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Code:
YBLS001 |
Lecturer:
Abu Ghosh,Y. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 14:30 - 15:50, room YT102 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The tumultuous fate of European Roma and Sinti during the 20th century has seen their culture and very existence as a people challenged. Despite being subjected to intense assimilation policies and persecution, they regularly re-emerge with remarkable revitalizing power. Who are then the Roma and Sint and what does it mean to be Roma/Sinti from their point of view? In this course, we will learn about the historical and social adaptations of various Roma groups mainly in Europe but also in other regions around the world. Then we will focus on Central Europe as a region that has become the laboratory of policies addressing the allegedly troubling fit of the Roma/Sinti to modernity. The course will draw on the latest research on topics such as racialized modernity, memory building, political arenas and subjectivities, labor and class, center and periphery, gender, structural and political violence etc. This course will challenge mono-causal explanations and will stimulate students to think about and through Roma and Sinai experience in a critical way that brings into consideration the societies they live in. Building on a diverse selection of empirical material, ranging from ethnographic, historical, and sociological case studies to film and art, the course will present the Roma/Sinti “as good to think with” about contemporary societies. |
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Code:
YBLS003 |
Lecturer:
Jakoubková Budilová,L. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 8:30 - 9:50, room YT121 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course will introduce the ways kinship has been conceptualized in social anthropology. Students will learn about anthropological discussions on important concepts like nature and nurture, consanguinity and affinity, or unilineal and cognatic descent. The ways of conceptualizing relatedness in cross-cultural perspective will be discussed, from the Western notion based on the reference to biological reproduction to milk kinship, blood brotherhood, godparenthood, or “chosen kinship”. Variety of possibilities of the forms of marriage and family households will be presented. Students will read important texts on anthropological analyses of kinship terminology, strengths and weaknesses of the genealogical method and the new reproductive technologies. |
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Code:
YBLS004 |
Lecturer:
Seidlová,V. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
mon 10:00 - 11:20, room YT220 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Studies of ritual continue to be of critical interest in anthropology. This course explores anthropological approaches to ritual as a universal feature of human social life. Attention will be given to key anthropological concepts (e.g. rites of passage, liminality, anti-structure, communitas, performative aspects of ritual). Although ritual is sometimes considered as primarily related to religion, the anthropological approach requires that ritual be situated not only in religious but also in secular contexts, such as: politics and power relations, the construction of social identities and boundaries, the reproduction and invention of 'tradition' or social memory practices, globalization, commodification etc. We will also problematize the dichotomy of sacred and secular while discussing practices of today’s individualized spirituality. Special focus will be paid to the negotiation of sound dimensions of ritual practice.Requirements: Minimum 500 words annotations of 6 assigned readings (except from the 1st week) uploaded in the moodle course page, here https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=8610 AND a 10 min powerpoint presentation of a selected ethnographic case of a ritual performance interpreted with the help of theoretical concepts from mandatory readings. |
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Code:
YBLS005 |
Lecturer:
Halbich,M. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The aim of the course is to introduce tourism as a multifaceted global phenomenon, which is mainly related to travel in travel-for-leisure and as such offers a range of interesting research topics across different disciplines. Tourism-oriented ethnographic research has come a long way from the almost total disinterest of anthropologists, who have ignored tourism and tourists in their research, to its gradual inclusion in corpus of courses in many social anthropology, sociology, etc. departments around the world. Tourism is nowadays usually seen as an example of global currents that blur traditional territorial, social and cultural boundaries and creating their various hybrid forms. Their objectives are clearly adapting very quickly to global trends and the global market, but at the same time they seek to maintain or even increase their local differences. This conflict of the “global” with the “local” then raises the question of how this “local” is created or reshaped through the practices of “touristified representations”. On the one hand, they play a key role in these processes global marketing companies and national and local authorities, which are jointly involved in creating and selling image of certain destinations. On the other hand, however, it is tourism that, to a greater or lesser extent, generates the for transforming the local. In this way, tourism can be seen as a dynamic process that helps to renew competing socio-culturally defined local identities. |
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Code:
YBLH005 |
Lecturer:
Korbel,T. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
