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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)...
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)...