Jewish Opava—One-Day Seminar

A seminar about Jewish heritage of Opava (a city in Moravian-Silesia region in Czechia). Jewish life of Opava through stories of famous Jewish families of Opava, who are buried in the Opava Jewish cemetery, which on its own is an exceptional historical monument. The seminar will be prepared based on historical research of local experts, and will include: 1. presentation of Jewish cemetery in Opava. 2. lecture by a rabbi about Jewish funeral customs (in connection to the cemetery) followed by an open question-answer session. 3. concert of Jewish music from regions of Silesia, Galicia and Spiš—by expert researcher, composer and virtuoso of cimbalom—Michal Pal'ko. The goal of the seminar is to popularise common heritage among the citizens of the region, in the region of Jewish heritage. The goal of the seminar is to bring awareness of the history of the region and modern revival of Jewish life there. The meetings will be also available live on-line (via Zoom). After the seminar the materials will remain available in Czech, Polish and English. http://www.tempel.pl/galicia-silesia-and-spis-2020/jewish-opava/

Specificities of the Labor Market of University Teachers

Online workshop organised by University of Rzeszow. Within the workshop, 4 experts on labour market will deliver expert talks (with an emphasis on time allocation). The aim of the workshop is to: - discuss on specific features of labour market (supply side and demand side) of university teachers in V4 countries, - discuss specifics of legal regulations concerning university teachers, their working time (full-time, part-time, home office, agreements, etc.), overtime (legally accepted and real), - stimulate discussion on workload (overload) of university teachers, their work-life balance, challenges, and trends in university teachers labour market, - obtain feedback from students workshop organised online, through MS TEAMS platform. Workshop starts at 10:00 am. https://teacherswellbeing.umb.sk

Instruments for Creating Social Reality: Language—Discrimination—Society

The conference on language and discrimination is a major event that represents a culmination in the research efforts of the department of social linguistics. The main ideas are 1. to present research results in the field, 2. to disseminate the knowledge in the international context, 3. to establish cooperation with related institutions within the V4 region, 4. to create a basis for formulation of anti-discrimination activities that represent the pragmatic dimension of the output, 5. to anchor the V4 region and individual countries within the anti-discrimination discourse in the European Union. The project involves partners from all V4 member countries who will actively participate in the realization of the event and thus integrate their own regional researches into the overall output. This is realized in the form of plenary talks which will initiate broader discussion at the conference. The plenary speakers will be present during the whole duration of the conference, thus contributing to scientific networking. The aim is to involve as many institutions interested in the issues of language and discrimination as possible. The intention is to cross the boundaries of scientific discourse towards wider societal discourse. The conference will last two days during which the most important studies of the experts will be presented and a significant amount of space will be given to deeper and free discussion of the topics. https://www.juls.savba.sk/discrimination.html