mon 16:00 - 17:20, room YT112 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course deals with the development of the profession of architect and builder against the background of the cultural-historical development of the Czech lands in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. First, general aspects of the development of architectural and building education, administration and law in the Habsburg Monarchy will be presented. Second, the professional and social rise of this social group will be monitored against the background of the formation of the national identity of the Czech and German ethnic groups in the second half of the 19th century. Third, the course will focus on the role of architects and builders in the first phase of building the Czechoslovak state in the first half of the 20th century. |
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Code:
YBLP001 |
Lecturer:
Vodička, M. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 10:00 - 11:20, room YT102 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This seminar will provide an introduction to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. We will explore the meanings behind the most famous and most important Nietzschean concepts, like the will to power, nihilism, the overman [die Übermensch], master/slave morality, amor fati, or the phrase “God is dead”, and we will also discuss some famous controversies surrounding Nietzsche, like the misuse of his philosophy by the Nazis. The goal of this course will be to familiarize students with the distinctive character of Nietzsche’s thinking, put it in its historical context, and think about how it relates to our situation in the 21st century. |
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Code:
YBLO009 |
Lecturer:
Váša,O. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 13:00 - 14:20, room YT102 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course will take place in galleries in direct contact with the artworks or the artists themselves, if possible. We will visit large permanent exhibitions (National Gallery, DOX) as well as a number of temporary exhibitions in independent Prague galleries. This semester we will ask ourselves one question: how has the key concept of the sublime changed in contemporary art? What does it refer to today, what role does it play, and what are its pitfalls and weaknesses? What price does art pay for being critical, ironic and cynical? Thus, depending on the specific exhibitions, we will revisit texts devoted to this very topic, from Immanuel Kant to Adorno, Lyotard and Nancy to a plethora of contemporary theorists, critics and artists. |
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Code:
YBLS006 |
Lecturer:
Pfaus,J. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 13:00 - 14:20, room YT032 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Follow-up course to Introduction to the Brain. This course explores the neural mechanisms that mediate motivated behaviors. We will begin by reading a seminal book on the topic, Motivational Systems, by Frederick Toates, to introduce concepts such as goal-directed behavior and incentive motivation, and heuristics regarding how behaviors can be broken down into motivationally distinct components. We will examine how the "pull" of incentives in the external world compares and relates to the "push" of drive states within the organism, and how these concepts guide our approach to understanding the biological bases of motivation. We will then consider the neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of behaviors directed toward keeping the physical homeostasis of the organism in balance: drinking, feeding, temperature regulation, biological rhythms, and the repercussions of stimuli or states in which these systems are altered. This will be followed by discussions of "non-homeostatic" behaviors like sex, parental behavior, and aggression, and the manner in which these behaviors obey very similar neurochemical rules. We will then consider how these "natural" examples of motivated behaviors relate to pleasure, reward, and drug addiction. |
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Code:
YBH238 |
Lecturer:
Tourek,J. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
see Student Information System
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From the summer semester 2024/2025 this course is taught under the code YBLO007. |
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Code:
YBLS010 |
Lecturer:
Hanson,E. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The course will examine contemporary issues in gender-based violence (GBV) from both theoretical and applied viewpoints. We will discuss topics including understandings of gender and gendered violence, GBV in the media, intersectional experiences of GBV, and evolving areas of research, including the effect of the climate crisis (e.g., on migration), social justice and advocacy movements, and radical right-wing populism. The course will take a global and interdisciplinary perspective toward GBV and will pull from critical feminist, post-colonial, and intersectional scholarships. We will also use concepts from criminology, sociology, and psychology. The applied portions of this course will examine public policy as well as community-driven approaches to confronting GBV. The goal for the course is that students will be able to apply these diverse literatures to analyze and address GBV. |
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Code:
YBLP006 |
Lecturer:
Kružík,J. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 10:00 - 11:20, room YT131 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The bottom line of the seminar is to provide a hermeneutical introduction to the readings of the Homer’s Odyssey and Dante’s Divine Comedy. Traditionally, the good knowledge of these books used to be the corner stones of the culture and education in the West, however, they seem to be often obscure, over-complicated, strange and even bizarre to the mind of the modern man.The seminar especially focuses on an outline of the conceptions of the underworld and afterlife as can be found in these poets. The point of departure is the assumption there is essential unity and coherence of such vision thorough spiritual history of the West, nevertheless, there are also constant re-evaluations of the related concepts as divine justice, eternal punishment or mortal sin, founded in the metamorphosis of the relationship between the humans and gods. Beginning with the Homer’s Odyssey book XI., the emergence of the so-called moral religion can be observed, and gods become more and more involved in the human affairs and gradually ceased to be the splendid and exalted divine beings indifferent to the human categories of good and evil; the process is finished in the catholic conception of Inferno and especially Purgatory, vividly described in the Dante’s Divine Comedy. |
