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French Government-Charles University
On 12 January, M. Benoit d'Aboville, the French ambassador in Prague, delivered a donation of books from the French government to Charles University. The extensive collection of philosophical and historical works, published by the French publisher, Les Belles Lettres, is valued at 600,000 Czech crowns. The 700 volumes are intended for study and research purposes and will be made available in the library of the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, both to students and to other members of the academic community.
(vol. 1, no. 1, 1995)
Republic of Korea-Charles University
Already during the visit of the Czech Prime Minister, Vaclav Klaus, to Korea, in October 1994, our delegation was informed of the Korean side's intention to make a gift to the university to the value of almost one million Czech crowns. Charles University (represented by the Rector, Prof. JUDr. K. Maly; Pro-Rectors Doc. Ing. I. Wilhelm and Prof. PhDr. P. Blahus; and the Questor, Ing. J. Kubicek) received the gift from Mr. Byung Suk Min, the Korean ambassador, a few days before the official visit to Prague of Kim Young-Sam, the President of the Republic of Korea, on 23 February 1995. The gift, comprising of state-of-the-art computer technology, will contribute to the further improvement of teaching at the faculties of Charles University. It will be divided between those parts of Charles University, which have the closest working ties with Korean universities, that is the Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the Philosophical Faculty, the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, and the University Rectorate.
(vol. 1, no. 1, 1995)
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Gary S. Becker, the 1992 Nobel Prize-winner for Economic Science, visited Prague from 6 to 11 March. Despite having an intensive programme (accepting an honorary doctorate from the University of Economics; meeting the Czech President, Vaclav Havel; and a public debate with the Prime Minister, Vaclav Klaus), he also found time to meet students and researchers from CERGE (the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education) and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Before a packed audience, he addressed the regular seminar series of CERGE and the Economics Institute on 8 March 1995, with a lecture on "Social Consumption - The World of Veblen Revisited".
(vol. 1, no. 1, 1995)
Shortly before his meeting on 21 April with the Czech Minister of Culture, Pavel Tigrid, Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, the Israeli Minister of Education and Culture, made a courtesy call at the Karolinum. In the ceremonial chambers, he was greeted by three of Charles University's Pro-Rectors, Prof. Jaroslav Vacek, Prof. Zdenek Pertold and Doc. Ivan Wilhelm. Prof. Rubinstein welcomed the opportunity to inspect the historical buildings of the Karolinum. As we learned from his curriculum vitae, Prof. Rubinstein graduated in economics and international law from the University of Jerusalem, has been elected several times as a member of the Israeli parliament, became Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University, and has lectured at the Stanford University School of Law. He is the author of the only Israeli laws concerning the protection of citizens' rights, was Minister for Energy and Infrastructure, and then Minister for Science and Technology. He is also the author of nine books, most of them dealing with human rights issues and the constitutional laws of Israel.
(vol. 1, no. 3, 1995)
The photo by Michaela Zindelova shows 
Prof. Amnon Rubinstein with his wife in the Patriotic Hall of the Karolinum.
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A Meeting of the Czech-German Historians' Committee on the Creation of History Textbooks
(Praha-Braunschweig)
On 15 to 18 May 1995, a mixed committee of Czech and German historians, whose task is the evaluation and creation of history textbooks, met at the Karolinum. The organisers from the German side were the G. Eckert Institut fur internationale Schulbuchforschung, while the Czech organisers were the Institute for Czech History of the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University.
On the programme for this year's meeting were questions which have recently gained an unusual currency - the problem of our mutual relations during the years of the Second World War, from Munich to 1945. Evaluation papers were presented by the ten-member German delegation, whose members included, for example, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Seibt of Collegium Carolinum in Munich, and Prof. Dr. Hans Lemberg from the University of Marburg. The opening paper was read by Prof. Jan Kren. Other Czech contributions considered the role of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the lives of people in the ceded territories, the problems of resistance and collaboration, the Slovak Republic, and attempts to resolve the fates of Czech and Slovak Jews. Many valuable observations were also contained in the position papers of a group of Czech history teachers, who have been testing Czech and German textbooks directly in the classroom.
At the end of the meeting, the German delegation was taken for a visit to the former Crown Archive of the Central State Archive, which preserves the most valuable documents from the history of our state.
Doc. PhDr. Renata Wohlgemuthova
(vol. 1, no. 3, 1995)
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Prof. Amnon Rubinstein with his wife in the Patriotic Hall of the Karolinum.