LITCON or Literary Con is an open festival of authentic literary culture, organized by KLKS (Department of Literary Culture and Slavistics) in Dačický House Kutná hora. The convention is intended for the second grade students of HLS (historical and literary studies) and invited guests (including media coverage), the program consists of several block appearances performed by department teachers and talented students informaly presenting during the half day programme (with midday lunch break) the ouputs of their own scientific and artistic work. The festival traditionally includes author readings of current scientific papers, prosaic and poetic texts, together with musical and improvisational performances (results of the optional seminar). The leading idea of the activity is to represent scientific and artistic aspects of academic life of KLKS in literary filed as two corresponding and mutually depending parts of education, professional training and broad-based culture.

The aim of this project is to conduct intensive anthropological fieldwork among Kabyle immigrants in the Czech Republic and in their home country ? Algeria ? and publish a monograph based on this fieldwork. I will study the Kabyle immigration in the Czech Republic by resorting to an anthropological methodology and a holistic approach. I will focus on immigrants? transnational social networks and analyze the dynamics of deterritorialized immigrants? identities focusing on the interconnection between ethnic (Kabyle), national (Algerian), and religious (Muslim) identity. In the fieldwork in Algeria, I will investigate the social and economic background of immigrants? families, impact of emigration on life in Kabylia and factors that encourage the process of emigration.

The submitted project tries in an interdisciplinary approach to the material of particularly Czech cookery books to analyse their place and role not only within the everyday life of the regenerating Czech society, but also within the transformations of their literary culture. The thematic heart of the project focuses (in diachronically approached study of the long 19th century) on the relation aminy literary culture of the cookery books and their everyday reception. The project works on the basic assumption that the level of literary culture of the Czech written cookery books gradually diminishes contrary to the rising intensity a of patriotic-educational function.

The project examining foreign trade between Prague and Italy in the pre-White Mountain period
involves primary research focusing on the commercial relationships between Prague and Italy from 1526
- 1618. There will be particular concentration on the trade between Prague and Northern Italian centers
of commerce such Venice, Florence, Bologna and Bolzano, with whom Prague merchants in the 16th
century had direct contacts. Aside from direct contacts between Prague and Italian merchants, the share
of Italian goods imported to Prague by German and Austrian trading companies will be examined. At the
same time, we will look at the markets in Nuremberg and Linz and their role in mediating commerce
between Prague and Italy. The project will also assess the influence of business practices and financial
techniques used in developed Italian centers on business practices in Prague. The outcome of the project
will culminate in a scientific monograph and 4 specialized studies.

Project is focused on development of social communication, on innovation of the subjects of the specialisation Humanities and Resocialization Pedagogy focusing on development of verbal and nonverbal communication skills when communicating with a specific client within specialized educational subsystems ? Psychopedy,Surdopedy, Ophtalmopedy, Logopedy or Etopedy and Somatopedy. Practical acquaintance and practical application of the topic for persons with disabilities means to students a significant practical self-reflection. Students will participate in application sphere - providers of social and educational services. The project activities will contribute to the significant cooperation with the application sphere. The rationale of the project is that the specialists on problems of social communication are aware of its theoretical-practical importance in relation to the future of social developments in the European and the Czech environment.

The aim of this project is to innovate course Philosophy of Education I, II which is a part of the bachelor branch of philosophy. This innovation will consist in a modification of the course philosophy of education I, II on the base of literature from the era of German idealism. Specifically it means more intensive respect to the significance of the term education (Bildung) in German idealistic philosophy and analysis of the problem of Humboldt´s reform of German university. A part of this project is also three-days stay in library in Jena in Germany (the centre of German idealism). This stay will be used for collecting specific philosophical texts concerning issue of education and university ? especially in respect to German idealism. The aim of this project is to deepen and elucidate our understanding of the tradition of university as a place of the unity of science and education.

The project focuses on innovating compulsory and optional courses in the literature-cultural studies module of BA study programmes, the MA in English Language Teacher Education and the new MA study programme in Philology. Acquisition of the most up-to-date resources and the researchers´ participation at conferences will refresh teaching materials, add information from the most recent academic debates and help the department´s academic growth. Sufficient amount of contemporary study materials will provide students´ with access to the information on contemporary research in literature and cult. studies. It will also increase their own academic and language competence. Purchasing literature and modification of the respective study materials will take place in the summer term of the academic year 2016-17. Piloting the updated syllabi will be carried out in the winter term of 2017-2018. Student feedback will be continuously reflected in the materials to keep up the newly achieved standard.

The main aim of the project is to write the first monograph in the Czech language concerning the construction of indigenous peoples´ identity through ethnonationalist movements and so called revitalisation movements on an example of the Iroquois. The principle outcome of the project will be articles in anthropological journals, a monograph based on a case study of the Iroquois. The results will be based on the findings from the fieldwork utulising predominantly qualitative methods. The project will focus on a study of group identity in the following areas: ethnicity (primordialism, constructivism), kinship systems, political anthropology (political representation). The influence of international organizations on the legislative systems of particular states aiming to define the status of the Aboriginal peoples will be also emphasised. A similar process can be observed in the Czech Republic in connection with the Roma minority.

The project has been proposed as interdisciplinary, its aims are found in the fields of second language acquisition and
educational sciences. This is also reflected in the composition of the research team. The project is focused on specific features
of English language acquisition of Czech learners, future teachers of English, in the Czech educational context and is intended to
contribute to uncovering its specific features. The project aims at identifying external and internal factors which influenced the
process of learning English as a foreign language of Czech learners. This will be achieved through a complex analysis of
individual language learning histories. Another project objective is to create a Czech corpus of learner English of spoken
communication, to conduct a linguistic analysis of the corpus and make such a corpus available for further research use.
Furthermore, the findings of the above-mentioned analyses will be interrelated.