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Tuesday, 28. February 2023


All day	Výstava: Skrytá krása. Středověké rukopisy z našich sbírek


Before	Modern Jewish History Seminar by Jaclyn Granick & Tom Stammers: Philanthropy, Jewishness, and Cultural Heritage. 1850–1950. Introducing the Jewish Country Houses Project

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Aktuality

30. 3. 2023 to 1. 4. 2023
Conference: “Minority science” in the short 20th century: Imagining science from the margins of academia. 30 March – 1 April 2023, Prague
Conference: “Minority science” in the short 20th century: Imagining science from the margins of academia. 30 March – 1 April 2023, Prague

Conference: “Minority science” in the short 20th century: Imagining science from the margins of academia. 30 March – 1 April 2023, Prague

Datum konání:
30. 3. 2023, 0:00 to 1. 4. 2023, 0:00

Conference of the project Lumina Quaeruntur project “Images of science” in Czechoslovakia 1918-1945-1968

Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Gabčíkova 2362/10, Praha 8, 182 00 & zoom. Registration for zoom https://www.eventbrite.de/e/conference-hybrid-minority-science-in-the-short-20th-century-tickets-511692795927

20th century is characterised by manifold processes of redrawing social, cultural, and geographic boundaries – from the fall of empires, to the end of the Soviet Union. Scholars were involved in these redrawings in manifold roles. They could be facilitators of change but also those affected by it. In our conference we will look at those scholars who were located at the margins of the academia, but also became members of minorities due to expulsion or change of political borders. Cultural historians have accentuated that being an “other” can allow a more distant and critical perception of one’s surrounding society, a thesis which we want to investigate closer by looking at scholars and scientists and their imaginations of, and relation to, respective “mainstreams.” By connecting epistemic and social othering and marginalisation we do not want to blur boundaries between them, but on the contrary, investigate how the boundaries between “social” and “epistemic” are drawn and how these entities are interrelated, and thus to uncover how (academic) power relations are entangled with those in the society at large.

Thursday, March 30

15:30-16:00 Registration and Introduction

16:00-19:00 Session I
Chair: Galina Babak

Oksana Blashkiv: Slavic Studies and/or “minority science”: the case of Dmytro Čyževsky

Ekaterina Shashlova: Migrants and new knowledge. Franco-German cultural transfer between the world wars

Maria Silina: Museum practitioners in exile and the creation of Russian-centred narratives in the Soviet Union

Patrick Flack: Roman Jakobson: between Russian Emigration and International Science

19:00 Reception & short presentation of projects Images of Science & Global Academies

Friday, March 31

9:00-12:00 Session II
Chair: Tomáš Gecko

Natalia Aleksiun: Jewish Physicians and Minority Medicine in the Second Polish Republic

Lara Bonneau: “general Science of art” (die allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft), Emil Utitz, a German-speaking Czech philosopher (1883-1956)

Florian Ruttner: “Religious affiliation: Dissident”. Josef Doppler and the Margins of Academia

Laurens Schlicht: Franziska Baumgarten on Gender Identity, the Values of Science, and the Social Role of Psychology, ca. 1920–1950

13:30-15:00 Session III
Chair: Joris Vandendriessche

Maria Pirogovskaya: Multiple Minority and the Metropolitan Science: One Controversy about Tibetan Studies under Stalin

Filip Herza: Researching Ruthenia: Science on the Margins – Marginals in Science

Michael Wedekind: Interwar Minority Scholarship in South Tyrol

15:30-17:30 Session IV
Chair: Jan Surman

Kai Johann Willms: Polish-Jewish Sociologists in Interwar Poland and in American Exile

Friedrich Pollack: Empowerment and suppression. Sorbian historiography and the institutionalisation of Sorbian Studies in the GDR

Göktuğ İpek: Being a Leftist Academician in New “Democratic” Turkey After The WWII

Saturday, April 1

9:00-12:00 Session V
Chair: Michaela Šmidrkalová

Slava Gerovitch: Playing the System: Soviet Mathematicians’ Strategies of Circumvention

