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New Visiting Fellow at IMS – Natalia Dziadyk
The Institute of International Studies, FSV UK, is pleased to welcome Natalia Dziadyk as a Visiting Fellow within the joint fellowship between the Research Centre Ukraine in a Changing Europe and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. -
CENTRAL Workshop 2025: Materialities of Memory in Central, East and South-East Europe
Last week, four RCMS members – Kateřina Králová, Tereza Juhászová, Ivana Koutníková and Claudia Macey, joined colleagues from Warsaw, Berlin, Vienna and Budapest at the CENTRAL Workshop 2025: Materialities of Memory in Central, East and South-East Europe! -
Interview with Prof. Králová: “Memory studies help make the past present and teach us to think about why we remember some things, what we do not remember, and what value this has for today.”
In her interview for UK Forum magazine Kateřina Králová, head of the Research Center for Memory Studies, not only reflects on the recently held international conference on memory studies in Prague but, together with editor Jitka Jiřičková she also opens up a number of other topics—from the challenges of contemporary research in the field of memory, through the problematic historical illusion of peace in Europe, to the need for dialogue and interdisciplinary international cooperation. -
Prof. dr. Detlef Brandes, dr. h. c.
On Tuesday, 2 September, Prof. Dr. Detlef Brandes, Dr. h. c. (1941–2025), a prominent German historian, founding member of the joint Czech-German and Slovak-German Commission and long-time director of the Institute for the History of Germans in Eastern Europe at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, died in Berlin after a long illness. -
The Institute of International Studies at Charles University's Faculty of Social Sciences has been awarded a prestigious Erasmus+ grant for cooperation with the Western Balkans
The Institute of International Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, has been successful in the 2025 call for proposals for the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme, and has received a prestigious grant to support cooperation with three Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. -
Certificate in Digital Humanities
The newly offered programme is aimed at students of all levels of study (Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral) without prior (or with minimal) technical training and provides an understandable but methodologically solid introduction to the world of digital humanities. Registration is open until 21 September.
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SIMS
SIMS is an informal association of the IMS students. Its task is to solve students' problems, so as to bridge the imaginary gap between them and the instructors. Another activity of the SIMS is to organize traditional social and educational events for (not only) the IMS students. These events include, for example Welcome Party, Christmas Part, Karaoke Party, lectures on current topics or an Orientation Week for the first years of the Bachelor's degree studies.
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Study Programmes
High-quality education, young and creative academic team, an immense number of student activities, modern lecture rooms... these are just a few reasons why you should apply for one of our English language degree programmes and study at Faculty of Social Sciences in the very heart of historical city of Prague! Check our BA and MA study programmes now!
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Alumni
The Institute values its graduates and likes to meet them at the traditional reunion in Grébovka. This year's reunion took place on 28 May 2024 in the restaurant Pavilion Grébovka in Havlíčkovy sady. At the meeting we celebrated together the significant 30th anniversary of our institute. The graduates were welcomed by the director of the institute, doc. Tomáš Nigrin. The event was also attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Lipavský.
