Media and Announcements

Whether it's seed sovereignty, green spaces, climate change, environmental migration, human-non-human interactions, water-if it's about the environment, we're interested.

In new article for The Journal of Interdisciplinary History via MIT Press, Oliver Weingarten reads ancient Chinese narrative sources through the prism of signalling theory, an area of game theory dealing with communication among competing actors, in order to explicate the rationale behind ...

Bloomsbury Publishing has announced the upcoming book entitled "Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem" (edited by Emma O'Donnell Polyakov), co-authored by Bronislav Ostřanský. ...

Dr. Pavel Hons with Nataraja Siriranjan during his visit at the Oriental Institute. Nataraja Siriranjan is the author of a very important dictionary of the Jaffna dialect of Sri Lankan Tamil.

Adéla Provazníková v analytickém komentáři na serveru Alarm pojednala několik nedávných kontroverzí spojených s českou pozicí vůči izraelsko-palestinskému konfliktu. ...

Ondřej Klimeš a Jarmila Ptáčková představili 12. 2. na konferenci Vědecké přednášky držitelů Akademické prémie a prémie Lumina quaeruntur AV ČR svůj projekt Vyvažování zájmů: souvislosti národnostní a zahraniční politiky soudobé ČLR (2019-2024).

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book edited by our colleagues Jarmila Ptáčková and Ondřej Klimeš: Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia (AUP, 2025) This book explores cultural security not only as a state-driven process but also as a dynamic, bottom-up ...

Martin Blahota presented his paper “Nomadic Spirituality in Xiao Hong’s Field of Life and Death” on Friday, 7 February 2025, at the CATS Forum, Heidelberg University, Germany. For more info about the project, see https://martinblahota. ...

Vědecký pracovník Orientálního ústavu Tomáš Petrů v souvislosti s 4. výročím vojenského převratu v Barmě komentoval dění v zemi pro ČT24.

This study examines how Saudi Salafism, as a modern ideological construct, has gradually linked the theological teachings about the monotheism of the Divine names and attributes (tawḥīd al-asmāʾ wa-l-ṣifāt) of the Ḥanbalī scholar Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328) with the teachings of his later Ḥanbalī ...