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6 Feb 2022, 17:52  |  Čeština

Faculty Newsletter

February in the sign of women and girls in science

Dear colleagues, students,

I would like to start this newsletter by recalling 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. It was often the faculties of arts where women achieved their first habilitations or professorships in the past and where the first signals of change in the traditionally male domain of science and university teaching came from. Within our faculty, let us recall the habilitation of Ludmila Kováříková in 1946 in the field of psychology or the approval (but not formally granted for political reasons) of the professorship of Sáša Dušková in the field of auxiliary historical sciences in 1969.

Despite these historical aspects of the subject, it appears that science and university teaching is still largely a male domain - equality of opportunity for both sexes has still not been achieved. An audit carried out last year showed that women are still struggling to reach senior academic positions and positions in the management of institutes and research teams. The often subtle mechanisms of research and personnel policy are not adapted to the specificities of different career paths, the compatibility of work and family commitments, or the diversity of interpretations of the world and one's own position in it. It is not only women and their talents that can easily go to waste in such conditions. It is about the position of parents, about balancing male and female world views without various ideological biases, so that knowledge is expanded and used for the benefit of humanity.

The HR Award agenda not only brings many new impulses, sometimes intense and vigorous debates, to the faculty but also brings changes gradually. The aim is to create comfortable conditions for different groups of researchers who have perhaps been somewhat overlooked until now. The specifics of the position of women are among the most important, together with the issue of parenthood. The MU management has undertaken, among other things, under pressure from faculty demand, to put into operation in the near future a childcare facility for the preschool children of our university employees in the city center. The agenda of reducing working hours with regard to parental responsibilities, the possibility of working from home, etc. is already working well at the MU Faculty of Arts. The HR Award Action Plan adopted in 2021 defines a number of progressive steps towards achieving gender equality, including specifications in the sensitive area of sexual harassment. Let us, therefore, not only in the context of Women in Science Day, wish that through our joint efforts the aforementioned things succeed and our faculty becomes a place where all its members feel comfortable.

Lukáš Fasora
Vice Dean for Research and Development

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FF MU doctoral student Daniel Kvak is among the 30 under 30

He focuses on music and AI, which he was able to use to fight the coronavirus and found a promising startup with global ambitions. That's why Forbes included him in this year's 30 Under 30 list alongside documentary filmmaker Barbora Chalupová, Reknihy's founder Tadeáš Kula, and influencers Jan Macák, aka MenT, and Martin Mikyska, also known as Mikýř.

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Micro-courses are available with English subtitles

The videos that are part of them are thus also available to foreign audiences. Apart from the Humanities Wide Open platform, they can also be freely watched on YouTube.

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What awaits us in the coming months

Mon 3 Jan – Fri 11 Feb 2022

Exam period

Tue 1 – Sun 27 Feb 2022

Enrolment of courses and seminar groups for the spring semester 

During the first two weeks of the semester, you can still add courses or cancel previously registered ones. You can also change your seminar groups. Remember, however, that whatever remains on your timetable after 27 February must be then completed in the exam period!

Fri 11 Feb 2022

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 

The National Contact Centre - Gender and Science will celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science for the seventh time with a campaign whose aim this year is to introduce to the Czech public women scientists who are working on the topic of sustainability in various fields and can thus inspire others to take an interest in this topic and scientific careers.

Mon 14 Feb – Fri 20 May 2022

Teaching in the spring semester

Other events can be found in the calendar of events on the website. For all study dates, see the schedule in IS.

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The next issue of the faculty newsletter will be published at the beginning of March. Contributions can be sent to propagace@phil.muni.cz.

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