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Seminar: Mineral resources and their role in international politics
24 April 2024, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
CfP: Úplně nový dějepis? Kudy a kam s revizí RVP a Kompetenčním rámcem absolventů učitelství
conference, 12–13 September 2024, Liberec...
A&U Talks: Prague and Bratislava between late socialism and capitalism
19 April 2024, 18:00, Galerie VI PER (Vítkova 2, Prague 8)...
CfA: History in Public Space IV
17–18 October 2024, Faculty of Arts, J. E. Purkyně University...
Book presentation: Pohyblivé hranice diktatury ve světle stížností a anonymů československých občanů (1948–1989)
23 April 2024, 17:00, building of the Nejvyšší kontrolní úřad and Kancelář Poslanecké sněmovny (Komunardů 1634/44, Praha 7)...
Selection procedure for the position of research assistant (0,2)
applications until 5 May 2024...
CfP: Czechoslovak Stalinism in long duration
Soudobé dějiny/Czech Journal of Contemporary History, 28 February 2025...
Workshop: Bourdieu a (post)socialismus
10 May 2024, 10:00, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Na Florenci 3, Praha 1)...
East-West Cooperation in Science and Technology: Actors, Actions, and Intelligence Gathering
BASEES Symposium, Cambridge, April 5-6, 2024...
CfP: Oral History in 21st Century: Interview and its Future
19.–20. September 2024, Hradec Králové...
New Book: Pohyblivé hranice diktatury ve světle stížností a anonymů československých občanů (1948–1989)
Vilímek, T. – Pažout, J.: Pohyblivé hranice diktatury ve světle stížností a anonymů československých občanů (1948–1989). Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v. v. i., 2023.
CfP: Transformations of the Emergency Medical Service in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Actors – Organizations – Technologies – Innovations
International Conference on the History of Emergency Medical Service, Prague, 26–27 September 2024...
Seminar: How we lived in the years of normalization. Experiences of women from alternative backgrounds in Bratislava
27 March 2024, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
CfP: Experts as Agents of Liberation? Expert Cultures and Trans/International Knowledge Networks in Cold War Era
ASEEES 56th Annual Convention, Boston Marriott Copley Place, November 21-24, 2024...
New Book: Železnice, cukr, noviny a odvaha: Osudy Beniesů v Čechách i jinde
Dufek, P. – Maršálek, Z. – Novotný, M.: Železnice, cukr, noviny a odvaha: Osudy Beniesů v Čechách i jinde. Praha: 2023.
Seminar: A Cylinder for Everyone. The Czech Appropriation of Britain in Media Discourse (1939-1948)
28 February 2024, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
CfP: Workshop: Queer Urban Underworlds in European State Socialism
Prague, September 17 to 19, 2024...
Seminar: How and why teach contemporary history? The case of a research textbook for 9th grade of primary school
31 January 2024, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
CfP: Racializing Romani People in the Nineteenth Century
20–21 May 2024, Villa Lanna, Prague...
New issue: Journal Architecture and Urbanism
thematic issue In Search of Postmodern City: Urban Changes and Continuities in East Central Europe between Late Socialism and Capitalism (1970-2000)...
Selection procedure for the "Programme of Support for Prospective Human Resources - Postdoctoral Fellows"
applications until 1 February 2024...
CfP: Conference Victimhood - Acknowledgement - Politics of Memory: Struggling over the Memory of Suffering
3-5 September 2024, Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden...
Presentation of the book Za rovnocennost evropských plemen
16 January 2024 at 19:00, Papas Bar (Bartolomějská 13, Prague 1)...
Seminar: Interweaving Worlds: The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival during the Cold War
13 December 2023, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
Results of Czech Science Foundation competition was published
our institute received support for 2 standard projects...
New book: Za rovnocennost evropských plemen. Československá antropologie tváří v tvář rasismu a nacismu
Ducháček, M. a kol.: Za rovnocennost evropských plemen. Československá antropologie tváří v tvář rasismu a nacismu. Praha 2023.
