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Clam-Gallas Palace
Husova 158/20, 110 00 Prague 1 – Old Town


Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Lecture Hall I (Marble Hall)

 

Panel VII: An Urban Perspective on the Post-War Economy

Chair: Zdenko Maršálek

8:30–8:50

Markets at the border. The commercial informality between Madrid and its suburbs throughout the immediate civil postwar (1940–1952)
Cordon Juan Herce (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

8:50–9:10

Caribbean Migration and Economic Reconstruction in Post-War Britain: The Role of the Windrush Generation in Urban Development
Léa Payet (Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis, Institut d‘Histoire duTemps Présent)

9:10–9:30

Post-World War II Nationalization of Swedish Interests in the Polish Cities (1945–1949)
Robert Andrzejczyk (Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek)

9:30–9:50

From “Aryanization” to Nationalization? Dealing with former Jewish Property in Cracow, 1945–1948)
Markus Roth (Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt)

10:05–10:20

Coffee Break

 

Chair: Magdaléna Šustová

10:20–10:40

Claims to Property and Industry Established by the Nazis in Czechoslovakia after WWII, Exemplified by Havlíčkův Brod
Alena Jindrová (The Highlands Gallery and Museum Havlíčkův Brod)

10:40 – 11:00

The Town of Dubnica nad Váhom and the Dubnica Arms Factory at the Turn of 1944 and 1945
Zdenka Hešterová (Centre for the Research of Oppression, Memory
of the Nation Institute in Bratislava)

11:00 – 11:20

The Construction of a Large Research Institute at the University of Mining and Technology in Příbram (1943–1945): Versuchsanstalt Waffen-Union and Its Post-War Liquidation
Jan Valenta (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University)

11:20–11:40

The Reflection of War, Nationalization, and the Displacement of Germans in Porcelain Production in the Karlovy Vary Region
Lenka Merglová-Pánková (Museum of West Bohemia in Plzeň)

11:55–13:00

Lunch Break

13:00–14:00

Clam Gallas Palace Guided Tour

Panel VIII: The Holocaust in the Post-War Context

Chair: Bohuslav Rejzl

14:00–14:20

City as Belonging: The Case of Post-Genocide Yiddish Communities
Clémence PELLISIER (Trinity College Dublin, Department of Political Science)

14:20–14:40

Jewish Prague after World War II: Between the Trauma of the Protectorate and the Prospects of Reconstruction
Blanka Soukupová (University of West Bohemia in Plzeň, Faculty of Arts / Charles
University, Faculty of Humanities)

14:40–15:00

“Jews Out, There Will Be a Rush!” The Phenomenon of Violence against Jewish Community Representatives in Post-War Slovakia
Lucia Sotáková (Museum of the Slovak National Uprising Banská Bystrica)

15:00–15:20

The Partisan Movement in Slovakia after 1945 and the Associated Pogroms
Klaudia Mišovičová (University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava)

15:30–15:50

Coffee Break

 

Panel IX:  Holocaust memory and reflections

Chair: Renáta Kalašová

15:50–16:10

Writing Theresienstadt: Memory, Home, and the Boundaries of Belonging
Lena-Marie Franke (Universität Regensburg, Forschung am Bohemicum)

16:10–16:30

Recalling Trauma of the Holocaust in Contemporary Czech Novels
Otto Drexler (Cabinet for the Study of Czech Theatre IDU)

16:45–17:00

Coffee Break

17:00–18:00

Liberation in News Broadcasts from the Collections of the National Film Archive in Prague
Jiří Novotný (National Film Archive)

18:30

Reception, dinner, evening programme

 

Lecture Hall II (Kaláb Hall)

 

Panel X: Postwar Society on the Move

Chair: Bohuslav Rejzl

8:30–8:50

Prague Becomes a Gateway to a Life of Peace and Justice for Hundreds of Thousands: The City as the Crossroads of Post-War Repatriation
Jana Kasíková (Institute of Contemporary History of the CAS)

8:50–9:10

The Social Dimension of the “Castles Action” (1945–1947)
Magdaléna Faltusová (National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius in Prague)

9:10–9:30

The Descendants of Expatriates in Liberec and Nejdek after World War II
Romana Fojtová (Technical University of Liberec)

9:30–9:50

The Image of Germans in the Party Press: A Comparative Analysis of the Discourse of the Newspapers “Rudé právo” and “Svobodné slovo” (Second Half of the 1940s)
ONLINE: Natallia Prystupa (independent researcher; former adjunct of Belarusian State Pedagogical University, Minsk)

10:05–10:20

Coffee Break

 

Panel XI: A Gender Perspective on War and Post-War Events

Chair: Karolína Stegurová

10:20–10:40

Everyday Life of Noblewomen in Kostelec nad Orlicí 1938–1948
Lenka Hrdinová (Charles University, Faculty of Arts)

 10:40–11:00

“Serving the Working Women: The “Second Shift” Issue in Post-War Czechoslovakia
Magdalena Grešová (Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno)

11:00–11:20

The End of World War II as Viewed by Children
Anežka Kubáčová (Institute of Czech History of the Faculty of Arts
of Charles University; Military History Archive)

11:55–13:00

Lunch Break

13:00–14:00

Clam Gallas Palace Guided Tour

 

Panel XII: Cultural Institutions in the War and Post-War Period

Chair: Magdaléna Šustová

14:00–14:20

The National Theatre occupied and resisting (a contribution to the cultural history during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia)
Karolína Stegurová (National Theatre)

14:20–14:40

The Self-Government and Renewal of Cultural Life in the Provincial Capital of Brno after the Liberation
Marek Krejčí (Center for Slavic Art Studies)

14:55–15:10

Coffee Break

 

Panel XIII: Reflections on War in Films and Photographs

Chair: Tomáš Dvořák

15:10–15:30

The Film Production in the Early Years of Nationalized Cinematography – Films about the period between 1938 and 1945
Petr Bednařík (Faculty of Social Science, Charles University)

15:30–15:50

Zbigniew Dłubak’s Theory of Photograph
Ada Grzelewska (The Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School at Silesian University, Poland)

16:25–16:40

Coffee Break

18:30

Reception, dinner, evening programme