The Jan Palach Library will be CLOSED on Friday, 27 March, due to the event Night with Andersen.
All loans and reservations from this library that would be due on this day have been extended until Monday, 30 March. No overdue fees will be charged for this day.
On Thursday, 12 March, the Historical Cabinet will be open from 2 to 5.30 pm (2 – 3 pm, only the loan desk will be available) due to an international workshop taking place.
CU now has permanent access to Brill’s encyclopaedic databases. The titles mainly focus on Theology and Far Eastern studies.You can find a list of them with links to the UKAŽ central discovery service by clicking on the post.
On Sunday 14 December, from 4 am to approximately 6 am, maintenance will be carried out on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform. During this time, no content on the platform will be accessible.
For technical reasons, this downtime will not be reflected by hiding affected e-books in the UKAŽ discovery system. If you need access to a specific title during the early morning maintenance period, you can download the book or chapter in advance (if a download option is available).
Until 24 December Charles University has a trial to the Drama Texts Collection database. This database provides to over 6,000 texts of dramatic works in English, along with related ephemeral materials, theater flyers, theater diagrams, and photographs. The Drama Texts Collection includes all dramatic texts from the Alexander Street and Chadwyck Healey collections.
All CU FA libraries will be closed from 20 December to 4 January.
During this period, we will also not be processing requests for Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) documents from the “ProQuest Ebook Central: Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles” collection.
Until 31 December, Charles University has trial access to 28 encyclopedias and encyclopedic databases from Brill.Access to the databases is available via the eResources Portal. Go to The trial includes the following encyclopedias and encyclopedic databases, primarily in the fields of theology and Asian studies:
Until 2 December, CU has trial access to the APA PsycBooks and APA PsycTests databases from the American Psychological Association.
PsycBooks offers over 4,600 books, including reference works and classic titles; PsycTests provides thousands of psychological tests, measurement tools, and questionnaires with detailed information on methodology and validity.
Access to the databases is available via the eResources Portal.
On Monday, 17 November, a public holiday, and on Tuesday, 18 November, during the Dean’s Sports Day, all libraries will be CLOSED.
Lean Library is a browser extension that detects whether the university provides access to the article or e-book you’re looking for and automatically offers login via EZproxy or another available access option (including print alternatives available at Charles University). The extension is useful both on and off the university network – for example, when searching for articles through Google, Google Scholar, or directly on publishers’ websites.
You can find installation instructions by clicking on this post.
The registration for the international conference “Engaging with Conspiracy Theories, Fostering Democracy: Dynamics, Drivers and Defences,”, organized within the framework of the TaCT-FoRSED EU HORIZON project, is open.
The Faculty of Arts of Charles University awarded Prof. Masako Ueda Fidler, a Slavist and Bohemist from the prestigious Brown University, with a gold medal.
The Center for Gender and Science, a research department at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, is organising an event on 12 February 2026 on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Would you like to gain international experience, improve your language skills, and help others at the same time? The Charles University Buddy Program offers students at the Faculty of Arts the opportunity to support international students.
Democracies today are less likely to collapse through coups than to erode gradually from within. How does contemporary autocratization unfold in Central America, and why does it take different forms across the region? What do leaders like Nayib Bukele and Daniel Ortega reveal about the consolidation of executive power – and where does resistance emerge?
The Vasileois Fouskas and Bülente Gökay Best Article of the Year Award for 2025 has been awarded to Jan Koura from the Institute of History for his article In the Service of the Eastern Bloc: Czechoslovak Intelligence and the Cyprus Conflict 1974–1989.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University is launching a new Bachelor’s degree programme in Psychology, taught fully in English. This is the first fully accredited English-taught Bachelor’s programme in Psychology at a Czech public university, representing a significant milestone in the internationalisation of higher education in psychology in the Czech Republic.
The research team headed by dr. Kateřina Chládková from the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication at CU FA, in close cooperation with Ing. Miroslav Pešta, head of the Moovez team, have developed a unique method of natural language teaching, which they are now implementing into the mobile app of the Moovez educational startup.
The lecture will take place on Wednesday, January 14, at 11:00 a.m. in Room 104 of the main building of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague.
