Thursday seminar
19. 6. 2025: Zajati v projektu [detail]
Přednáší Filip Vostal
Our publications
Haluzík, Radan (2025): "Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization"
In: East European Politics and Societies/Sage Journals, online: https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254251335981
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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
News archive
The library will be closed on 27 and 28 Jun. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.
(created 26. 6. 2018)
On 6 June, the library will be open only until 4:30 pm.
(created 5. 6. 2018)
On 23 May, the library will be open only until 4:30 pm.
(created 23. 5. 2018)
CHANGE IN LIBRARY OPENING HOURS: On 7th and 8th Feb, the library will open only between 1:30 pm and 4:00 pm. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
(created 5. 2. 2018)
The CTS library will be closed between DEC 27 and DEC 29.
(created 14. 12. 2017)
V nakladatelství Pavel Mervart vyšla kniha Michala Ajvaze Kosmos jako sebeutváření.
(created 15. 11. 2017)
Ve dnech 7. až 8. listopadu 2017 proběhne v Pardubicích konference Patočka v dialogu. Akci spolupořádá Katedra filosofie FF UPCE a Archiv Jana Patočky FLÚ AV ČR. Více informací naleznete v přiloženém letáku.
(created 1. 11. 2017)
Change of library opening hours. The library is open every Wednesday and Thursday, 1:30 - 5:30 pm.
(created 6. 10. 2017)
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences announces an open competition for the position of editor of OIKOYMENH Library. More information can be found here.
(created 2. 10. 2017)
The Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna is now accepting applications for Jan Patočka Fellowships. The fellowships are for scholars in social sciences and humanities.
(created 20. 9. 2017)