A new book was recently realised at the Institute of Classical Archaeology under the Faculty of Arts publishing house! It is a final volume on the Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project, excavating a Roman period rural settlement in Bulgaria. The main objectives of the project were the determination of the habitation dynamics of the settlement, the investigation […]
The 9th PeClA 2022 International Postgraduate Conference (Perspectives of Classical Archaeology) will be held at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Monday and Tuesday, 11 – 12th April 2022 PeClA 2022 is a two‐day conference in Classical Archaeology and Classics aimed at postgraduate / doctoral students traditionally offering a space for presenting research results, discussion, […]
Our Institute of Classical Archaeology in Prague is seeking a highly qualified post-doctoral researcher with international experience to join our team with his/her own project focused on art and/or archaeology of the Central and Western Mediterranean during the Roman Period. For more information see here: https://cuni.cz/UKEN-318.html#19 Deadline: 15th of July 2021. Starting date 1st of […]
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.
On Friday 18 November the libraries located in the main building will be closed. The libraries in the Celetná building will be open during their standard opening hours. The day before, Thursday 17 November, all libraries will be closed.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is looking for academic, technical, and economic staff. All offers are both in Czech and English.
The lecture by a British historian and journalist is organized on the occasion of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU under the patronage of Mikuláš Bek, Minister for European Affairs. It is to be held on Wednesday, 16 November, from 10 am to 12 noon in the auditorium of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (P131).
On 26 October 2022, the Vilém Mathesius Awards for the best MA and BA theses were awarded to students of the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology.
The notion that there are groups of evil people operating behind the scenes has been around for centuries and is still alive. New conspiracy theories, in the 20th century, are not so new after all, drawing heavily on ones that came before, says graduate of religious studies at CU FA Kateřina Hlaváčová.
On 17 October 2022, the American musicologist was awarded a silver medal by the Dean of CU FA for his research of eighteenth-century Czech musical culture and his significant contribution to the popularization of this field in the Anglophone world.
All classes at CU FA are cancelled from 4 pm due to the presentation of candidates to the Student Council of CU FA. The election will be held from 20 October at 12:00 noon to 21 October at 11:59 pm. The right to vote and to be elected has every student of CU FA
