Workshops

During the Covid-19 pandemic, democracy worldwide continued to deteriorate. As established and new democracies faced unprecedented challenges to public health and the economy, their democratic quality declined. While established democracies could largely prevent pandemic erosion of democratic quality, democracies in transitions could not. Pandemic is an opportunity for executive aggrandizement –strengthening governments, weakening parliaments, and testing the judiciary.

Call for applications for the Training school of the COST action TRACTS: Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice.

Date: 11-12 May 2020 Place: Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1, Czech Republic Keynote speaker: Professor Herbert Kitschelt, George V. Allen Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Duke University, North Carolina, USA

Český sociálněvědní datový archiv (ČSDA) Sociologického ústavu AV ČR Vás zve na informační den na téma: Management dat v sociálněvědním výzkumu a GDPR

The workshop with following discussion is promoted under research project NAKI - "Do-It-Yourself culture and its importance for Czech national and cultural identity: Current situtation in social, cultural, historical and political perspective, typology and potential for regional development".

This international workshop seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate about the de-consolidation of democracy. It will explore the contemporary disappointment with the ways how democracy is functioning, manifested in the falling confidence in democratic institutions.

To reflect and critically respond on the processes of financialization of housing across European countries the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Housing and Family Dynamics Working Group under European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) invite early-career researchers to submit papers for workshop New Housing Challenges: Families and Financialization taking place in Prague, May 9-11, 2018.

The Czech Social Science Data Archive invites to free of charge workshop, which explores the potential of research data available in Europe.

The Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences invites you to the international workshop

Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i. si Vás dovoluje pozvat na mezinárodní workshop

The Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague cordially invites you to the workshop focused on migration challenges in Central and Eastern Europe. The main aim of this international workshop is to facilitate networking in strategically important research areas it is financially supported by Strategy AV21 within the research programme “Global Conflicts and Local Interactions”.

The latest research continues to say that girls and women struggle more with confidence than boys and men. Why is this the case? Why is confidence so important in all aspects of our lives? Internationally recognized leadership expert, Dr. Susan R. Madsen, will provide an engaging workshop that will help us understand the confidence gap between genders and how we can strengthen our confidence to be prepared to contribute in more meaningful ways in the world.