We invite you to a lecture by Professor Elizabeth Cripps (University of Edinburgh). It will take place at the Faculty of Arts, Náměstí Jana Palacha, room 300. Date: 16.6. at 17:30 Abstract Climate change is an unprecedented technical, scientific, political, and economic challenge but, underlying all of these, it is also a moral crisis. To […]
Workshop on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics X.6–9 Prague | 20–22 May 2026 Overview This workshop brings together scholars working on Book X, chapters 6–9 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The meeting is designed as a small, discussion-focused event in which participants introduce selected passages as a basis for collective interpretation and debate. Recent scholarship has renewed attention […]
Date: 12 November 2025 Time: 17:30 Place: Faculty of Arts, Nám. Jana Palacha, room 300 We cordially invite you to a public lecture by Professor Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford). Many political philosophers happily repeat Marx’s 11th Thesis on Feuerbach (inscribed on his gravestone) ‘The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The […]
The Ethic of War: lecture by Jeff McMahan & Elad Uzan Date: 14 May 2025 Time: 17:30 Place: Faculty of Arts, Nám. Jana Palacha, room 200 It is a sad reality that war remains one of the most pressing political issues of our time. Join us for a discussion with two acclaimed Oxford political philosophers, […]
Centre for philosophy, ethics and religion, in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to a public lecture Effective Altruism: Doing the Most Good for All Sentient Beings by prof. Peter Singer Date: Friday, 27.9. 2024 Time: 15:00 Venue: Národní 3, Prague 1, room 206. Abstract: Effective Altruism […]
Centre for philosophy, ethics and religion, in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to a public lecture The Ethics of Altruism in Clinical Research by prof. Alex Voorhoeve (London School of Economics) Date: Wednesday, 15. 5. 2024 Time: 17:00 Venue: Filosofický ústav AVČR, Jilská 1, Praha 1 […]
Centre for philosophy, ethics and religion, in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences invite you to a lecture John Stuart Mill on Democracy by prof. John Skorupski Date: Tuesday, 21. 11. 2023 Time: 17:30 Venue: Filosofický ústav AVČR, Jilská 1, Praha 1 Abstract: John Skorupski is one of the […]
Centre for philosophy, ethics and religion, Sekyra Fondation and Institue of Philosophy cordially invite you to a lecture Attitudes of the Will and Attitudes of the Heart delivered by prof. Stephen Darwall Yale When? Thursday 16.3. 2022, starting at 17:00 Where? Room 300, Faculty of Arts main building, Jana Palacha 2, Third floor. […]
WHEN: Thursday 24 November 2022 at 7.30 pm WHERE: baroque refectory of the Dominican monastery in Jilská (entrance Jalovcová 2) How do crises enter our world? How to talk about them, how to think about them? The war in Ukraine has once again placed before us with urgency the question of such an irrational reality […]
WHEN: Friday 25 November 2022 at 11.00 a.m. WHERE: Faculty of Arts, UK, Jana Palacha 2, Prague, room 217. Emmanuel Falque, Thinking after after Auschwitz The lecture on “thinking after Auschwitz” in the light of the thought of Paul Ricouer and Emmanuel Lévinas will focus on the issue of evil in the world. Is it […]
We invite you to a screening of the documentary film Philosophical Journeys: Rwanda, which explores the intellectual landscape of contemporary Rwanda through the legacy of Alexis Kagame.
The Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS) is launching a call for applications for 6 small research grants of approximately €5,000 each. The grants are open to junior and senior researchers and Ph.D. candidates at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, who are members of the CenMAS Hub.
We invite you to a public lecture by Yonas Seifu Desta and Tsegaye Zeleke Tuffa, Assistant Professors of History at Jimma University, Ethiopia, who will explore Ethiopia’s historical relationship with the Red Sea and examine how the country’s long-standing quest for maritime access continues to shape its politics and regional relations.
