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YBLO011 |
Lecturer:
Říha,D. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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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This course is designed for those students who have the interest in animation movies. The production process is realized in a software Moviestorm, that allows to produce original animation without prior knowledge of 3D animation softwares. |
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Code:
YBLS030 |
Lecturer:
Vuksan,M. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
fri 11:30 - 12:50, room YT121 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course explores subcultures and countercultures of the 20th century through an anthropological lens and examines how these movements emerged in response to dominant power structures, social transformations, cultural changes, and ideological shifts. From the Beat Generation and the Hippie movement to Punk and Underground, students will analyse how these youth cultures shaped identity, resistance, and a broader cultural change.A central theme of the course is the interplay between individuals and collective action: how people within these movements transformed themselves and their surroundings, often redefining societal norms in the process. Special attention will be given to charismatic figures who acted as both leaders and symbols of the movements and played a key role in shaping subcultural and countercultural identities. |
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Code:
YBAJ063 |
Lecturer:
Krymláková,T. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 10:00 - 11:20, room YT220 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Tento kurz je pro studenty, kteří chodili na kurzy Beginners a Pre-Intermediate nebo jsou na začátku úrovně A2. Používáme učebnici ČESKY KROK ZA KROKEM 1 a pracujeme s lekcemi 9-24 podle aktuální potřeby studentů. Kurz probíhá formou blended learningu - jednou týdně prezenčně a další úkoly plní studenti asynchronně. Kurz NENÍ určen pro studenty na úrovni B1, B2 a výše (např. studující na české vysoké škole v českém jazyce nebo ty, kteří již podobný kurz absolvovali jinde). Docházka na prezenční část je povinná (min. 75 %).Výuka bude probíhat prezenčně, pouze v případě nečekaných událostí přejde do online prostoru.This course if for students who have taken the Beginner and Pre-Intermediate courses or are the start of A2 level. We use the ČESKY KROK ZA KROKEM 1 course book and work with units 9-24 depending on current needs of the students. The lesson take place once a week face-to-face and students work on other tasks in their own time (approx. 2 hours per week). Please do not register if you study at a Czech school in the Czech language or if your level is B1 or higher.Attendance in the face-to-face classes is mandatory (minimum 75%). The course will be taught face-to-face, it will only be held online if some unforeseen events occur. |
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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 10:00 - 11:20, room YT212 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň) / wed 11:30 - 12:50, room YT220 (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).The course will be taught face-to-face, it will only be held online if some unforeseen events occur. |
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Code:
YBLO013 |
Lecturer:
Tomková,D. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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 focuses on examining and discussing current issues that influence the production and organization of exhibitions from the perspective of decolonial and feminist practices in the context of post-socialist Central Europe. The course asks why it is important to consider the decolonial project in the context of post-socialist Central Europe. Socialist international cooperation included exchanges of workers and students (from Vietnam, Cuba, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East) and political and economic alliances, representing a strong anti-colonial solidarity. What happened to migrants from the global South after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Are their stories part of the collective memory of Ostalgie? What were the experiences of already present internally racially discriminated neighbors, specifically the Roma? The course will focus on the history of museums, including cabinets of curiosities and freak shows. We will also look at institutional critique, feminist curating, and reflect on the concept of curatorial materialism. We will discuss how the care of objects in collections in contemporary curating is shifting towards broader social care and responsibility. The course will reflect on institutional whiteness and look at the cultural heritage of the Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and will discuss the establishment of the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno as a result of the emancipation of Romani intellectuals in the 1990s. The course will seek to answer and discuss the following questions: What happens to political projects when they are exhibited or even enclosed in normative spaces such as museums or exhibitions? How can curating be perceived as care and inclusion? How can we exhibit from a decolonial perspective? How can we creatively transform historical traumas through curatorial practices? The course takes the form of a seminar and is based on active participation and classroom discussions, including film screenings, excursions, and visits to galleries and museums. |
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Code:
YBLS028 |
Lecturer:
