Transnational Training, Education, and Knowledge Exchange in Revolutionary Cuba
11. 3. 2025 Author: editors Dr. Katerina Brezinova, a head of the Iberoamerian Center of Metrpolitan University Prague, is just back from the University of Cambridge’s Newnham College. Along with Tanya Harmer from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Emily Snyder from University of Cambridge, Dr. Brezinova has organized there a two-day international conference: "Transnational Training, Education, and Knowledge Exchange in Revolutionary Cuba." (March 7-8, 2025)The conference reunited a group of experienced and junior scholars from Cuba, the UK, Spain, Germany, Australia, the US, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and France like Mervyn Bain from University of Aberdeen; UK Reinaldo Funes, Professor of History at the University of Havana, Cuba; Cary Aileen García Yero, Scholar Associate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University; Daniela Spenser, the John Simon Guggenheim fellow and professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social in Mexico City, and others. Great debates & wonderful insights.
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18/03 2025
Economic Development in East Asia: Perspective of Market, State Capacity, and Society
The Department of Asian Studies cordially invites to a public lecture titled "Economic Development in East Asia: Perspective of Market, State Capacity, and Society".
19/03 2025
Day of Open Doors
Metropolitan University Prague invites prospective applicants to participate in the Day of Open Doors.
19/03 2025
Voices of Resistance: Belarusian Fight for Democracy
The department of International Relations and European Studies cordially invites you for a documentary screening and follow up discussion with Kryscina Šyjanok, the trusted representative of the elected President of Belarus, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, for the Czech Republic and the director of the Office of Democratic Forces of Belarus in the Czech Republic.
21/03 2025
10th MUP Gala Ball
Metropolitan University Prague cordially invites you to attend the 10th MUP Gala Ball. It will be held on Friday, 21 March 2025, from 7:30 p.m. in the magnificent premises of the Municipal House at Náměstí Republiky in Prague 1. Once again, the event will have three halls at its disposal: the unique Smetana Hall, the Sladkovský Hall, and the Grégr Hall.
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