Institute
ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
The Institute of International Studies (IMS) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague (FSV UK), which was established in 1990 to respond to the current needs of the society. The IMS was founded in 1994 as the youngest part of the FSV UK. Its current structure is the result of a long-term process characterized, among others, by the deliberate formation of a new field of study "Area Studies." It is also positively influenced by the rising and changing demand of students, i.e. by satisfying the increasingly urgent "social demand" of the missing field of area studies, which is so important for further development in the practice of the Czech foreign and domestic politics.
Graduates of the study fields which are taught at the IMS are characterized by a contextually, regionally and methodologically based knowledge of modern history and of the legal, political, economic and socio-cultural background in those regions which are the contents of the Institute's scientific and pedagogical work. Furthermore, they orientate themselves in the practical consequences of recent historical events and essential contemporary problems and are equipped with basic analytic-interpretive skills. The graduates of these fields find jobs in all types of governmental and non-governmental institutions that focus on the issues of the respective regions, both domestic and foreign, in their historical and contemporary context.
News
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Adrian Brisku to Participate in Conference on 1990s Albania in Munich
Adrian Brisku will take part in the international conference “The 1990s as a Time of Unmaking and Remaking Albania”, held in late November 2025 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The conference focuses on the political, social, and cultural transformations that shaped Albania in the 1990s and brings together leading scholars from Europe and North America. -
Registration for preparatory courses in Territorial Studies and Czech-German Studies has begun
Dear applicants, we would like to inform you about the ongoing registration for preparatory courses in Territorial Studies (full-time and distance learning) and Czech-German Studies, which will take place from January to March 2026. -
Invitation to Conference „Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide: EU Strategic Autonomy, Security and Enlargement“
We invite you to attend the conference "Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide: EU Strategic Autonomy, Security, and Enlargement," which will take place on November 4–5, 2025, in Prague. It will focus on the topics of EU strategic autonomy, security and defense, enlargement, and the future of European integration. -
Tereza Juhászová received the Charles University Grant Agency President's Award
On the occasion of the Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy and International Students' Day, a ceremonial meeting was held in the Great Hall of Karolinum, where several awards were presented, including the Charles University Grant Agency (GA UK) awards for outstanding scientific achievements achieved with the targeted support of GA UK. The GA UK President's Award went to Tereza Juhászová for her project Coexistence in a Small Town in Eastern Slovakia after World War II. -
Call for papers! Special Issue Memory Studies: Memory and Resilience
Following the MSA Prague 2025 Conference we invite all Prague participants and all current Memory Studies Association members to contribute to the Special Issue Memory Studies: Memory and Resilience, which will be co-edited by Maria Alina Asavei, Kateřina Králová, and Juliane Tomann. The deadline (for proposals) is Dec 15, 2025. -
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský awarded the Permanent Conference of Czech and Austrian Historians with the Medal of Merit for Diplomacy
On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, Luboš Velek, Ph.D., received the Medal of Merit for Diplomacy, which was awarded to the Permanent Conference of Czech and Austrian Historians on Common Cultural Heritage by Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský for its work to date. Since 2009, the Permanent Conference of Czech and Austrian Historians has functioned as an advisory body to the foreign ministries of the Czech Republic and Austria, and its main focus is research into shared history, clarification of problematic aspects of the mutual past, and work with both experts and the general public.