Pitoňák,M. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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 "Geographies of Sexualities: Queering Place and Space" aims to challenge traditional perceptions of space as a passive backdrop for social events and promote understanding of space as a dynamic dimension that co-constructs our subjectivity and everyday experiences. This course explores the mutually constitutive relationship between space and subjectivity within an intersectional framework, examines the concept of "queering" geography/space, and problematizes dominant discourses related to (cis)heteronormative and queer spaces.The course will delve into specific themes such as the urban-rural dichotomy in the geographies of sexualities, the experiences of lesbian women in space, the concept of home, commodification of space and pinkwashing, and queer geopolitics in the context of anti-gender movements. Through extensive reading, critical discussion, and practical application, students will develop a nuanced understanding of how identities influence spatial experiences and how feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches can be applied in geography and in their lives. |
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Code:
YBLS019 |
Lecturer:
Muhič Dizdarevič,S. |
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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:
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 Western intellectual history, with historical and current forms of institutions in place to promote and enforce human rights, and with current controversies related to the human rights agenda in the multi-cultural, globalized world. |
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Code:
YBLH012 |
Lecturer:
Doyle,C. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
mon 14:30 - 15:50, room YT201 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course will introduce methods and topics for the study of pre modern Western medicine, that is medicine practiced primarily in Western Europe from the time of the Roman Empire to the establishment of prestigious medical faculties at Universities throughout Europe. The history of medicine is not just the history of great doctors, but is also the history of the diseases that every human suffered, from deadly pandemics such as the Black Death to the natural processes of birth, aging and death. |
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Code:
YBLO012 |
Lecturer:
Váša,O. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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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What does Botticelli’s Venus have in common with the contemporary Instagram stars? How did the influential renaissance concept of “figura serpentinata” become a pornographic backbone of contemporary sexual imagery? How did Michelangelo’s infernal orgies survive into the present time, disguised as the images of destruction? What does the adjective "PORNOGRAPHIC" mean, after all? While addressing these questions, the course will provide a practical introduction to iconology as it has been defined and practiced by Aby M. Warburg and Ernst Cassirer in the 1920s and 1930s (and is still highly influential today). Concerning their mutually influenced methodology, the course will interpret the critical aspects of the “nameless science” by exposing and analyzing complicated genealogy of the specific spectrum of surprisingly interrelated (and no less surprisingly PORNOGRAPHIC) images like selfies, underwear advertising, cloud imagery, abstract painting, war atrocities or hygiene-related illustrations. |
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Code:
YBLS027 |
Lecturer:
Pfaus,J. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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 is the first part of a two-course series. Its aim is to provide you with an introduction to the brain, how it works, and what its neural and neurochemical mechanisms are that underlie behavior. The emphasis on mechanisms, structures, and concepts is designed to prepare you for the next course in the series, called “Brain and Behavior” (offered in the Summer semester) that makes use of the concepts learned in this course and applies them to complex motivated behaviors. It is also necessary for any other neuroscience-related courses, like Psychofyziologie a neuropsychologie (by Lenka Martinec Nováková), and courses that may be offered in the future, such as Hormones and Behavior, Drugs and Behavior, etc. Although the highly interdisciplinary material is drawn primarily from the subdisciplines of neuroscience, including neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and neuroendocrinology, our ultimate interest is in behavior. How do we understand behavior on the basis of its biological mechanisms? The course is divided into three units with an equally-weighted examination at the end of each. In the first unit, we will examine the gross structure and function of the nervous system and neuron, with an emphasis on the mechanisms by which nerves send information over long distances. The second unit examines the electrochemical connections between nerve cells and the way that those connections convey information from one cell to another and across networks of nerve cells. You will be exposed to concepts developed in molecular biology, and the way that neurobiologists have applied those concepts to the neuron. The third unit will focus on neurochemical pathways in the brain, neuroendocrinology, and the organization of the autonomic nervous system. This section will conclude by exploring the way in which sensory information is transmitted in the brain using the chemical senses of taste and smell as examples. Students who know psychology solely as a social science will likely find the early part of this course challenging. This is to be expected in any course in which the terminology and concepts are entirely new. But by learning this “alien” terminology of neurobiology and building up your understanding of new concepts in a step-by-step manner, you will come to view psychology from a different, more biological perspective, and you will have acquired an overview of neuroscience in the process. There is no required textbook. The lectures will provide you with all the necessary material. However, if you would like a book, I can recommend the introductory neuroscience textbook by Bear, M.F., Conors, B.W., and Paradiso, M.A. (2015). Neuroscience: Exploring the brain (4th Ed), Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. I include the corresponding chapters to each lecture in the syllabus (called “BCP”; see below). It is very important that you do not fall behind in the lectures because cramming before the exams will tend to drive you crazy and really won't help you understand the information. I will do my best to help you understand what you have read and will be available for office hours by appointment. I encourage questions from the class during lectures. I tend to lecture quickly because there is quite a lot to cover. I would strongly suggest that you pair up with one or two other students and form a study group to go over the information. |