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Code:
YBAJ058 |
Lecturer:
Krymláková,T. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
Czech
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
thu 14:30 - 15:50, room YT113 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course follows up the course Czech Language Course (for Beginners) - YBAJ056, attending is not required, though.Czech language courses are for full degree (or Erasmus) students of the Faculty of Humanities. Full degree students from other faculties should take Czech lessons in their home faculty.Topics covered in previous semester will be reviewed and extended for the students to become more confident in communication in Czech in every-day situations, such as social interaction, shopping, travel, illness etc. The course provides insight into the Czech language system as well as Czech culture. The key aspect of the class is communicative competence, with emphasis on speaking and listening.For the course, students need to have the coursebook ČESKY KROK ZA KROKEM 1 (http://eshop.czechstepbystep.cz/p/191/cesky-krok-za-krokem-1-anglicka). By the end of the course students will reach level A1 according to the CEFR. The course may reach level A2.In order to get the credit for the course, attendance is mandatory (min. 75%). |
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Code:
YBAJ210 |
Lecturer:
Partridge,J. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
see Student Information System
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This course is not taught in the summer semester 2024/2025. |
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Code:
YBAJ056 |
Lecturer:
Krymláková,T. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
mon 13:00 - 14:20, room YT220 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň) / thu 13:00 - 14:20, room YT113 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course is designed for the students of Faculty of Humanities.In the fall semester, this course is open primarily for the full degree students only.In the spring semester, both full degree students as well as the Erasmus students can attend. The aim of this course is to acquire basic language skills to deal with every-day life in the Czech Republic, including cultural awareness. We use the ČESKY KROK ZA KROKEM 1 course book (https://www.czechstepbystep.cz/detail-ucebnice/ckzk1). |
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Code:
YBLP007 |
Lecturer:
Kunca,T. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 16:00 - 17:20, room YT233 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Course main focus in the Summer semester 2023/24 is detailed analysis of philosophical arguments in David Hume´s Enquiry concerning Principles of Morals (ECPM), work considered by the author as his masterpiece. This reading is essential for understandig of Hume´s moral and political philosophy treated as an application of his "science of human nature", originally developed in his A Treatise of Human Nature. Students are expected to present her/his understanding of particular arguments from ECPM during the semester (3 oral 15 - 20 minutes presentations) and/or write a final academic essay (3000 words). Vast range of primary sources and secondary literature is accessible after registration in MS Teams group David Hume Seminar here:https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3a13d8a88db9324032a4d0f1af6bd387a2%40thread.tacv2/Obecn%25C3%25A9?groupId=7ac53d4a-c892-45ae-b290-10b0e120f18e&tenantId=e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2 |
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Code:
YBLS011 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. + Sindelar,M. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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This course will introduce students to recent debates on decolonizing museums by focusing on two core aspects: provenance research to understand the biographies of objects and their rightful owners or authors, and secondly, processes of restituting/repatriating objects. Students will be introduced to strategies of decolonization and actively engage with the social life of objects, their pasts, and their futures. The course centers around the call by art historian Bénédicte Savoy and economist Felwine Sarr on the restitution of material culture looted during colonial times and what restitution must entail to become effective. Students learn to assess current debates on restitution and provenance research also in light of earlier concerns articulated by art historians, anthropologists, and post-colonial scholars. As part of the seminar, students will be introduced to provenance research by exercises and case studies in which they will have to conduct research on objects themselves, as well as discuss current – and formulate new – strategies for decolonizing museums. The course will also feature an excursion to the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures. |
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Code:
YBAJ166 |
Lecturer:
Dobrovolná Wladyniak,L. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
see Student Information System
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For more information please see the Syllabus. |
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Code:
YBLO001 |
Lecturer:
