The conference Engaging with Conspiracy Theories, Fostering Democracy: Dynamics, Drivers and Defenses will be held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague on April 9 and 10, 2026.
Research meeting for the project “United in Diversity”, Tel Aviv University, January 2020.
From left: Prof. Jiří Holý (FF UK) Olaf Glöckner (MMZ UP), Dr. Haim Fireberg a Ass. Prof. Lilach Lev Ari (TAU), Sophie Máriássy (MMZ UP), Prof. Eduard Nižňanský (Comenius University, Bratislava). Photo: Marcela Menachem Zoufalá
Research meeting for the project “United in Diversity”, Tel Aviv University, January 2020.
From left: Prof. Jiří Holý a Dr. Marcela Zoufalá (FF UK), Dr. Haim Fireberg a Ass. Prof. Lilach Lev Ari (TAU), Sophie Máriássy (MMZ/Univerzita Postupim), Prof. Eduard Nižňanský (Univerzita Komenského v Bratislavě). Photo: Olaf Glöckner.
An international team of researchers coordinated by the Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature. The project “United in Diversity” - An Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Its Reflection is dedicated to the research of antisemitism, the Jewish population in Central Europe, and the thematization of Jewishness in literature and culture. The project is supported by the European grant Erasmus+ Program, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnerships.
From left: Prof. Jiří Holý (Director of the Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, FF UK), Dr. Marcela Zoufalá (Deputy Director - Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, FF UK), Prof. Dina Porat (chief historian at Yad Vashem and director of the Kantor Centre at Tel Aviv University, TAU), Prof. Julius H. Schoeps (founder and director of the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum for European Jewish Studies, MMZ, Postupim University), Ass. Prof. Lilach Lev Ari (TAU), Dr. Olaf Glöckner (MMZ) a Dr. Haim Fireberg (TAU).
Welcome!
The conference Engaging with Conspiracy Theories, Fostering Democracy: Dynamics, Drivers and Defenses will be held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague on April 9 and 10, 2026.
The first drill takes place on Wednesday, 26. 11. 2025, at the Sweerts-Sporck Palace, starting at 10:00 AM. The second drill will take place a week later, on Wednesday, 3. 12. 2025, also starting at 10:00 AM, in the main CU FA building at Jan Palach Square.
Humanities Week will take place from Monday, 17. 11., until Friday, 21. 11. 2025, and will offer a rich programme full of lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and other interesting events. The main program at CU FA will take place in the main building at náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2 and is suitable for the general public, high school students and their teachers, as well as academics.
Charles University is pleased to offer an online onboarding course designed to support newly admitted international students in their transition to university life. Sessions are held every Wednesday online and are open to both full-degree and Erasmus students.
The honorary doctorate will recognize not only more than thirty years of academic and journalistic work of Professor Garton Ash, but also his social attitudes, which are an inspiring and important voice for Central and Eastern Europe’s future direction, especially in the difficult period the regions are going through.
You are kindly invited to two unique academic events marking the launch of the COLUMN project (Colonial Past of Universities: Materiality and New Forms of Cooperation): a lecture by Prof. Loretta Feris and the premiere screening of the documentary film UnRest.
Renowned political scientist Robert L. Funk from the University of Chile will explore the leading candidates, the key issues shaping the campaigns, and what is at stake for Chilean democracy.
Prof. Paul Chaisty, a leading researcher in area studies and political science specializing in Russia and Ukraine, is offering a block seminar entitled Area Studies for Researchers: Opportunities, Challenges, and Controversies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, for the 2025/2026 academic year.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in comparative area studies. As part of the project funded by Horizon Europe (ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies, ERA-AREAS), this post holder will participate in the newly created Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).