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23. 6. 2026: Pravidelné Čtvrteční semináře CTS se budou konat opět od října 2026 [detail]
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Haluzík, Radan (2026): Turbo‑venkov. Plné krajiny a prázdné domy (nejen) na Balkáně
Venkov západního Balkánu prodělal v posledních několika dekádách obrovskou kulturní změnu. Od lokálních rurálních komunit ke globalizovaným ekonomikám, které žijí ponejvíce z remitencí zasílaných statisíci těch, co odešli za prací do EU či USA. Kniha se snaží zkoumat tuto epochální turbulentní změnu prostřednictvím proměny místní architektury od tradičních domků z lokálního dřeva a kamení k pompézním vilám mimetizujícím obydlí suburbií západních měst. Klade si otázky, proč lidé, kteří dlouhodobě žijí, pracují, integrují se a vychovávají děti v metropolích tisíce kilometrů daleko, investují do stavby okázalého domu v rodné vsi, i když v něm patrně nikdy nebudou bydlet. Podle jakých vzorů jej projektují a zařizují? A jaké jsou osudy domů bez lidí a lidí bez domů?
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International Training Course on Wetland Restoration in the Context of Climate Change
Application deadline: 10 August 2026
You can find more information here.
(created 13. 7. 2026)
Notification of a selection process for the position: Postdoctoral researcher
Aplication Requirements:
Required documents:
Applications must be submitted by e-mail to office@cts.cuni.cz by 30 September 2026. Receipt of an application is confirmed only upon issuance of a confirmation e-mail within 7 days.
For more information, you may contact us at tel. +420 222 220 671 or at the above e-mail. (created 11. 6. 2026)
Application deadline September 30, 2026
Rector of Charles University announces an opening at the Center for Theoretical Study for the position:Aplication Requirements:
Required documents:
Applications must be submitted by e-mail to office@cts.cuni.cz by 30 September 2026. Receipt of an application is confirmed only upon issuance of a confirmation e-mail within 7 days.
For more information, you may contact us at tel. +420 222 220 671 or at the above e-mail. (created 11. 6. 2026)
Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections Continues in Berlin
On 4–5 June 2026, Humboldt University of Berlin will host the second workshop in the series Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections, organized within the CENTRAL network collaboration between Charles University (CTS), Humboldt University in Berlin, and the University of Vienna. The workshop is organized by the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys).
(created 3. 6. 2026)
Workshop Invitation: Forgetting, Disappearance, and Material LossDate: 20. 5. 2026, Venue: Academic Conference Center, Husova 4a, Prague 1
The Workshop Program is in the attached invitation here.
(created 5. 5. 2026)
Registration Opened! Micro-credential Anthropocene 2026
Application deadline: April 30, 2026 You can find more information here. (created 18. 2. 2026)
Application deadline: April 30, 2026 You can find more information here. (created 18. 2. 2026)
David Stroch v rozhovoru pro Seznam Zprávy vysvětluje, kde mají v Česku vzniknout národní parky.
Link k článku zde.
(created 30. 12. 2025)
Arnost Sizling and colleagues just published (online) a paper in Ecography showing that all pairwise community indices can be classified to only three meaningful families, and the popular partioning into nestedness and turnover component makes no sense.
Link to the article here.
(created 9. 12. 2025)
Workshop Invitation: Ruins and Relics: Rhytms, Temporalities, and Trajectories of ChangeDate: 3. 12. 2025, Venue: Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1, 5th floor
The Workshop Program is in the attached invitation here. Excursion Guide to download here. (created 1. 12. 2025)
The Workshop Program is in the attached invitation here. Excursion Guide to download here. (created 1. 12. 2025)
David Storch, Grace Ridder and Jordan Okie have just published (online) a paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, which applies Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics on our understanding of global biodiversity changes during the Cenozoic. They show how the diversity equilibria establish, and infer that while temperate diversity is probably below its equilibrium level, tropical diversity may be above equilibrium, which elevates extinction risk in tropical biomes.
Link to the article here.
(created 21. 11. 2025)
A collection of group final projects by participants of the Microcredential Programme Anthropocene: The Contemporary World in a Transdisciplinary Perspective (2024 run) has been released.
The publication establishes a periodic digital series, Acta Anthropocenica, which we plan to continue in future editions of the course.
If you’re curious how beehives, glass panes, Tyrian purple, fordit, or perfume relate to the Anthropocene, you can download the publication from our website.
The publication is available in the repository Zenodo v modu Open Access. (created 12. 11. 2025)
If you’re curious how beehives, glass panes, Tyrian purple, fordit, or perfume relate to the Anthropocene, you can download the publication from our website.
The publication is available in the repository Zenodo v modu Open Access. (created 12. 11. 2025)