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New book: Jan Hauer: Moji lidi
Hauer, J.: Moji lidi [My People]. Praha: Kher, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v. v. i., 2024.
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...
Conference History in Public Space IV: Memory under Pressure. Tensions, Conflicts, Catharsis
17–18 October 2024, Multifunkční informační a vzdělávací centrum Univerzity J. E. Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem a Filozofická fakulta Univerzity J. E. Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem...
Human rights at the time of Charter 77 and today: the experience of Czechoslovak dissent in a global perspective
screening and discussion, 9 October 2024, 4:00 pm, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Jan Palach Square 1/2)...
CfP: Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability
9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (MSA), 14–18 July 2025, Prague...
CfP: Echoes of Conflict: Health Consequences of War and Violence Across Generations
International Conference, Prague, 8–10 April 2025...
What do Marx, Hayek, and Polányi tell us about the post-1989 transformations?
1 October 2024, 18:30, kavárna Na Boršově (Náprstkova 272/10, 110 00 Prague)...
Conference Transformations of the Emergency Medical Service in the 20th and 21th Centuries: Actors – Organizations – Technologies – Innovations
26–27 September 2024, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (Pátkova 2137/5, Prague 8)...
Seminar: The Struggle for Moral Recognition: The Organisation of Political Prisoners in the Czech Republic and Germany after 1989
25 September 2024, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
Futures and Pasts of Illiberal Constitutionalism: East Central Europe in Context
international conference, 12–13 September 2024, CEU Vienna...
Workshop Queer Urban Underworlds in European State Socialism
17-19 September 2024, The Parliamentary Library and The Archives of the Chamber of Deputies (Komunardů 1634/44, 170 00 Prague 7 Holešovice)...
From Student Internationalism to Erasmus: Globalization and Europeanization of Student Life since 1945
Round Table Discussion, 25. září 2024, 17:30, Vila Lanna (V Sadech 1/1, Praha 6)...
Cities and Buildings: Social, Environmental and Technical Challenges
conference of the program Strategy AV21, 19 September 2024, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Queer in State Socialism
September 17, 5.30 p.m., The Parliamentary Library and The Archives of the Chamber of Deputies, Komunardů 1634/44, 170 00 Prague 7...
Built representation: Parlamentsarchitektur in Europa
International Academic Conference, 4–5 September 2024, Düsseldorf, Haus der Universität...
Connecting historians and teachers: the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences helps train history teachers
15 August 2024, press release...
Conference Oral History in the 21st Century: Interview and its Future
19–20 September 2024, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové...
Conference: Úplně nový dějepis? Kudy a kam s revizí RVP a Kompetenčním rámcem absolventů učitelství
12–13 September 2024, Faculty of Sciences, Humanities and Education, TUL...
Conference Victimhood - Acknowledgement - Politics of Memory: Struggling over the Memory of Suffering
3 –5 September 2024, HAIT, Helmholtzstraße 6, 01069 Dresden...
Miroslav Ivanov Prize for Michal V. Šimůnek
for the book Orbity smrti. Nacistická „eutanázie“ a masové umírání psychiatrických pacientů v českých zemích, 1939–1945...
XXXIII annual seminar Czech-Slovak Relations / Slovak-Czech Relations
19–21 August 2024, Technical University of Liberec (Building G, Univerzitní nám. 1410/1, Liberec)...
CfP: War and Military-Political Alliances in the Modern and Contemporary History of Central Europe: Strengths, Limits, Challenges
international conference, March 19–21, 2025, Military History Institute Prague...
Dagmar Hochová's political photo archive is available online
within the on-line collections of the Moravian Gallery in Brno...
CfP: Czechoslovak Stalinism in long duration
Soudobé dějiny/Czech Journal of Contemporary History, 28 February 2025...
New Book: Perestrojka v Šamotce: Proměny vedoucí úlohy KSČ z perspektivy jednoho podniku
Štefek, M.: Perestrojka v Šamotce: Proměny vedoucí úlohy KSČ z perspektivy jednoho podniku. Praha: Argo, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v. v. i., 2024.
Workshop: The Cold War between the “Second” and the “Third” World: The Socialist Bloc and Latin America
24 June 2024, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, 118 00 Malá Strana, Prague 1)...
Seminar: Feminism and the Political Mythology of Czech National Socialism
26 June 2024, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
How to change the world? Debate on the occasion of the double anniversary of Jacek Kuron's life
19 June 2024, 18.00, Kampus Hybernská (Hybernská 4, Praha)...
Seminar: Czechoslovak experts and the problem of child malnutrition in the "Third World" in the 1960s-1980s
29 May 2024, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
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...
Honorable mention of the Czech Science Foundation for Jiří Suk
for the excellent results of the project Czech Left-Wing Exile, 1968-1989 supported by the Czech Science Foundation...
International Conference Explores the Racialization of Roma in the Nineteenth Century
Conference Racializing Romani People in the Nineteenth Century, May 20-21, 2024, Prague...
Jiří Pernes received a Letter of Thanks of the Czech Academy of Sciences
for his dedicated work for the Czech Academy of Sciences...
CfP: Úplně nový dějepis? Kudy a kam s revizí RVP a Kompetenčním rámcem absolventů učitelství
conference, 12–13 September 2024, Liberec...
Workshop: Legacy of Traditions and Cultural Pluralism in the Life of the Majority Society, Nationalities and Ethnic Minorities in the Karlovy Vary Region
13 May 2024, 10:00, the Karlovy Vary Museum...
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)...
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...
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.
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)...