During July and August, the buildings on Jan Palach Square 1/2 and in Hybernská 3 are closing at 7:30 pm.
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.
For 2024 we have several databases newly available. In this post you can find information about Oxford Music Online, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB), Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies.
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.
Breakfast with the Rector, Prof Milena Králíčková, will be held on 25 June 2024 from 9:00 to 10:00 am in room P201 in the main building of CU FA. The number of seats is limited to 10 people, and it is necessary to register in advance via a form.
Almost half a year has passed since tragedy struck the Faculty of Arts, Charles University: a mass shooting that claimed 14 lives. CU has since responded with key measures. The head of the Central Crisis Staff of Charles University Otomar Sláma and security expert Zdeněk Kalvach discussed steps already implemented and crucial steps still to be taken.
The game, developed by a spin-off company of Charles University in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Prag, introduces Franz Kafka and his works The Trial, Letter to His Father, and The Castle. Lecturers and graduates from the IISL at CU FA cooperated on the game’s production, namely doc. Vít Šisler, Dr Lukáš Kolek, and Ondřej Trhoň.
The Rector's Sports Day offered staff and students at Charles University numerous opportunities to burn calories at various sports venues in Prague, Hradec Králové and Plzeň. The event was organised by the Department of Physical Education of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.