New book: Všechno bylo nové. Česká ekonomika po roce 1989 – několik pohledů na transformační proces očima dobových protagonistů
Krátká, L.: Všechno bylo nové. Česká ekonomika po roce 1989 – několik pohledů na transformační proces očima dobových protagonistů [Everything Was New. The Czech Economy After 1989 - Several Perspectives on...
Seminar: Romani Literature – an inconspicuous phenomenon of the time
29 November 2023, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
Seminar: Forecasting Sovereignty: The Role of Expert Languages during the Perestroika in Soviet Estonia
30 November 2023, 10:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Puškinovo náměstí 447/9, 160 00 Praha 6)...
AV21 Strategy Conference: Excellence Research in the Public Interest
15 November 2023, Czech Academy of Sciences...
New book: Pro nás dějiny nekončí. Politická práce a myšlení českého levicového exilu (1968–1989)
Andělová, K. – Suk, J. – Zahradníček, T.: Pro nás dějiny nekončí. Politická práce a myšlení českého levicového exilu (1968-1989) [For Us, History Does Not End. Political Work and Thought of the Czech Left...
Mark Gilbert's lecture: The Italian Communist Party and Late Stalinism, 1944-1956
22 November 2023, 17:30, P301, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Palachovo nám. 1, Prague 1)...
Discussion: Velvet Business? Industry and Entrepreneurship in Zlín in the 1990s
22 November 2023, 17:00, Krajská knihovna Františka Bartoše ve Zlíně...
New book: Věčná devadesátá. Proměny české společnosti po roce 1989
Patočková, J. - Rychlíková, A. - Pehe, V. - Lehečka, M. - Daniel, O. - Krátká, L. - Spurný, J. - Ondráček, V.: Věčná devadesátá. Proměny české společnosti po roce 1989 [The Eternal '90s. Transformations...
Adéla Gjuričová is the new director of Institute of Contemporary History
Adéla Gjuričová will commence her duties on 1 November 2023...
CfA: Research on Contemporary Information Society / Contemporary History 2.0
Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History, 15 January 2024...
Call for Abstracts: Science and Democratisation Processes in East Central Europe and Beyond
ESHS Conference: Science, Technology, Humanity, and the Earth, 4-7 September 2024, Barcelona...
Seminar: Take-offs and fallings. A look into the history of Czechoslovak Airlines in the years 1923–1993
25 October 2023, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
CfP: Re-Constructing Perestroika(s): In Search of a New Vocabulary for the Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia
international workshop, 14–15 March 2024, Prague...
Josef Dobrovský Fellowship
applications for the Josef Dobrovský Fellowship – deadline for submission is October 22, 2023 (stays realized in 2024)...
Conference: Precarious Constitutionalism: The Ambiguities of Liberal Orders and the Rise of Illiberalism in Central Europe and Latin America
12-13 October 2023, vila Lanna (V Sadech 1, Prague 6)...
New Book: Blahomír Borovička: Vzpomínky hlavního architekta Prahy
Martina Koukalová – Petr Roubal: Blahomír Borovička: Vzpomínky hlavního architekta Prahy [Blahomír Borovička: Memoirs of Chief Prague Architect]. Prague: Institute of Contemporary History, CAS, 2023.
Week of the Czech Academy of Sciences
6 November – 12 November 2023, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences...
Seminar: Domesticating Socialist Legality: How Polish Lawyers Experimented with a Tainted Concept
11 October 2023, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
CfP: East-West Cooperation in Science and Technology: Actors, Actions, and Intelligence Gathering
BASEES Conference, 5-7 April 2024, Cambridge...
Presentation of the database Testimonies of Roma and Sinti
20 September 2023, 17:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
City as a Laboratory of Change: the 3rd Forum of Strategy AV21
21 September 2023, Muzikologická knihovna ÚDU AV ČR, Puškinovo nám. 9, Praha 6...
Workshop: National Communism in Socialist Federations
14 September 2023, 10:00, Academic Conference Center (Husova 4a, Prague 1)...