MINDING THE GAPS

12^th Brno International Conference of English, American, and Canadian Studies

Brno, 5^th–7^th February 2025

With a doctoral symposium preceding the event on 4^th February 2025.

Autumn Semester 2024 — Important Dates and Events

Classes	16 Sep – 20 Dec 2024
National Holidays	28 Oct (Monday)
Theses Topics deadline	13 October
Reading Week	18 – 22 Nov (except combined studies)
Thesis submission deadline (online + hard copy)	2 December (12:00)
MA State Exams	TBA
MA Entrance Exam	TBA

The photo above is a token of our history: it comes from the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of The Gypsywood Players, our students’ theatre company, in 2015.

On Apr 29, 2022 we celebrated
Prof. Chudoba’s plane tree
and launched D. Sparling’s book Outside In.
See photos from the event.

100 Years of Teaching | Videos from the Virtual “Reunion”

Virtual Open House
(Dny otevřených dveří)

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12 Feb 2020

Extending the Scope of Narratology

Narratology was born out of the realization that the horizon of narrativity was beyond the scope of literary theory.

5 Feb 2020

1st call ERASMUS 2020 - 2021

29 Jan 2020

Výsledky bakalářských státnic - Leden 2020

28 Jan 2020

Intensive courses - Spring 2020

The Department offers again two intensive courses in the spring semestr 2020.

21 Dec 2019

Rozpis magisterských státnic a komisí - leden 2020

21 Dec 2019

Rozpis bakalářských obhajob - leden 2020

8 Oct 2019

Filmová přehlídka UK/UH 4: Hradiště rozhoupe Swinging London!

Čtvrtý ročník UK/UH: Dnů britského filmu a kultury se v Uherském Hradišti uskuteční ve dnech 22. – 24. listopadu 2019. Po sekci věnované severoirskému konfliktu The Troubles, se přehlídka zaměří na Swinging London a Swinging Sixties.

1 Oct 2019

The HCA Spring Academy

The seventeenth HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 23-27, 2020. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects.

Links: Coronavirus situation | CZASE | ESSE

Resources OED Lit. Online GALE LITERATURE Other

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29 Nov

Speculating Backward: History and Empire in American Literature 1880-1940

12:00 PM

Drawing from her dissertation, “Speculating Backward: Speculative Rewritings of the Past as Anti-Colonial Protest,” this presentation will discuss time and imperialism in American speculative fiction at the turn of the twentieth century.

We are using Phrase TMS in our translation courses free of charge. Phrase is a complete translation platform that includes translation memory, integrated machine and human translation, terminology management, and both online and desktop CAT tools.