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Since this August, Dr. Maximilian Schuh from Freie Universität Berlin has been a recipient of the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Over the next three years, he will spend a total of 18 months as part of the Triptic-EU research group (Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought), where he will focus on the work of the English scholar William Merle. The main aim of his project is to prepare a critical edition of the hitherto almost unknown writings of this Oxford professor on weather forecasting and to draw attention to a so far overlooked chapter in the history of 14th-century science.
We invite proposals for the second edition of the conference on the philosophy of art, subtitled Resisting Divides: Contemporary Philosophy of Art. The event aims to create “in-between spaces” that enable resistance to divisions in contemporary approaches to art. It will address both the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, and divide between artworld practitioners and academic philosophers. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2025. More details...
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA.CZ) “fellowship” projects contribute to developing the international character and quality of the research environment in the Czech Republic, including the professional growth of individual scholars. Thanks to this program, philosopher and architectural theorist Jana Ndiaye Beránková, Ph.D. will begin her work in the Czech Republic in July. Conversely, Martin Pjecha, M.A., Ph.D., a Comenius scholar, will depart from the Institute of Philosophy for a research stay in Vienna....
The Institute of Philosophy of the CAS regularly applies for CAS fellowships supporting postdoctoral researchers in the Programme to Support Prospective Human Resources – post PhD candidates. The competition is open to all institutes of the Academy of Sciences and takes place twice a year – in spring and autumn. At IP, the next deadline for submission of proposals in the 26th round of the competition is set for 30 August 2025.
The international conference After Industry: Cities and Regions in Transformation will focus on the transformations of cities and regions in the post-industrial era. It will take place on 14–15 May 2026 in Prague as part of the project Urbanity: Inequality, Adaptation, and Urban Public Space in Historical Perspective. The deadline for paper submissions is 30 June 2025. More information
Tomáš Koblížek: Právo na nenávist? Hate speech a svoboda slova
