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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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CTS organizes 12th Conference of Environmental Archaeology on 8th - 9th February 2016. More information on www.cts.cuni.cz/KEA2016
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CTS pořádá v rámci Týdne vědy a techniky 2015 přednášku Hvězdné nebe nad hlavou, odpadky pod nohama. Přednáška je vhodná pro SŠ, konat se bude 12.11.2015 od 10 hod. Více informací zde.
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CTS celebrates its 25th anniversary! Join us for the lecture series Present and future of research at CTS on Thursday, 24th September 2015.
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Tým Davida Storcha získal Cenu předsedy GA ČR za výsledky základního výzkumu v oblasti biologické rozmanitosti na povrchu Země - tisková zpráva a video
zde.
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On Sunday 4th October 2015, CTS and Foundation VIZE 97 presents Black Earth: Some Problems in Political Theory in Relation to the Holocaust, a lecture by prof. Timothy Snyder. More information here.
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Rector of Charles University in Prague 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 November 2015.
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 2015. For detailed information call 420-222 220 671, or send the email . (created 17. 6. 2015)
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 November 2015.
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 2015. For detailed information call 420-222 220 671, or send the email . (created 17. 6. 2015)
A lecture on Creating Just Energy Transitions: From Radioactivity to Renewables will be held on 10 June 2015 at CTS by Jennifer Richter from Arizona State University. More detailes here.
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CTS organizes 2nd Central European Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting (TAG 2015) on 12 May 2015 Programme here
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The Current Crisis of Europe from the Point of View of Phenomenology - An International Conference to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Jan Patočka Archives in Prague - 15-16 May 2015
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11th Conference of Environmental Archaeology on the topic "LIFE IN FLUX: Humans, animals and plants in postglacial ecosystems of Europe and Northern Africa" will take place from 9 - 11 February 2015 in České Budějovice. For more information click here.
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