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The Middle Ages in Today’s Context: American Historian Christopher Bellitto as a Guest of the Institute of Philosophy

In March, the Institute of Philosophy will welcome the American medievalist Christopher M. Bellitto, Ph.D., Professor of History at Kean University in New Jersey. Bellitto specializes in medieval history, church history, and reform thought. He is the author of ten books and more than thirty studies and book chapters published in the United States and Europe, including Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue (2023), The General Councils, and Renewing Christianity. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the series Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition and as an editor at Paulist Press.

Bolzano’s Archive Comes to Life: 36,000 Pages Prepared for Online Publication

The PragMatika research group, led by Elías Fuentes Guillén, has completed the first phase of building the Bolzano Digital Archive. This phase involved the digitization of more than 36,000 pages from the written estate of Bernard Bolzano, housed in the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature in Prague. Bernard Bolzano is one of the key figures in Czech intellectual history, making this an important milestone in the preservation of Czech cultural heritage.

Podcast Green Wire

The ethical impacts of modern technologies and the ethics of our relationship to the environment are explored in a new podcast by the Centre for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It looks, for example, at the use of robots in social services, the societal impacts of artificial intelligence, the limits of biotechnology, questions of coexisting with other species on the same planet, and the possibilities of technology in helping nature...
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The Magdeburg-Prague Colloquium on structuralism in consciousness science

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Thursday 12. 3. 2026 16:00

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Christopher Bellitto: Politics and Religion in the Middle Ages and Today: Reflections of an American Medievalist

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Thursday 12. 3. 2026 - Friday 13. 3. 2026 9:00

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Queer Materiality: Becoming-Relations

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