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“Ha ha, you’re not going to get rid of me that easy!” It will surprise no one that this was the first sentence Ciaran Kelly said to me a week or so after the first signs of his health concerns. It was “classic Kelly” on the phone that day, words flooding out of his mouth […]

For a long time, Africa has been a major focus of my research. My research interests include, inter alia, the modern and contemporary history and politics of Ethiopia, with particular attention to nation-building, nationalism, ethnic identity, ethnic federalism and related issues, the issue of conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, Euro-African relations, and Czechoslovak-African relations.  Recently, I […]

Over the past few decades, English-medium universities like UNYP have admitted increasingly diverse groups of students, many of whom speak English as an additional language (Lea & Street, 2010; Thesen, 1997). The transition from high school to university is often challenging, even for students studying in their primary languages (Clerehan, 2002). For students who are […]

The University of New York in Prague (UNYP) signed a memorandum of understanding with the American University of Iraq – Baghdad (AUIB), on the students exchange program, in addition to double degree agreements, students transfer, faculty exchange, and joint research. This agreement paves the way for UNYP students to participate in joint classes, research projects, study abroad programs. […]

On Tuesday, November 2nd, the University of New York in Prague held its fourth public webinar. This time, UNYP has chosen a hybrid system, when there were guests physically at the seminar, as well as online on the ZOOM platform. The webinar focused on an important topic of Women in Business. This event was hosted by Dimana Mabhena, […]

UNYP is honored to bring TEDxUNYP events every year. This year, we made a big leap forward in all aspects. The TEDxUNYP team felt that this year’s event needed to exceed all expectations because we had to wait 2 years years to host it due to the pandemic.   Mark Anderson, the TEDxUNYP organizer and licensee […]

Human rights are under threat around the world. In the modern era, when we have an increasing level of average health, prosperity and education worldwide, why are human rights still under-protected? There is a tendency to see opportunity as a limited supply, rather than an equation where we can enlarge the pie of resources that we have to […]

All of us are sometimes the target of frustrating and unfair communicative strategies in our personal and organizational lives. These are often power games, taking the shape of patterns of communication and behavior into which we repeatedly, sometimes unconsciously and sometimes purposefully, find ourselves involved in. They are often not just isolated, random events. The […]

This semester, UNYP was happy to welcome almost 40 visiting students. We love to welcome visiting students to our campus, and to make new friends from all over the world. Over the last two semesters, our students have even created an International Friends Club, where they make sure that our visiting students feel welcomed and integrated […]

For many of us, this semester will be remembered as the semester in which we return to the classroom, after the interlude caused by the COVID alert that forced us to teach our courses using internet-based technologies. I cannot express my joy of being back in a classroom in front of our students. I share […]