May 29-31, 2014: The international colloquium on Clement of Alexandria, focused on Clement's Biblical Exegesis (Colloquium Clementinum II). For more information, visit the conference home-page.
September 19-20, 2013, Prague: the annual patristic conference, organized by the Catholic Theological Faculty, the Hussite Theological Faculty (both Charles University in Prague) and Czech Patristic Society. The theme was Patristic exegesis. More information on the conference web page (in Czech).
September 20-21, 2012: Patristic conference 2012, national meeting of scholars, academics and students interested in patristic studies. More information and the programme of the conference (in Czech).
October 5-7, 2011: Free Will in the philosophy of past and present, an international conference organized in cooperation with the Department of philosophy, Faculty of philosophy, Palacky University. More information and the programme of the conference.
June 1-3, 2011: Erasmus' Work in the European Thought of past and present, an international conference organized in cooperation with the Department of philosophy, Department of Dutch Studies (Philosophical faculty, Palacký University Olomouc) and Erasmianum - Centre for language and culture of the Netherlands and Flanders. More information and the programme of the conference.
October 21-23, 2010: Colloquium Clementinum, an international colloquium on Clement of Alexandria, focused on the seventh book of his Stromata. More information and the programme of the conference, some photos.
November 26-28, 2009: The concept of man in the philosophy of past and present. More information can be found here.
October 30-31, 2009: Colloquium Dionysiacum, an international conference about the work and legacy of Dionysius Areopagita, organized by the Patristic Society of the Czech Republic and Protestant Theological Faculty in Prague. More information about the programme.
November 7-8, 2008: Patristic conference 2008, the first national meeting of scholars, academics and students interested in patristic studies. The aim of the conference was to present the individual approach and area of interest of each participant. The programme included 28 papers divided in eight sections, the plenary conferences were given by Prof. Václav Ventura (“Patristics Today”), Prof. Lenka Karfíková (“Ideas and Words. Augustine’s Quaestio de ideis”) and Prof. František Kunetka (“Lucernarium in the Ancient Christian Liturgy”). More information about the programme and the information about the proceedings (V. Hušek - P. Kitzler - J. Plátová, eds., Antické křesťanství: liturgie, rétorika, antropologie, CDK, Brno 2009).

During the conference, the Patristic society of the Czech Republic was founded (having 33 members). Prof. Lenka Karfíková was elected the first president and Dr. Matyáš Havrda the secretary. The objective of the society is to bring together those interested in patristic studies (including students) and to promote contact between Czech scholars and international research.


October 8-10, 2008: Cosmology in the past and today, Dub na Moravě.
October 17-18, 2007: J. A. Comenius and the Patristics (26th International Comeniological Colloquium), organized in by the Centre in cooperation with the Museum of Jan Amos Komensky in Uherský Brod and Institute of philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, in 17th-18th October 2007 in Uherský Brod. More information about the programme (in Czech); the contributions were published in Studia comeniana et historica 37 (2007), No. 77-78.
May 10-11, 2007: The concept of nature in the past and present philosophy, organized by the Centre in cooperation with the Department of philosophy, Faculty of philosophy, Palacky University. More information about the programme (in Czech), some photos and the information about the proceedings (L. Chvátal - V. Hušek, eds., "Přirozenost" ve filosofii minulosti i současnosti, CDK, Brno 2008).
December 6-8, 2006: Unity and Multiplicity, organized by the Centre in cooperation with the Department of philosophy, Faculty of philosophy, Palacky University, in 6th-8th December 2006. More information about the programme of the conference (in Czech) and the information about the proceedings (M. Jabůrek, ed., Jednota a mnohost, CDK, Brno 2008).
October 20, 2006: Ad adolescentes (Colloquium of young Patristic scholars) was organized by the Centre in cooperation with the Department of philosophy and patrology and the Department of biblical studies, St. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, Palacky University, on Friday 20th October 2006, in Olomouc. More information about the proceedings (V. Hušek - L. Chvátal - J. Plátová, eds., Miscellanea patristica, CDK, Brno 2007).
Conference on analogy in philosophy and theology was organized by the Department of philosophy and patrology, St. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, Palacky University in Olomouc, in cooperation with the Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and the Research group for the History of Older Czech and European Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, on Thursday 25 May 2006. More information about the conference, some photos and the information about the proceedings (Petr Dvořák, eds., Analogie ve filozofii a teologii, CDK, Brno 2007).
The 10th Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa was organized by the Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts from Wednesday to Saturday, 15th-18th September 2004, in Olomouc. Two researchers of the Centre read their papers, Lenka Karfíková (CE II, 387-444, 543-553: Der Ursprung der Sprache nach Eunomius und Gregor vor dem Hintergurnd der antiken Sprachtheorien) and Ladislav Chvátal ("He brandishes over us this Aristotelian weapon" [CE II, 620] - an example of [ab]use of Aristotle´s name in controversy over unbegottenness). More information about the colloquium, some photos and the information about the proceedings (L. Karfíková - S. Douglas - J. Zachhuber, eds., Gregory of Nyssa, Contra Eunomium II, Brill, Leiden 2007).
Colloquium Afterlife of classical myth was organized by the Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts from the 27th to the 28th March 2003, in Brno. More information about the programme, some photos and the information about the proceedings (J. Nechutová, eds., Druhý život antického mýtu, CDK, Brno 2004).
Colloquium Number in Texts prior to the Year 1600 was organized by the Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts from the 26th to the 27th of April 2002, in Prague in the Villa Lanna. More information about the programme, some photos and the information about the proceedings (L. Karfíková - Z. Šír, eds., Číslo a jeho symbolika od antiky po renesanci, CDK, Brno 2003).
Colloquium Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): His Work in the Past and his Heritage for the Future was organized by the Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts together with the Cabinet for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty in Olomouc and Centrum Prokopios Sázava, from the 13th to the 14th November 2001. Two researchers of the Centre read their papers, Pavel Floss (Die philosophische Problematik des II. und III. Buches der Schrift De Docta Ignorantia) and Jozef Matula (The Meaning of Pace de Fidei for Interreligious Dialogue).
In collaboration with the Research Centre for the History of Science, the Centre organised on 9 November 2001 in Prague a colloquium Euclid and Greek Mathematics, where papers were presented by prof. B. Vitrac (Centre Louis Gernet, CNRS, Paris), RNDr. M. Bečvářová (the Research Centre for the History of Science) and members of the Centre Mgr. Z. Šír (Greek Mathematical Texts - anthology project) and Mgr. F. Karfík, PhD. (Euclid and stoicheia).
From the 7.- 9. 2. 2001 a symposium of The Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts took place on the grounds of Palacky University and at the Aletti Centre in Olomouc. At this symposium organised with the support of the Rector of Palacky University prof. Jana Mačáková individual researchers of the centre presented their projects to the wider academic public. Photographs from the symposium are here.