Workshop Social and Health Disadvantages and Spatial Inequalities in Communist and Post-Communist Czechoslovakia
Czech historiography has not dealt much with the issue of people with various health and social handicaps. That is why the topic of the workshop is conceived in a broad scope: in terms of personal experiences, institutional background and social policies of care. How did the communist state approach people with special needs, what conditions did it create for them, how did it contribute to their inclusion or exclusion, and what tools did it use? What institutions functioned in this system and what life chances did particular people have in it? How did conditions change with the transformation of the early 1990s? The intention of the workshop is to bring together experts from different fields and research institutions, to open up discussion on these topics also at the Institute for Contemporary History, and to look for possible connections with existing and ongoing research on the communist regime, transformation, urbanity or spatial inequalities.
Due to limited capacity, please confirm your interest in participating by May 15, 2025.
This workshop is supported by the Lumina quaeruntur Premium No. 300632301.
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