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  • Workshop - Autoetnography

    We would like to kindly invite you to the workshop Autoethnography of Vulnerability in Post-soviet Spaces, which will take place on 23 September in room C520 from 9:30.

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  • Michal Smetana awarded ERC grant!

    Our Michal Smetana has been awarded a prestigious five-year grant from the European Research Council (ERC) of more than one million euros for his MICROCODE project.

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  • CfP: AI Currents

    The Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group (SSH WG) of the Coimbra Group is pleased to announce the call for papers for the conference "AI Currents and European Universities" to be held on 17-18 October 2024.

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  • MSA 2025 in Prague

    Charles University (IMS) together with the Czech Academy of Sciences are organizing MSA's annual conference, that is going to be held between 14 - 18 July 2025 in Prague. The Call for Papers is now open!

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  • Experience our new campus in Jinonice differently

    On 21 September 2024 from 1PM to PM you can visit our new campus in Jinonice and enjoy a photo exhibition, a slow fashion clothing swap and board and outdoor games for children and adults.
    Announcements 4. 9. 2024 - Klára Smitková

  • 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.
    Announcements 4. 9. 2024 - Klára Smitková

  • 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.
    Announcements 29. 7. 2024 - Klára Smitková

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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.

  • 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!

  • 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.