Ondřej Vojtěchovský and Jakub Mazanec took part in the international workshop Comodities, Trade and Materiality in the Global Cold War, organized by the University of Vienna (Research Center for the History of Transformations) within the CENTRAL program on April 19-20. Ondřej Vojtěchovský presented his paper “Where we can’t execute the plan, the Yugoslavs will help.” […]
On April 3, CWRG in cooperation with the Centre for Strategic Regions – CSR organized a lecture by Prof. Lorenz Lüthi: “Berlin and Poland, 1945-1990: unexpected connections.” Lorenz Lüthi is Professor of History in International Relations at McGill University. His research focuses on the large and cross-continental developments of the Cold War. He published The […]
Penny von Eschen presented her new book “Paradoxes of Nostalgia. Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989”. The professor of history and American studies at the University of Virginia is the author of the award-winning book “Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War” (2004), which is already one of the […]
On 23 November, Dr Katja Castryck-Naumann (GWZO Leipzig) will present her research on “Expertise and International Politics. Polish Economists in the UN Secretariat (1946 to the 1960s)”. The commentary will be delivered by Dr Jan Surman (Masaryk Institute). The seminar will take place in room 001 (Faculty of Arts, Nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague) at […]
A book by Benin poet Richard Dogbeh (1932-2003) Voyage au pays de Lénine Notes de voyage d’un écrivain africain en URSS, with an introduction and foreword by CWRG member Konstantin Katsakioris, was published by the AVM. En septembre 1966, le poète dahoméen Richard Dogbeh effectue un voyage en Union soviétique suite à une invitation de […]
CWRG members Barbora Menclová, Jakob Marcks, Jakub Mazanec and CWRG associate Barbora Buzássyová presented their papers at the international workshop Between Trade and Aid. Theories, Practices, and Results of Attempts of Exporting State-Socialist Development Models for the Third World in Leipzig. Read more here.
CWRG members Constantin Katsakioris, Mikuláš Pešta, Jakub Mazanec and Jan Koura presented the results of their research at the international workshop “Socialist (Dis)Connections” organized by Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu and Jannis Panagiotidis from the University of Vienna. The workshop was part of the CENTRAL project, which brings together several Central European universities. Read more here.
Mikuláš Pešta with his co-presenter Matthieu Gillabert (Unversity of Fribourg) presented their research at the conference “Divided Together. International Organizations and the Cold War” at the University of Vienna. They participated with a paper titled “International Union of Students: Strategies of Legitimization from Prague to the Global Cold War”. More information here.
In Forum. Magazín Univerzity Karlovy was published an interview with Jan Koura in which he summarizes the results of his research on the cooperation of Moroccan opposition politician Mehdi Ben Barka with Czechoslovak intelligence service. The full text of the interview is available here.
In November 2020, Jan Koura published an article in the influential journal Intelligence and National Security (INS) on the cooperation of Moroccan opposition politician Mehdi Ben Barka with Czechoslovak intelligence in the context of StB activities in the Third World during the Cold War. Based on this text and an interview with Dr. Koura, an […]
Charles University and delegates from the University of St Andrews had a chance to catch up this week in Prague, to reflect on past successes within their partnership agreement and build on further cooperation in the future. Representatives from both schools met at the historic Carolinum to open an exhibition about St Andrews before a day of presentations
The monograph written by an academic from the IECEBS at CU FA consists of eleven literary-historical studies and an appendix in the form of biographies of the authors. At the forefront of the studies is comparative research on Slovenian women authors in the Slovenian modern period, who have been either overlooked or under-researched in Slovenian literature.
From 15 to 17 November 2023, university students all over the Czech Republic are going to participate in a strike organized by the Universities for Climate initiative. Students of some faculties of Charles University will engage in this event as well. The goal of the strike is not to protest CU and its sustainability plan but to urge a social change necessary to solve the climate crisis.
Charles University has been recognised as one of the world’s premier institutions across all the disciplines it consistently offers in education and research, as found by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 by Subject released Thursday. The university excelled in the fields of arts & humanities, in which was ranked 151st – 175th.
An academic from the Department of East European Studies at CU FA will introduce his publication, A War Made in Russia (Polity Press, Cambridge), in room P131 (Great Auditorium), on 16 November 2023 at 5 pm. A public discussion follows the presentation.
Prof Bohumila Mouchová is a prominent figure of Czech classical philology, a translator of classical languages, and an internationally recognized scholar in Latin language and ancient historiography. On 19 October 2023, the Research Board CU awarded her the Gold Medal of the Charles University for her scholarly contribution, her fundamental role in developing Czech research on ancient antiquity, and her intensive lifelong teaching activity in all spheres.
On 28 October 2023, the anniversary of the founding of independent Czechoslovakia, the President of the Czech Republic awarded an academic from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at CU FA with one of the highest orders in the Czech Republic. He was awarded for his outstanding contribution to the development of democracy, humanity, and human rights.
A graduate of the Faculty of Law, Charles University, and a student of history and political theories at CU FA, won the gold medal in pair with David Schweiner at the World Beach Volleyball Championships in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Both of them qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris next year.
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