Historical Sociology Confrontations ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** The aim of this seminar is to introduce the main directions, concepts and methods of resea by the programme's members. Some guests from other faculties or universities, including fr planned for the seminars as well. Both members of the study programme as well as guests wi research activities. As well as focusing on the subjects of research at hand, particular a paid to questions of methodology during the presentations and debates. For more information contact seminar guarantor Alena Marková, Ph.D.: alena.markova(zavinac [ MAIL "alena.markova(zavinac)fhs.cuni.cz"] Where and When: Online platform ZOOM [ URL "https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/6062305477"] , Tuesda ****************************************************************************************** * Historical Sociology Confrontations 2020/2021 ****************************************************************************************** December 8th via ZOOM: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/6062305477 [ URL "https://cesnet.zoom.us/j Dr. Alena Dubrouka from the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University, Gomel (Belarus). Belarusian territories in the mid 9th - mid 13th centuries: Christianity and Paganism Annotation: Medieval period from 9th till the 13th century is an important part of the Belarusian hist period the Slavs spread throughout the ethnic territory of today’s Belarus and managed to local (mainly Baltic) population. Thus, Slavic tribes created a platform for the future fo Belarussian nation. This period is related to the emergence of the first states on ethnica lands, e.g., the Principality of Polotsk, Turov, Novogrudok, Grodno, and Minsk. Simultaneo same period many pagan beliefs were gradually replaced by a Christian religion promoted by (i.e. medieval principalities). The lecture will focus on the specific features of paganis beliefs rooted on Belarussian territories, introduction of Christianity and Christian infl culture. Alena Dubrouka is an Associate Professor at the Department of General History at the Franc Gomel State University in Gomel, Belarus. She is the author of many publications and histo for students. Dr Dubrouka was a visiting scholar at the Institute of History of Jagielloni in Krakow (Poland), or at the Museum of the History of Poland in Warsaw. Her research inte cultural history and international relations. November 24th via ZOOM: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/60623054 [ URL "http://cesnet.zoom.us/j/6 Dr. Iuliia Papushina from the Higher School of Economics, Perm (Russia). Competition and creativity in Soviet fashion production in the 1960-1980: a regional persp Annotation: Soviet fashion production has undergone profound changes from the experiments to the renewal of fashion’s status during the Thaw period. The Thaw fashion renovation end creation of the centralized system of fashion production, which included All-Union design and local, republican and regional design organizations. There were thirty-eight Clothing in the USSR; 18 of them operated in the Russian Soviet Socialist Federative Republic. The Clothing Design Houses constituted a specific feature of the Soviet system of fashion prod best of our knowledge, only Moscow Design Institutions and Tallinn Clothing Design House w of interest for historians, but not regional Clothing Design Houses. In order to fill this focus my attention on the history of the Perm Clothing Design House. The organization was 1961 to develop new samples of design for local sewing factories. The lecture will elucida fashion capital, and dynamics in the field of Soviet fashion production. Specifically, the explain hierarchy construction processes in the Late Soviet fashion from a regional perspe designers’ professional tactics in occupying a position in the field of production. Also, the definition of fashion capital in Soviet fashion. Soviet fashion production was a combi socialist and pseudo-market practices penetrating the Soviet fashion production field. The from two cases of development and presentation of clothes collections by Perm Clothing Des All-Union and cluster meeting of designers in 1968 – 1969 and 1979 – 1982. Iuliia Papushina is an Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Campus in Pe is a co-researcher of the project “Territorial dimension of inter-generational cultural dy Russian Foundation of Fundamental Research (2018) and others. Dr Papushina’s research inte study of creative industries, sociology of fashion, mind mapping in education, cultural co sociology of consumption and others. November 3rd Dr. Tatsiana Astrouskaya, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, A Conflict of Dissents, Dissent as a Conflict: the Legitimization of Dissident Cultures in Belarus. Annotation: In contrast to the most East and Central European countries, post-war Belarusi had been predominantly shaped by the images of consent, successful socialism building, and dissent. The democratization of the late 1980s and the subsequent breakup of the