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Haluzík, Radan (2024): „Dům z jablek: Diskurzy v podhoubí jednoho superorganismu: Jablko-plantážo-dům“
In: Fulínová, Eliška a Kvíčalová, Anna (eds. a kol.) Antropocennosti: průvodce světem antropocénu. Praha: Academia 2024. s. 140-153. ISBN: 978-80-200-3484-7
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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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Summer School: Anthropocene: the contemporary world in transdisciplinary perspective
Date:4. 9.— 8. 9. 2023, Prague
Program: Zde... (created 5. 5. 2023)
V současné době není vypsáno výběrové řízení na žádnou volnou pracovní pozici
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Rector of Charles University announces an opening at the Center for Theoretical Study for the position: Postdoctoral researcher interested in one of the disciplines developed at the CTS, and open for transdisciplinary interactions and the dialogue between natural sciences and humanities/social sciences. The position is for 2 years.
Requirements: Completed Ph.D. study, preferably within 3 years after the awarded Ph.D. (or equivalent title), fluent English, demonstrated experience in sciences or humanities.
Required documents: A letter of intent together with a proposal of suggested research activities, specifying the links to CTS research topics, professional CV, list of publications, copy of the Ph.D. diploma or the confirmaton of the defence of Ph.D. dissertation or its submission.
Expected starting date is 1st January 2022.
Applications for the position should be sent by recorded mail to the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Jilská 1, 110 00 Prague 1 by 30 September 2022.
For more detailed information, please call 222 220 671 or e-mail office@cts.cuni.cz. (created 17. 6. 2022)
Requirements: Completed Ph.D. study, preferably within 3 years after the awarded Ph.D. (or equivalent title), fluent English, demonstrated experience in sciences or humanities.
Required documents: A letter of intent together with a proposal of suggested research activities, specifying the links to CTS research topics, professional CV, list of publications, copy of the Ph.D. diploma or the confirmaton of the defence of Ph.D. dissertation or its submission.
Expected starting date is 1st January 2022.
Applications for the position should be sent by recorded mail to the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Jilská 1, 110 00 Prague 1 by 30 September 2022.
For more detailed information, please call 222 220 671 or e-mail office@cts.cuni.cz. (created 17. 6. 2022)
Rector of Charles University announces an opening at the Center for Theoretical Study for the position: Postdoctoral researcher interested in one of the disciplines developed at the CTS, and open for transdisciplinary interactions and the dialogue between natural sciences and humanities/social sciences. The position is for 2 years.
Requirements: Completed Ph.D. study, preferably within 3 years after the awarded Ph.D. (or equivalent title), fluent English, demonstrated experience in sciences or humanities.
Required documents: A letter of intent together with a proposal of suggested research activities, specifying the links to CTS research topics, professional CV, list of publications, copy of the Ph.D. diploma or the confirmaton of the defence of Ph.D. dissertation or its submission.
Expected starting date is 1st January 2022.
Applications for the position should be sent by recorded mail to the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Jilská 1, 110 00 Prague 1 by 30 September 2021.
For more detailed information, please call 222 220 671 or e-mail office@cts.cuni.cz.
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Zemřel Ivan M. Havel, velký náčelník CTS. Bez něj by našeho pracoviště prostě nebylo. Jeho hlas, jeho pozorná přítomnost, jeho srdečnost, rozhled a humor nám budou strašlivě chybět. Sbohem, Ivane.
IMH, 11. 10. 1938 - 25. 4. 2021
Od příštího týdne, konkrétně od 4.3.2021, spouští CTS novou vlnu čtvrtečních seminářů v online podobě. Připojit se můžete každý čtvrtek od 10 hodin na adrese zoom.us/my/ctsctvrtky. Program na první dva měsíce je zveřejněn v sekci Čtvrteční semináře.
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Declaration of state of emergency.
By this measure, and due to the national state of emergency and threat to life and limb at Charles University, the Rector hereby declares a state of emergency at the University, which will last for no longer than 60 days from the day on which this Measure comes into effect. During the state of emergency the provisions of Art. 66c to 66e of the Constitution of Charles University shall apply.
Contact person for CTS is its director Petr Pokorný.
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Rector of Charles University announces an opening at the Center for Theoretical Study for the position:
Postdoctoral researcher interested in one of the disciplines developed at the CTS, and open for transdisciplinary interactions and the dialogue between natural sciences and humanities/social sciences. The position is for 2 years.
Requirements: Completed Ph.D. study, preferably within 3 years after the awarded Ph.D. (or equivalent title), fluent English, demonstrated experience in sciences or humanities. Required documents: A letter of intent together with a proposal of suggested research activities, specifying the links to CTS research topics, professional CV, list of publications, copy of the Ph.D. diploma or the confirmaton of the defence of Ph.D. dissertation or its submission.
Expected starting date is 1st January 2021.
Applications for the position may be delivered to the address: Centrum pro teoretická studia, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic, or via e-mail office@cts.cuni.cz until 30th September 2020.
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ČTVRTEČNÍ VEŘEJNÉ SEMINÁŘE POZASTAVENY
V návaznosti na vyvíjející se situaci a usnesení vlády České republiky, kterým byl na území České republiky vyhlášen nouzový stav z důvodu ohrožení zdraví, budou na CTS z rozhodnutí ředitele až do odvolání zrušeny čtvrteční veřejné semináře. (created 13. 3. 2020)
V návaznosti na vyvíjející se situaci a usnesení vlády České republiky, kterým byl na území České republiky vyhlášen nouzový stav z důvodu ohrožení zdraví, budou na CTS z rozhodnutí ředitele až do odvolání zrušeny čtvrteční veřejné semináře. (created 13. 3. 2020)
Dne 4. března 2020 se uskuteční přednáška Michala Frankla "East-Central Europe, a place of refuge in the 20th century?" z přednáškového cyklu CCC Series, který společně pořádají CERGE-EI a CTS. Na přednášku je třeba se předem registrovat. Více informací v plakátu pod odkazem.
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