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.
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.