Soviet Un the intellectual attempts to reconsider the Soviet history, making room for alternative cu discontent. The opposition to the Soviet in Soviet society attracted broader public attent dissident past had been employed to construct a new, post-socialist contemporaneity. In this presentation, I am going to dwell on the legitimization of dissent in post-Soviet the 1990s and early 2000s, and its positioning towards the other dissident cultures, and, Russian. Simultaneously with the anti-colonial distancing from the legacy of the Russian c that of the Russian dissident intelligentsia, these attempts had often stumbled upon the c framework created by the latter, denying and simultaneously reproducing it. I am asking, h intellectuals dealt with this conflict of dissent cultures and which alternative models we dissolve this contradiction? Tatsiana Astrouskaya is a Research Associate at the Herder Institute for Historical Resear Central Europe, Institute of the Leibniz Association and a fellow in the LOEWE Research Cl of Conflict in Eastern Europe.” She is the author of Cultural Dissent in Soviet Belarus: I Samizdat and Nonconformist Discourses (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019). From 2018 on, she h on the postdoctoral project on Jewish refuseniks in Soviet Belarus. Her research interests history of East European Jewry, Dissent and Samizdat, East Europen Intellectuals, Memory P Digital History. Online platform ZOOM [ URL "https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/6062305477"] , November 3rd, between ****************************************************************************************** * Historical Sociology Confrontations 2019/2020 ****************************************************************************************** October 15th Dr Bartosz M. Rydlinski, Univerzita kardinála Stefana Wyszyńského ve Varšavě, Polsko. Illiberal shift of crises Annotation: Some 30 years ago Central and Eastern Europe passed from state socialism to ca democracy during severe economic perturbations. Democratic "Autumn of Nations" was associa social optimism. Few were aware, that the reality of the market economy is associated with which are inherent in the nature of this type of economy. The aim of the course is to show crises have affected the political instability of new democracies and to what extent the p populist groups is a form of response and rejection of the neoliberal status quo. Bartosz M. Rydlinski holds a doctorate in political science from Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in Warsaw (2013). Rydlinski teaches at the Institute of Political Science at CSWU and work manager and expert with the "Amicus Europae" Foundation of former Polish president Aleksan Bartosz M. Rydlinski is a member of the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlanti and former EASI-Hurford Next Generation Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East Eu (CERES) during 2014. Time&Place: Oct. 15, 5pm-7pm, 2080, Jinonice. ___________________ October 8th prof. J. I. (Hans) Bakker, University of Guelph, Canada. Why Was Indonesia Not a White Settler Colony? Comparing Different Colonial and Imperial Policies in Southeast Asia Annotation: The Republic of Indonesia as it exists today is a secular nation-state. It is not a "white same sense as many of the so-called former "white settler colonies" (WSCs). Australia or C even though of course there are many "aboriginal" or indigenous people in these countries. of Indonesia has no specifically "white" European population. Instead, there are hundreds ethnic groups and even more languages ( N = 900+). So why did the archipelago of 7,400 isl WST when it is claimed the "Dutch" were there since at least 1815? The basic answer is tha East Indies actively discouraged settlement by people from Europe. Many Europeans came, bu them were forced to leave. However, even if they had to leave (often at age 55) many ALSO Those offspring eventually blended into the so-called Indo-European population and are now citizens. The situation in Indonesia is very different from the United States of America w drop rule" applies even today. Indonesia is an interesting case and there are few examples Vietnam, for example, the French colonial policy encouraged the notion that all people in were to become really French. Prof. J.I. (Hans) Bakker taught Sociology and Anthropology at four different universities career but became a Full Professor at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada has focused on Comparative Historical Sociology with an empirical emphasis on Indic Civili written about Gandhi and about colonialism in the Indonesian archipelago before independen done consulting work for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in Sulawesi, some of which involved studying the Bajo (Bajau, Sea Nomad) people. His recent edited book The Methodology of Political Economy: Studying the Global Rural-Urban Matrix (Lexington, 2 Sociologists at Work: Candid Accounts of Theory, Method, and Practice (Routledge, 2016). H a special issue of the journal Sociological Focus on Grounded Theory (2019). In addition t activities he is also very interested in religious institutions and spiritual paths, havin Buddhism and the history of Judaism and Christianity in depth. His philosophical orientati the work of Wilhelm Dilthey and his sociological theory is Neo-Weberian but also includes Marxian World Systems Theory (WST) (e.g. Wallerstein). Website: http://jihansbakker.com/ Time&Place: Oct. 8, 5pm-7pm, 2080, Jinonice. Visit and guest lectures of prof. Hans Bakker were supported by the PROGRES Q20 „Kultura a ****************************************************************************************** * Historical Sociology Confrontations 2018/2019 ****************************************************************************************** 6. květen Dr. Xavier Guégan, University of Winchester, UK. „French Algeria and British India: Comparing the Mechanisms of Colonial Cultures and Ident In the mid-nineteenth century, British and French colonisation led to distinct legislative models in India and Algeria. Following the defeat of the Sepoy Rebellion (1858) and the di East India Company, Britain established direct rule in India. Similarly, in 1848, after se decades of conquest and settlement, Algeria became administratively part of France. During of empires building (the first one finishing with the end of the eighteenth century) new j for imperial and colonial motives and enterprises emerged. In the nineteenth century and f twentieth century, in post-Enlightenment and industrial France and Britain, political sche related colonial discourses had to change to convince populations that there was a ‘duty’ two imperial powers thus sought to legitimise their established colonial structures by dif and cultural means. This paper will compare both colonies by exploring a variety of these mediums, their mechanisms, their origins, targets, and their short and long-time impact. Dr Xavier Guégan is a Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial History at the Universi Dr Guégan researches, publishes and lectures on South Asian history under British colonial African history under French colonial rule, including imperial culture and ideologies, as violence and anti-colonial resistance. Dr Guégan also has expertise on the correlation bet and history. He is on the editorial board (Book Review Editor) of Britain and the World, a journal published by Edinburgh University Press, which focusses on Britain’s relations wit since the seventeenth century. Dr Xavier Guégan is also the convenor of the Modern History based at the Department of History at the University of Winchester. Time and date: May 6, 14:00-15:20, YAKVA, Jinonice __________________ 19th of March 2019 prof. James Krapfl: “Local Histories of the Prague Spring and Its Aftermath” The Prague Spring was an important turning point in the development of political culture i both recalling the revolution of 1945-48 and anticipating the revolution of 1989-92. Prof. illuminate the microprocesses of this turning point by comparing evidence from a selection Slovak districts (okresy) from the beginning of 1968 to the end of 1969. Sources from the how citizens overcame initial trepidation about the “renewal process,” increasingly making as spring turned to summer. They document the innovative ways in which citizens sought to to such concepts as “democracy,” “humanity,” and “socialism” in their localities, and how invasion shifted the terms of popular discourse without dampening it. The sources also rev compromises that individuals gradually began making in 1969, and how they rationalized the a process that can best be described as “auto-normalization.” prof. James Krapfl is a historian of modern European politics and culture, specializing ge east central Europe. Thematically he is interested in the cultural history of revolutionar experience of Communist rule in central and eastern Europe, and the transformation of Euro These interests come together in his book Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992 (Cornell University Press, 2013), which analyzes grassroots effo a democratic political culture in Czechoslovakia following the outbreak of revolution in 1 research in forty Czech and Slovak archives, mostly at the district level, the book explai attempts to reconstitute political, social, and economic institutions “from below” met wit of new elites, setting in motion the chain of events which led to the break-up of the fede 1992. Prof. Krapfl is using his sabbatical in 2014-15 to begin research for a second book, experience of “1968” in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland. Time and date: Mar. 19th, 5 - 7pm, 2080, Jinonice ___________ 12th of March 2019 prof. Manochehr Dorraj: “Global Power Transition: What Does the Future Hold” In this lecture, professor Dorraj would discuss the rise of China, increasing assertivenes expanding strategic alliance between these two powers, the division within EU and the rise populism among some of its member nations, and the impact of Trump administration's foreig global power transition and its ramifications and the future prospects. prof. Manochehr Dorraj