ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies Project

Join us! Panel discussion "Prospects for the Development of the War in Ukraine in the Context of Global Politics and the Role of the Czech Rep." with L. Víchová, A. Vytečka, E. Čeplová, O. Soukup, S. Tumis.

📅 March 11, 2026, at 6 PM
📍 @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz

🗣️ In Czech
More 👉 link.cuni.cz/40UjlHD

Thanks to everyone who came to our research symposium "Why Democracies Fail Differently: Autocratization and Resistance in Central America" with @millanos.bsky.social @ripplingeralina.bsky.social @karelkouba.bsky.social and dr. Radek Buben

@giga-hamburg.de @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz

@millanos.bsky.social @ripplingeralina.bsky.social @karelkouba.bsky.social

We invite you to a public research symposium "Why Democracies Fail Differently: Autocratization and Resistance in Central America" with Prof. M. Llanos, Alina M. Ripplinger, M.A., Doc. K. Kouba and dr. R. Buben

📅 Feb 12, 2026, at 5:30 PM
📍 @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz

🗣️ In Czech
More 👉 bit.ly/4qtLDDy

We invite you to a lecture “The Crisis between the USA and Venezuela in Historical Perspective” by Dr. Radek Buben, an expert in modern Latin American history and political regime transformation.

📅 January 14, 2026, at 5:30 PM
📍 @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz
🗣️ Lecture in Czech
More 👉 bit.ly/4qMBpia

We are monitoring the current developments related to the situation in Venezuela following the intervention of the U.S. military.
@karelkouba.bsky.social and Radek Buben (SIAS @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz) answered questions from many Czech media outlets.

See more (in Czech): bit.ly/4q9ayww

Join us for a public lecture on “Russia Under Surveillance – From Lenin to Putin: Chekism as the Backbone of the Soviet and Russian Dictatorship” by Tomáš Sniegoň, a expert on the history of post-communist countries.

📅 Dec 4, 2025, at 5.30 PM
📍 @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz
More 👉 bit.ly/3XB9MvM

Thanks to everyone who came to our public lecture with Dr. Radek Buben, who spoke on the theme 👉 Latin American Politics and Donald Trump during the "Week of the Humanities" at @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz
We look forward to welcoming you again soon!

@karelkouba.bsky.social @millanos.bsky.social

What is Donald Trump’s relationship with South American politics – and vice versa? 👉 Join a public lecture by Dr. Radek Buben, an expert on modern history and political regimes in South America.
📅 Nov 18, 2025, at 4 PM
📍 @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz
The lecture will be held in Czech
More 👉 bit.ly/4hVDqFh

Thanks to everyone who joined and took part in the discussion at 👉 Chile at a Crossroads: Actors and Contexts of the 2025 Election, a public lecture by Assoc. Prof. Robert L. Funk, renowned expert on Chilean politics.
We look forward to seeing you at our next events!

@karelkouba.bsky.social

@karelkouba.bsky.social @millanos.bsky.social

We cordially invite you to an exceptional public lecture by Prof. Robert L. Funk, a leading expert on Chilean politics, on the topic Chile at Crossroads: Actors and Contexts of the 2025 Election.
📅 October 22 at 5:30 p.m. at @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz.
Register here👉 bit.ly/47cMqCb

1/ Which institutional determinants affect legislative turnover in Latin America? Using electoral data since 1985, @karelkouba.bsky.social and myself tackle this question #OpenAccess in the newest issue of Latin American Politics and Society.
👉 doi.org/10.1017/lap....

We are hiring! Join @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz as a 👉 Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Area Studies and take part in building the future 🌏 Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).

Based in Prague – details here: bit.ly/CenMASpostdoc

@millanos.bsky.social @karelkouba.bsky.social

We are hiring! 🌏 For the future Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS) at @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz, we are looking for a 👉 Research Group Leader in Comparative Area Studies.

Join us in Prague – details here: bit.ly/CenMASleader

@millanos.bsky.social @karelkouba.bsky.social

From Argentina to Prague: Llanos on Democracy & ERA Chair Professor Mariana Llanos, a distinguished political scientist from Argentina, discusses her long journey from Oxford to the elite GIGA Institute in Hamburg and Charles University in Prague, where she ...

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How can we get through these difficult times we are living in? We believe in institution building, multidisciplinarity, and deep contextual knowledge. Proud to collaborate with colleagues from Charles University on this project. @karelkouba.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de

@millanos.bsky.social is the ERA Chair of our ERA-AREAS project, which supports research and teaching on global regions at our faculty. In the interview, she also shares 🌍 insights on the political challenges facing Latin America and stresses 🌍 the importance of international academic cooperation.

💬“It’s exciting that the @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz offers such a wide variety of area studies - from Japanese to Latin American to Indonesian studies! There’s a huge wealth of knowledge, and the challenge is to make it more visible and interconnected,” says Prof. Mariana Llanos.

Read 📰 bit.ly/4lj7r2m

We’ve launched ERA-AREAS, a prestigious 5-year EU-funded project (Horizon Europe) at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The project aims to strengthen multidisciplinary area studies and establish CEMAS, a new centre for research on non-European regions.

Read more 👉 bit.ly/442D1dw