Tomková,D. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The aim of the course is to offer a cross-section of key feminist texts with reference to and in dialogue with artistic production and the development of the visual arts. The course aims to introduce students to the critical themes addressed by the feminist movement of the 20th and 21st centuries to the present day. The course is based on the reading and discussion of texts, which will be supplemented in class with examples from 20th and 21st century art and curating. |
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Code:
YBLS012 |
Lecturer:
Lorenz - Meyer,D. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
see Student Information System
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AnnotationIn this course we explore the entanglements of gender, nature and culture that have been at the heart of feminist theory and activism. These concerns have gained renewed feminist attention in the era some call the Anthropocene where human activities irreparably have impacted on geological, biotic and climatic processes. What does it mean to live in the ruins of capitalism and what life and specifically feminist and queer politics can be generated when there is no simple cure or going back to pre-industrial times? These questions will take us to theories of racism and colonialism as much as gender and queer studies and human animal studies.The course will proceed through engaging case studies, as well as an exercise of creative ‘energy writing’ that will take us out of the classroom to expand our always more than human sensorium, train our writing skills and attune us the environment.Topics1. Welcome to the Anthropocene2. Thinking with Natureculture Entanglements3. Queer Animals? Thinking Trans* with Nonhuman Animals4. Nonlinear Biology and Sympoeisis5. Queer Ecologies and Politics6. Petro- and Plastic Capitalist Cultures7. (Non)Western Ontologies: Querying Life and Nonlife & Midterm Review8. Expanding the Human Sensorium: The Art of Noticing & Fieldtrip9. Caring for Nonhuman Kin10. Agential Realism11. Nuclearity: Memory, Affect and Politics of Nonhuman Witnessing12. The Politics of Waste & Review of Concepts13. The Politics of Nature: an (Eco)Cosmopolitan Proposal & Roleplay |
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Code:
YBLH002 |
Lecturer:
Čapská,V. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The course invites students to analyse modes of gift exchange in pre-modern Europe. It seeks to de-romanticise our contemporary idealised understanding of gift-giving as a purely altruistic practice. Thus, it will make use of concepts from social and cultural anthropology and show how gift exchange functioned in societies in which individuals were more vulnerable and more dependent on each other than today. It will draw students'attention to the so-called ego-documents as useful sources for tracing economic behaviour, including the practices and ideas of gift exchange. We will ask, for example, how people communicated through gifts in the past, what steps they took to forge fair exchange deals and cultivate more balanced relationships. We will explore what people donated most, and in what ways their life stages and religious affiliations shaped their perceptions and practices of giving. We will also look at past representations of greed and generosity (as concepts connected with gift exchange). This course is also an invitation to learn more about underestimated gift-exchange related phenomena, such as as bribery or hospitality.LiteratureZoltán Biedermann – Anne Gerritsen – Giorgio Riello (edd.), Global Gifts. The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia, Cambridge 2018.Natalie Z. Davis, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France, Madison 2000.Engin Isin – Ebru Üstündag, Wills, Deeds, Acts: Women's Civic Gift Giving in Ottoman Istanbul, Gender, Place and Culture 15, 2008, 519–532.Marcel Mauss, The Gift, London 1990.Joshua Teplitsky, A “Prince of the Land of Israel” in Prague: Jewish Philathropy, Patronage, and Power in Early Modern Europe and Beyond, Jewish History 29, 2015, 245–271.Irma Thoen, Strategic Affection? Gift Exchange of Seventeenth-Century Holland, Amsterdam 2006, 9–44. |
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Code:
YBLS002 |
Lecturer:
Çakir,A. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 11:30 - 12:50, room YT241 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course will aim to present a systematic discussion on the emergence and development of capitalism by going through different works of history and social theory. It will explore precapitalist societies and their gradual transformation, seeking the distinctive characteristics of early capitalist institutions. The historical development of capitalism will then be discussed through periods of mercantilism, colonial expansion, and industrial revolution, while also taking a look at modernism and the contemporary period. Refraining from a singular linear line, several different trajectories of capitalist development from around the world will be included in the course. Aside from the historical discussions, the course will also include theoretical perspectives starting from classical social theory to more recent debates on postmodernism and neoliberalism. By bringing together history and social theory, the course aims to contribute to the students’ overall understanding of capitalism and its historical dynamics. |
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Code:
YBAJ205 |
Lecturer:
Muhič Dizdarevič,S. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
see Student Information System
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From the summer term 2024/2025 the course is taught under the code YBLS019. |
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Code:
YBLS019 |
Lecturer:
Muhič Dizdarevič,S. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The main goal of the course is to present students with a history of the concept of human rights in the Western intellectual history; with historical and current forms of institutions in place to promote and enforce human rights; with current controversies related to the human rights agenda in the multi-cultural globalized world. |
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Code:
YBAJ177 |
Lecturer:
Vondráček,J. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
