Czech Studies Workshop 2011

Harriman Institute, Columbia University

New York, NY

Program

Friday, April 29

10:15-12:00

Session 1: National Identity in the Late Habsburg Period

Jakub Benes, UC Davis: Czech Proletarian Bards and Nationalist Polarization in the Austrian Workers’ Movement Before 1914

Nicholas Sawicki, Lehigh University: Nation and Style in Czech Art Criticism at the Turn of the Century  

Felix Jeschke, University College London: The Electric Railway between Pressburg and Vienna 1867-1935

12:00-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:00

Session 2: Czech Society in the First Republic

Karla Huebner, Wright State University: Is There to Be Found a Woman Who Doesn't Love Dance?: Representations of Dance in First Republic Czechoslovakia

Zachary Doleshal, UT Austin: Crime and Punishment in the Kingdom of Shoes: Policing Baťa’s Zlín

3:00-3:30

Coffee break

3:30-5:00

Session 3: World War II and Its Aftermath

Lisa Peschel, Harvard University: Performing Zionism: A Purimspiel from the Terezín Ghetto

Eagle Glassheim, University of British Columbia: Heimat’s Long Shadow: Human and Natural Ecologies of the Czechoslovak Borderlands

6:00-7:30

Keynote speech and discussion

Saturday, April 30

10:45-12:30

Session 4: Postwar Culture and Politics

Shawn Clybor, Utah State University: Opposition from Within? E. F. Burian, Alexej Čepička, and the Czechoslovak Ministry of Defense, 1951-1956

Veronika Tuckerova, Columbia University: Kafka in Samizdat

Esther Peters, University of Chicago: The Ethics of the Hangover: Bohumil Hrabal and Writing Properly

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:30

Session 5: (Post-)Colonialism in Czech Literature and Culture

Veronika Pehe, University College London: Reading Ivan Olbracht’s Works on Carpathian Ruthenia from a Postcolonial Perspective

Jose Alaniz, University of Washington, Seattle: History in Czech Comics: Lucie Lomova’s Divoši

3:30-4:00

Coffee break

4:00-5:30

Session 6: Anthropology and Oral History

Heidi Bludau, Indiana University: Out of Prague, Out of Europe: Why Czech Nurses Seek Employment in Non-European Markets

Rosie Johnston, National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library: Oral History Project Preserves, Sheds Light on 20th Century Czech and Slovak History