Media and Announcements

Philippine Ambassador to the Czech Republic, H.E. Edgardo Meñez, formally turned over the Czech translation of José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere (Nedotýkej se mě, 2023) to Dr. Reysa Alenzuela, Head Librarian at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. ...

The Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce that the 70th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI) will take place in Prague from July 7 to 11, 2025. ...

Hana Třísková (Dept. of East Asia) gave an on-line talk titled “Key challenges in teaching Chinese pronunciation” for middle-school teachers of Chinese on May 22, 2025. The event was organized by Swire Chinese Language Foundation. ...

On The Dream of the Red Chamber 20/5 and 22/5 3-5 pm Taipei time (recordings of these lectures will be available later; for now, see https://www.ihs.ntu.edu.tw/web/events/events_in.jsp?lang=tw&np_id=NP1747104532903 )

On The Plum in the Golden Vase, 19/5 10-12 am Taipei time (online attendance is possible by scanning the QR code on the poster at this site: https://www.litphil.sinica.edu.tw/main/posts/3016 )

Focusing on a story of collaboration and division among writers in a Cairo literary club after 2013, this article examines revolutionary endings through the lens of urban literary networks. ...

Czech Television broadcasted a documentary about Prof. Alois Musil, one of the founders of the Oriental Institute. The film is available on the ČT website in both Czech and English. For more information, click here: Alois Musil: Moravian Bedouin - Alois Musil - Beduín z Moravy | Česká televize

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. ...