see Student Information System
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From the summer term 2024/2025 the course is taught under the code YBLH001. |
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Code:
YBLH001 |
Lecturer:
Vondráček,J. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 11:30 - 12:50, room YT112 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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In this seminar we will analyze three key aspects of the history of Nazi Germany and the Second World War: Nazi domination, occupation and the war economy. We will focus on Nazi military expansion until 1945. In this context we will take closer look at the German war of annihilation (Vernichtungskrieg) and the Holocaust in the east. Although terror and mass murder played a key role in Nazi policy, we will also study how the Nazi policy differed in the east and west towards local populations and how this policy was connected to the war economy. The seminar will be strongly text-based. You will be asked to read one to two texts and answer in-depth questions at each session. |
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Code:
YBLO002 |
Lecturer:
Říha,D. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
irregular classes, see SIS
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Introduction to 3-D Graphics:This turorial-based course will allow students to learn the essentials in 3-D design with software Cinema 4D by Maxon. |
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Code:
YBLO003 |
Lecturer:
Holubenko,N. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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This course on intralingual translation, which involves translating within the same language, such as rephrasing or rewriting texts, will provide an overview of the theoretical approaches and debates concerning this kind of translation within the field of translation studies. It will examine instances of intralingual reformulation and different types of rewritings, from didactic materials to more ‘ideological’ translations where the impact exerted by language and translation on the construction of identity is considered. During the course, students will analyze how some of the classics of British and American literature have been rewritten for specific categories of readers (children, learners of English as a foreign language, students, etc.) or how poems have been rewritten as novels and how critical theory has been narrativized in literary texts. |
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Code:
YBLP002 |
Lecturer:
Hanyš,M. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
thu 16:00 - 17:20, room YT201 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course provides students with a brief introduction to Western political philosophy by examining some of the major texts of classical authors suchas Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, and the modern (Mill, Weber, Arendt, Strauss, Rawls, etc.). The course has the character of a seminar and requires the student to read the texts regularly (20-30 pages every weekend), prepare a presentation, and prepare weekly short answers to the reading questions. |
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Code:
YBLS007 |
Lecturer:
Kolářová,M. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 13:00 - 14:20, room YT221 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Do you want to try out qualitative research methods in the real world? Understand the differences between quantitative and qualitative research methods in Social Sciences? Learn how to conduct an interview, observation or a focus group? Understand and analyse the perception of other people? This introductory course is designed for students from 2nd to 4th semester, and it has three primary aims: 1. It aims to give students a grounding in the theoretical and practical application of qualitative research methods in the social sciences. 2. The course will prepare students for the methodological part of the Comprehensive Exam in Social Sciences (CESS). 3. Completing this course offers a first step towards the skills students need to design and conduct their own research. |
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Code:
YBLO006 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
irregular classes, see SIS
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Date: May 26 to 31, 2025; One-week course organized in the framework of the Khamoro Romani Festival, intended for university students. In the morning lectures, the students become acquainted with the main areas in which Roma participated in the creation of distinctive music styles. The guests of this year´s course will be Prof. Kinga Povedák, University of Szeged, and Prof. Carol Silverman, University of Oregon. Moreover, the topics of music in Romani spirituality, changes in music in Romani transcultural lives, or Romani representation, and social memory will be discussed within the context of music(s) of the Roma. A workshop with Romani singers, and film screening will be held in the afternoons. In the evenings, students will attend festival concerts. Study materials are available on-line for students. |
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Code:
YBLO005 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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A five-day seminar for students at all levels on how to make music with the sounds and structures of the natural world. We will review the music and writings of others who have worked in this way, and go out in the field listening with our ears, and our technologies, then return to the classroom and studio to work in our own diverse ways, culminating in an informal performance for the group and for the public.The course will be taught by hosting profesor David Rothenberg, New Jersey Technological University, USA, in collaboration with doc. Zuzana Jurková, PhD., and Oldřich Poděbradský, PhD., FHS UK. |
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Code:
YBLS017 |
Lecturer:
Verbuč,D. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
