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Call for Abstracts: Public History Forum V: The Burdens of Heritage
Conference, November 26–27, 2026, Prague...
Call for Papers: A Foreigners' War, Their Own Memory
International Conference, November 25–26, 2026, Military History Institute, U Památníku 2, Prague...
Meeting of the Czech-Slovak Commission of Historians
academic seminar 14-15 April 2026, The Faculty of Arts at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra...
Exhibition opening: Power and Politics in the Stories of World War II Memorials
8 April 2026, 17:00, Ponrepo Cinema Café (Bartolomějská 11, Prague 1)...
Punitive education. On the relationship between violence, ideology and care in "total institutions" under communist rule
international conference, 15 - 17. April 2026, Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße (Bautzner Straße 112a, Dresden)...
The Power of Objects: Materiality Between the Past and the Future
National Technical Museum (Kostelní 1320/42, Prague 7)...
Seminar: Normalization and Postmodernism: Not Just Czech Art History, 1970–1990
25 March 2026, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
Cycle Every Film is a Small Victory Restitution and repatriation of Ghanaian Art
9 March 2026, 19:30, Ponrepo cinema (Bartolomějská 11, Prague 1)...
Colloquium Carolinum - forum for Czech and Slovak studies
13 March, 9:30, Vila Lanna (V Sadech 1, Prague 6)...
Ute Frevert - The Politics of Humiliation: Shame and Shaming in Modern History
lecture, 24 March, 17:00, Czech Academy of Sciences (Národní 3, Praha 1, Room 206)...
Seminar: "Liberec, Liberec, I stole a Persian carpet." Towards a new understanding of the distribution of German property and its role in the post-war development of Czechoslovakia
25 February 2026, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
Výběrové řízení na pozici Ekonom/ka – Vedoucí technicko-hospodářské správy
Uzávěrka přihlášek: 16. 3. 2026...
Call for Applications Summer School of Contemporary History: Technology, Power and Cultural Change
24-29 May 2026, Liberec...
Město, architektura a ideologie
workshop pro učitelstvo, 19. února, 15:30, ÚSD (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1) ...
Postsocialist Transformation as a World of Meaning: Domination, Agency and Sense-Making
international conference 12-13 February, Vila Lanna (V Sadech 1, Praha 6)...
Book Launch - Anna Dobrowolska: Polish Sexual Revolutions
11 February, 18:00, Skautský institut (Staroměstské náměstí 4, Praha 1)...
Seminars in the summer semester of 2026
25 February - 24 June 2026, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
Seminar: The Münchner Platz Dresden Memorial and the Czech Victim Group: Research, Education and Remembrance
28 January 2026, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
New Book: Between Solidarity and Disappointment. Czechia in the Covid and Post-Covid Era
HOUDA, Přemysl – FILIP, Miroslav – PILNÁČEK, Matouš (eds.). Prague, Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2026. ISBN 978-80-246-6247-3...
Výběrové řízení na pozici Mzdová/ý účetní – Personalistka/Personalista
Uzávěrka přihlášek: 2. 2. 2026...
Cycle Every Film Is a Small Victory: History, Land, Film
13 January 2026, 19:30, Ponrepo cinema (Bartolomějská 11, Praha 1)...
Book presentation: "Vážený soudruhu prezidente" ("Dear Comrade President")
15 November 2026, 17:00, Parliamentary Library (Komunardů 1634/44, Prague 7)...
Lecture: Memory and Representation of Roma Genocide on Film in Czechoslovakia
18 December, online...
Seminar: Twice on reformist communism: a dialogue on the meaning of political vision
17 October 2025, 16:00, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vlašská 355/9, Praha 1)...
Cycle Every film is a small victory: And now the revolution
15 December 2025, 18:00, Ponrepo cinema (Bartolomějská 11, Praha 1)...
New Book: L’udácký mozog. Štefan Polakovič a slovenský politický katolicizmus
LENČÉŠOVÁ, Michaela. L’udácký mozog. Štefan Polakovič a slovenský politický katolicizmus. Vydání první. Bratislava: Paradigma Publishing, 2025. 232 stran. ISBN 9788097449230...
presentation of Peter Bugge's book České světy
8 December 2025, 16:30, the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)...
Výzva k podání nabídek: realizace výstavy (2026)
„Služba vlasti: Každodennost povinné vojenské služby v českých zemích (1868–2004)“...
Industrial Conflicts and Institutional Resilience in Modern and Contemporary History
international workshop, 8 December 2025, Akademic Conference Centre (Husova 4a, Prague 1)...
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)...