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

Conference venue: Prague, Czech Republic
Period: May 30-31, 2014

Masaryk Instituteand Archives of the ASCR and the Department of German andAustrian Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles UniversityPrague are organising the conference “Between Politics and Culture:New Perspectives on the History of the Bohemian Lands and the FirstCzechoslovak Republic (1880s–1930s)” that will take place inPrague in May 30-31, 2014.

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

Charles University Prague
e-mail: ines.koeltzsch@gmail.com
e-mail: konrad@fsv.cuni.cz