Colloquium Carolinum - forum for Czech and Slovak studies
We cordially invite you to the Colloquium Carolinum, which will take place on March 13, 2026, at Villa Lanna (V Sadech 1, Prague 6). The colloquium is organized by the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with Collegium Carolinum and the Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Programme:
9:30 – 10:00
Arrival of participants, registration
10:00 – 10:30
Opening Ceremony
10:30 – 12:00
Panel I
Chair: Pavla Šimková (Collegium Carolinum)
Gabriel Godeffroy (Sorbonne, Identités, relations internationales et civilisations de l‘Europe): „‚Střední Evropa‘ gegen ‚Mitteleuropa‘: Die zentraleuropäische Idee und Bewegung in der Tschechoslowakei der Zwischenkriegszeit (1918–1938).
Miloslav Szabó (Comenius University, Bratislava): „Unser Recht auf die slowakische Verselbständigung“. Die Soft Power NS-Deutschlands gegenüber der Slowakei.
Jan Wachter (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe – GWZO, Leipzig): Zwischen Ökonomie, Versorgungssicherheit und Ökologie: Transformationen der Energiepolitik in Tschechien und der Slowakei (1960er bis 2004).
12:00 – 12:20
Coffee break
12:20 – 13:20
Panel Kurzexposé
Chair: Florian Ruttner (Collegium Carolinum)
13:20 – 14:20
Lunch
14:20 – 15:50
Panel II
Chair: Václav Rameš (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Fabian Baumann (Heidelberg University): The Threatened Republic: Treason, Disloyalty, and the Defense of Democracy in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Adam Šplíchal (Masaryk University, Brno): Herbert David: The Fate of a Key Figure in Sudeten German Justice Beyond His Own Perspective
Andrea Průchová Hrůzová (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences): Constellations of Women’s Life Writing and Re-construction of Ideological, Geopolitical, and Artistic Spaces. The Case of Charlotta Kotik’s Biography.
15:50 – 16:20
Coffee break
16:20 – 17:50
Panel III
Chair: Adam Hudek (Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Ivo Puš (Palacký University Olomouc): Is Business the Key to Happiness? Motives and Actors Behind the Dynamic Development of Business Education in Imperial Austria (1890s–1918).
Blažena Pavlovkinová (Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences): Slovak discourse on science at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Karina Hoření (Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): “Chalupáři” and the German Heritage in Czechoslovakia.
17:50 – 18:00
Official Closing and Farewell