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Code:
YBLO003 |
Lecturer:
Holubenko,N. |
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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:
tue 10:00 - 11:20, room YT131 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course on intralingual translation, which involves translating within the same language, such as rephrasing or rewriting texts, provides an overview of the theoretical approaches and debates concerning this type of translation within the field of translation studies. It will examine instances of intralingual reformulation and various types of rewritings, ranging from didactic materials to more ‘ideological’ translations, where the impact of language and translation on the construction of identity is considered. Throughout the course, students will analyze how some of the classics of British and American literature have been rewritten for specific audiences (children, learners of English as a foreign language, students, etc.) or how poems have been rewritten as novels. Additionally, the course investigates how elements of critical theory have been narrativized within literary texts.The Moodle link for this course is: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=17793 |
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Code:
YBLS032 |
Lecturer:
Helman,I. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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 feminist and lesbian separatisms beginning with their birth in the early history of feminism and their subsequent association with radical feminist theories. Through primary and secondary texts, it will familiarize students with the goals, motivations, and reasonings behind the phenomena as well as their accomplishments, legacies, and current forms. It will pay special attention to the impact of these types of separatisms on publications/writing, music, and in feminist spirituality as well as their legacy of cultural feminism. Finally, the course will examine critiques of the movements as essentialist and trans-exclusionary from various perspectives and authors. |
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Code:
YBLS026 |
Lecturer:
Lehečka,M. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 10:00 - 12:50, room YT231 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň) - odd week
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The accelerating complexity and diversity of urban life has been a central concern of social and cultural anthropology since the early twentieth century. In the context of increasing global interconnectedness, contemporary urban research must address the assemblage of dynamic flows of migration, transportation, ideas, and goods. Anthropological inquiry emphasizes how urban dwellers navigate and respond to multiple, often distant socio-material phenomena that shape their everyday realities.This course introduces students to key perspectives, concepts, and methodological approaches in urban anthropology. Through fieldwork trips and excursions across Prague, students will engage with various urban environments—such as multicultural neighborhoods, segregated districts, urban “non-places,” green corridors, and infrastructures—through the lens of ethnography. Emphasis will be placed on developing research practices, ethical awareness, and methodological sensitivity in studying the anthropology of the city. |
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Code:
YBLH011 |
Lecturer:
Wohlmuth,P. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 14:30 - 15:50, room YT120 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course aims to provide an introduction to oral history using the historical phenomena of the Cold War with special emphasis at ex-communist countries such as Czechoslovakia, Eastern Germany, Soviet Union, and China and also actors of Western leftist groupings. Most histories emphasize major political events or structures of economic development. Professor Donald A. Ritchie, the author of the influential book Doing Oral History, once explained the core of the discipline in these telling words: we do not do oral history to confirm what we already know, but rather to question what we consider to be supposedly clear. So, our main goal will be entirely different from the usual perspectives on Cold War: we will avoid major narratives and attempt to understand the structures and meaning of the historical subjectivity of so-called „ordinary people“, living under these oppressive regimes. How was life beyond the Iron Curtain for them? In which terms they had conceptualized their life experience? How did they relate to people, ideas, and material objects from the West? Oral history understands „ordinary people“ to be much more than just „onlookers“ to the actions of major historical actors. |
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Code:
YBLS033 |
Lecturer:
Lorenz - Meyer,D. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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 introduces students to critical studies of race and racism, including white innocence and bio- and necropolitics and their significance also in Central Europe. How are racialised distinctions being made, and wilfully ignored? Is race socially constructed and how? What innovative methods to study race and racism have been proposed, in particular in the absence of archives that include testimonies of marginalised people? How can racialised legacies become the ground for racial utopias and future imaginings? |
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Code:
YBLS034 |
Lecturer:
Sokolová,V. + Lorenz - Meyer,D. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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 introduces students into the racial structuring of contemporary societies, including their bio- and necropolitics, the forgotten places of slow death, and white innocence. Of particular interest are questions of how we can take account of histories and experiences that are not integrated into historical discourses or archives, and what forms of futurity might inhere in these histories and everyday practices and sensations. Here we will examine also creative methods of future making proposed by indigenous and Black feminist scholars. |
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Code:
YBLP012 |
Lecturer:
Bierhanzl,J. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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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Karel Kosík´s Dialectics of the Concrete and the Ecological Crisis of CapitalismMy proposal is to build on Kosík’s still-living philosophical program of phenomenological or existentialist Marxism (according to which social reality is a being always already in the system, and at the same time the possibility of transcending the system), while revising the strongly anthropocentric and megalomaniac conceptions of work and time that are its content, towards such notions as the regeneration of the life of the world, the regeneration of work and the solidary mode of living. |
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Code:
YBLO016 |
Lecturer:
Doyle,C. |
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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:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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This course is an introduction to a number of key concepts in Academic Writing. We will begin by considering how academic writing differs from other styles of English, and then move on to discuss how to structure an essay, some specifics of vocabulary and grammar, and how to use (and not misuse) secondary sources, citations and footnotes. We will also look at some of the software you can use to help and improve your writing and discuss writing and delivering academic presentations. The aim of the seminar is to introduce students to the principles of academic writing and to improve their reading, writing and critical thinking skills. |
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Code:
YBLS029 |
Lecturer:
Hanson,E. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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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In this course, students will learn about the history, theory, and practice of social justice. The course aims to provide a critical understanding of social justice as both a domain for theoretical research and applied practice. In the theoretical portion of the course, we will discuss the relationship between social justice and concepts like power, identity, emotion, systems thinking, and intersectional solidarity. In the applied part of the course, students will learn about the practice of community organizing, including identifying goals, targets, and tactics, as well as ethical principles for organizing. The goal of the course is for students to be able to articulate diverse concepts of social justice and apply these perspectives to analyze and address real-life issues. |
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Code:
YBLS024 |
Lecturer:
Bauer,K. |
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Semester:
Winter
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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 deals with the social phenomenon of Genocide, particularly genocidal violence. The structure of the course is divided into three interconnected parts. The first part deals with the phenomenon of genocide itself. The second part provides a deeper understanding of the worst cases of genocidal violence in the 20th century. The last part focuses on the specific types of violence, which take place during genocide. Lectures are accompanied by two special lessons, one guest lecture and one interactive lecture. The main aim of this course is to provide a better understanding of genocidal violenceat its different forms and introduce different perspectives. In other words, the main goal of the course is to persuade you, that genocide is the most extreme form of violence and when the time of genocide comes, we have to do our best to stop it. |
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Code:
YBLP009 |
Lecturer:
Kunca,T. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 16:00 - 17:20, room YT131 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Are the good, amiable qualities of man, virtues, or the bad, hateful ones, vices, the true foundation of human sociability, and consequent formation of society towards its civil and commercial stage? Dilemma famously exposed by Mandeville and still acute not only thanks to his disturbing arguments which are quite frequently misunderstood. What Mandeville really said, what was the main set of arguments proposed by his antagonists, what is say anthropological background of the debate? This kind of questions is to be posed and discussed when reading a selection of primary sources, state-of-art interpretations and even confronting these with observations of present social sciences. Students are expected to submit a 2500 words final academic essay. The word count should include all footnotes, endnotes, and quotations but should exclude the bibliography. Please include the word count on the title page of your coursework. Moreover, students are free to make a choice to write an essay on topics discussed and inspired by seminar programme or write an independent essay. Students are encouradged to sign for Virtue_Kunca MS Team here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3a40c5f99f3fc34026b075dfdd737e7836%40thread.tacv2/Obecn%25C3%25A9?groupId=01a59a2f-1022-408b-852b-4834ad7d1e26&tenantId=e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2 and explore files attached. |
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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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