thu 13:00 - 14:20, room YT032 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Technology forms an immediate material basis of music culture, both in a sense of general technology (industrialization, mechanical and digital technologies), and music technology (music instruments, recording and music reproduction technologies). This class provides an insight into how historical technological changes affected music (its form, content, style), and its surrounding culture (listening modes, aesthetics, copy-right laws, social interaction, lifestyles), and vice versa. We start our journey with the pre-20th century music technologies (acoustic and mechanic music instrument technologies), and then spend most of the time with 20th and 21st century music technologies (electric and electronic music instruments and devices: gramophone, radio, tape, analog and digital music technologies). Class topics include: (1) an impact of the early recording formats and music technologies on the early-20th century reconfigurations in music, culture, and society, (2) relationship between music technology (recording formats, electric and electronic instruments, studio production) and music genres (especially jazz, rock, electronic dance cultures, and avant-garde music), (3) music-related technology as social power (standardization, control of behavior, laws, cultural appropriation) vs freedom (democratization, empowerment), (4) race, class, gender and music technologies, (5) the role of technological mediation at live music events, (6) relation between place/space and technology (acoustics, urban soundscapes), and (7) retro(-futuristic) technological music trends. The two main conceptual goals of this class are: (a) questioning of technological determinism, and reductive binary notion of technophobia vs techno optimism, via complex and multifactorial understanding of music technologies, and (b) developing a critique of the notion of authenticity regarding music instruments/technologies. We approach these topics and goals from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary frameworks, including anthropology, ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, sound studies, and critical theory. With an aid of assigned readings, listening examples, film viewings, and class debates, we look into a variety of case studies discussing particular music technologies and their musical and cultural effects, both in Western and non-Western societies. As part of the course, we also visit two local music venues for a demonstration of music technologies (and DJ techniques). |
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Code:
YBLP003 |
Lecturer:
Janoušek,H. + Synek,S. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
fri 14:30 - 15:50, room YT117 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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In this course we will focus on the phenomenology of the emotion of shame. After a brief historical introduction (Plato, Aristotle, Hume), we will look at some of the basic approaches offered by older and more recent phenomenology (Scheler, Bollnow, Strauss, Sartre, Steinbock, Zahavi), which we will occasionally compare with approaches common in English-language moral psychology (Taylor, Williams, Nussbaum, Deonna, Rodogno, Teroni).The lectures will be held on Fridays, except for the three following dates.The lecture on Friday, 18th April, is moved to Thursday morning, 17th April, 8:30-9:50 in room 1.17 (the same one as Friday lectures)The lecture on Friday, 2nd May is cancelled.The lecture on Friday, 9th May is cancelled and replaced by compulsory reading and a voluntary meeting on Zoom at a date and time which we will settle in class together. |
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Code:
YBLS016 |
Lecturer:
Hanson,E. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 11:30 - 12:50, room YT117 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course examines how psychology informs politics, including how we build political identities, why people engage in political behaviors, and the mutually constitutive relationship between people and institutions. The course will primarily focus on research from social psychology, but we will also look to broader literatures including cognitive and personality psychology, sociology, political science, and international relations. Although much of the research in this field is conducted with a focus on the “global north”, and the United States in particular, in this course we will take a global perspective. We will cover topics such as ideology, political personality, partisanship, attitude change, motivated reasoning, intergroup relationships, conflict, conspiracies, and prejudice/stigma. |
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Code:
YBLS013 |
Lecturer:
Sokolová,V. + Lorenz - Meyer,D. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The frequency of dramatic weather events, floods, droughts, and the mobilisations around environmental and climate justice bring matters of rapid environmental degradation, species extinction and global warming into critical visibility, and underscore the urgency for collective action. This course introduces students to feminist, queer and indigenous knowledges and activisms around the nexus of ecological and sexual politics. The course examines feminist critiques of the nature-culture divide, human exceptionalism, eco-heteronormativity, petrocultures and their alternatives. Case studies into companion species, petro-sexual relations and queer and speculative feminisms investigate the implications for rethinking bodies, care, reproduction and queer feminist politics with and beyond rights-based frameworks. |
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Code:
YBAJ248 |
Lecturer:
Smejkal,R. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
see Student Information System
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This course is not taught in the summer semester 2024/2025. |
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Code:
YBLS008 |
Lecturer:
