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On June 21, the President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel handed over the appointment decrees to new professors. The Faculty of Social Sciences has two new professors: Ota Konrád and Tomáš Weiss. Congratulations!
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The book Rituality and Social (Dis)Order. The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe ranked 8-9. place in the Competition of high-quality monographs at Charles University. Its author is doc. Alessandro Testa, anthropologist and historian working at the Institute of Sociological Studies FSV UK.
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Within the Scientific Information Centre, a new position called Data Steward has been created at FSV UK. Our faculty is thus one of the first at Charles University to come up with this support for researchers. This function will be taken over by Jonáš Klos, who is already in charge of, among other things, the digitization and administration of the Kramerius at FSV UK.
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During the International Studies Association (ISA) conference, Dr. Aliaksei Kazharski from the Department of International Relations, Institute of Political Studies FSV UK, received a prestigious Global International Relations Section Book Award for his new book Central Europe Thirty Years After the Fall of Communism: A Return to the Margin.
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The Bedřich Hrozný Prize for Creative Initiative is awarded by the rector of the Charles University for a significant and original creative initiative. Doc. PhDr. Michal Bauer, Ph.D. and doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová, Ph.D. from the Institute of Economic studies received this prize for a publication in the Nature journal.
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Unlike sleep duration and “social jetlag”, self-reported sleep quality is significantly linked to quality of life for individuals over time and also when comparing between people, says the new study published March 15, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Michaela Kudrnáčová from Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, and Aleš Kudrnáč from the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences.
