Topographies of Transformation: Dresden–Prague Talks
This lecture series brings together scholars from the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the TU Dresden and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. In four talks, they will explore different aspects of the social and cultural histories of the postsocialist transformations in Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia and beyond. Running through the series of talks is a unifying focus on the spatial aspects of transformation processes: their situatedness in particular topographies and their (unequal) distribution across different urban and rural locations.
The talks will take place in person, alternately in Prague and Dresden, as part of each institution’s regular colloquium/seminar programme, with the possibility of online attendance.
For the respective registration, please contact us stating your full name at hait@tu-dresden.de. The registration link will be sent to you separately before the start of the event.
Program:
27. listopadu 2024 (Prague):
“Not everything was Rubbish”: The Liquidation of the Camera Manufacturer Pentacon in Dresden
Dr. Maren Hachmeister & PD Dr. Friederike Kind-Kovács (HAIT)
12. prosince 2024 (Dresden):
Post-socialist Urban Transformations in East Central Europe. Cases of Prague and Bratislava
Dr. Petr Roubal & Dr. habil. Matěj Spurný (ÚSD)
16. ledna 2025 (Prague):
Television Pedagogy, Economic Transformation and the Building of a Middle-Class Imagination in 1990s Czech Republic and Slovakia
Dr. Veronika Pehe (ÚSD)
29. ledna 2025 (Dresden):
East German Students as Actors of Transformation 1987–1992
PD Dr. Udo Grashoff (HAIT)