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The Institute and its researchers maintain contacts with a number of foreign scientific institutions through lectures, working visits, participation at conferences, membership in foreign scientific societies and clubs, and by hosting foreign guest researchers. In Germany, such institutions include Collegium Carolinum in Munich, Forschungsverband SED-Staat, the Free University of Berlin, the Zentrum fűr Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, and the Hannah-Arendt-Institut fűr Totalitarismusforschung in Dresden. In Austria, the Institute collaborates with the Institut fűr Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna, the Ost- und Sűdeuropa Institut, and the Institut fűr die Wissenschaft von Menschen in Vienna. The Institute has contacts with L’Institut d’histoire du temps présent a Centre d’études et des recherches internationales in Paris. In the United States, the Institute works on common projects with the National Security Archive and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C, the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews in New York. In Great Britain, the Institute maintains contacts with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London. In Russia, the Institute cooperates with the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies, the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, and the Russian Contemporary History Archive in Moscow. In Poland, the Institute works with the Institute of Political Studies in Warsaw and the University of Warsaw. Among Israeli institutions associated with the Institute are Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Museum of the Diaspora in Tel Aviv, and Tel Aviv University. In Hungary, the Institute cooperates with the Institute of the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Center for Security and Defense Studies, and the Cold War History Research Center in Budapest. In Canada, it collaborates with the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto.
Also worthy of special attention are contacts with historical institutes in the Slovak Republic such as the Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Political Science Cabinet of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Matej Bela University in Banská Bystrica, and the Institute of Social Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice.

Czech National Committee of Historians

Chairman: Prof. Dr Jaroslav Pánek
Secretary: Prof. Dr Jiří Kocian

Czech Part of the Czech – Slovak Commission of Historians

Chairman: Prof. Dr Vilém Prečan
Secretary: Dr Vojtech Čelko

Czech Part of the Czech – Romanian Commission of Historians

Chairman: Dr Oldřich Tůma
Secretary: Dr Jiří Jindra

Czech Committee for History of Sciences and Technology


 


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Director of the Institute for Contemporary History Oldřich Tůma starts the proceedings on 20 November. The picture further shows the participants of the first panel called “The Struggle for East-Central Europe as a Primary Cause of the Cold War?” From left to right: Michael Hopkins, Benjamin Frommer (Chair), Vít Smetana, László Borhi and Rolf Steininger.
Prime Minister Jan Fischer awarding Prof. Mark Kramer with the Karel Kramář Memorial Medal.
The Prime Minister is congratulating Thomas Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive. Further from left to right are: Prof. Alex Pravda (Oxford University), Prof. Mark Kramer (Harvard University), Prof. Vilém Prečan (Czechoslovak Documentary Centre), Prof. William Taubman (Amherst College) and Michael Dockrill – husband of Prof. Saki Dockrill who was awarded in memoriam.

International conference (19-21 November 2009) about the role played by East-Central Europe in the Cold War.

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