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XXXIII annual seminar Czech-Slovak Relations / Slovak-Czech Relations
19–21 August 2024, Technical University of Liberec (Building G, Univerzitní nám. 1410/1, Liberec)...
Covid-19 in the memory of Czech society
workshop, 16 May 2024, 9:30, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS (Flemingovo nám. 542/2, Prague)...
CfP: Úplně nový dějepis? Kudy a kam s revizí RVP a Kompetenčním rámcem absolventů učitelství
conference, 12–13 September 2024, Liberec...
The 22nd annual competition for the Josef Pekar Prize 2024
for historians up to 35 years of age, closing date 31 May 2024...
CfA: History in Public Space IV
17–18 October 2024, Faculty of Arts, J. E. Purkyně University...
CfP: Czechoslovak Stalinism in long duration
Soudobé dějiny/Czech Journal of Contemporary History, 28 February 2025...
Selection procedure for the position of research assistant (0,2)
applications until 5 May 2024...
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)...
A&U Talks: Prague and Bratislava between late socialism and capitalism
19 April 2024, 18:00, Galerie VI PER (Vítkova 2, Prague 8)...
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)...
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...