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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CfP: Echoes of Conflict: Health Consequences of War and Violence Across Generations
IMS FSV UK in cooperation with the Research Alliance War and Society organize the international conference Echoes of Conflict: Health Consequences of War and Violence Across Generations. The conference will take place on 8-10 April 2025. The deadline for abstracts is 30 November 2024. -
State final examinations and public defence of the dissertation of J. M. Marcks
On 19 and 20 September, Lamiya Panahova and Tereza Juhászová will take their state final examinations and J. M. Marcks will defend his dissertation. -
CfP: "AI Currents and European Universities"
Coimbra Group Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group (SSH WG) ve spolupráci s UK a IMS srdečně zvou na mezinárodní konferenci "AI Currents and European Universities", která se bude konat 17. - 18. října 2024. Termín pro zaslání abstraktů: 22. září 2024. -
High-quality monograph competition at UK - Tomáš Nigrin
Charles University has published the results of this year's round of the high-quality monograph competition. The Rise and Decline of Communist Czechoslovakia's Railway Sector (Central European University Press, 2022) written by IMS Director Tomáš Nigrin was awarded shared 9th - 10th place. -
C4DHI Annual workshop
On 3 and 4 June, the annual workshop of the Centre for Digital Humanities Integration took place at IMS. The workshop was attended by colleagues from Babeș-Bolyai University, Eötvös Loránd University, University of Groningen, HES-SO Valais-Wallis and University of West Bohemia. -
Elena Danescu: “History of a European idea a the origins of Economic and Monetary Union”
We would like to cordially invite you to a short film screenings and a lecture titled “History of a European idea a the origins of Economic and Monetary Union” with our honorary guest Elena Danescu. The event takes place on Monday, June 10 at 11:00 in the room B330.
