Newsletter June 2025

ACADEMIC EVENT SECTION
#1: Workshop: Foreign Interference – What Did We Learn from the Sanctions on Russia?
You are warmly invited to a research workshop with Gian Pili on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at 14:00 in Room C423, Jinonice Campus, Charles University. The workshop aims to bring together experts from various sectors—ministries, think tanks, and research institutions—to engage in a collaborative discussion on how to counter foreign interference. A particular focus will be placed on open-source intelligence (OSINT) and sharing practical challenges in tracking sanctions evasion. Please register by June 10, 2025, via email: svobodak@fsv.cuni.cz. More info here.

#2: NATO Summit 2025
For the first time since NATO’s founding in 1949, the Netherlands will host the NATO Summit. The critical event, where decisions about international peace and security are made, will be held at the World Forum in The Hague from 24 to 26 June 2025. Around 9.000 people will be coming to the summit, including 45 heads of state and governments. The summit will also be attended by 45 foreign and 45 defence ministers. For more detailed information, follow the Netherlands government’s web pages.

#3: UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025
University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) invites students and researchers to the annual conference that will occur in Liverpool from August 31 to September 3, 2025. This year’s conference will engage with a broad range of themes that reflect Europe’s resilience and transformation in a rapidly changing world. The agenda will address critical issues, including integration, governance, social equity, and sustainability, offering fresh perspectives on the challenges and opportunities ahead. Throughout the programme and during the plenaries, participants will examine the pathways to building a more resilient, inclusive Europe that can thrive in an increasingly complex, global landscape. For registration and further information, visit the event web page.

#4: Colloquium: Society, Literature, AI (SoLitAI)
The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics invites scholars, students, and researchers interested in AI, authorship, and text to participate in a colloquium at the intersection of literary theory and emerging technologies. As part of the AIAI research project (Authorship and Interpretation of works created with AI), the participants will join a collaborative discussion on how authorship and interpretation are being reshaped in the age of generative artificial intelligence. The event will take place on September 25, 2025, in Kampus Hybernská in Prague. Participants are also encouraged to give a deeper presentation of their work and submit an abstract on themes related to the theme of the colloquium by September 5, 2025. Detailed information about the event and about the paper requirements can be found here.

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EVENT SECTION
#1: Women Artists 1300 -1900
Have you ever been curious about where all the women are in the art? Not as an object of art, but as an artist? The art field seemed to be dominated by men only. Visit the exhibition of the Prague National Gallery, which is a testimony to women’s creative power. The visitors will have a chance to see a comprehensive exhibition of female artists who were active in Central Europe, the Netherlands, and present-day Italy in the period 1300–1900. The theme of the exhibition underscores a key message: while gender influences artistic expression and has historically limited women’s opportunities for recognition and education, what truly matters is talent, skill, and the determination to succeed in a still male-dominated world.

#2: Jagiellonian University at Expo 2025 in Japan
From mid-April to mid-October, the Japanese city of Osaka will become the intersection of social, cultural, and technological currents from around the world. This city has been chosen to host Expo 2025 – the latest edition of an event which can be dated back to the 19th century, organised this year under the theme ‘Designing Future Society for Our Lives’. Representatives from 42 international agencies and institutions from 158 countries, including the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, will participate in the exhibition.

CALL
#1: The NATO Internship Programme
Are you passionate about making a difference? Are you a citizen of a NATO country? Would you like to work for the world’s most successful political and military alliance, which protects the freedom and security of one billion people? Apply now for a six-month paid internship at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, starting in March or September 2026. The deadline to apply for the NATO Internship Programme is June 22, 2025. More information about the offer can be found on the NATO webpages.

#2: EPS programme – student photos
EPS students are welcome to send photos or video material related to the programme. Feel free to send photos related to both academic and student life. Photos of life at universities, of student housing, of life abroad, of countries and cities that students have visited are very much desired. The material from the students will be presented on the EPS website and social networks. Photos can be sent to stepanka.javurkova@fsv.cuni.cz or uploaded to the shared folder.

IMPORTANT DATES
MA thesis submission deadline
The deadline for submitting the MA thesis is June 16, 2025. See the details about MA thesis writing and submission on the EPS website.

HINDSIGHT
Joint online research seminar
The joint online research seminar was organized for the 1st-year students on May 28! We enjoyed fruitful discussions over MA thesis proposals and look forward to seeing our students’ progress soon.

READING TIP: The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 (Author: Paul Johnson, 1991, UK)
This is an extraordinary chronicle of the fifteen years, 1815-1830, that laid the foundations of modern society. It is a history of people, ideas, politics, manners, morals, economics, art, science and technology, diplomacy, business and commerce, literature, and revolution. From Wellington at Waterloo and Jackson at New Orleans to the surge of democratic power and reform, this tumultuous period saw the United States transform itself from an ex-colony into a formidable nation, Britain become the first industrial world power, Russia develop the fatal flaws that would engulf her in the twentieth century, and China and Japan set the stage for future development. Provocative, challenging, and listenable, this remarkable story is told through the lives and actions of its outstanding, curious, and ordinary people.

FREQUENT QUESTION / DO NOT FORGET
When do I receive Erasmus+ funding in my bank account?
Once all the documents are ready, the Rectorate of Charles University will invite you to sign the Erasmus+ agreement (usually during summer). The signature must be done in person, either by you or a person you appoint with a power of attorney.

Do you have any hints, ideas, or tips for interesting events, calls, books, films, podcasts, etc.? Do not hesitate to reach us at eps@fsv.cuni.cz. Your feedback and contribution are highly appreciated.