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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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15 Voices on Patočka for the 21st Century - A small selection of voices from scholars, writers and intellectuals around the world on the question of why Patočka’s work resonates ever more so in the 21st century.
(created 10. 8. 2017)
On 20th July 2017, Lubomír Zaorálek, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, and Heinz Fischer, President of the Board of Trustees of IWM, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on collaboration between Jan Patočka Archives in Prague and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM). More details can be found [HERE].
(created 21. 7. 2017)
Centrum pro teoretická studia přijme pracovnici/pracovníka sekretariátu (zástup za mateřskou dovolenou). Nástup od 1. září 2017.
Požadujeme: dobrou znalost angličtiny a práce na PC, organizační schopnosti, komunikativnost a schopnost učit se nové věci. Nejméně SŠ vzdělání. Zkušenost s evropskými granty a financováním vědy a výzkumu výhodou.
Nabízíme: zaměstnanecké benefity, práce v nevšedním kolektivu.
Popis práce: administrativní podpora chodu pracoviště, cizojazyčná komunikace, organizace tuzemských a zahraničních pracovních cest, administrativní zajištění mezinárodních konferencí, údržba www stránek, administrativa evropských grantů.
Přihlášky (CV) zasílejte do 31. července 2017 na office@cts.cuni.cz nebo na adresu CTS, Jilská 1, Praha 1, 110 00. Podrobnější informace lze získat na tel. 222 220 671 či na uvedeném e-mailu. (created 14. 6. 2017)
Požadujeme: dobrou znalost angličtiny a práce na PC, organizační schopnosti, komunikativnost a schopnost učit se nové věci. Nejméně SŠ vzdělání. Zkušenost s evropskými granty a financováním vědy a výzkumu výhodou.
Nabízíme: zaměstnanecké benefity, práce v nevšedním kolektivu.
Popis práce: administrativní podpora chodu pracoviště, cizojazyčná komunikace, organizace tuzemských a zahraničních pracovních cest, administrativní zajištění mezinárodních konferencí, údržba www stránek, administrativa evropských grantů.
Přihlášky (CV) zasílejte do 31. července 2017 na office@cts.cuni.cz nebo na adresu CTS, Jilská 1, Praha 1, 110 00. Podrobnější informace lze získat na tel. 222 220 671 či na uvedeném e-mailu. (created 14. 6. 2017)
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 2018.
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 2017. For detailed information call +420 222 220 671, or send the email.
(created 14. 6. 2017)
The lecture Intencionality by John Searle (University of California Berkeley) takes place in CTS on Monday 15th May 2017 at 4 p.m.
(created 11. 5. 2017)
CTS sent a letter to Hungarian President János Áder in support of Central European University (CEU).
(created 6. 4. 2017)
Oddělení pro studium moderní české filosofie a Archiv Jana Patočky, FLÚ, zvou na kolokvium Patočkovo myšlení a dnešní svět, které se uskuteční 28. března 2017, program naleznete ZDE.
(created 8. 3. 2017)
1. března 2017 se v hotelu InterContinental konalo vzpomínkové setkání na schůzku Jana Patočky, mluvčího Charty 77, a nizozemského ministra zahraničí Maxe van der Stoela v roce 1977. Záznam ze setkání a autentickou nahrávku z roku 1977 můžete zhlédnout ZDE
(created 6. 3. 2017)
Archiv Jana Patočky zahajuje pravidelné interpretační semináře děl Jana Patočky - ve čtvrtek od 13:30 v CTS, první seminář se uskuteční 23. února 2017. Více informaci naleznete ZDE
(created 16. 2. 2017)
Irena Šímová a David Storch from CTS are the winners of the Ecography E4 award (The Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution). Their article is freely available in the February issue 2017.
(created 12. 1. 2017)