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Commemorative ceremony at the Pirna-Sonnenstein Memorial
15 December, 13:00, Pirna-Sonnenstein Memorial, Pirna...
Sergej Radčenko: To Run the World
představení knihy, 26 November, 17:30, Faculty of Arts UK (Nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague 1)...
Seminar: Breaking anonymity. Research on victims of the National Socialist “euthanasia” in Pirna-Sonnenstein and Großschweidnitz
26 November 2025, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
Prague International Conference of Slovak and Czech Secondary School Students on the 80th Anniversary of the End of World War II
International conference, November 21, 2025, House of National Minorities (Vocelova 602/3, Prague 2)...
Lost Youth in Army Records
exhibition, 3 November - 31 December, South Bohemian Research Library, Lidická 1, České Budějovice...
New Book: Zakázaná víra. Nelegální náboženské menšiny v komunistickém Československu
PÁCHA, Martin. Zakázaná víra. Nelegální náboženské menšiny v komunistickém Československu. Praha, Argo, 2025. 240 s. ISBN 978-80-257-4715-5...
New Book: "Vážený soudruhu prezidente". Dopisy československých občanů prezidentům republiky v letech 1968-1989
VILÍMEK, Tomáš. "Vážený soudruhu prezidente". Dopisy československých občanů prezidentům republiky v letech 1968-1989. Praha, Academia, 2025. 360 s. ISBN 978-80-200-3663-6...
Parliaments and Their Artists
seminar, 6 November 2025, 16:00, the Archives of the Chamber of Deputies (Komunardů 163/44, Prague 7)...
Mark Gilbert in Prague
lecture, 6 November 2025, the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Nám. Jana Palacha 1, Praha 1) ...
Lecture: Nazi ‚Euthanasia‘ in the Czech Lands and Its Victims from the Ranks of Patients Transferred from Saxony, 1939–1945
30 October 2025, online...
Week of the Czech Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Contemporary History
3-9 November 2025...
CfP: "Disabled," "Handicapped," and "Invalid" during the period of state socialism
Czech Journal of Contemporary History (February, 28th 2026)...
Seminar: Student internationalism and the Cold War. Changes in international student politics and everyday life after 1945
22 October 2025, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
Together and Alone. Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia after November 1989
seminar, 21-22 October, the Regional Scientific Library in Liberec ...
Helsinki at 50. Human Rights, Peace, and Security in Europe in the Perspective of Political Exile as a Non-State Actor in International Politics
international workshop, 22-23 September 2025, Archive of Parliament of the Czech Republic (Komunardů 1634/44, Prague 7)...
50 Years of the Helsinki Accords: Dissidence, Exile, and the Legacy of the Helsinki Process
debate, 21 October, 5 p.m., the Institut français de Prague (Štěpánská 35, 110 00 Prague 1)...
Cycle Every Film is a Small Victory: Filmed in Peru
1 October 2025, 18:00, Kino Ponrepo (Bartolomějská 11, Prague 1)...
Prague As a Cold War City And Its Global Entaglements
international workshop, 23-24 September, Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prosecká 809/76, 190 00, Prague 9...
Seminar: The Genealogy of Czechoslovak Stalinism, 1929–1953: Conceptualization, Representation, Communication
24 September 2025, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
Understanding Urban Inequalities in Dictatorship and Democracy
international workshop, 25–56 September 2025, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
New project Science, expertise, and society in the post-COVID era
Project supported by IOCB Tech Foundation...
Between Idea and Institution: Women in 20th-Century Czech Philosophy
conference, 2-3 September 2025, the Academic Conference Center, Husova 4a, Prague 1...
CfP: Culture Wars in Historical and Global Perspectives: Contesting Identity, Values, and Power
cfp for a Special Issue AUC Studia Territorialia...
The legacy of surviving Roma and Sinti across generations
Czech-German conference, 11-13 September 2025, Prague/Lety...
Understanding the Public Space
international workshop, 4–5 September 2025, Display Gallery Prague...
New Book: Dějiny Komunistické strany Československa I (1921–1939)
KOCIAN, Jiří – MAREK, Pavel – RÁKOSNÍK, Jakub. Dějiny Komunistické strany Československa I (1921–1939). Praha, Academia, 2025. 682 s. ISBN 978-80-200-3624-7...
9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability
international conference, 14-18 July 2025, Prague...
XXXIVth year of the seminar Czech-Slovak relations/Slovak-Czech relations
seminar, 18–20 august 2025, Technical University of Liberec...
CfP: Postsocialist Transformation as a World of Meaning: Domination, Agency and Sense-making
international conference, 12–13 February 2026 Vila Lanna, Prague...
Seminar:
25 June 2025, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
CfP: After Industry: Cities and Regions in Transformation
International Conference, 14–15 May 2026, Prague...
Seminar: Christian Democracy, Human Rights and Anti-Colonialism in the Thought of the People's Exile. The case of Stefan Polakovic
28 May 2025, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
CfP: Znalosti. Znalosti! Znalosti?
výroční konference Asociace pro didaktiku dějepisu, 11.-12. září 2025, Plzeň...
New Book: Poslední neděle okupace
HADRAVOVÁ, Alena: Poslední neděle okupace. K tragickému vyústění velkomeziříčského povstání v květnu 1945. Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v. v. i., 2025. 308 s. ISBN 978-80-7285-291-8...
CfP: Punitive education. On the relationship between violence, ideology and care in ‘total institutions’ under communist rule
International Conference, 15–17 April 2026, Dresden...
New Book: Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české XVIII. (1956–1967)
SUK, Jiří: Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české XVIII. (1956–1967). Praha: Paseka, 2025. 695 s. ISBN 978-80-7637-526-0...
Workshop Social and Health Disadvantages and Spatial Inequalities in Communist and Post-Communist Czechoslovakia
21 May 2025, 10:00–15:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Prague 1)...
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)...