pořádá Centrum středoevropských studií (společné pracoviště CEVRO Institute, o. p. s., a Masarykova ústavu a Archivu AV ČR, v. v. i.)
5 – 6 November 2015
CEVRO Institute,
Jungmannova 17, Prague 1
The goal of the conference is to bring together the often separated debates about interwar, wartime and postwar Europe, as well as to consider the year 1945 a key moment of historic change, on which the nationalist revolutions after the Second World War were based. The events of 1945 ushered in many significant changes in Europe. The National Socialist regime collapsed; postwar economic, social and bureaucratic systems were formed. In the words of Ian Kershaw, the year 1945 is the intersection of the history of destruction, which culminated in the interwar European crisis and the Second World War, and the history of a new beginning, the rise of leftist socialism and the political constellation of the Cold War.
Nationalism and the national question were the central problems not only in Germany, but also, in different forms, in other Central European regions. Current historiography charts the creation of national, ethnically homogeneous societies most often using the example of the displacement of the German population, but rarely goes beyond the horizon of explicit national conflict. The conference’s central perspective should encourage crossing over individual national narratives by comparing or examining the transnational phenomena that are common to the individual nations. The revolutionary fervor of 1945 can serve as a tool to investigate the continuity and discontinuity in the societies that were going through complex political and economic changes. Significant connections can be found, for example, in the legacy of Nazi social policy in the newly established national systems of social provisions or in the organization of the state and society, where the role of the state or the significance of technocractic elites increased in comparison to the interwar period in East and West alike. Contributions to the conference should compare national cases with an emphasis on the character and depth of the social change.
Thursday, 5 November
18.00
Keynote Lecture
Chad Bryant (Chapel Hill, North Carolina): Worlds Apart: The 1918 Generation in 1945
19.30
Conference Dinner
Friday, 6 November
9.00
Welcome by the Organizers
9.30
Escalation of Social and National Relations
Kornelia Konczal (Florence): Reconstruction through Plundering. Post-German Property and the Invention of Social Order in Central Europe after 1945
Jaromír Mrňka (Munich / Prague): „V naší zemi bude konec války psán krví.“ Kolektivní násilí roku 1945 v českých zemích jako politika, kultura a sociální praxe
Michael Portmann / Kateřina Lozoviuková (Vienna / Liberec): Violence and Social Change in 1945: Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in Comparison
10.30-11.00
Discussion
11.00-11.20
Coffee Break
11.20-12.00
Defining the Economic Transformation
Jaromír Balcar / Jaroslav Kučera (Berlin / Prague): System Transformation as a Consequence of the German Occupation? Czechoslovakia’s Path from the Nazi War Economy to Postwar Centralized Planned Economy
Antonie Doležalová (Prague): Jaká transformace? České ekonomické myšlení mezi ekonomickou změnou, „sociální otázkou” a národními zájmy
12.00–12:30
Discussion
12.30–14.30
Lunch Break
14.30–15.50
National Identities and the Czechoslovak Law
Stanislav Caletka (Prague): Nové krajské zřízení. Od samosprávy ke státní správě
Jana Kasíková (Prague): Poválečná repatriace jako mezinárodní problém, její východiska a organizace v Československu
Nina Zemanová (Prague): Problém národnosti v prezidentském dekretu 12/1945 na příkladu prince Josefa Windischgrätze
Stanislav Balík (Prague): Rok 1945 v právnických profesích
15.50-16.30
Discussion
16.30-16.45
Coffee Break
16.45-17.45
Reshaping Social Structures
Jakub Rákosník (Prague): Sociální bezpečnost: politické režimy 40. let a jejich přísliby jistot po krizi a válce
Lucie Dušková (Prague): „Chceme lepší a spravedlivější svět!“: poválečná reflexe myšlenky komunismu v týdeníku Obzory
Matěj Spurný (Prague): Dlouhý stín pětačtyřicátého. Kontinuity a diskontinuity legitimizace panství, diskurzu o minulosti a kolektivní identity v českých zemích (1945–2015)
17.45-18.15
Discussion
18.15
Conclusion
Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal / Essen)
Call for Papers – English (pdf)
Conference-related queries shall be gladly addressed by: Radka Šustrová, sustrova@mua.cas.cz
