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13. 6. 2025 - Invitation to an online webinar with participants from CTS:
Environmental Law and Politics between Skepticism and ActivismDate: 24. 6. 2025, 2 pm – 4 pm CET (1 pm – 3 pm GMT) Online: organized by Centre for Theoretical Study (Charles University / Czech Academy of Sciences) and the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP) [School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University].
Environmental law is a field that communicates more with non-legal experts compared to other fields of law. Moreover, it also communicates with experts from the natural sciences, whose approach to truth, facticity, and normativity differs from the approaches in politics and law. Natural sciences are typical for their vigilant approach and careful confirmation of hypotheses. Law and politics, however, are social subsystems in which there is a need to decide; and decisions sometimes cannot wait for the vigilance of the natural sciences. In the case of environmental issues, there are also pressing questions around climate change that provide a space for various political narratives. Thus, environmental law and politics are situated between the millstones of skepticism and activism. However, such an in-between location of law and politics can inform both skepticism and activism that they have substantial limits.
What are the problems which lawmakers face while listening to both sceptic and activist discourses? What are the limits of skepticism and activism considering both the character of environmental law and environmental reality? Is there a simple equation of science with skepticism and politics with activism, or is there something like scientific activism and political skepticism? These questions will be posed during an interdisciplinary roundtable in cooperation with academic centers from Charles University and Cardiff University.
Confirmed discussants: Jan Géryk, Zdeněk Konopásek, Ben Pontin, David Storch, Irena Šímová, Anna Tószögyová.
Link to the event: Microsoft Teams Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 310 602 959 811 3 Passcode: XF9s9eK3
Environmental Law and Politics between Skepticism and ActivismDate: 24. 6. 2025, 2 pm – 4 pm CET (1 pm – 3 pm GMT) Online: organized by Centre for Theoretical Study (Charles University / Czech Academy of Sciences) and the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP) [School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University].
Environmental law is a field that communicates more with non-legal experts compared to other fields of law. Moreover, it also communicates with experts from the natural sciences, whose approach to truth, facticity, and normativity differs from the approaches in politics and law. Natural sciences are typical for their vigilant approach and careful confirmation of hypotheses. Law and politics, however, are social subsystems in which there is a need to decide; and decisions sometimes cannot wait for the vigilance of the natural sciences. In the case of environmental issues, there are also pressing questions around climate change that provide a space for various political narratives. Thus, environmental law and politics are situated between the millstones of skepticism and activism. However, such an in-between location of law and politics can inform both skepticism and activism that they have substantial limits.
What are the problems which lawmakers face while listening to both sceptic and activist discourses? What are the limits of skepticism and activism considering both the character of environmental law and environmental reality? Is there a simple equation of science with skepticism and politics with activism, or is there something like scientific activism and political skepticism? These questions will be posed during an interdisciplinary roundtable in cooperation with academic centers from Charles University and Cardiff University.
Confirmed discussants: Jan Géryk, Zdeněk Konopásek, Ben Pontin, David Storch, Irena Šímová, Anna Tószögyová.
Link to the event: Microsoft Teams Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 310 602 959 811 3 Passcode: XF9s9eK3
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Rektor Univerzity Karlovy v Praze vyhlašuje konkurz pro Centrum pro teoretická studia na místo vědeckého pracovníka na dva roky postdoktorandské praxe v některém z vědních oborů rozvíjených na tomto pracovišti.
Kvalifikační předpoklady: v době nástupu ukončené postgraduální (doktorské) studium, nejvýše však tři roky od udělení titulu Ph.D. (nebo ekvivalentu) a znalost anglického jazyka.
Požadované doklady: motivační dopis spolu s návrhem výzkumné činnosti pro období postdoktorandské praxe, stručný odborný životopis, seznam publikací, kopie diplomu, potvrzení o obhajobě nebo o odevzdání disertační práce.
Předpokládaný nástup: 1. prosince 2012. Přihlášky do konkurzu zasílejte na adresu: CTS, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1 nebo e-mailem: office@cts.cuni.cz do 30. září 2012. Podrobnější informace lze získat na tel. 222 220 671 či na uvedeném e-mailu.
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David Storch of CTS is a member of the joint Czech-American scientific team, which discovered a new formula of biological diversity. Results of their research were published in the prestigious journal Nature.
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Nakladatelství Pavel Mervart vydává novou publikaci Spor o matematizaci světa, která vznikla jako kolektivní dílo autorů z okruhu CTS. Kniha je k zakoupení za zvýhodněnou cenu 250 Kč v CTS.
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Archiv Jana Patočky FLÚ AV ČR spolupořádá Merleau-Ponty – Jan Patočka: un rendez-vous manqué ve dnech 15. - 16. května 2012 ve Vile Lanna. Program a další informace naleznete zde
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The workshop "Judgement, Responsibility, and the Life-World: The Phenomenological Critique of Formalism" will take place in Prague on 9 - 11 May 2012. Further information here
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Seminář doc. Ivana M. Havla "Přirozené a umělé myšlení II." začíná v CTS 22. února. Více informací zde.
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Ve dnech 28. ledna - 4. února 2012 se uskuteční již 40. zimní škola abstraktní analýzy - teorie množin a topologie. Více informací naleznete zde
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Právě vychází kniha Petra Pokorného Neklidné časy. Kapitoly ze společných dějin přírody a lidí. Kniha nabízí překvapivé úhly pohledu na geologicky nedávnou minulost a na historické kořeny naší současnosti. Rozvíjí příběh naší proměnlivé planety, české krajiny a konkrétních míst. Více o knize se dozvíte zde zde. Kniha je v prodeji také v CTS.
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The Argentine Embassy, Center for Theoretical Study and CIANT announce “III eGolems Biennale: a framework for Czech-Argentine reflexion and dialogue” on November 16, 2011. Find more information here here.
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Začal Týden vědy a techniky (1. – 11. 11. 2011), který nabízí přednášky, výstavy, exkurze a další aktivity
v řadě vědeckých institucí. CTS se zapojí ve čtvrtek 3. 11. přednáškou „Věda jako hybná síla pokroku pod lupou sociologie, filosofie
a biologie“ – více informací naleznete zde zde.
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