Meetings
Prague, June 2026
Dear friends,
We are happy to invite you for this year’s meeting of the Association of Friends (Spolek) of the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University. It will take place in Prague from
13th to 15th November 2026.
The theme of this year’s meeting is ‘Funeral Culture in the Secular Age’. At our seminar in Prague, we aim to explore how the increasing pluralisation of society is affecting funeral culture. In the Czech Republic in particular, a wide variety of funeral practices already exist, and burial in a cemetery is no longer compulsory. We will reflect on the theological implications of new forms of burial: how can we view these plural forms of burial in the light of Christ’s death and resurrection? Do they foster remembrance and hope in the spirit of the Christian faith, do they maybe even open up new perspectives? Are there limits? At the same time, we also want to hear about how the churches in the Czech Republic are dealing with this reality.
Read more: Welcome to Prague 13th to 15th November 2026 - ‘Funeral Culture in the Secular Age’
Prague, June 2024
Dear friends,
We are happy to invite you for this year’s meeting of the Association of Friends (Spolek) of the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University. It will take place in Prague from
8th to 10th November 2024.
This year we will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Spolek, hurrah! Whether you have been a member of Spolek since the beginning, joined in the last decade, or if you currently study at PTF, feel free to join our common festivities. We might not have all of your recent contact information, so please also forward this invite to your study friends from the times you were here in Prague! We would love to celebrate and relive the “good old times” with as many friends as possible.
The working title of our meeting is Losing the Call. We will be focusing on the professions in the theological field (teachers, diaconia workers and pastors) where the calling has been strong but due to exhaustion and burn-out people have been taking long leaves or changing their careers completely. We will share stories in the form of panel discussion and include the theme throughout the weekend. Of course we will offer the basic programme as every year, getting to know each other on Friday with some refreshments, seminar day with field trip on Saturday and tips for local church services for Sunday.
We are working on bringing to our meeting some experts to contribute in this field from the Czech Republic and internationally. Information about accommodation and how to register for our meeting will arrive later. But go ahead and confirm your holidays already at work for Spolek weekend. If you wish to organize your travels already as well, it is good to know that we will start around 17:00 on Friday and on Sunday there is no mandatory activity for everyone.
We have made reservations for accommodation in the hotel KRYSTAL, address: Chosé Martího 2/407, Prague 6, . The accommodation costs (including breakfast):
- single room 700 CZK (28 EUR)/per night
- double room 450 CZK (18 EUR) /per night/ per person.
The original prices of the accommodation are higher but the Spolek will cover 50% of these expenses.You can pay your accommodation in cash (in CZK) during the Spolek meeting at the Faculty or you can send your payment to the Spolek bank account (details of the bank account see at the end of this letter).
We kindly ask you to inform us about your participation before Sunday, September 29, 2024 either by email to
Spolek přátel ETF, Černá 646/9, CZ-110 00 Praha 1
Please use the enclosed registration form or fill it online at https://1url.cz/r1eh1
For more information on the activities of the Association (in English, German and Czech) see the website http://spoleketf.org and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SpolekETF. After the summer holidays you will find the program of the anniversary meeting on our sites.
We would also like to remind those of you who are members of our association / would like to become a member, not to forget to pay your membership fee.
The minimum is 250 CZK (11 EUR) /year, but you can of course contribute more.
If not for these contributions, we would not be able to organize our annual conferences. In case you participate at this year’s conference, you can pay your membership fee in cash in Prague.
Our bank account:
- Czech Republic – Spolek přátel ETF; no. 2720961001/5500 – Raiffeisenbank, a.s.
IBAN: CZ10 5500 0000 0027 209 61001 / BIC RZBCCZPP
See you in Prague in November!
