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Friday, March 26, 2004

 9:30-11:30am              Modern Histories I / Chair: TBA

1/   Peter Bugge (U of Aarhus, Denmark)      [slapb@hum.au.dk]

Party Power and the Language of Law in Communist Czechoslovakia

2/   Brian Rohlik (Yale University)           [rohlik@yale.edu]

Ambivalent De-Stalinization: Cultural Politics and Generational Conflict in Czech and Slovak Literature, 1956-1959

1-2pm    Czech and German / Chair: Scott Spector

3/   Tara Zahra (U of Michigan)             [tzahra@umich.edu]

Your Child Belongs to the Nation: Battling Germanization in Bohemia and Moravia, 1900-1945

2-5pm    Czech and Jewish/ Chair: Mikhail Krutikov

4/   Darren King (U of Michigan)             [dpking@umich.edu]

Czechs and Jews in Volynia

5/      Jonathan Bolton (Harvard U)        [jbolton@fas.harvard.edu]

     Havlíček, Neruda, and Anti-Semitism in Czech Literary History

6/      Elizabeth Papazian (U of Maryland)       [papazian@wam.umd.edu]

      "...a hned jsem poznal, že Éda vůbec, ale docela nic neumřel a že se mně to musilo zdát": Karel Poláček in the 1940s  

7pm     Dinner for the participants @ Bella Ciao

Saturday, March 27, 2004

9-12am    Jazz, Avant-garde, Cinema / Chair: Herbert Eagle

7/   Derek Katz (UCSB)                              [katz@music.ucsb.edu]

      Magnetic Rhythm and Colorful Lightning:  Jazz as Idea and Object in 1920s Prague

8/   Brian Locke  (U of Western Ontario)            [blocke@uwo.ca]

Bubu and the Black Bottom:  Visions of a Czech Jazz-Opera Between the Wars

9/   Kevin Johnson (U of Washington)      [kbjohnso@u.washington.edu]

Czech transgressions: Karel Lamač and German cinema, 1920s-1930s

2-4pm    Monuments/ Chair: Naomi Hume              [nahume@uchicago.edu]

10/ Marek Nekula (Uni Regensburg) [marek.nekula@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de]

      Prague Bridges and the Czech National Discourse

11/ Hana Píchová (U of Texas, Austin)            [pichova@mail.utexas.edu]

      “The Betrayal of Mirrors”: Stalin in Prague

4-5pm   GUEST LECTURE

12/ Michael Kraus (Middlebury College) [kraus@middlebury.edu]

New Czech Politics: The First Ten Years

5-7pm     Reception (William Davidson Library)

Sunday, March 28, 2004

9-12am    Modern Histories II / Chair: K. Krause [kdk@wayne.edu]

13/  Jonathan Larson (U of Michigan)           [jllarson@umich.edu]

        Restoring Ideological Order: Criticism and Consensus in Late Slovak Socialism

14/        Paulina Bren                      [pbren@emory.edu]

                'No Work, All Play' or 'All Play, No Work': The Quandaries of Normalization

15/  Miroslav Vaněk (Ústav soudobých dějin, Praha) [vanek@usd.cas.cz]

   New Oral History:  Current Projects at the Prague Institute of Contemporary History