From 29 July to 10 August the Historical Cabinet operations will be limited and only the study room will be open. Please see this post for details.
From 29 July to 10 August the Historical Cabinet operations will be limited and only the study room will be open. Please see this post for details.
During July and August, the buildings on Jan Palach Square 1/2 and in Hybernská 3 are closing at 7:30 pm.
From 3 to 11 August 2024, all Moodle UK systems will be upgraded as usual. Click on this post for more information. Thank you for your understanding.
During summer the opening hours of the CU FA libraries will vary, so please always check the opening hours before visiting.
This year we’re going to be changing the loan period over the summer. This year it will not be possible to have books at home for the whole summer, as in previous years, but the same loan period will apply as during normal operations. You will still be able to return books to the book drop box in the respective building.
All libraries at CU FA will be CLOSED during the Rector’s Sports Day, i.e. on May 14. The libraries will restore operations again from the following day.
Now, you can renew your registration to the services of CU libraries yourself. Open this post if you want to know more about how to renew your registration.
All libraries at CU FA will be closed on dean’s day on Thursday 28 March and during public holidays on Friday 29 March and Monday 1 April. Libraries will reopen on Tuesday 2 April.
From 12 February, books and other documents from all libraries at the CU FA main building are visible in the UKAŽ discovery service. You can request books starting today and pick them up next week.
Dear users, please pay attention to the information about the restoration of library operations at the main CU FA building from 19 Februrary.
Charles University or individual faculties purchase a large number of bibliographic and full-text databases with the support of the CzechELib project. See the overview list of databases that can be used in 2024.
As part of the HR Excellence in Research initiative, Charles University is continuously striving to improve working conditions for its employees and foster greater job satisfaction. The university believes that only satisfied employees can deliver the best performance.
This year, Charles University is defending the prestigious HR Award certificate and one of the evaluated criteria is ethics. As part of creating an inclusive environment, the university adopted its first Equal Opportunities Plan to create an inclusive environment, created the position of CU ombudsman and established the CU Equal Opportunities Board.
The symposium within the OP JAK CoRe project titled “Preaching and Conflict: 24th International Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium” took place on 11–16 July 2024 in Prague. The conference was co-organized by Prof Lucie Doležalová from the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies at CU FA and Dr Pavel Soukup from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the CAS
Faculty of Arts, Charles University (CU FA), was awarded a grant for a prestigious ERA-AREAS project from the Horizon Europe programme (ERA Chair scheme). In collaboration with Prof Mariana Llanos from the German Institute of Global and Area Studies, the project team will carry out research of contemporary critical phenomena in non-European regions over the next five years.
During July and August, the buildings on Jan Palach Square 1/2 and in Hybernská 3 are closing at 7:30 pm.
It had been five years since CU received the prestigious award “HR Excellence in Research” from the European Commission. This autumn, a team of international evaluators will come to CU, and the university will need to demonstrate that it has met its obligations and that it intends to continue making improvements in the HR area and in caring for its employees.
On 13 June 2024, the President of the Czech Republic and the Minister of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic appointed professor psychologist Filip Smolík, Italianist Pavel Štichauer, and Slavist Alla Arkhanhelska.
What can contemporary readers find in Franz Kafka's work and do any unanswered questions remain? The matter is one of continuing importance for Prof Marek Nekula, who has been studying Kafka's work since the early 1990s, when he worked at CU FA. Today he lectures at the University of Regensburg, where he heads the Bohemicum Center for Czech Studies.
The academic from the Department of Political Science at CU FA, who is also a guarantor for the multi-university research project CoRe, has published Geopolitics of Global Catholicism: Politics of Religion in Space and Time. The work will be formally presented to a professional audience for the first time on Friday 7 June 2024 at the Gregorian University in Rome.
