Uncategorized mweflen | 16 Oct 2018
Preliminary Conference Schedule
The conference will take place on Friday, October 26 from 9am – 6pm.
Location:
University of Chicago International House
Coulter Lounge
1414 E. 59th Street
Please note that lecture and panel titles are preliminary and are subject to change.
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9:00 am – 9:30 am
Coffee and Breakfast
9:30 am – 9:35 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:35 am -10:50 am
Panel 1
Claire Nolte, Manhattan College Department of History
“Revolution in the Rear-View Mirror: Marking 1848 in Late Imperial Prague.”
Cheryl Stephenson, University of Chicago Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
“Making a Mockery: Parody and Patriotism in the Jára Cimrman Theatre’s Czech Heaven”
10:50 am – 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Panel 2
Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern University Department of History
“‘Out with the Jews’: Antisemitism in the Second Czechoslovak Republic, 1938-1939”
Ilana McQuinn, University of Chicago Department of History
“Memories of 1938 in 1968: The Munich Agreement, Small Nationhood, and Israel”
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:15 pm
Panel 3
Daniel Pratt, McGill University Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – Russian and Slavic Studies
“‘After I’ve Burnt Myself a Thousand Times…’: Jan Palach and his Legacy”
Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
“Smuggled Reels and Stock Rations: Material, War Economy, and the Remaking of Twenty Years of Freedom.”
Michaela Appeltová, University of Chicago Department of History
“‘No Miss Compromise:’ Redefining Femininity during the Prague Spring”
3:15-3:30
Break
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Keynote Lecture and Discussion
David Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Keynote Title: “The Forgotten 7s: National Commemoration in Nineteenth-Century Bohemia.”
5:00 pm -6:15 pm
Closing Reception