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Origins of Militant Democracy in the interwar period: Czechoslovakia and the transatlantic Debate on the Future of Democracy

Pozvánka na mezinárodní konferenci

Datum konání
24. 10. 2024 – 25. 10. 2024
Místo konání
Vila Lanna, V Sadech 1, Praha

Thursday, October 24, 2024

13:30 Welcome (Jan Vondráček)

14:00-15:30 Panel 1: Weimar, Europe and Militant Democracy
Wolfram Pyta (Stuttgart)
The Weimar Republic as a militant democracy avant la lettre: Historical - systematic reflections on an underestimated militant democracy

Uwe Backes (Dresden)
Wilhelm Hoegner and the social democratic contribution to „militant democracy“

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-17:30 Panel 2: Concepts and debates on (Militant) Democracy
Georg Eckert (Wuppertal)
The rise and fall of continental democracies: Some British perceptions

Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herne/Bochum)
Lack of acceptance due to disappointment and feelings of insecurity: Changing concepts of democracy in Polish public discourses of the interwar period

Jens Hacke (Halle)
"Militant democracy“. Jewish emigres and a concept of liberal renewal

17:30-18:00 Break

18:00 Keynote
Giovanni Capoccia (Oxford)
Militant Democracy in Context: Anti-Democratic Challenges and Democratic Agency

19:00 Dinner


Friday, October 25, 2024

13:00-14:30 Panel 3: Czechoslovakia and Militant Democracy
Florian Ruttner (Prague)
An “Irrefutable Example of the Nature, Power and Success of All‐Jewish Intrigue”. The First Czechoslovak Republic in the Eyes of the Movement Völkisch

Kristýna Kaucká and Tomáš Gecko (Prague)
Webs of Democracy: Czechoslovak Propaganda Networks and the Castle Elites

Milan Hanyš (Prague)
Militant Democracy and the Art of Moderation: Felix Weltsch's Ethical Approach to Defending Democracy

14:30-15:00 Break

15:00-16:30 Panel 4: Debates on (Militant) Democracy and Legacy
Jana Osterkamp (Augsburg)
Bringing democracy to legal terms. A Czechoslovak scholarly debate

Marián Sekerák (Prague)
Did Somebody Say Crisis of Democracy? Intellectual Reflections on the Twilight of Democracy in 1930s Czechoslovakia

Miroslav Mareš (Brno)
Legacy of Militant Democracy after 1993 in the Czech Republic

16:30-17:00 Break

17:00 Final Discussion

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