Irina Antoshchuk: Russian-speaking computer scientists in the UK as immigrant minority: revealing unexpected advantages and disadvantages

Elisa Satjukow: At the Margins of History: The German Sonderweg of East and Southeast European Studies after the End of the Cold War

Tina Magazzini: Romani studies between academic power relations and EU funding: methodological field notes

Call for Papers (PDF)
3. 4. 2023

Omezení pracovní doby badatelny 3. 4. 2023

Omezení pracovní doby badatelny 3. 4. 2023

Omezení pracovní doby badatelny 3. 4. 2023

Datum konání:
3. 4. 2023, 13:00 to 15:00
Z provozních důvodů bude v pondělí 3. 4. 2023 omezena pracovní doba badatelny MÚA. Pro veřejnost bude otevřena 9:00–13:00 a 15:00–18:00.
17. 4. 2023
Výzkumné semináře MÚA AV ČR – jaro 2023
Výzkumné semináře MÚA AV ČR – jaro 2023

Výzkumné semináře MÚA AV ČR – jaro 2023

Datum konání:
27. 2. 2023, 15:00
13. 3. 2023, 15:00
27. 3. 2023, 15:00
17. 4. 2023, 15:00
15. 5. 2023, 15:00

Místo konání: Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, Gabčíkova 10, Praha 8, budova B, konferenční sál B -110

27. 3. 2023, 15:00

Jan Balon, John Holmwood (Filosofický ústav AV ČR): Herbert Adolphus Miller and the Mid-European Union: Exploring the Intersection of Minority Rights, Ethnonationalism, and Empire after WWI.

13. 3. 2023, 15:00

Michal Kosák, Jiří Flaišman (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR): Možnosti Kritické hybridní edice.

27. 3. 2023, 15:00

Anna Echterhölter (Universität Wien): Pacific Data Journeys. The Enquete Tradition and Patterns of Justification in German Colonial Statistics.

17. 4. 2023, 15:00

Martin Franc (Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR): Dějiny výživy a stravování v českých zemích 1945–1970.

15. 5. 2023, 15:00

Jana Magdaléna Májeková (Historický ústav SAV): Poslanci uhorského parlamentu za mesto Prešporok a ich adaptácia na nové politické pomery po vzniku Československa.

Tisk (PDF)
15. 5. 2023
Výzkumné semináře MÚA AV ČR – jaro 2023
Výzkumné semináře MÚA AV ČR – jaro 2023

Výzkumné semináře MÚA AV ČR – jaro 2023

Datum konání:
27. 2. 2023, 15:00
13. 3. 2023, 15:00
27. 3. 2023, 15:00
17. 4. 2023, 15:00
15. 5. 2023, 15:00

Místo konání: Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, Gabčíkova 10, Praha 8, budova B, konferenční sál B -110

27. 3. 2023, 15:00

Jan Balon, John Holmwood (Filosofický ústav AV ČR): Herbert Adolphus Miller and the Mid-European Union: Exploring the Intersection of Minority Rights, Ethnonationalism, and Empire after WWI.

13. 3. 2023, 15:00

Michal Kosák, Jiří Flaišman (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR): Možnosti Kritické hybridní edice.

27. 3. 2023, 15:00

Anna Echterhölter (Universität Wien): Pacific Data Journeys. The Enquete Tradition and Patterns of Justification in German Colonial Statistics.

17. 4. 2023, 15:00

Martin Franc (Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR): Dějiny výživy a stravování v českých zemích 1945–1970.

15. 5. 2023, 15:00

Jana Magdaléna Májeková (Historický ústav SAV): Poslanci uhorského parlamentu za mesto Prešporok a ich adaptácia na nové politické pomery po vzniku Československa.

Tisk (PDF)
6. 11. 2023 to 10. 11. 2023
Conference: Lessons & Legacies Europe. Bridging Disciplines, Histories, and Cultures
Conference: Lessons & Legacies Europe. Bridging Disciplines, Histories, and Cultures

Conference: Lessons & Legacies Europe. Bridging Disciplines, Histories, and Cultures

Datum konání:
6. 11. 2023, 0:00 to 10. 11. 2023, 0:00
Prague, 6-10 November 2023

Taking place in Prague, Czech Republic, the 2023 Lessons & Legacies Conference will be the first to be conducted in East-Central Europe, a region in which Nazi occupation and racial policies intersected with competing nationalisms, shifting borders, and the sovereignty of new nation states. It will be the second European iteration of the conference series, after the 2019 Lessons & Legacies Conference in Munich.

