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Transformations of Europe After the Retreat of Industry: A Key Contemporary Topic Brings International Experts to Prague

How do cities and regions change after industry has retreated or undergone fundamental transformation? What consequences do deindustrialization and post-socialist transformation bring for the economy, society, and everyday life? And how have these processes shaped Europe in the past and today? These questions will be addressed by the international conference After Industry: Cities and Regions in Transformation, which will take place on 14–15 May 2026 in Prague.

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.
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Upcoming events

Thursday 14. 5. 2026 - Friday 15. 5. 2026

conference | Academic Conference Centre Jilská–Husova, Husova 4a, Prague 1

After Industry: Cities and Regions in Transformation

(Organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Leibniz Institut für Raumbesogene Sozialforschung, Institut for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Friday 15. 5. 2026 10:00

lecture | Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre for Medieval Studies (seminar room), Jilská 1, Prague

Alexander Winkler: Ianua rerum reserata. Linked Open Data in Neo-Latin Studies – How and why?

(Department of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History)

Friday 15. 5. 2026 13:00

lecture | online

European Environmental Philosophy Series (EEPS)

(Organized by the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague)

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