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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. -
Jana Sehnálková from KSAS Is the New Head of the Fulbright Commission
Since August, Dr. Jana Sehnálková from the Department of North American Studies at the IMS has been leading the prestigious Fulbright Commission following a selection process. -
Remembering crises: FSV UK as a host of the Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association
From July 14 to 18, 2025, the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (FSV UK) served as one of the main hosts of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (MSA). Themed “Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)Stability”, the conference brought over 1,200 academics, artists and activists from nearly 100 countries to Prague to explore how societies remember, respond to, and recover from crises—both past and present. -
FSV UK collaborates on a successful international research Project supported by NCN and the Czech Science Foundation
The international research project "Displacement and (Post)secular Memory: Contemporary Crises and Historical Legacies in Southeastern and East-Central Europe" (MEMCRIS) has been awarded funding by Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN) in Poland and the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR). The project is co-led on the Czech side by Professor Kateřina Králová from the Institute of International Studies at FSV UK, alongside Dr. Karin Roginer Hofmeister.
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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.
