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27. 3. 2008
Remembering Czechoslovakia 1948 and 1968: Reflections on Two Pivotal Years in Czech and Slovak History
Key Speakers:
Antonín J. Liehm,
Film critic, journalist, founder of Lettres Internationales and editor of Listy and 150 000 slov.
Vilém Prečan,
Historian and author of Seven Prague Days (The Prague Black Book),
Václav Žák,
Head of the regulatory Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting and Editor in Chief of the political bimonthly Listy. Further details ZDE |
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the imposition of communism in Czechoslovakia and the 40th anniversary of the Prague Spring a conference, hosted by the Department of Central and East European Studies in conjunction with the wider CRCEES network, will be held at the University of Glasgow on 03 - 04 April 2008 to reflect upon the impact of these momentous events on Czech and Slovak society, culture and politics. The conference will address new perspectives on these historical events and how they are remembered, reflect on their international significance and challenge the myths which have grown up around them.
 Remembering 1948 and 1968: Reflections on Two Pivotal Years in Czech and Slovak HistoryUniversity of Glasgow, 3 – 4 April 2008
2 April 2008Third Annual Alexander Lazarev Lecture
5.30 - 6.30pm: Wine reception, Ground floor, Boyd Orr Building 6.30pm: Lecture Theatre B, Boyd Orr BuildingDr Petr Bílek, Charles University Prague ‘Re-presentations: Stravinsky and Janáček in the fictional worlds of Milan Kundera’
3 April 2008Wolfson Medical School: Seminar Room 1 (Yudowitz Room)
8.30 – 9.00 Registration 9.00 – 9.30 Welcome AddressDr Paul Millar, Hon. Consul-General of the Czech Republic 9.30 – 11.00 Session 1: 1948Chair: Dr Kevin McDermott
Eva Cermanova, Indiana University Bloomington USA The powerful myth of the Communist Takeover in Czechoslovakia
Marta Filipová, University of Glasgow From social to socialist art: 1948 and after
Prof. Martin Myant, University of Paisley Is there anything new on February 1948?
Štěpán Strnad, The College of European and Regional Studies, České Budějovice, “Invisible Coup” Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia: 1945 or 1948?
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee 11.30 – 1.00 Session 2: 1968 (1)Chair: Dr Maud Bracke
Dr Stefan Auer, University Melbourne, Australia Jan Patočka and the significance of 1968 in Czech history
Daniel Bird, Sheffield University The Production History of Jan Němec’s Oratorio For Prague (Oratorium pro Prahu, 1968)
Dr Charles Sabatos, Yeditepe University Istanbul Criticism and Destiny: Kundera and Havel on the Legacy of 1968
Dr Aviezer Tucker, Queen’s University Belfast The interpretation of 1968 among Czech dissident circles and its effects into the Velvet Revolution. Karel Kosík and Václav Havel
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch 2.00 – 3.30 Session 3: MemoryChair: Dr Laura Cashman
Libora Oates-Indruchova PhD, Masaryk University, Brno and Marie Curie Fellow, Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study Academic Memories, Personal Narratives: Publishing and Censorship in Social Sciences in post-1968 Czech Republic
Veronika Tuckerova, Columbia University, New York Memory of 1948 in Kundera’s The Joke
Deanna Wooley, Indiana University – Bloomington, USA 48-68-89: Generational Conflict and Historical Memory
3.30 – 4.00 Coffee 4.00– 6.00 Plenary Session: Reflections on the Prague SpringChair Dr Jan Čulík
Antonin J. Liehm Founder of Lettres Internationales and the editor of Listy and 150 000 slov. Prof. PhDr. Vilém Prečan, CSc, Historian and Author of "Seven Prague Days" (The Prague Black Book) The Three Dimensions of the Czechoslovak Crisis 1968
Ing. Václav Žák, Head of the regulatory Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting and Editor in Chief of the political bimonthly Listy. Several personal reflections on the Prague Spring
6.00 – 7.00 Wine reception 4 April 2008Wolfson Medical School: Seminar Room 1 (Yudowitz Room)
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome AddressRadovan Javorčík, Deputy Head of Mission, Slovak Embassy 9.30 – 11.00 Session 4: 1968 (2)Chair: Prof. Martin Myant
PhDr. Petr A. Bílek, CSc, Charles University, Prague The Re-presentations of the Prague Spring of 1968 in official Czech culture of 1970s and 1980s
Dr Jan Čulík, University of Glasgow 1968 through the eyes of Czech postcommunist filmmakers
Dr Mary Heimann, University of Strathclyde 'Wishful Thinking and the Prague Spring'
Prof. PhDr. Vladimír Papoušek CSc, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice “1968” from the point of view of Czech Exile Writers
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee 11.30 – 1.00 Session 5: The wider viewChair: Prof. Geoff Swain
Muriel Blaive PhD, Collegium Minor Pragensis, Prague Between the Prague coup and the Prague spring: The state of communist Czechoslovakia in 1958
Jana Fischerová, University College Dublin The 1948 Communist Takeover: Czech Literature Discontinued
Dr Kevin McDermott, Sheffield Hallam University Czech Popular Responses to the Slánský Affair
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch 2.00 – 3.00 Session 6: Slovakia and the Consequences of 1968Chair: Dr Stefan Auer
Scott Brown, University of Washington, USA Prelude to a Divorce? The Prague Spring as dress rehearsal for Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Divorce”
Juraj Marušiak, PhD, Slovak Academy of Sciences Slovakia and 1968. The Slovak reaction to the so called "Normalization“
3.00 - 3.30 Coffee 3.30 – 5.00 Session 7: International ReactionsChair: Dr Eamonn Butler
Dr Kevin Adamson, University of the West of Scotland Nicolae Ceauşescu, the Romanian Communist Party, and 1968: The deployment of Prague Spring symbolism in the service of national Stalinism.
Dr Maud Bracke, University of Glasgow The end of reform socialism? The Prague Spring in the history and memory of the European left
Roger Gough, Policy Exchange Kadar and the Prague Spring
Prof. Geoffrey Swain, University of Glasgow Tito and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
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