faculty of Humanities cordially invites you to a guest lecture by Béatrice Laurent and Nina Eldridge (Université Bordeaux Montaigne): „Vraždou nezarmoutíš neboli O umění na pomezí neznáma“.

The lecture takes place at the FHS (room No. 2.21.) on May 4, 2023 at 11.30 am.


4 May 2023

Lecture by Verena Höfig: Women's medicine and textual amulets in Old Norse healing practices

The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University cordially invites you to a lecture delivered by Prof. Verena Höfig (University of Munich) "Women's medicine and textual amulets in Old Norse healing practices" on Thursday, May 4, at 10:00 a.m. in room Nr. 2.41.


10 May 2023

Rector`s Sports Day

Dear sports friends,

again after a year, the opportunity to actively participate in the next year of the rector's sports day, which is set for 10th May 2023, is open to all interested students, faculty employees and staff of the rector's office of the CU. We cordially invite everyone to actively participate in this sports day Charles University holiday. Come and play sports, meet friends and experience real sports competition.


13 May 2023 – 14 May 2023

Psychological resilience workshop

Dear students,

we would like to offer you opportunity to participate in the workshop for English speaking students about Psychological resilience, the workshop will take place on May 13. – 14., 2023. You can find more information and register at ukpoint.cuni.cz.

We are looking forward to meeting you!


18 May 2023

Sociological Coffee at 2:30 p.m. with Dawn R. Norris

The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University would like to invite you to the seminar Sociological Coffee at 2:30 p.m., organized by the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University on Thursday, 18 May 2023 at 2:30 p.m. in room 2.32. The seminar will feature a presentation by Associate Professor Dawn R. Norris from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in the United States on "Exploring the meaning of work and unemployment in the Czech Republic: preliminary findings".


19 May 2023

Beer with the Faculty – the traditional informal end-of-the-semester meeting

Dear colleagues, as has become a tradition, this semester will also be concluded with a joint meeting of the students, teachers and other employees of the faculty, to which it is my great pleasure to invite you. You can have your „beer with the faculty“ on Friday, 19 May, at 5 pm., non-alcoholic, of course, if you like. Let us hope the weather gets better and we can use the space in front of the faculty as well. Looking forward to seeing you, Marie Pětová


26 May 2023

Music and Nature Concert by David Rothenberg

The Faculty of Humanities CU would like to invite you to the final concert of four day course, which will take place on Friday 26 May 2023 at 6 pm in the FHS UK building. The course will be taught by Dr Zuzana Jurkova and Professor David Rothenberg from the New Jersey Institute of Technology as part of the ethnomusicology course at the FHS.


22 June 2023 – 24 June 2023

International conference "Rethinking War in the Humanities"

On behalf of the Department of Historical Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, we would like to invite to the international conference “Rethinking war in the humanities” intended for PhD and Mgr students. The conference will be held on June 22–24, 2023 (online & in-person).


23 July 2023 – 28 July 2023

International Semiotic Summer School in Prague: When Images Speak Louder Than Words

The International Semiotics Summer School will take place at the Faculty of Humanities of CU from 23-28 July 2023. The topic for this year is the visual metaphor.


14 September 2023 – 15 September 2023

International conference: Children & Youth Perspectives

We would like to invite you to the Children & Youth Perspectives international Conference: Theory, Research and Practice in European Context, that will be held on the 14th and 15th of September 2023 in Kampus Hybernská. The Hosting institutions of the Conference are Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Psychology and Life Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication and Kampus Hybersnká.


29 September 2023 – 30 September 2023

Conference: Eugen Fink und die Französische Phänomenologie

In cooperation with the Eugen Fink Zentrum in Wuppertal, the Faculty of Humanities is organizing an international conference entitled Eugen Fink und die Französische Phänomenologie, to which we kindly invite you. The event will take place on 29 and 30 September at the neo-Renaissance Villa Lanna in Prague's Bubeneč district.. Photo: Matěj Orlický, used under a license Creative Commons.


4 October 2023

Presentation of new books by Karel Novotný and James Dodd on the work of Jan Patočka

The Faculty of Humanities kindly invites you to the presentation of two book titles on the work of the Czech philosopher Jan Patočka. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, October 4 at the Academic Conference Centre at 5 pm.

Photo: Academic Conference Centre


13 October 2023 – 14 October 2023

Workshop on Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Max Scheler and surrealism

Hans Rainer Sepp, Adjunct professor of Charles University, organises a workshop on philosophy of two German phenomenologists, Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888 - 1966) and Max Scheler (1874 - 1928) on 13th and 14. September.


2 November 2023

AI Day at FHS

Join us in examining artificial intelligence from the perspective of humanities and social sciences. The program includes a lecture on AI ethics, a workshop on using AI for research, a contest in generating AI art, a discussion hosted by a student association Exthema, and a series of short presentations mapping the impact of AI on society. Come discuss the future of the relationship between humans and technology.