Černý,K. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The lecture deals with sociology of conflict (K. Marx, L. Coser, R. Dahrendorf, Ch. W. Mills) and with the main approaches to the sociology of revolution (P. Sorokin, J. Davies, T. Gurr, Ch. Tilly, C. Brinton, J. Alexander) including selected case studies (for example the Czechoslovac Velvet revolution of 1989, Arab Spring of 2011). It also partly deals with proto-sociology of war, (K. Marx, C. Clausewitz, T. Malthus, V. Lenin, J. Hobson, I. Kant), selected examples of sociology of war (P. Sorokin, Ch. Tilly, M. Kaldor, H. Joas, M. Klare, H. Dixon, S. Huntington), and sociology of terrorism (sociology of religious terrorism of M. Juergensmeyer, suicide terrorism covered by R. Pape). |
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Code:
YBFC141 |
Lecturer:
Novotný,J. + Winklerová,L. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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An intensive specialised discussion seminar focused especially on ethics. This is based on analysis of the participants' specific life experience in order to reach common answers on basic ethical questions. The typical questions concerned are as follows: What is responsibility? What are limits of tolerance? What is freedom? The course is held in the German and English language.Seminars take place:Frýdlant 11. - 13. 4. 2025 Czech and EnglishFrýdlant 23. - 26. 8 2025 Czech and EnglishPraha 8. - 9. 11. 2025 Czech and EnglishPlease fill in your application here: https://www.socraticdialogue.org/en/seminars/WE DON´T OFFER AN ONLINE VERSION OF THIS COURSE. |
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Code:
YBLO008 |
Lecturer:
Doyle,C. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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Although Arthur was a legendary Romano British king or warlord, supposed to have repelled the earliest Anglo- Saxon invasions of Britain who was first mentioned in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Latin Historia regum brittaniae (History of the Kings of Britain), Arthur’s court was the prime locus of literary chivalry not just in medieval English literature, but more generally throughout Western Europe. Arthurian romances exist in French, English, Welsh, German, Icelandic and Czech. This course will primarily consider verse romances in Middle English, but with comparative analysis of traditions in other languages with the intention of demonstrating that the so called Matter of Britain, was in fact a common creative property of the entire Latinate Western European region. |
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Code:
YBLS018 |
Lecturer:
Verbuč,D. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The main concepts in the title of this course (sound, affect, commodity) point to the three prominent current trends in music anthropology/ethnomusicology: sound studies, affect studies, and economic ethnomusicology (also related to material culture studies). This course will therefore present new research and new publications (many of them prize-winning) from these cutting-edge subfields of cultural and music anthropology (ethnomusicology), which concomitantly challenge some problematic preconceptions in academia as related to rigid binary social constructions, for example, sound vs music (in sound studies), cultural vs precultural, political vs apolitical, or referential vs embodied (in affect theory), taste and value vs class and economy, or capitalist vs noncapitalist exchange (in economic ethnomusicology), and animate vs inanimate objects (in material culture studies). The class will include the following thematic sections: music and capitalism (production of value, neoliberalism, gentrification), music and neoliberalism (in Western electronic music, Indian bollywood dance, and Peruvian huayno), the social life of music instruments/technologies in the global political economy (Gibson guitar, Turkish saz, recording formats), music, commodity, and affect at political demonstrations (in Thailand and UK), music and affective community (stranger intimacy and affect in Western and Jamaican electronic dance music cultures), affective music labor (female kafana singers in ex-Yugoslavia, jazz clubs in New York, cultural activism in Sao Paolo), management of affect on music streaming platforms (and Youtube), racial and colonial soundscapes (in Colombia and the US), sound/vocality and gender/transgender (African female ululations, Indian Hijra performances), studies of war sounds (Iraq war), soundscapes of silence (Korean Hiroshima survivors, 9/11 commemorations, Greek Orthodox monks). Ultimately, the course will attempt to address the question of the interrelatedness of sound-affect-community-and-commodity. The course will be based on weekly readings and in-class discussions. Students will also have to prepare one class presentation (for BA and MA students), and submit a final paper (only for MA students). We will also host two guests (authors of two articles assigned for this class). Appropriate for both BA and MA students. Prerequisites: students should have completed at least a couple of sociocultural anthropology, and/or cultural studies courses before registering for this class. |
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Code:
YBLS009 |
Lecturer:
Klepal,J. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
thu 10:00 - 11:20, room YT117 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Sociocultural anthropology in general, and medical anthropology in particular, has been questioning predominant understandings of human body, health, and sickness. This course focuses on anthropological encounters with beliefs and practices through which embodiment, wellbeing, and afflictions are experienced, communicated, and enacted in the contemporary cross-cultural context and globalized world. Topics covered include medical pluralism, disability, (bio)medicalization, reproduction, mental health, complementary and alternative medicine, and (bio)medical technologies. By the end of the course, students will have a better grasp of concepts and methods of sociocultural anthropology; they will be able to critically reflect on their own and others’ embodied experiences of health and disease; and they will be able to apply findings of medical anthropology beyond the field. |
