The 29th edition of the international Prague Writers’ Festival with the title “Beauty Saves the World” will take place between 16th and 20th October 2019. The event will feature authors’ readings, various discussions and film screenings. The festival schedule can be downloaded here with additional information on the festival’s official page. Contemporary Dutch literature will be […]
Until further notice, our department will be situated in the room P319!
On June 4th, the office hours of the secretariat are cancelled due to a training session. Thank you for your understanding.
A presentation of the book Samen op de laan van Europa and the corresponding photographic project by Pieter J. Goedhart, Jan C. Henneman, Kryštof Krijt, Rebecca Krijt and Ivo Mostert, as well as the Czech/Slovak translation of the book titled Spolu “alejí Evropy”/Spoločne “alejou Európy”, will take place on Thursday, 30th May at 5 pm. The project which […]
This publication consists of the contributions to the sixth Postgraduate and Post-doctorate Colloquium on Low Countries Studies which took place at the Charles University in Prague on 7 – 10 March 2018. The colloquium aimed to provide a methodological and professional support to young postgraduate and post-doctorate researchers on their path to a doctorate or […]
Wij zoeken een lector Nederlands (m/v) voor ons team van de Vakgroep Neerlandistiek aan de Karelsuniversiteit Praag. De aanstelling is met ingang van 1 oktober 2019. Je geeft wekelijks 7 tot 8 colleges: je geeft in eerste instantie taalverwerving op alle niveaus, grammaticale oefeningen, maar er is ook mogelijkheid om een eigen cursus met eigen […]
The anonymous electronic evaluation of courses takes place from 9 to 22 January 2023. The results including comments are to be published at the beginning of February.
Associate Professor Jan Sýkora from the Institute of Asian Studies at CU FA has been to Japan on countless occasions. The most influential stay was at Saga University on the island of Kyushu, where he studied between 1991 and 1994.
Due to an energy-saving reason, the operation of the Česká Spořitelna building will be reduced from 23 December 2022 to 12 February 2023. Though only slightly heated, its premises will remain accessible. Employees may briefly come in to deal with paperwork, but staying there throughout the working hours will not be possible due to the cold temperature.
The three-day conference, which was held at the beginning of November at the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, addressed the current rise of antisemitism, xenophobia, and racism, highlighted the role of education, and called for redressing the wrongs of the Holocaust. The event also focused on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
Traditional Christmas book sale co-organized by the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA will take place on 8 December from 2–7 pm in front of P104. Anyone can donate books on 5–7 December in the English and Romance Studies Library during its opening hours. All money raised will go to the People in Need charity. All books are welcome.
The 18th century Czech composer Josef Mysliveček is at last getting the attention he deserves, says acclaimed American musicologist for Forum Radio. If so, it is in no small part thanks to Freeman’s own extensive research into the composer’s music and life that has been recently translated by Petra Johana Poncarová from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA.
A year ago, the Czech-Uzbek expedition discovered 60 graves from the 3rd–2nd century BC on the outskirts of the Iskandar Tepa settlement in Uzbekistan. Now, the archaeologists opened six of them to acquire data about the population that lived there. Some of the graves have provided extremely valuable data, artifacts, skeletal remains, and samples for further analysis.
On the 17 November, Czechs are marking the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution sparked when communist police brutally cracked down on students in 1989. How Czechs look back on those days now is the subject of the interview with well-known social historian and Vice-Dean of CU FA doc. Jakub Rákosník.
