In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest—the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange […]
Politics and religion have enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship for as long as human history can recall. Whether it’s be a theocracy that utilises the state to enforce its will and silence dissenting voices, or a state co-opting religion and exploiting ideological fervor in its populace to advance and legitimise its own ambitions. That’s not […]
Would you sacrifice one innocent life if it guaranteed happiness for everyone else? This is one idea we will discuss at the next Read & Riff meeting, where we’ll dive into Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.’ Read & Riff is a book club for short story lovers. […]
Calling all psychedelic science enthusiasts to our recurring journal club! Anyone and everyone is welcome to join, no need for registration but RSVPs are appreciated 🙂 Feel free to bring snacks or drinks. 📆 Wednesday, July 8th, 7:30 PM 📍 Kampus Hybernská, B-1 Sál (2nd floor, new room) Topic: “Just high”: exploring endogenously induced psychedelic-like […]
On Thursday, 9th of July, we’re going to meet and discuss Friedrich Hayek’s essay The Use of Knowledge in Society. First published in 1945, it is widely regarded as one of the most influential essays in economics and political philosophy of the twentieth century. In the essay, Hayek explores a simple question: how can society […]
May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much […]
Hello again❣️🌤️❣️ Let’s meet on Sunday, July 19, at 6 PM at the Globe Café to have a light discussion around the movie Ladies First (2026). I also encourage you to check out the movie I Am Not an Easy Man (2018), a slightly older movie with arguably the same plot/concept as Ladies First. You […]
She Who Remains,Rene Karabash’s landmark Bulgarian queer novel, secrets readers into a rural Albanian village where, to this day, the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini―a collection of archaic laws―looms over the lives of villagers with the same haunting presence of the surrounding mountains. Bekija, painfully aware of why she cannot have what she most wants, chooses […]
On Saturday, 25th of July, we’re going to begin a two-part discussion of Plato’s Republic, one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. For this first session, we’ll focus on Books I–V. Written around 375 BCE, the Republic is Plato’s most famous dialogue and a foundational text of Western political thought. The […]