Marking x8: Commemoration in Czech and Slovak History

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. ————————————————- 9:00 am – 9:30 am Coffee and Breakfast   9:30 am – 9:35 am Welcome […]

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 […]