About the Institute












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            The Institute of South and Central Asia consists of three seminars and the specialisations

            complementary in that two seminars focus upon the region of South and Central Asia – the I
            Seminar [ URL "UJCA-148.html "] (Indian languages and cultures, Indonesian) and the Semina
            and Tibetan Studies [ URL "UJCA-149.html "] (Mongolian languages in Mongolia and China, Ti

            Besides languages and literatures, the basic orientation in both teaching and research is 
            culture of the individual regions. In all topics the basis of the study is the language, w

            the culturally different regions can be neither successfully understood nor interpreted. W
            the use of general methogological disciplines (linguistics, history, literary science, ant
            which, together with mastering the relevant language (and its varieties) opens up wider op

            professional development both in research and in practice.
            In the sphere of research important sources of knowledge include not only the written lite
            but in some regions also the oral tradition, which is developed to a very high level throu

            field work. We have excellent experience with international co-operation and we meet with 
            from our target countries. We publish the results of our research in the form of monograph
            publications [ URL "http://ujca.ff.cuni.cz/UJCA-214-version1-bibliografie_ujca_2012.pdf"] 

            international journals which we publish, Pandanus [ URL "http://iu.ff.cuni.cz/pandanus/pub
            Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia [ URL "http://mongolistika.ff.cuni.cz/mongolo-tibetica-pragensi