Call for papers: “On the Threshold of a New Era. Interdisciplinary Conference on the Beginnings of the Czechoslovak Republic”
Call for papers
On the Threshold of a New Era
Interdisciplinary Conference on the Beginnings of the Czechoslovak Republic
Date: 26th – 29th October 2018
Venue: Czech Academy of Sciences (main building),
Národní třída 3, Prague 1 – Old Town
Organizer: Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
Research Centre for History of State and Law in partnership with
the Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Institute
of Legal History of the Faculty of Law, Charles University, the Institute
of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Art History
of the Czech Academy of Sciences
The conference is held under the auspices of Jaroslav Fenyk, Vice-President
of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic
The conference “On the Threshold of a New Era” draws on the broader attention given to the breakthrough year of 1918 to open up space for critical thinking about historical events and processes connected with the formation of Czechoslovakia in the social, cultural, political and economic context of post-war Europe, and especially in the Central European region. We have selected either topics which have been neglected, or, on the contrary, those which have been generating extraordinarily lively and conflicting discussions and thus raising new questions and research opportunities. The primary objective of the conference is to bolster the dialogue of legal, social, political and economic historiography, history of arts, philosophy, anthropology, sociology and other disciplines.
Submission of a paper: The topic of the conference paper is to be selected in line with panels. In the application form (see download link below), please fill in the name of the panel in which you wish to submit your paper, the name of the paper, the name and institution of the author and an abstract of 200–250 words. Send the application to 1918-2018@ilaw.cas.cz. The deadline for applications is on 15th September 2018.
The authors of conference papers that are accepted will be informed after the half of September 2018.
The length of your conference paper should not exceed 15–20 minutes. Discussion will follow after every paper, as well as at the end of a panel.
The official languages of the conference are Czech, Slovak and English. Papers in other languages might be allowed after consultation with the organizers in advance.
