An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Thanks to a prestigious Advanced ERC grant worth €2.5 million, Assyriologist Jana Mynářová’s team at CU ARTS will focus on understanding the real scope of everyday violence in ancient Mesopotamia.
As an international student, American-born Mitchell Hoffman experienced firsthand the challenges people face when arriving in a foreign country. But he chose to stay in the Czech Republic and decided to help other international students financially.
At CU SPORT, Japanese neuroscientist Ryo Koshizawa, from Nihon University, has been exploring what happens in the brain during sporting contests and matches.
Justin Douglas Hart, a student of Liberal Arts and Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities, has become an important part of the CU HUM community. Now he has been awarded the Miroslav Vlček Exceptional Scholarship.
“One of my long-term priorities is the construction of the Albertov Campus and resolving the entire situation regarding the loan,” says new Charles University Rector.
“I like resilience and sharp humour in Czechs,” says linguist Masako Ueda Fidler of Brown University, who has collaborated with CU for over fifteen years and recently received a Gold Medal of CU ARTS.
Most research on retirement asks a simple question: when do people choose to stop working, and why? CERGE-EI job market candidate Sona Badalyan takes a different angle: she looks at raised retirement age as something that also happens to firms and coworkers, and follows its ripples through promotions, hiring, and peer effects.
Last year, forty homeless people received CZK 100,000 in cash. What did they do with the money and how did it change the course of their lives? A team of researchers and social workers, led by Melanie Zajacová of CU ARTS, tracked these developments throughout last year.
The seal, sceptre, key, ring, and chain medal; the items symbolizing the rights and duties of Charles University’s Rector were handed over to Jiří Zima by his predecessor Milena Králíčková on 11 March at the Carolinum.
Ever since she was a little girl, she knew she wanted to be a pastor, or ‘at least’ a teacher. Today, Eliška Vančová wears a robe at the parish in Heřmanův Městec, pursues her doctorate at CU PROTESTANT, and in her free time, she paints and watches science fiction films. Thanks in part to her efforts, the Protestant Church has reevaluated its approach to the LGBTQ+ community.
Using game theory, a recent study shows how the pope gets elected, why this system can last indefinitely, and how economists model such elections to understand what kinds of winners the rules tend to produce.
Polish filmmaker and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland received the Charles IV Award, presented to her in January by Charles University and the City of Prague. On that occasion, she looked back on the late 1960s, which she spent in Prague as a student at FAMU.
American studies scholar Jana Sehnálková, alumna and lecturer at CU’s Faculty of Social Sciences, heads the Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic. She explains how to succeed with trips to American universities.
In his speech, Oxford University professor and historian Timothy Garton Ash emphasized the importance of truth and recalled the historical ties between the universities of Oxford and Prague.
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