The UNYP Chronicle

It is getting increasingly more difficult to outline trends for the next ten or twenty years, but thanks to the world’s growing interconnection it is now easier to determine what is in store for us in the short term. Here are ten trends which might shape 2017 as defined by the Havas communication agency, brought […]

University of New York in Prague took home for the second year in a row the prestigious marketing award, Czech Superbrands 2017. Each year, international experts of business, communications, marketing and more evaluate brands on several criteria, such as reputation and brand awareness. After tallying up a certain level of points, the experts award the […]

Not all business that courts deal with is as serious as one would think. Below are three unusual cases from England, Italy and the Czech Republic. After reading them, one is less shocked that Shakespeare once wrote: ‘The first thing we do, we kill all the lawyers. “Existential Harm” Exasperated by the perennial delays of the State-owned train […]

When I teach creative writing classes at the Prague Municipal Library, I often encourage students to create a literary character that has a different worldview from their own. We discuss the way that every person has specific worldviews, whether they are political, economical, social or religious. The key of the exercise is to make students […]

Sometimes we take the obvious for granted, and fail to appreciate the potential value in things that seem ordinary and commonplace. For example, it may seem obvious that UNYP students are “international students” at an international institution. But what does it mean to be an international student, and how can appreciating this fact provide students […]

Why do we decide in certain situations the way we do? Why someone becomes a workaholic and someone would be “bohem” his whole life? What drives our actions, emotions and even the quality of our life? The answer can be found in the six human needs we all aim to fulfill in different ways. The […]

A man stands in front of modern sculpture near the entrance to Bratislava’s Eurovia shopping center. He stares at his smart phone, alternately reading, drawing, pressing the screen, seemingly oblivious to his surroundings. After about five minutes, he resolutely sets off towards the wall of the shopping center, stopping about 20m away from his previous position. In […]

In October I was at a small, intimate, concert (capacity 150) by a band originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina that I used to listen to and became friendly with over the years. It was a comeback tour show, promoting a comeback record, they used to have a fair following in Europe a decade or […]

2016 will probably be remembered as the year when an unexpected (and perhaps uninvited) candidate was elected to be the president of the most influential country in the world. This brings memories of 2008, when Barack Obama won the election and the world turned towards the United States, expecting changes that would transform the way […]

Awarding the American singer-songwriter the Nobel Prize for Literature means acknowledging the “great American song tradition” ‒ its artistic importance and cultural influence. The story of American song to a certain extent resembles the history of American literature: It begins with adaptations of foreign models and the search for specifically American themes and for a […]