Of possible interest: Annual Symposium of the Digital Geography Research Group, RGS-IBG 19-20 June 2025, online Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital In 1998, Stephen Graham (1998) posed a provocative question—“The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place?”—to explore how flow-oriented information and communication technologies (ICTs) challenge our conventional understanding […]
The department of sinology is hosting the summer school “Cultural heritage in 20th century China” on June 10-13. Schedule, syllabus and readings are available in SIS. Poster
Webinar 404: Taiwan Not Found // Chinese Distortion of the UN Resolution 2758 The UN Resolution 2758 contains 155 words, and “Taiwan” is not among them. Passed in 1971, the document transferred China’s seat at the United Nations from the “representatives of Chiang Kai-shek” to the People’s Republic of China. Yet, it does not address the issue […]
Invitation to a roundtable The European Values Center for Security Policy Taiwan Office team invites you to upcoming roundtable: Emerging Issues in Taiwan-EU Cooperation: Combatting Identity-Based Disinformation and Promoting Just Energy Transition. The event will take place on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 09:30–11:00 (Prague) 03:30-05:00 (Washington DC) 16:30-18:00 (Tokyo) you can either join online and watch the […]
The University of Warsaw announces a competition for the position of postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History of the 20th Century, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw in research project: “China’s Multiple Pasts: Museums, Colonial History, and Decoloniality in Southeast Asia”. The head of the programme is Dr. Laura Pozzi. Application deadline is June […]
Two lectures at Czech Academy of Sciences on May 13 Where: Národní 2, room 206 When: 13:00 and 15:00 13:00 Yu Miin-ling (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica): From Firing at the Party to Firing at Oneself: The CCP’s Practices of Criticism and Self-Criticism, 1920s to the Present https://orient.cas.cz/cs/pro-verejnost/From-Firing-at-the-Party-to-Firing-at-Oneself-The-Chinese-Communist-Partys-Practices-of-Criticism-and-Self-Criticism-Dr.-YU-Miin-Ling/ 15:00 Michal Zelcer-Lavid (Bar-Ilan University): China in the Middle East: […]
All interested are cordially invited to the workshop on contemporary Taiwanese literature. The theme of the morning panel is “Posthumanism, gender, queer, sci-fi, utopia, and distopia”. The theme of afternoon discussion is “Narrative and testimony – the relationship between narrative and history, literature and memory, speech and survival”. Speakers will include Czech experts and Taiwanese […]
Mi-Lu Publishing House will hold a one-day workshop on the translation of Taiwanese literature with the participation of writers Tong Wei-ger and Chi Ta-wei and Czech translators of Taiwanese literature When: 13 May 2025 Where: Celetná 20, FA CU, Prague, seminar room of the CCKF International Sinological Centre For details see the poster below
FFenix is inviting you to a cultural event with Chamber Orchestra of the Department of Sinology KOKS Monday 12.5.2025 at 19:00, Kampus Hybernska, E.-1 Sklep. Entry fee is voluntary, the performance will be followed by a get-together.
Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invites you to lecture China in the Middle East: Interests, War, and Strategic Challenges SPEAKER: Dr. Michal ZELCER-LAVID (Bar-Ilan University) DATE: Tuesday 13 May 2025 at 3 PM VENUE: Akademie věd ČR, Národní 2, Praha 1, sál 206 The lecture offers a critical examination […]
