Research centres
Research Centres
Small (nation-)states within/without empires and unions
Post(Wars) - Political and social changes during and after wars
Research centre for memory studies
Democracy today - forms, transformations, and challenges
Research Centre for Digital Humanities Integration (C4DHI)
News
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SnS Talk: “Globalizing the Balkan Wars (1912–13): How Balkan Nation-States Shaped Military Innovation across Europe”
Rádi bychom Vás pozvali na diskuzi, kterou bude ve čtvrtek 11. prosince 2025 pořádat výzkumné centrum Small (Nation-)States Research Centre. Diskuze s názvem "Globalizing the Balkan Wars (1912–13): How Balkan Nation-States Shaped Military Innovation across Europe” proběhne od 15:30 do 17:30 hodin v místnosti C423 (a také online na platformě Zoom) a bude vedena historikem Dr. Jovo Miladinovićem z Univerzity v Kostnici. -
Invitation: online seminar with Tereza Juhászová
We warmly invite you to a seminar with RCMS member - Tereza Juhászová! She will be prezenting her work on "Navigating Turbulent Times: A Microhistory of a Multilingual Small Town in Mid-20th Century Slovakia".Tereza has recently defended her dissertation on this topic and we are sure that visiting Nižný Medzev and exploring it's diverse community with her will be an inspiring and thought-provoking journey. Join her in a debate with Tomasz Rawski (Center for Research on Social Memory Center for Research on Social Memory). The event will take place online: Tue, 4 November at 9:30am CET. -
Post(Wars) Research Center Hosts ERC "Leviathan" Team for Collaborative Workshop
On June 25, 2025, the Post(Wars) Research Center at the Institute of International Studies hosted a joint workshop with the team of the ERC-funded project Leviathan, based at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Charité Berlin. The project looks at how medicine and social policy helped shape postwar European societies and new forms of governance after 1945. -
New Horizon Europe Project TWIN4DEM
We are pleased to announce that the Institute of International Studies has joined the prestigious European research consortium under the Horizon Europe programme for the project entitled TWIN4DEM: Strengthening Democratic Resilience Through Digital Twins. -
New Research Centre for Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
We are pleased to announce the establishment of a new Research Centre on Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the Institute of International Studies of the Charles University. -
Michal Smetana receives prestigious European grant for research on military alliances
Charles University has received another large financial injection for its research. Michal Smetana from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University has been awarded a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) of more than one million euros for his MICROCODE project, which will study the stability of military alliances.