This Wednesday November 11, at 17:30 (CET). For access to the MS Teams meeting, please contact Marek Verčík.
This Wednesday November 11, at 17:30 (CET). For access to the MS Teams meeting, please contact Marek Verčík.
We regret to inform you that on this day November 3rd, 2020 our dear teacher, colleague and friend professor Jan Bouzek has passed away. Jan Bouzek was born 17 February 1935 in Prague, studied prehistoric and classical archaeology at the FF UK in Prague between 1953 and 1958. From 1958 he had an Assistent position, […]
Office hours of the Institute are cancelled until further notice. In urgent cases, please contact our secretary Martina Tvrzová.
This semester’s lecture series will be held predominantly in Czech. However, two guest lectures (by L. Zamboni and A. Sideris) will be delivered in English. All lectures will be presented online through MS Teams platform. For access to MS Teams, please contact Dr. Marek Verčík
The Institute’s library will be re-opened on September 1, 2020. See the opening hours at the Library page.
Book of abstracts
Book of abstracts
6th INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE PERSPECTIVES ON CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
The events directly connected with the campaign of Alexander the Great in Central Asia are described vividly and in detail by ancient Greek authors and have been thoroughly evaluated by modern historians. Numismatic studies have reconstructed the history of the following centuries. However, our understanding of the (mutual?) acculturation following the campaign remains limited. The […]
To honor the 150th anniversary since birth of the world-famous scholar Alois Musil (1868-1944) the Institute of Classical Archaeology, together with Czech National Committee of ICOMOS and National Heritage institute will held a seminar “Alois Musil, Antiquity and the Czech Lands.” This orientalist, priest and traveller substantially contributed to the topics realting to the […]
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, commemorates the Velvet Revolution by symbolically illuminating the building nám. Jana Palacha in the colours of the Czech tricolour on 17 September at 17:11.
After the translation of Neruda’s Tales of the Lesser Quarter (Povídky malostranské), which has reached the Vietnamese readers already in two editions (the last one in 2019), the enthusiasts of Czech literature in Vietnam will also get to know the satirical dark comedy novel by Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923) called The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války).
The Czech Institue of Egyptology is looking for an Assistant Professor specialized in Egyptology, Egyptian archaeology, Old Kingdom architecture and iconography.
Last year, the FFousáči team from the Faculty contributed 52,925 CZK to the Movember project. The collected sum goes to the tranparent account of the foundation Muži proti rakovině (Men Against Cancer). It is possible to contribute as an individual or as a whole team until the end of November.
Charles University defended its position on the Best Global Universities amongst the best world research-oriented universities. In the seventh year of the rating, it ranked the 210th position from fifteen hundred compared research universities from more than eighty countries in the world.
On 4 November 2020, the Rector of Charles University, prof. Tomáš Zima, by the Rector’s measure No. 46/2020, declared a state of emergency at the entire university, effective from 5 November 2020. All measures taken so far remain in effect.
Updated on 5 November 2020. Several libraries have opened up their collections and are now free-to-browse during the state of emergency.
Prof Bouzek, a classical archaeologist whose interests overreached to philosophy and anthropology, passed away on 3 September 2020 aged 85.
Submit your applications to study electronically from 1 November 2020 to 28 February 2021 (BA programmes) or to 31 March 2021 (the follow-up MA programmes). You may find basic and detailed information on the admission process on the prospective student webpage (all links in this post are only in Czech), along with the complete offer […]
