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On Tuesday, 2 September, Prof. Dr. Detlef Brandes, Dr. h. c. (1941–2025), a prominent German historian, founding member of the joint Czech-German and Slovak-German Commission and long-time director of the Institute for the History of Germans in Eastern Europe at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, died in Berlin after a long illness.
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The Institute of International Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, has been successful in the 2025 call for proposals for the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme, and has received a prestigious grant to support cooperation with three Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
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The newly offered programme is aimed at students of all levels of study (Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral) without prior (or with minimal) technical training and provides an understandable but methodologically solid introduction to the world of digital humanities. Registration is open until 21 September.
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Since August, Dr. Jana Sehnálková from the Department of North American Studies at the IMS has been leading the prestigious Fulbright Commission following a selection process.
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From July 14 to 18, 2025, the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (FSV UK) served as one of the main hosts of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (MSA). Themed “Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)Stability”, the conference brought over 1,200 academics, artists and activists from nearly 100 countries to Prague to explore how societies remember, respond to, and recover from crises—both past and present.
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The international research project "Displacement and (Post)secular Memory: Contemporary Crises and Historical Legacies in Southeastern and East-Central Europe" (MEMCRIS) has been awarded funding by Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN) in Poland and the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR). The project is co-led on the Czech side by Professor Kateřina Králová from the Institute of International Studies at FSV UK, alongside Dr. Karin Roginer Hofmeister.
