30 March 2023
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
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
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 is a public holiday in the Czech republic. There are no classes on April 10, 2023.
4 May 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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.
12 April 2024 – 13 April 2024
This presentation will introduce the research project “Decolonizing Ethnographic Museums in Central Europe”, a two-year project funded by the FOND Junior Programme at Charles University and at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. The project focuses on the decolonization strategies of three museums in Central Europe, including the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures in Prague, Czech Republic, the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Austria, and the Néprajzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography) in Budapest, Hungary. These museums differ in the size of their collections, their exhibition spaces, and the regional and global claims they make for their collections.
22 April 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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.
21 May 2024
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? The University is now offering all those interested the chance to discuss these topics in an informal environment over a cup of coffee and a croissant – or even a Czech pie!I cordially invite both students and all CU employees to new, regular breakfast meetings, where we can jointly discuss a number of topics affecting the University in a relaxed environment. The number of places is limited to 10 per event. If a breakfast event is attended by international students or CU employees, conversation will take place partly in English. I’m looking forward to hearing your opinions and ideas!
Charles University
Faculty of Humanities
Pátkova 2137/5
182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
Czech Republic