10 November 2023 – 11 November 2023

Balkan Express 2023: Between Orientalism and Occidentalism

Faculty of Humanities, CU, is happy to invite you to the seventh year of the international conference called Balkan Express 2023: Between Orientalism and Occidentalism, which will take place on 10 and 11 November, 2023, in Prague.


10 November 2023 – 11 November 2023

Student conference Critical Perspectives of Phenomenology

We invite you to the student conference Critical Perspectives of Phenomenology: Wahrnehmung, imaginace, fiktion - Perception, imagination, fiction, which organised within the SVV program "Critical Perspectives of Phenomenology". The event is co-organized by prof. Karel Novotný of FHS UK and prof. Alexander Schnell of Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal. Four PhD students and one graduate of FHS's programm German and French philosophy will also present on the conference.


27 November 2023

Nature Conservation in the UK and the impact of Brexit

Clive Hurford, based at the University of Aberystwyth, will give a talk as a guest of Social and Cultural Ecology programme. The main focus of his talk at the FHS will be on nature conservation in the UK and the organisations from the public and non-profit sectors that are working on this issue. Hurford will also talk about different forms of conservation and summarise what works, doesn't work or how environmental concerns have been affected by Brexit.


29 November 2023 – 30 November 2023

Prof. Herzogenrath and Dr. Chubb at FHS and National Gallery

Four special seminars will be held at the FHS and the National Gallery on the topics of violence in David Cronenberg's films, the role of artificial intelligence and algorithms in music or the importance of music in an age when humans are a major geological agent. They will be presented by Professor Bernd Herzogenrath from Goethe Universität Frankfurt and Dr. Jenn Chubb from the University of York.


7 December 2023 – 8 December 2023

Colloquium on Kitaro Nishida and Eugen Fink

Adjunct professor at Charles University and Deutsche und französische Philosophie programm lead Hans Rainer Sepp organizescolloquium dedicated to the thinking of the Japanese and German philosophers Kitaro Nishida and Eugen Fink. The universities associated with the strategic group Central cooperate with FHS on the organization: Warsaw, Vienna, Eötvös Loránd in Budapest and Humboldt University in Berlin. Some students and teachers from them will also speak at the colloquium. Individual contributions will be devoted, for example, to the possibility of applying Nishida's ideas to contemporary aesthetic thinking or to the pedagogical thinking of Eugene Fink.


1 February 2024

Deutsche und Französische Philiosophie Open Day 2024

Would you like to learn more about the Deutsche und Französische Philosophie master study programme at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University?

Join us for the Open day at FHS Campus!


14 March 2024

Volunteering driven by reliigious inspiration: Is it really doomed to death?

Religion is widely recognized as the principal driver of volunteering for social solidarity and voluntary associations linked to religious institutions have been an important actor in the social services field in all Europe, regardless of the welfare regime. Now, recent research trends show that religious voluntary associations are under pressure: traditional life-long membership-based participation declines, intermediary corps are losing appeal, religious participation has plummeted. Counter-intuitively, Ksenija claims that religious volunteering can rely on an important resource to re-invent itself in the future. Starting from the results of her doctoral studies, published in a book (2023), Ksenija will explore the potential for furthering this line of research in comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives and share her experience of international practitioner and PhD candidate at the WWU - University of Münster in Germany.


19 March 2024

Intermedial performance Gutta

This multi-layered project is centered on the person of "Amazon Gutta", a woman from the Yoruba people, performing with a group of "Amazons of Dahomey", which in September 1892, arrived in Prague. Gutta contracted typhoid fever here, and died after a few days. Her solemn funeral was a big spectacle, which took place on September 21, 1892 and was widely reported by press around the world. She was buried then in the Olšany cemetery. Two years later, her remains were excavated by Jindřich Matiegka and placed in the university collection, from where they found their way to the Hrdlicka Museum of Man, where they remain to this day.


25 March 2024

The Delicate Signwork of Ecological Remediation in Post-Iron Curtain Landscapes

The Iron Curtain is best known as a metaphor for the geopolitical separation between the Soviet Union and 'the West'. It is less well known as a technology of human displacement and ecological damage, for which forests were cut down or wetlands drained - even less so since the European Green Belt Initiative claimed the collateral ecological value of the former militarised border area. In the transboundary protected area of the Bavarian Forest (Germany) and Šumava (Czechia), a recent ecological project aims to restore wetlands, as these ecosystems have gained high ecological value for climate change mitigation, but also as drivers of biodiversity. Through material semiotic analysis, this case discusses what kind of wetland one can 'return to' in post-Iron Curtain landscapes. Emphasising the co-dependence of matter and meaning, the analysis highlights that the work of ecological remediation is actively engaged in processes of 'sign production' and 'sign destruction', here introduced as material signwork. The act of returning carries with it not only meanings of bodily movement, but also the 're-mediation' of the delicate histories of exclusion, dispossession and ecological damage.


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.


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