Taiwan Docs: Silenced Sunrise: Taiwan’s Music vs. the China Factor & Chasing the China Wind: A Musical Journal Kino Atlas is showing two short documentary films about Taiwan on October 22 (Wed.) at 20:15. Czech premiere of two short documentaries from contemporary Taiwan, both films are subtitled in English only. The screening will be followed […]
The Department of Sinology is hosting the conference “Border-crossing and Interaction: The East/West Trans-Cultural Flow of Chinese/Taiwanese Literature and Images Since Modern Times” on October 24 (Friday). Venue: Imperial Hall, Charles University Presentations will be held in English. You are most welcome to attend. The programme and further information: 2025 Prague Conference Harmonogram
You are welcome to attend the public lecture Taiwan’s Popular Music and Industries: Transnationalising the Local and Localising the Transnational by Dr. Chen-yu Lin (Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries, Cardiff University) This talk explores the dynamics of Taiwan’s popular music industries—from the latest hits and major industry players to the far-reaching transnational influence of […]
Calligraphy workshop with master Evan Hsiao When: October 14th, 19:00-20:30 Where: Department of Sinology, Organisers: the UAAT-ICU MLC (collaborative project between the Taiwan Ministry of Education and major Czech universities) Experience writing calligraphy and watch the master create beautiful Chinese characters! Everyone is warmly welcome. The number of places is limited! Please register through the QR […]
Courses taught in English at the Department of Sinology in winter semester 2025/26 include: Nation-Building in Contemporary Taiwan and its Historic Roots: Colonization, Globalization, Localization (Jacob F. Tischer, Ph.D.; syllabus, schedule) PVP 1 Buddhism, Daoism and Popular Religion in Taiwan: From Local to Global and Back (Jacob F. Tischer, Ph.D.; syllabus, schedule) State and Society […]
You are welcome to attend the following event: September 30 at 2:30 p.m. (CEST / UTC+2) Prof. Shu-mei Shih’s (UCLA) lecture, “Empires of the Sinophone”, will introduce the new English-language reader in Sinophone studies entitled Sinophone Studies across Disciplines (Columbia UP, 2024). Framing the book talk in terms of comparative empire studies as a way […]
You are invited to the Taiwanese Literature Salon! Where: Vaclav Havel Library When: 12 September at 19:00. The speakers are: -Li Yuan 李遠 (Taiwanese writer and the Minister of Culture) -Kevin Chen 陳思宏 (Taiwanese writer based in Berlin) -Kateřina Tučková (Czech writer) -Táňa Dluhošová (Director of the Oriental Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences) The […]
CFP: The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature 2026 Biennial Conference June 25-26, 2026 Location: National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, 119260 Co-organized by the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature and the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. The conference is also cosponsored by the Department of Modern […]
Department of sinology and CCK-ISC are hosting the international symposium “Competing for the people’s eyes and ears from Mao to Xi: transformations of cultural life in the PRC” on June 27-28 (Celetná 20, room 244). Programme: https://ksi.ff.cuni.cz/en/research/transformations-of-cultural-life-in-the-prc/ Everyone is welcome to attend!
