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CfP: Together and Alone: Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic and Slovakia after November 1989
Expert Seminar, 22 October 2025, Liberec...
Three Institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences launch a website about the reconstruction of the Hybernská 8 building
the website will allow the public to keep track of the progress of the reconstruction of the historic building at Hybernská 8 in Prague...
Magnesia Litera for Alena Hadravová
prize for non-fiction for the book Greek Myths in Literary and Artistic Tradition...
Seminar: New Directions in Dissent Research. Charter 77 as a Family Experience
30 April 2025, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
The First Materiality Strategy AV21 Forum
30 April 2025, Akademické konferenční centrum, Husova 4a, Praha 1...
Conference Trauma, Hope, and Illusion
5–7 May 2025, Clam-Gallas Palace, 158/20 Husova Street, Prague 1...
Lecture by Jürgen Kocka: Memory, Conflict and Research. Dealing with a Difficult Past
13 May 2025, 17:00, Czech Academy of Sciences, room 206 (Národní 3, Prague 1)...
The 23rd annual competition for the Josef Pekar Prize 2024
for historians up to 35 years of age, closing date 31 May 2025...
Cycle Every Film is a Small Victory: An Evening of Tunisian Film
11 April 2025, 18:00, Kino Ponrepo (Bartolomějská 11, Prague 1)...
New book: Narušená kontinuita. Česká věda, německá hegemonie a totální válka, 1939–1945
Šimůnek, M.: Narušená kontinuita. Česká věda, německá hegemonie a totální válka, 1939–1945 [Disrupted continuity. Czech Science, German Hegemony and Total War, 1939-1945]. Praha: Academia, 2025.
New Book: Na prahu socialismu. Československo v letech 1956–1960
Pernes, J.: Na prahu socialismu. Československo v letech 1956–1960 [On the Threshold of Socialism. Czechoslovakia 1956-1960.]. Praha: Academia, 2025.
Echoes of Conflict: Health Consequences of War and Violence Across Generations
international conference, 8–10 April 2025, Karolinum (Ovocný trh 560/5, Praha)...
CfA: Agents in Their Own Service? Central and Eastern European Actors in the Structures of Cold War Internationalism
Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History, the deadline for submission of manuscripts is 31 January 2026...
CfP: Tackling Cold War Student Organisations through Social History
International Conference, 20–21 November 2025, Fribourg...
CfP: Prague as a Cold War City and its Global Entanglements
International Workshop, 23-24 September 2025, Prague...
Seminar: The Czechoslovak Way to the Soviet Bloc. Was There an Alternative?
26 March 2025, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
War and Military-Political Alliances in the Modern and Contemporary History of Central Europe: Strengths, Limits, Challenges
International Scientific Conference, 19–21 March 2025, Military History Institute Prague (U Památníku 2, Prague 3)...
Workshop: “Designing Aggressor Histories: A Challenge for Public History”
13–14 March 2025, Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences...
Seminar: Built in spite of. Roman Catholic religious buildings in the Czech lands built between 1948 and 1989
26 February 2025, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
The Institute of Contemporary History of the CAS is the seat of the Czech-Slovak Commission of Historians
The Commission is dedicated to the promotion of Czech and Slovak history...
Selection procedure for inclusion in the "Programme of support for promising human resources - postdoctoral students"
applications until 5 March 2025...
Book presentation: Město jako laboratoř změny
5 February 2025, 17:00, Parlamentní knihovna a Archiv Poslanecké sněmovny (Komunardů 1634/44, Praha 7)...
Seminar: East German Students as Actors of Transformation 1987-1992
29 January 2025, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1) and Zoom...
CfP: Trauma, Hope, and Illusion. Cities at the End of World War II and in Post-War Transformation
International Conference, 5–6 May 2025, Prague...
Workshop "Histories of Maternity: Ideas, Practices and Transfers"
17 January 2025, Academic Conference Center (AKC) in Prague and Via Zoom...
Seminar: Television Pedagogy, Economic Transformation and the Building of a Middle-Class Imagination in 1990s Czech Republic and Slovakia
16 January 2025, 11:10, Dresden and Zoom...
Cycle Every Film is a Small Victory: An Evening of Lebanese Film
15 January 2025, 18:00, Kino Ponrepo (Bartolomějská 11, Prague 1)...
New book: Historiografie, sociologie a politika paměti
Gjuričová, A. – Nodl, M. – Urbánek, V. (edd.): Historiografie, sociologie a politika paměti [Historiography, Sociology and the Politics of Memory]. Praha: Argo, 2024.
Selection procedures for the OP JAK Urbanity grant project: inequality, adaptation and public space of cities in historical perspective
for the positions of PhD student, postdoctoral researcher, senior researcher...
Seminar: Lessons from 75 Years of NATO - Instructive, Disturbing, but also Forgotten
18 December 2024, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
Seminar: Post-socialist Urban Transformations in East Central Europe. Cases of Prague and Bratislava
12 December 2024, 11:10, Dresden and Zoom...
Summer Schools of Slavic Studies before 1989 through the Eyes of Witnesses
discussion, 16 December 2024, 16:00, Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Na Florenci 1420/3, Prague 1)...
New book: Dějiny v exekuci. Jak přemýšlet a psát o komunismu
Suk, J. (ed.): Dějiny v exekuci. Jak přemýšlet a psát o komunismu. Praha: NLN, s. r. o., 2024.
New book: Město jako laboratoř změny. Mezioborové výzvy
Nodl, M. – Gjuričová, A. – Pospíšil, S.: Město jako laboratoř změny. Mezioborové výzvy. Praha: Argo, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., 2024.
Seminar: "Not Everything Was Rubbish": The Liquidation of the Camera Manufacturer Pentacon in Dresden
27 November 2024, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
General Assembly of the Association of Historians of the Czech Republic
22 November 2024, 15:00, Czech Academy of Sciences (Národní 3, Prague)...
Slušovický zázrak. JZD Agrokombinát Slušovice mezi socialismem a tržní ekonomikou
discussion, 28 November 2024, 17:00, František Bartoš Regional Library in Zlín (14/15 Bat'a Institute, 2nd floor of building 15)...
Conference Covid-19 in the Memory of Czech Society
27 November 2024, 9:00, the Czech Academy of Sciences (Národní 3, Prague 1)...
Prague International Conference of Slovak and Czech High School Students
22 November 2024, 9:00, Dům národnostních menšin (Vocelova 602/3, Prague)...
CfP: Echoes of Conflict: Health Consequences of War and Violence Across Generations
International Conference, Prague, 8–10 April 2025...
Online exhibition depicts normalisation Žižkov in Pavel Štecha's photographs
press release on the new virtual exhibition...
Seminar: Polish migrants in the "new" EU: the notion of (post)transformation
12 November 2024, 10:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
Week of the Czech Academy of Sciences
4 –10 November 2024, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences...
Seminar: Quest for a New Europe? The Soviet Union, Central European Countries and the Emerging Visegrad Cooperation, 1989-1991
30 October 2024, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
Topographies of Transformation: Dresden–Prague Talks
series of lectures organized by the Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences...
CfA: Victims, Their Organizations and the Struggle over the Memory of Suffering
Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History, the deadline for submission of manuscripts is 31 January 2025...
Memory Under Pressure: Forum History in Public Space will focus on the changing relationship to the past
press release for the conference History in Public Space...
CfP: Discussing the Zero Growth and Climate Change in Eastern Europe Before and After 1989
Panel Proposal for the 13th Biennial European Society for Environmental History Conference 2025, “Climate Histories” August 18th-22th, 2025, Uppsala, Sweden...