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Blended intensive programme

30.7.2025 News

We would like to invite you for the BIP that will be held from 18 to 22 November 2025 in Prague at Charles University. For more information contact academic coordinator Jitka Veroňková (jitka.veronkova@ff.cuni.cz).

Pronunciation training using ultrasound

27.8.2020 News

How do we use ultrasound in phonetics? How can we use it for training lingual articulation? Read more in these guidelines.

rPraat + mPraat tool

29.5.2016 News

We are introducing a new tool, rPraat and mPraat, which interfaces acoustic analysis in Praat with the possibilities of general tools, R and Matlab. More information here.

Onboarding Course for International Students

22.10.2025 Faculty

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.

Historian Timothy Garton Ash to receive an honorary doctorate degree based on the proposal by CU FA

8.10.2025 Faculty

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.

Invitation to the Launch of the Horizon Europe Project COLUMN

6.10.2025 Faculty

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.

Public lecture: Robert Funk – Chile at Crossroads: Actors and Contexts of the 2025 Election

1.10.2025 Faculty

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. 

Paul Chaisty will lead a course on area studies for researchers at the CU FA

30.9.2025 Faculty

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.

Call for candidates: Researcher in Comparative Area Studies (Postdoctoral level)

4.8.2025 Faculty

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).

Call for candidates: Research Group Leader in Comparative Area Studies

31.7.2025 Faculty

The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a research group leader 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 be responsible for coordinating a newly created Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).

This year’s only ERC Advanced Grant in the Czech Republic goes to the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. It was awarded to the historian Kateřina Čapková 

19.6.2025 Faculty

Only one project from the Czech Republic has succeeded in the most prestigious European ERC Advanced Grant competition this year: the research of historian Kateřina Čapková from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies.

Charles University successfully defends prestigious HR Excellence in Research Award

17.6.2025 Faculty

Charles University is proud to announce that it has – as the first university in the Czech Republic – successfully defended the prestigious HR Excellence in Research Award (HR Award), granted by the European Commission.


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