Ready for the Future: Understanding the Long-Term Resilience of Human Culture
(RES-HUM)

The project is focused on clarifying the basic principles of resilience of human society in a historical perspective using long time series, and on the transfer of acquired knowledge into social practice.

This goal will be achieved by supporting excellent research and developing cooperation between the humanities and natural sciences, such as archaeology, art history, anthropology, genetics, geology, climatology, botany, geophysics and nuclear physics.

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29 Sep

Invitation to the workshop 6-7 October 2025

We are pleased to invite you to workshop Beyond Digital Humanities: Revolution, Revisionism or Political Agenda?, to be held on October 6–7, 2025.

3 Sep

Nové analýzy DNA z kostí odhalují, jak slovanská migrace proměnila střední a východní Evropu

1 Sep

re:vize Školství

11 Aug

Výzkum odhaluje spojitost mezi klimatickými extrémy a konflikty v minulosti

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