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Smart Homes on the Green Wire Podcast

Smart technologies are supposed to make life at home easier. But is that really what happens? And does it apply to everyone equally? In the new episode of the Green Wire podcast, sociologist Nina Fárová explains what “digital household maintenance” means and why smart appliances often do not save time in the end. You will learn how men’s and women’s approaches to technology differ, how smart the smart home really is, and who benefits from it the most. The podcast is produced by the Centre for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P).

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.
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Thursday 30. 4. 2026 15:00

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Shinichi Sohma: An Attempt to Reconstruct Comenius’s Concept of Usus

(Organized by the Department of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History)

Thursday 7. 5. 2026 15:00

lecture | Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences (meeting room), Jilská 1, Prague

Lukas Kob: The Two Factor Approach to Consciousness in Substrate-hybrid Systems

(Organized by the Department of Analytic Philosophy)

Monday 11. 5. 2026

lecture | to be confirmed

Alain Touwaide, Emanuela Appetiti: Dioscorides, De materia medica, and its Tradition: Revisiting Scholarship

(Organized by the Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought as a part of the Alchemies of Scent project)

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