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Ann Arbor, April 15-17, 2005
All meetings @ William Davidson Institute (WDI),

724 East University Avenue
Sam Wyly Hall, First Floor
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Phone: (734) 763-5020

Friday, April 15, 2005 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

9a – 12p Politics of Culture / Chair: Herbert Eagle  [hjeagle@umich.edu]
 1/ David Cooper (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)     [dlcoop@uiuc.edu]
  Jan Kollár and the Demise of Czech libozvucnost

 2/  Jonathan Bolton (Harvard U) [jbolton@fas.harvard.edu]
  Communism is My Labyrinth: Baroque Motifs in the Poetry of Frantisek Halas

 3/ Charles Sabatos (U of Michigan)  [csabatos@umich.edu]
  Victors and Refugees: Czechs in Wartime and Postwar Western Cinema

1p – 4p Czech & Jewish / Chair: Mikhail Krutikov (U of Michigan)  [krutikov@umich.edu]
 4/ Dimitry Shumsky (U of Haifa)  [dshumsky@study.haifa.ac.il]
  From Bilingualism to Binationalism: The Czecho-German Zionists and the Origins of Zionist Binationalism

 5/ Cathleen Giustino (Auburn U)  [giustcm@auburn.edu]
  The End of the Jewish Ghetto and the Persistence of Antisemitism in Czech Prague around 1900

 6/  Georg Escher (U of Michigan) [gescher@umich.edu]
  The Ghetto, the City, and the Writer: The Prague Jewish Town as a Literary Topos

  — Short Break —

4p – 5p Guest Lecture
 7/  Hillel Kieval (Washington U, St. Louis)        [hkieval@artsci.wustl.edu]
  Choosing to Bridge: Revisiting the Phenomenon of Jewish Cultural Mediation in the Bohemian Lands

 5p – 6:30p Reception

Saturday, April 16, 2005 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

9a – 12p Modernism / Chair: Nicholas Sawicki (Art Institute, Chicago)  [nsawicki1@artic.edu]
 8/ Naomi Hume (Chapman U) [hume@chapman.edu]
  For the Thinking Eye: The Early Art Criticism of Karel Capek

 9/ Peter Zusi (Harvard U) [zusi@fas.harvard.edu]
  Tendentious Modernism: Karel Teige’s Path to Functionalism

 10/ Radana Safaríková (Paris/Cambridge, MA) [zvakova@yahoo.fr]
  Borders of Art, Art of Borders: Is There an East-Central European Art?

 1p – 5p Liberalism, Nationalism, Patriotism / Chair: Kevin Deegan-Krause
(Wayne State U)  [kdk@wayne.edu]
 11/ Peter Bugge (U of Aarhus, Denmark)  [peter.bugge@hum.au.dk]
  Education, Equal Rights and the Politics of Difference: Czech Liberalism and its Austrian Context 1848-1900

 12/ Jeremy King (Mt. Holyoke College)  [jking@mtholyoke.edu]
  Group Rights in Liberal Austria

  — Short Break —

 13/ Tara Zahra (U of Michigan)  [tzahra@umich.edu]
  The Volk Must be Father and Mother: Nationalizing Democracy and Social Welfare, 1914-1918

 14/ Michael Kraus (Middlebury College)  [kraus@middlebury.edu]
  Czech Nationalism vs. Czech Patriotism: Czechoslovakia’s First Republic

 5p – 5:30p Business Meeting

 7p – 10p Dinner at Bella Ciao

Sunday, April 17, 2005 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

9a – 12p Modern Histories / Chair: Michael Kraus (Middlebury College) [kraus@middlebury.edu]
 15/ Jindrich Toman (U of Michigan)  [pdytepe@umich.edu]
  Between Steel Plants and Comenius: Pictures from (My) Happy Childhood

 16/ Kimberly Elman Zarecor (Columbia U)  [kje5@columbia.edu]
  Out of the Studio and Into the Factory: The Emergence of the panelák in 1950s Czechoslovakia

17/ Brian Rohlik (Yale U)  [brian.rohlik@yale.edu]
  Prague as the International Center of Revisionism: Kafka, Sartre, and Intellectual Trends during the Reform Process

Contact Information

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
3040 Modern Languages Bldg., 812 E. Washington
Main line: (734) 764-5355

Professor Toman’s direct line: (734) 647-4260
Professor Jindrich Toman: (734) 995-3006 (home)