is the author, coauthor, editor or coeditor of 7 books and more tha articles and book chapters. In addition, he has produced more than 100 non-refereed public as review articles, book reviews, blogs and Op-eds. He has been invited to present his sch such International Organizations as the World Bank, and Think Tanks such as the Hudson Ins also been an invited speaker at national and international symposiums and Conferences, inc John Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, Queens and Toronto University (Canada), University of London University (Great Britain) and Beijing and Fudan University in China. During 2012-2013 he fellow at Georgetown’s Center for International and Regional Studies in Doha, Qatar and du was visiting research fellow at Fudan University Development Institute in Shanghai, China. Manochehr Dorraj is a frequent commentator on global affairs in general and Middle East po particular. His service at TCU includes serving as the Co-Chair of the Global Innovators Initiative an Executive Committee of Discovering Global Citizenship program. Time and date: Mar. 12th, 5 - 7pm, 2080, Jinonice ___________ 6th of November 2018 Dr Natalya Chernyshova, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Winchester, UK ‘'Shopping with Brezhnev: consumer culture and modernity in the late Soviet Union': Since the time of the Cold War, a widely shared view of the Soviet Union in the West has b consumer hell: chronic shortages, drab and shoddy goods, and long queues. This paper will that in the Brezhnev era (1965-1985) the Soviet people had 'never had it so good'. This wa ordinary Soviets, and urban residents especially, experienced a major rise in their living enabling them to take part in a kind of consumer modernity that we normally associate with capitalist societies. In what is often known as the period of stagnation, not only did Sov become modern consumers, but consumption also became a field of interaction between indivi regime at a time when participatory politics was meaningless, or, at best, demoted to a ri this new 'prosperity' was the outcome of state efforts, the consumer 'revolution' it broug all kinds of challenges to the Soviet regime and had profound consequences for the communi Dr Natalya Chernyshova is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Wincheste completed her MA and PhD studies at King's College London. She has published on late Sovie culture, fashion and cinema, including Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era. Her ne project is a political biography of Petr Masherau, the charismatic and popular leader of t Communist Party during the Brezhnev era. https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/staff-directory/staff-prof chernyshova.php Time and date: Nov. 6th, 5 - 7pm, 2080, Jinonice ****************************************************************************************** * Historical Sociology Confrontations 2017/2018 ****************************************************************************************** 3rd of April Dr. Matthias Riedl, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest Thomas Müntzer’s “Prague Manifesto”: A Program for Global Revolution In summer 1521, the German radical reformer Thomas Müntzer traveled to Prague, where he dr Prague Manifesto. In this text, Müntzer presents himself as a new Jan Hus and announces a renewal of Christianity, starting out from Bohemia. He evokes a scenario, in which Christ are gathering their troops for the final clash, before the elect of God will gain dominion Because of evident parallels, many scholars have speculated about possible links between t theology of Müntzer and that of the Hussites. However, in my analysis of the Prague Manife that Müntzer was much more interested in the thought of Jan Hus himself rather than in Hus In particular, he adopted the Czech reformer’s ecclesiology into his complex theological p presents itself as a curious blend of apocalyptic eschatology, mysticism, and Neo-Platonic Dr. Matthias Riedl is Associate Professor of History, Chair of Comparative Religious Studi of the Center for Religious Studies, Head of the Department of History of the Central Euro in Budapest. His main research interests cover intellectual history, political thought, ch history of theology, religious dissent, reformation studies, religion and politics and rel In all these fields he has published many books and numerous articles. Most of dr. Mattias Riedl’s published work has been on religious and political thought in Christianity, ranging from antiquity to reformation period. However, he also wrote article on most recent developments in theology and political philosophy. Dr. Riedl’s current rese emergence of revolutionary apocalypticsm in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Now a monograph on the German radical reformer Thomas Müntzer. The main objective is to explor and mystical thinking may serve as inspiration and justification for violent action. Time and date: Apr. 3rd, 5 - 7pm, 2080, Jinonice ________________ 27th of February Prof. Dr. Thomas Bohn, Professor for Eastern European