Between Politics and Culture: New Perspectives on the History of the Bohemian Lands and the First Czechoslovak Republic (1880s–1930s)

Between Politics and Culture: New Perspectives on the History of the Bohemian Lands and the First Czechoslovak Republic (1880s–1930s)

Veranstalter
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the ASCR; Department of German and Austrian Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague
Veranstaltungsort
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the ASCR, Na Florenci 3, Prague, 3th floor
Ort
Prague
Land
Czech Republic
Vom - Bis
30.05.2014 - 31.05.2014
Website
Von
Václav Šmidrkal

Conference “Between Politics and Culture: New Perspectives on the History of the Bohemian Lands and the First Czechoslovak Republic (1880s–1930s)”

Programm

Friday, 30/5/2014

9:00 Ota Konrád – Ines Koeltzsch (Prague): Introduction

New Political History
Chair: Dagmar Hájková (Prague)

9:30 Daniel E. Miller (West Florida)/Philip J. Howe (Adrian)/Thomas A. Lorman (London): The Creation of the Conditions for Consociational Democracy and Its Development in Interwar Czechoslovakia

9:50 Discussion

10:10 Johannes Gleixner (Munich): Freireligiöser Republikanismus oder die Entstehung einer neuen Republiksideologie: Zur Wirkung T. G. Masaryks und seiner sich wandelnden Anhängerschaft 1900-1920 (Secular-Religious Republicanism or the Rise of a New Republican Ideology: T. G. Masaryk in the Perception of his Various Followers, 1900–1920

10:30 Discussion

10:50 Coffee Break

11:10 Benjamin Conrad (Mainz): Sprachen im Abgeordnetenhaus der Tschechoslowakei der Zwischenkriegszeit – ein Weg zur Integration? (Languages in the Czechoslovakian Chamber of Deputies: A Path towards Integration?)

11:30 Discussion

The Politics of Memory
Chair: Miroslav Michela (Bratislava/Prague)

11:50 Andrea Talabér (Budapest/Firenze): Mapping the Post-Imperial Nation: National Days in Interwar Czechoslovakia and Hungary

12:10 Eva Kalivodová/Vojtěch Kessler (Prague): Commemoration as Social Practice. State Holidays in the First Czechoslovak Republic

12:30 Discussion

13:00 Lunch Break

Transnational Actors and the Transfer of Knowledge
Chair: Antonie Doležalová (tbc)

14:30 Torsten Lorenz (Prague): Das Genossenschaftswesen im östlichen Mitteleuropa 1850–1940. Nationale und transnationale Aspekte einer sozialen Bewegung (The Cooperative Movement in Central and Eastern Europe: National and Transnational Dimensions of a Social Movement)

14:50 Discussion

15:10 Ondřej Matějka (Prague): Producing Social Modernity and “International-Mindedness”: The Action of the YMCA in Czechoslovakia and its Transnationalizing Effects (1919–1938)

15:30 Discussion

15:50 Marek Skovajsa (Prague): The Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Sciences in Czechoslovakia 1924–1948: The Failure of an Institutionalization Effort

16:10 Discussion

16:30 Coffee Break

Transnational Cultural Networks
Chair: Lucie Merhautová (tbc)

16:50 Katharina Wessely (Bern): Mobile Actors, Transnational Networks and Urban Space: The Electrification of the Brno Theatre at the End of the 19th Century

17:10 Discussion

17:30 Martha Stellmacher (Hannover): Synagogale Musikpraxis in Prag zur Zeit der Ersten Tschechoslowakischen Republik – Musiker und ihre transnationalen Netzwerke (Synagogue Music in Prague in the Habsburg Empire and the First Czechoslovak Republic: Musicians and their Transnational Networks)

17:50 Discussion

18:10 End

19:00 Dinner

Saturday, 31/5/2014

Urban Spaces between Local and Global History, I
Chair: Cynthia Paces

9:30 Claire Morelon (Paris/Birmingham): The Invasion of Urban Space through War: Prague, 1914–1920

9:50 Discussion

10:10 Sarah Lemmen (Vienna): Czechoslovak Emigration: Migration Infrastructure, Municipal Policy, and Public Discourse in Prague during the Interwar Years

10:30 Discussion

10:50 Coffee Break

Urban Spaces between Local and Global History, II
Chair: Torsten Lorenz (Prague)

11:10 Jos Stübner (Chemnitz/Leipzig): Vorstellung und Konzeption kleiner böhmischer Städte in der Hochmoderne. Nationalismus und soziale Repräsentation in Cheb/Eger und Rokycany zwischen 1890 und 1930 (Concepts of Bohemian Provincial Towns in the Age of High Modernism: Nationalism and Social Representation in Cheb/Eger and Rokycany, 1890–1930)

11:30 Discussion

11:50 Johannes F. Kontny (Vienna): Unfinished Transformation? The Integration of Eupen and Znojmo/Znaim into the New State during the Interwar Period

12:10 Discussion

12:30 Lunch Break

Gender, Race and Nation
Chair: Rudolf Kučera (Jena/Prague)

14:00 Filip Herza (Prague): „Dahomey Amazons“: Exhibitions and the Imagination of Race in 1890’s Prague

14:20 Discussion

14:40 Cynthia Paces (New Jersey): The National Mother and the New Woman in Early Twentieth Century Bohemia

15:00 Discussion

Social Engineering
Chair: Christiane Brenner (Munich)

15:20 Volker Zimmermann (Munich): Von „Zigeunern“ und anderen Verdächtigen. Kriminalitätsdiskurse in den böhmischen Ländern und der Ersten Tschechoslowakischen Republik 1867–1938 (“Gypsies” and Other Suspects: Discourses on Crime in the Bohemian Lands and the First Czechoslovak Republic 1867–1938)

15:40 Discussion

16:00 Radka Šustrová (Prague): Rationalisierte Gesellschaft: Wissenschaft, Arbeit und Produktivität in den böhmischen Ländern der 1930er und 1940er Jahre (Rationalized Society: Science, Labor and Productivity in the Bohemian Lands during the 1930s and 1940s)

16:20 Discussion

16:40 Concluding Discussion

17:00 End

Kontakt

konrad@fsv.cuni.cz

ines.koeltzsch@gmail.com