Taking its location as a point of departure, but not limiting the geographical scope of conference presentations, we invite proposals that investigate the crossings of boundaries of various kinds, including national and group or community histories as well as scholarly disciplines. Combining a thematic and a methodological track, the Prague Lessons & Legacies Conference aims to promote scholarly debate on the manifold divides and connections that exist in Holocaust studies.

Sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, the German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Charles University, the conference invites proposals for papers, panels, and workshops. Proposals should relate to recent issues and advances in Holocaust scholarship, Holocaust education, and Public History and should conform broadly to the two tracks of the conference:

Situating the history of the persecution, exclusion and flight, deportation, and murder of Jews and Roma on a broader map of ethnic and other cleavages and conflicts in East-Central Europe and beyond, remains a research challenge and a point of contention in public debate. Probing sites of competing victimhood, the study of the Holocaust faces the question of how to fruitfully integrate the histories of occupation, national histories of antisemitism, racism and ethnic conflict. We welcome proposals that address and incorporate the histories of migration, including refugees and displaced persons, or which challenge the often prevalent methodological nationalism of history writing. This thematic track aims to place the Holocaust and its aftermath in its wider contexts and to engage with the variety of histories of exclusionary processes and mass violence in diverse societies. It may include analyses of how this troubled past is used or weaponized in recent conflicts.

The methodological track aims to probe and challenge disciplinary boundaries in order to advance multidisciplinary inquiries into the Holocaust. We invite proposals examining the connection of Holocaust Studies to a variety of other research fields and disciplines, including, but not limited to social sciences, culture, and memory studies. This track includes the exploration of methodological connections when it comes to placing the Holocaust into the context of social, cultural, linguistical, and ethnic diversity to colonial, postcolonial and decolonial studies. We welcome contributions from the field of digital humanities, digital history, and the emerging quantitative studies on the Holocaust, using large prosopographic and other datasets. We also welcome papers that challenge both established and new disciplinary approaches to the study of the Holocaust.

Submission Deadline: 15 December 2022

Conference sessions include several formats as outlined below. Submissions should clearly aim at one of these formats.

Individual Papers should include title and abstract (up to 300 words) and a CV (max. 1 page). Individual submissions will be grouped into appropriate thematic panels by the conference chairs/organizers.

Conference Panels will consist of three to four papers and a moderator. Each paper proposal should include title and abstract (up to 300 words) and a CV (max. 1 page). Proposals for full panels should additionally include the panel title and a brief description of the full session (up to 300 words).

Workshops consisting of one or two presenters should focus on particular questions, approaches or sources. Workshops are intended to be interactive and practical, highlighting (for example) a new pedagogical approach, research question, or method; curricular innovations; or creative ways to examine and interpret artifacts or texts both in research and the classroom. Conference organizers will prioritize proposals centered on participation and discussion.

Registered participants will not be charged with fees for the conference or the visiting program. To the extent possible, financial assistance towards travel and accommodation costs for conference presenters will be provided. Priority is given to graduate students, faculty at teaching-oriented colleges not offering research support, staff members at memorial sites without institutional funding, and scholars with unusually high travel costs. Instructions for funding applications will be posted once the conference program is finalized.

Program Committee:

Ildikó Barna (Eötvös Loránd University)

Sarah Cushman (Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University)

Michal Frankl (Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Hana Kubátová (Charles University)

Zuzana Schreiberová (Multicultural Center Prague)

Anna Ullrich (Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History)

Amy Wlodarski (Dickinson College)

Florian Zabransky (Federal Agency for Civic Education)

All proposals must be submitted online via the Lessons & Legacies ConfTool conference system.

Questions regarding registration and submission can be addressed to lessons@mua.cas.cz.