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 […]
Noticeboard
Traditional Christmas book sale co-organized by the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA will take place on 8 December from 2–7 pm in front of P104. Anyone can donate books on 5–7 December in the English and Romance Studies Library during its opening hours. All money raised will go to the People in Need charity. All books are welcome.
The 18th century Czech composer Josef Mysliveček is at last getting the attention he deserves, says acclaimed American musicologist for Forum Radio. If so, it is in no small part thanks to Freeman’s own extensive research into the composer’s music and life that has been recently translated by Petra Johana Poncarová from the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at CU FA.
A year ago, the Czech-Uzbek expedition discovered 60 graves from the 3rd–2nd century BC on the outskirts of the Iskandar Tepa settlement in Uzbekistan. Now, the archaeologists opened six of them to acquire data about the population that lived there. Some of the graves have provided extremely valuable data, artifacts, skeletal remains, and samples for further analysis.
On the 17 November, Czechs are marking the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution sparked when communist police brutally cracked down on students in 1989. How Czechs look back on those days now is the subject of the interview with well-known social historian and Vice-Dean of CU FA doc. Jakub Rákosník.
On Friday 18 November the libraries located in the main building will be closed. The libraries in the Celetná building will be open during their standard opening hours. The day before, Thursday 17 November, all libraries will be closed.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is looking for academic, technical, and economic staff. All offers are both in Czech and English.
The lecture by a British historian and journalist is organized on the occasion of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU under the patronage of Mikuláš Bek, Minister for European Affairs. It is to be held on Wednesday, 16 November, from 10 am to 12 noon in the auditorium of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (P131).
On 26 October 2022, the Vilém Mathesius Awards for the best MA and BA theses were awarded to students of the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology.
The notion that there are groups of evil people operating behind the scenes has been around for centuries and is still alive. New conspiracy theories, in the 20th century, are not so new after all, drawing heavily on ones that came before, says graduate of religious studies at CU FA Kateřina Hlaváčová.