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Code:
YBAJ212 |
Lecturer:
Novotná,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 10:00 - 11:20, room YT241 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course aims to delineate a space for ideas about the body found in Old Norse literature and, in the context of contemporary analyses in body-related research, to search for other polarities than the body- soul dualism. The themes analysed in detail will be: somatic displays of emotions; change of form in the context of battle ecstasy and of magic; corporeality of revenants; physical aspects of Old Norse terms for "soul" and the human-animal relationship. |
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Code:
YBAJ165 |
Lecturer:
Váša,O. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
tue 11:30 - 13:00, room YT032 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course will confront contemporary art with selected philosophical texts and essays, following a question that has haunted the avant-garde movement ever since it started. If art is supposed to negate all the restraints and norms that the world imposes on it, does not a murder - as a radical action - represent an ultimate temptation of avant-garde art (as thematized by Lars von Trier in The House that Jack Built, 2018)? Naturally, such a conclusion would be wholly absurd. However, it provokes a series of questions of prime importance for contemporary art: issues of limits of art, its relation to politics, public space, life, etc. As for the topics, we will discuss the relationship between art and politics, art and freedom, art and its critical potential, limits of art, paradoxes of the avant-garde movement, alienation of the contemporary world, etc. We will also read the excerpts from authors like Adorno, Chalupecký, Ranciere or Danto. |
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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:
thu 8:30 - 9:50, room YT112 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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In the summer semester 2023 we are going to read Peter Hall's classic book Cities in Civilisation.… THIS COURSE IS INTENDED FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDENTS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ENROL BUT THE LIMIT OF STUDENTS IS FULL DO NOT HESITATE AND LET ME KNOW. |
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Code:
YBAJ058 |
Lecturer:
Převrátilová,S. + Lukešová,L. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
Czech
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
fri 11:30 - 12:50, room YT113 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň) / mon 11:30 - 12:50, room YT113 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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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. Grammar is simplified and students will learn it through texts, tables and exercises that help them discover and apply the rules in real-life contexts. Every lesson, students will be assigned homework to practise and extend the topics covered in class. For the course, students need to have the coursebook ČESKY KROK ZA KROKEM 1 (this is what it looks like 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:
mon 16:00 - 17:20, room YT032 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course will explore the history and development of Czech film in the twentieth century. This is not a chronological history of Czech film, but rather a discussion and analysis of films in the following categories: historical, political, lyrical, realist, comedy, literary adaptations, animations, fairy tales (pohádky), Second World War, surreal / avant-garde. We will watch excerpts (with English subtitles) from a number of films from each category and discuss content, film-making techniques and other aspects of the films. The films have been chosen so that wherever possible students can watch the complete versions either on DVD or on streaming services such as Netflix, YouTube, Kviff.tv and others. More information on this will be provided at the start of the course. |
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Code:
YBAJ056 |
Lecturer:
Převrátilová,S. + Lukešová,L. |
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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:
fri 10:00 - 11:20, room YT113 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň) / mon 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.It the spring semester, both full degree students as well as the Erasmus students can attend. In the fall semester, this coures is open primarily for the full degree students only.The aim of this course is to acquire basic language skills to deal with every-day life in the Czech Republic, including cultural awareness. |
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Code:
YBF224 |
Lecturer:
Kunca,T. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
tue 17:30 - 18:50, room YT120 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Summer semester 2023 Students are advised to apply for 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-bf08-8816a20414a2Course is designed not only for students interested in Hume studies and history of the British philosophy but for everyone who would like to write an essay in Philosophy. Hume´s mastery in essay writing is well known and established fact. Therefore a student is free to make a choice to write an essay in Hume studies and history of the British philosophy (inspired by seminar programme) or write an independent 2000 - 3000 words essay and attend at least three face-to-face tutorials checking her/his progress in essay writing.Course main focus in the Summer semester 2022/23 are topics and arguments treated in two probably most controversial essays of Hume, Of Miracles and Of National Characters. |
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Code:
YBAJ211 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
wed 16:00 - 17:20, room YT032 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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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:
YBAJ216 |
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:
fri 11:30 - 12:50, room YT220 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course will introduce students to the oldest literary texts written in the English language, as well as introducing the language of the texts, Old English. The surviving texts range in tone from bawdy, double-entendre-laden riddles to religious lyrics and heroic verse, with prose texts including rich sources for the history of early medieval England. The language more closely resembles modern German than modern English in terms of its syntax and grammatical structure but it was written with additional letters of the alphabet which now only survive in the Icelandic language.The politics of translation was a deep concern of those authors who undertook the translation and adaptation of Latin texts into English, as well as being a primary concern, alongside considerations of aesthetics quality and accuracy, to translations of Old English literature into Modern EnglishAll texts will be studied in modern English translation, but the course will introduce the basics of the language, mostly found written in manuscripts dating from 900-1100 AD, enabling students to critique a translated text with reference to a text in the original language, and undertake translations of short extracts.A good standard of modern English will be required to follow this course, and some knowledge of modern German would be an advantage, but is not a prerequisite.Language of Instruction: English |
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Code:
YBAJ160 |
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:
tue 16:00 - 17:20, room YT233 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course will analyse modes of gift exchange in pre-modern Europe. It strives to de-romanticize our contemporary idealized understanding of gift-giving as a purely altruistic practice. Thus, it will make use of the concepts of social and cultural anthropology and show how gift exchange worked in the 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, for example, ask how people in the past communicated through gifts, what steps they took to forge fair exchange deals and to cultivate more balanced relationships. We will explore what people donated most and in what ways their life stages and religious affiliations shaped their perception and practices of giving. We will also pay attention to past representations of greed and generosity.In April 2023 there will be a guest visit in the course - Dr. Alena Drieschová from the University of Cambridge will come to discuss with us the limits of postcolonial views on eurocentrism and to what extent the "Other" Europe can play a role in criticizing and decentring this concept.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:
YBAJ205 |
Lecturer:
Muhič Dizdarevič,S. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
mon 10:00 - 11:20, room YT117 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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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:
YBK052 |
Lecturer:
Říha,D. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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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:
YBAJ081 |
Lecturer:
Převrátilová,S. + Císařovská,L. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
2
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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If the situation does not permit meeting face-to-face, students should meet online. This autonomous language course is a one-semester course for students learning a foreign language here at the faculty (including Czech as a foreign language for incoming students). Native speakers of two different languages work together to help each other learn the target language as well as to learn about the target culture and community. The tandem is expected to set goals, discuss the methods of learning/teaching each other. Both partners should benefit equally from the exchange. ONLY FOR English-language speakers! |
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Code:
YBA278 |
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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Romani music and music criticism - Date: May 29 to June 4, 2023; 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 and primarily with music of the Roma in Central Europe. Moreover, the topics of music representation, and music in connections to social memory will be discussed within the context of music(s) of the Roma. Two workshops on music criticism 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:
YBAJ219 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. |
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Semester:
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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A four-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. |
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Code:
YBAJ217 |
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:
wed 10:00 - 11:20, room YT121 (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:
YBAJ171 |
Lecturer:
Suchý,M. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
wed 16:00 - 17:20, room YT121 (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:
YBAJ351 |
Lecturer:
Wladyniak,L. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
3
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Schedule:
tue 10:00 - 11:20, room YT032 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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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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