Department of Musicology invites applications for a position in Historical musicology – music after 1800 at the rank of Assistant professor Expected starting date: January 1, 2024 or later by agreement Application deadline: October 10, 2023 For more information see.
Members of the Old Myth, New Facts project cordially invite to the online lecture „Different Faces of Johannes Hollandrinus“ of the cycle Early Music in Central Europe: Local Elements –Transregional Connections –International Research (EMCE). Prof. Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba from the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences will present on Johannes Hollandrinus, a remarkable personality of […]
Student workshop at the Czech Academy of Sciences, 22–24 September 2022 All European societies had to respond to the major political upheavals, wars and crises of the 20th century, with some parallels and differences coming to light. In changing political systems – during the Nazi terror as well as under state socialism – musicians, composers and audiences either sought to […]
Musical Interactions, 1400–1650 Conference dates: 14-17 September 2022 Conference location: Prague CFP deadline: 1 April 2022 Organizing committee: David Burn (KU Leuven), Lenka Hlávková (Charles University, Prague), Alessandra Ignesti (KU Leuven) Musical interaction is a common topic in scholarly literature, yet the notion itself is still not fully theorized. Narrow approaches to it have often […]
Carmina Clericorum: Sacred Latin Songs from the 14th and 15th centuries in the Central European University and School milieu, the fourth volume of the series Monumenta Liturgica Bohemica (L. Marek Publishing) was published. The edition was prepared by Jan Ciglbauer, in collaboration with philologists and medievists Martin Bažil, Adéla Ebersonová, and Henry Howard. The volume […]
11 June 2021 will see the publication of Septem Dies: Music at Prague University = Music at Prague University 1360-1460, which was born out of the Sound Memories project. It was co-authored by members of our Institute, Jan Ciglbauer, David Eben and Lenka Hlávková. The musical realization is the work of Schola Gregoriana Pragensis and […]
The Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. (the project Old Myths, New Facts: Czech Lands in Centre of 15th–Century Music Developments; co-hosted at the Institute of Musicology) opens a position for a doctoral student for a 1–3 year duration, starting on 1. 4. 2020 or 1. 10. 2020 (0.5 position). Full information here: https://www.mua.cas.cz/en/novinky/doctoral-student-position-for-music-and-music-culture-in-15th-century-bohemia-in-a-broader-european-context-1982
The members of the research project Old Myths, New Facts: Czech Lands in the Centre of 15th century Music Developments invite all interested colleagues to the international conference Music in Bohemia around 1400: Crossroads of traditions which will take place on 21st-22nd November 2019 at Vila Lanna, Prague. The musical culture of the Czech Lands […]
The virtual exhibition “…and the Word became Music” invites you to the world of books made many centuries ago to record the musical ideas of the people of that era. A unique concept combining facsimile pictures of manuscripts, transcriptions and recordings was created by the members and students from Department of Musicology, Charles University and […]
Department of Musicology invites applications for a position in Historical musicology – music after 1800 at the rank of Assistant professor Expected starting date: January 1, 2024 or later by agreement Application deadline: October 10, 2023 For more information see.
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Czech mission of the Czech Institute of Egyptology at CU FA working in the transitional zone between the pyramid fields of Abusir and Saqqara has made a rare discovery. During two archaeological seasons of 2022 and 2023 it located and thoroughly explored a lost tomb which belonged to a high official Ptahshepses living during the 25th and 24th centuries BC.
Martin Hilský is a professor emeritus from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and a household name in Czechia most famous for his translations of William Shakespeare – not just every single play but also the Sonnets.
On Monday, 2 October 2023, there will be concerts, science stand-ups, FameLab competition, an exhibition opening, Didaktikon Open Day, and more. The programme starts at 4 pm and will go on until midnight.
Dr Anežka Kuzmičová from the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication at CU FA has won a prestigious ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million Euro for a five-year research project exploring children's affective engagements with facts and nonfiction, making her the first ever recipient of an ERC grant in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Charles University.
The publication <i>Jaroslav Róna: Apocalypses and Visions</i> was written by an academic from the Institute of Ethnology at CU FA and presents the work of a sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and glass artist. He belongs among the prominent personalities of the contemporary Czech art scene.
The position is opened for academics in ethnology or cultural anthropology with any specialization or linguistics or literary studies, historiography (or political science or social science) who focus on Central or Southeastern Europe. Expected start is on 1 January 2024, the deadline for applications is by 23 October 2023.
The publication Carnabhal na Marbh was written by an academic from the Centre for Irish Studies which discusses the novel <i>Cré na Cille<i /> by Máirtín Ó Cadhain in the context of the period when translations of the novel started to circulate outside of Ireland. The monograph assesses its place in the canon of world literature.
It’s no secret that learning Czech can be tricky when it comes to grammar, vocabulary, or pronunciation. Some would say especially the pronunciation of words sprinkled with Czech diacritics is tough. Recently CU FA rolled out what it hopes will be a game-changer: ProCzeFor, an online state-of-the-art pronunciation app that makes it easier and more fun to learn Czech.
The Office of Commercial Programmes and Cross-Sectoral Cooperation is mainly responsible for the organisation of semester and short-term teaching programmes for international students and individual payers from abroad, their promotion, and coordinating the preparation of new ones and the development of existing commercial study programmes and summer schools.
