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Academic bulletin 11/2004
SUMMARY
EDITORIAL
Fifteen years after…
Where have we been coming during last fifteen years? A reminiscent view to the Czech history fifteen years after the beginning of the Czech Republic in 1918, after the putsch in 1948 and after the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
TOPIC OF THE MONTH
Cathedral and Citadel and, Contemporary Czech
Speaking is something more than just a tool of communication. As Pavel Eisner has written in his book Cathedral and Citadel, speaking is something what can connect soul. A press conference Contemporary Czech confirmed the same.
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Representative and Parliamentary Institutions
The 54th Conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions – ICHRPI – took place in Prague in September 2004.
Ten years of the Czech Institute of History in Rome
The Czech Institute of History in Rome was established on the 1st January 1994 in Rome by the Faculty of Philosophy & Arts, Charles University, Prague and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, represented by the Institute of History ASCR.
CHISA 2004
16th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering CHISA 2004 took place in Prague in August 2004.
Photos from Beneš archives on-line
The web pages of the Masaryk Institute of the ASCR include more than 3000 digital photos from the archival database of E. Beneš have been online since September.
About Retrovirus in Prague
Second Retrovirus Assembly Meeting RAM 2004 was held in Prague in October 2004. The meeting was a great opportunity for investigators to exchange information and ideas at 8 sessions with invited lectures and an extensive discussion period.
PORTRAITS FROM THE ARCHIVES
Ivan Málek
Only once in the history of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science have two brothers become academicians. They are Ivan and Prokop Málek. Ivan Málek, the older brother was among the most outstanding men of Czech science in the fifties and sixties.
NEWS FROM THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL
Report on the 51st session of the Academic Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Summaries of the 195th session of the Czech Government’s Research and Development Council.
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Czech Anatomical Society
The Czech Anatomical Society was established on basis of Czechoslovak Anatomical Society, founded in 1950, for the territory of the new Czech Republic. The Society is active not only in field of morphology as science, but also with its teaching and with clinical medicine.
AWARDS
Delete the word impossible
32 years ago American astronaut cpt. Eugene Cernan was the last man in the Moon. In September 2004 he visited the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic the native land of his grandparents for the third time.
Awards to leading Czech and foreign scientists
The EU Descartes Prize Finalists 2004
The work of eight teams is evaluated by the Descartes Grand Jury, bringing together renowned personalities from various academic disciplines, industrial and public life.
EUROPEAN UNION
Europe concerns in plants
Europe is realizing an unequal production of food in advanced and developing countries. How to feed up the world is very up-to-date question.
PROJECTS AND THE SOCIETY
The prizes of the Czech Science Foundation GA CR in 2004
Works of three research teams were awarded a Prize of the President of GA CR.
CULTURE AND THE SOCIETY
There lives someone in every puddle
It was unconventional partnership between the Institute of Entomology of the ASCR and private filmmakers. The film premiere of the documentary film Puddle was shown at the main building of the ASCR in Prague on 19th October 2004.
Eustory – Stoney memories of my country
The Institute for Contemporary History of the ASCR was the main organizer of the Czech segment of the international competition in history for young people.
ACADEMIA
Ways of resistance
Like many professionals then, middle European writers in the last century were full of confrontation. It was the same for the Czech writers. Josef Škvorecký and Ivan Martin Jirous are two typical examples of ways to resist the regime.
Academia Publishing House
Specialized books from Academia Publishing House.
COMPUTER PRESS
New books form the publishing house Computer Press.
RESUME
NEW BOOKS