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Doktor Luboš Velek obdržel rakouské státní vyznamenání
On January 21, Dr. Luboš Velek received the Austrian state award Das Goldene Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich, which is awarded by the President of the Republic of Austria. The award recognized Luboš Velek's long-standing work in the Permanent Conference of Czech and Austrian Historians on Common Cultural Heritage, which acts as an advisory body to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and Austria. -
IMS Alumni Reunion 2026
Dear friends, On behalf of the entire Institute of International Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, we would like to invite you to our traditional alumni reunion, which will take place on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. at the Grébovka Pavilion in Havlíčkovy sady. We hope you will enjoy meeting your former classmates and having a pleasant chat. We look forward to seeing you! -
SnS Talk: “Armenian and Georgian Shifting Perceptions and Geostrategies of Inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian Power Projections”
We cordially invite you to a lecture by Professor Kornely Kakachia, which will take place on Thursday, February 26, from 3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in room A125 of the Jinonice Campus. The lecture is entitled Armenian and Georgian Shifting Perceptions and Geostrategies of Inbetweenness amidst EU–Russian Power Projections and will be held as part of the Small (Nation-)States Research Center programme. -
Docent Jan Hornát zveřejnil článek v prestižním časopise Survival
Docent Jan Hornát zveřejnil v prestižním odborném časopise Survival článek s názvem Broken Mirrors: How the European Union Reflected the United States – Until Trump. Ten reaguje na kritiku Trumpovy administrativy mířenou na Evropskou Unii a přibližuje současný stav transatlantických vztahů a novou národně bezpečnostní strategii USA. -
PhD Programme in Modern History
The Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University is opening admissions to the PhD programme in Modern History, with studies commencing in the academic year 2026/27. The programme welcomes a broad range of thematic, regional, and methodological approaches in the field of modern and contemporary history of the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Comparative and transnational perspectives are encouraged but not required. -
IMS FSV UK opens a PhD/junior researcher position within the project “Understanding and Experiencing Sexual Violence in the Late Habsburg Monarchy”
The Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, is opening a junior researcher / PhD student (1.0 FTE) position within the research project “Understanding and Experiencing Sexual Violence in the Late Habsburg Monarchy,” a three-year project funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) and led by Prof. Ota Konrád (IMS, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University). The researcher will join a wider project team, including Dr. Tereza Juhászová.
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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.