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Code:
YBLH003 |
Lecturer:
De Pablo Aguilar,D. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
thu 11:30 - 12:50, room YT113 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The concept of the "Other" holds significant importance in understanding various phenomena, such as power dynamics, relationships of power, the formation of identities, among other. Consequently, the theory exploring the connections between the "Other" and the self is a rich interdisciplinary area within the humanities and social sciences. In today's globalized world, where interactions with those who are different from us are a part of everyday life and can also be a source of conflict, grasping the logic behind these interactions is crucial.In this course, we will begin by examining the concept of social representations, its functions, and its relationship with the notion of the "Other," drawing on the works of authors such as Van Leeuwen, Jean-Claude Abric, Durkheim, and others. Subsequently, we will delve into the ideas of prominent thinkers who have engaged in significant discussions on this topic, including Lacan, Levinas, Sartre, Foucault, Todorov, and more. By doing so, students will not only gain a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical concept and its various interpretations but also learn how to connect it with other academic inquiries, such as issues related to domination, the legitimization of power, tolerance, intercultural coexistence, the process of self-identification, exclusion mechanisms, the cognitive functions of mental representations, and the production of discourses. |
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Code:
YBLS014 |
Lecturer:
Bauer,K. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 13:00 - 14:20, room YT003 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course deals with a sociological and historical perspective of Violence. The theoretical part of the course will provide basic orientation in the phenomenon, its particular fields, issues, topics, ideas and concepts. The practical part should mediate the view of violence through the eyes of people specializing in violence on daily basis (f.e. armed forces personnel with foreign mission experience, lawyer, professional fighter). The main aim is to provide better understanding of violence at different levels and from different perspectives. In other words, the main goal of the course is to open the door to the mysterious world of violence, which whether we like it or not, it's a part of human lives. |
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Code:
YBLP005 |
Lecturer:
Marek,J. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 14:30 - 15:50, room YT032 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The second part of the introductory course into philosophy of existence we will be dealing with 20th century thinkers and their efforts at communicating and anylizing the specificity of human existence. Our main focus will be on Jaspers, Heidegger and Patočka, but also Franz Kafka. The course will be designed in such a way as to accomodate new students who have not taken part in the first semester. |
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Code:
YBLH004 |
Lecturer:
Suchý,M. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 16:00 - 17:20, room YT242 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course provides students with insights into different aspects of early modern time travelling. Source criticism to contemporary sources (chronicles, travel accounts, itineraries, books of travels, charters, etc.) within major topics (such as war campaigns, pilgrimage, university peregrination, diplomacy, trade and crafts) constitutes an important feature of the course. |
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Code:
YBLS015 |
Lecturer:
Dobrovolná Wladyniak,L. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The course is an introduction to visual sociology and visual research methods. It provides students with the basics of visual sociology and visual studies, both in theory and practice. Its aim is also to give students an opportunity to explore the field themselves and gain some practice in working with visual material in social sciences. The course is completed by in-class workshops, students’ own projects and outside classroom activities. |
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Code:
YBLO010 |
Lecturer:
Pospíšilová,T. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The course is centered on volunteering as one of the core elements of third sector, active citizenship and non-profits. Volunteering is approached in the international perspective, exploring and comparing the values and practices of volunteering in different countries. The aim is to reflect on the cultural embeddedness of volunteering. The course is structured in a participative mode of active and peer learning, aiming to maximize the potential of a multi-cultural and the plurality of disciplinary approaches of students. The course is accessible for students with no prior knowledge of volunteering, yet at the same time it creates a unique space for the academic reflection of the cultural embeddedness of volunteering. |
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Code:
YBEC188 |
Lecturer:
Petříková, K. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
see Student Information System
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The lecture focuses on social roles, depiction and perception of women in medieval texts. The individual topics are introduced partly in terms of general, comprehensive overview, partly through extracts from specific texts written for women, about women and by women themselves. It focuses predominantly on works of English provenance while setting them in the overall context of seminal medieval texts written on the Continent. |
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