Sponsored by the Roberta Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies, The Kristyna M. Driehaus Foundation, the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Chicago, the Northwestern University Departments of History and Political Science, the East European, Russian and Jewish Cluster of the Northwestern University Graduate School, the Kellogg Management and Organizations and Sociology Program,  the Prague Committee of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and the Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis.

Friday (April 25, 2008)
Venue: Scott Hall, 601 University Place at Northwestern University. http://www.polisci.northwestern.edu/about/directions.htmlhttp://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/map/scott.htm
9:00-9:30           Welcome and opening remarks
9:30-12:00         Paper presentations (4)
 
Ia. Marriage and Janáček,
Chair: Inna Naroditskaya (Northwestern University)
Paul Killinger (Western Illinois University), “‘A Lifelong Disgrace’: Gender and Redemption in Janáček’s Jenůfa”
Diane Paige (Hartwick College), “Leoš Janáček and the Kreutzer Sonata: A Composer Reconsiders the ‘Marriage Problem’”
 
Ib. Interwar Modernism and Modernity
Chair: Tara Zahra (University of Chicago)
Karla Huebner (University of Pittsburgh), “First Republic Representations of Women”
Brian Locke (Western Illinois University), “‘The End of Music’: Modernism, Guilt, and Phenomenology in Czech Operatic Aesthetics of the 1920s”
 
12:00-1pm          Lunch at BCICS

1:00-2:00           Transfer to Chicago Cultural Center

2:15-2:45            Tour of Cultural Center

2:45-5:15            Paper presentations (4) in Chicago Cultural Center
 
II. Forging Communist Czechoslovakia (Venue: Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St, Chicago (www.cityofchicago.org))
Chair: Kimberly Elman Zarecor (Iowa State University)
Shawn Clybor (Northwestern University), “Vítězslav Nezval: Three Studies of a Stalinist, 1945-1953”
David Gerlach (St. Peter’s College), “On the Edges of the Czech Borderlands: Jews, Slovaks and Hlučináks, 1945-1948”
Cathleen Giustino (Auburn University), “Whose Museums? Heritage Labor and Confiscated Cultural Property in Cold War Bohemia”
Petr Roubal (Charles University), “Sokol Slets and Communist Spartakiads: Continuity and Discontinuity in Czechoslovak Political Symbolism"
 
5:30-7:30 Keynote Address at the Czech Consulate (Address: 205 N Michigan Av. Suite 1680 Chicago IL 60601)
Consul General Marek Skolil, Opening Remarks
Prof. Igor Lukeš (Boston University), “Between Stalin and Truman: Czechoslovakia, 1945-1948”


Saturday (April 26, 2008)
Venue: Scott Hall, 601 University Place at Northwestern University. http://www.polisci.northwestern.edu/about/directions.htmlhttp://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/map/scott.htm

9:30-12:00         Paper presentations (4)
 
IIIa. Myths and Propaganda
Chair: Séamas O’Driscoll (Northwestern University)
Andrea Orzoff (New Mexico State University-Las Cruces), “Hic Sunt Leones: Interwar Competitive Propaganda in Central Europe”
Alfred Thomas (University of Illinois-Chicago), “Memory, Myth, and History in the Czech New Wave Film ‘The End of August at the Hotel Ozone.’”
 
IIIb. Prose and Poetry in Other Forms
Chair: Jonathan Bolton (Harvard University)
Daniel Pratt (University of Chicago), “Noodles in a Tin: Knowledge of Bohumil Hrabal”
Jindřich Toman (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), “Photopoetry: Czech Poetry Illustrated by Photography”
 
12:00-1:30          Lunch for participants
 
1:30-4:30            Paper presentations (3)
 
IV. Religiosity and Atheism (Venue: Scott Hall, 601 University Place at Northwestern University.)
Chair: Martina Kerlová (Northwestern University)
Bruce Berglund (Calvin College), “Plečnik in Prague: Religion, Culture, and Modernity in Central Europe”
Alexei Lalo (University of Texas-Austin), “Discourses of Eroticism and Sexualities in Contemporary Russian and Czech Literature”
Zdeněk Nešpor (Institute of Sociology, Prague), “Pre-Communist and Communist Sources of Czech Non-Religiosity”
 
3:30-4:00           Coffee break
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4:00-6:00          Paper presentations (3)
 
V. Conflict after Communism
Chair: Andrew Roberts (Northwestern University)
Ivana Doležalová (Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis), “Finding a True Picture of Ourselves? Czech Cinematography in Search of Identity”
Krista Hegburg (Rutgers University), “The Veracious Voice: The Romani Holocaust and the Politics of Commensuration in the Czech Republic.”
Malynne Sternstein (University of Chicago), “What’s the Matter with Knižák, or, the Death of Post-modernity in the Czech Republic?”
 
7:00-             Closing remarks and dinner for participants at BCICS
 

Welcome to the 9th Annual Czech Workshop
April 25-27, 2008
Northwestern University, Evanston and Chicago, Illinois

Please bookmark this page for future reference.

General workshop information, the workshop program, information on accommodations, meeting locations and local maps, and other useful information will be available soon.

 NU Workshop Committee:

Shawn Clybor, Department of History

Benjamin Frommer, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History; Director of European Studies Program.

Paul Hirsch, James L. Allen Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management; Director of Management and Organizations and Sociology Program.

Martina Kerlová, Lectuere, Slavic and German Departments.

Rita Koryan, Assistant Director of the Roberta Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies.

Andrew Roberts, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department.

Andrew Wachtel (Slavic), Bertha and Max Dressler Professor of the Humanities; Dean of The Graduate School; and Director of the Roberta Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies.

Visit past workshop programs: https://secure.las.uiuc.edu/ATLASRegistration/full/?event=CzechSP07

Michigan webpage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/slavic/about/News/