Marking x8: Commemoration in Czech and Slovak History

A Conference marking the 100th Anniversary of Czechoslovak statehood

Uncategorized | 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

Uncategorized | 20 Sep 2018

About Marking x8

With the political upheavals of 1848, independence in 1918, the Nazi occupation of 1938, the socialist coup in 1948, and the Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968, Czech, Slovak, and Czechoslovak history are often reduced to the narratives of these ‘8s’ and the changes in sovereignty and status they brought about. Through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the anniversaries of these events have become events in their own right, occasions for mourning, protest, celebration, or memorialization. At this conference—held on the 100th anniversary of Czechoslovak statehood—we turn our attention to these anniversaries and their place in Czech and Slovak culture and history. David Cooper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is presenting a keynote speech, titled “The Forgotten 7s: National Commemoration in Nineteenth-Century Bohemia.” The keynote is schedule for 9:30 am.  Speakers will contribute perspectives from film, theater, Jewish studies, urban studies, and gender studies. Marking x8: Commemoration in Czech and Slovak History creates a space for interdisciplinary approaches to the idea of commemoration, memory, and the making and managing of Czech and Slovak history and identity.

The conference will take place on Friday, October 26 from 9am – 6pm.
Location:
University of Chicago International House
Coulter Lounge
1414 E. 59th Street