History, Justus-Liebig-University Gi ‘Closed Cities’ versus ‘Open Society’? De-Stalinization and Urbanization in Soviet Belarus At the 20th Party Congress Khrushchev called for a rational distribution of industry and a migration flows. The interaction of the City Soviets with local factory directors and the between the granting of residency permits and the awarding of accommodation increasingly l society which was structured around patron-client relationships and territorial stratifica Prof. Dr. Thomas Bohn is Professor for Eastern European History at the Justus-Liebig-Unive His main research interests cover history of historiography, urban history, environmental superstition and nonconformism. In all these fields he has published many books and numero Russische Geschichtswissenschaft von 1880 bis 1905. Pavel N. Miljukov und die Moskauer Sch Wien 1998; Minsk - Musterstadt des Sozialismus. Stadtplanung und Urbanisierung in der Sowj 1945, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2008; «Minskii fenomen». Gorodskoe planirovanie i urbanizaciia v So posle Vtoroi mirovoi voiny, Moskva 2013; Der Vampir. Ein europäischer Mythos, Köln-Weimar- Wisent-Wildnis und Welterbe. Geschichte des polnisch-weißrussischen Nationalparks von Biał Weimar-Wien 2017 (with Aliaksandr Dalhouski and Markus Krzoska). Prof. Bohn’s current rese Polesie as a place of intervention (Leibniz Community 2015-2018), Vlad Dracula. Biography documents (DFG 2016-2019) and Minsk as contact and conflict zone in the interwar period (L 2017-2020). http://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb04/institute/geschichte/osteuropa/personen/bohn-thomas [ U www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb04/institute/geschichte/osteuropa/personen/bohn-thomas"] Time and date: Feb. 27th, 5 - 7pm, 2080, Jinonice. ________________________ 1. 11. 2017 Prof. Dennis Smith, Loughborough University, UK "Historical Sociology and the bigger picture" How did historical sociology survive the predations of modern political dictators, busines religious fanatics jealous of rival purveyors of socio-historical analysis? Do the politic that enabled its resurgence from the 1950s to the 1990s still prevail? How can historical its cultural and scientific space in a 21st century world where personal or group survival nationalism, moral relativism, emotional manipulation and a constantly shifting news agend field of attention? Prof. Dennis Smith is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, UK. He s history as an undergraduate (at Cambridge University), sociology at master's level (LSE) a doctorate at Leicester University. He had written several books, edited Sociological Revie Sociology, and is the author of The Rise of Historical Sociology (Polity). Prof. Dennis Smith's new book entitled Civilized Rebels. An Inside Story of the West's Ret Power will be published by Routledge in 2018. Time and date: 1. 11.2017, 17.00-19.00, 5023, Jinonice. ****************************************************************************************** * Past seminars (held in English) ****************************************************************************************** 6. 4. 2017 Univ.-Prof. em. Dr. Dirk Kaesler, Philipps-Universität in Marburg: Universal Ra Max Weber‘s Great Narrative 11.5.2017  Massimiliano Ruzzeddu [ URL "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Massimiliano_ evolution of the Nation-State: History, Functions and Future Scenarios" 29. 3. 2016 "Migration, Borders and Identities in Europe" - Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (Sc Solange Maslowski (Pravnická fakulta UK), Nóra Köves (Eötvös Károly Institute). 21. 3. 2016 Helmut Staubmann: The Rolling Stones in Sociological Perspectives 16. 3. 2016 Massimiliano Ruzzeddu [ URL "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Massimiliano Sociology of contemporary Italy: political culture and social representations 11. 5. 2016 Gregor McLennan: Critical Intellectuals: from Legislators to Interpreters to M 11. 11. 2014 Martin Bulmer – Tereza Pospíšilová – Jan Balon – Marek Skovajsa aj.: Workshop motivations explaining philanthropic support for social science between the wars: the Fish 20. 10. 2014 Dr. Dominik Bartmanski: The vinyl: The analogue medium in the age of digital 7. 5. 2014 prof. Bernhard Giesen (University of Konstanz): On Ambivalence 9. 4. 2014 dr. Katarzyna Grzybowska-Walecka: The role of civil society and political socie democratization 28. 3. 2014 prof. Pierre Rosanvallon: From Equality of Opportunity to the Society of Equal 25. 6. 2013 prof. Derek Sayer: Prague, Capital of the 20th Century? 13. 3. 2013 Werner Binder, Ph.D.: The Long Road to Abu Ghraib. History and Memory in the W 28. 11. 2012 prof. David B. Edwards: The Politics of Martyrdom in Afghanistan 9. 5. 2012 prof. Gerard Delanty: Cultural encounters and the prospects of cosmopolitanism 18. 4. 2012 prof. Maslowski Mikhail: The Soviet model of modernity and the political trans post-communist Russia 21. 3. 2012 doc. Marek Kucia: The Meanings of Auschwitz in Poland 18. 1. 2012 prof. Raymond Tallis: The Latest Wave of Anti-Humanism: Neuromania and Darwini