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Modernity and Backwardness in East-Central Europe

doc. PhDr. Luďa Klusáková, CSc. / PhDr. Michal Pullmann, Ph.D.

Seminar description

Seminar combines presentation of problems with discussions supported by individual reading. Seminar is offered to BA and MA students of history in both semesters as an introduction to principal issues of modernisation focussing on innovations, cultural transfers and resistences. East-Central is defined as a region east of Germany and west of Russia, and north of the Danube up to the Baltic see. South-Eastern is generally coterminous with Balkans. One of the goals of the seminar is to open the research field to BA students and to give support to MA students to their individual research.

Issues in focus

Alterities/Identities and Modernity
Urban Culture, Urban Space and Identity
Frontiers/Borders/Boundaries
History and memory
Social and political movements
State and Modernisation
Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Multiethnicity and Nationalism
Social Movements

Seminar in both semesters combines several types of activities: 1.) lectures on issues in focus, 2.) lectures of guests on their research with discussions supported by individual reading, 3.) presentation of results of individual research started in the first semester, 4.) excursions.

Seminar in the second semester follows two paths. First it will offer students in their second semester space for presentation of the issues of their research interests and second it will focus on the landscape of current research issues of Czech, Central European and International historiography.

Guest speakers

Prof. Owen Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington
Mgr. Eva Kalivodová, CUNI Praha
Mgr. Martina Krocová, CUNI Praha
Mgr. Veronika Sušová, CUNI Praha
Mgr. Jaroslav Ira, CUNI Praha

Objectives

  1. To address the issues which characterize modernization of East-Central Europe.
  2. To display a wide spectrum of problems of history of East Central Europe in European framework through the optics of research projects.
  3. To provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary understanding of comparative approach to the research in history.
  4. To develop critical understanding of the strength and weaknesses of comparative method.
  5. To offer an opportunity for students, to practice the debate and to discuss also variety of their research interests.

Course format

Lectures/presentations will introduce particular problems in a seminar setting. Discussion of the particular research will follow.
The latter will be based on:
a) participant's projects executed as assignments for this seminar
b) selected readings.
1 seminar meeting weekly represents 2 contact hours. 1 contact hour represents 45 minutes.

Evaluation

Mandatory:

Optional written examinations:

Written texts may be delivered either in English, French, German or Czech, Slovak, Polish and Russian language.

Course schedule in 2006-2007

03.10. First semester begins – introduction – orientation week
10.10. Modern historiography - East Central Europe in transnational perspective I.
17.10. Owen V. Johnson (Indiana University): "Media and Nation in 20th Century."
24.10. Borders and Identities within the Cities I: Prague and other central European towns
31.10. Borders and Identities within the Cities II: (with Jaroslav Ira and Eva Kalivodová)

07.11. Borders and Identities within the Cities III
14.11. Borders and Identities within the Cities IV
21.11. Modern historiography - East Central Europe in transnational perspective II.
28.11. Multinational states in Europe and Citizenship in the end of 19th Century - with Veronika Sušová and Jaroslav Ira

05.12. Modern Social Movements in Comparative perspective I
12.12. Modern Social Movements in Comparative perspective II
19.12. Comparative approach in historiography

02.01. Reserve – individual projects - consultations
09.01. Reserve – individual projects – consultations

Reading list

Is always adjusted to the linguistic skills of students in the group. This list is only for your first orientation.

Contemporary historiography – comparative history

Heinz-Gerhard HAUPT: European History as Comparative History, Ab Imperio, 1/2004, p. 111-125.

Jürgen KOCKA: Comparison and Beyond, in History and Theory 42/2003

Jürgen KOCKA: The uses of comparative history in Societies made up of history, 1996

Marc Bloch aujourd'hui. Histoire comparée et sciences sociales. Paris: Éditions de l'EHESS 1990.

Hartmut KAELBLE: Der historische Vergleich. Eine Einführung zum 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt/New York 1999.

Borders and identities within the cities

Michel de CERTEAU, The Practice of Everyday Life, UCLA Press 1984, Paperback ed. 1988, p. 91-110 (chpt. "Walking in the City")

Kevin LYNCH, The Image of the City, 1960 (The City-image and its elements)

Rob KROES American Empire and Cultural Imperialism A View From the receiving end.

Central, East-Central Europe

Demetz, Rippellino, on Prague, Mumford on European historical city – general basics and specifically:

Jane PAVITT: From the garden to the factory: urban visions in Czechoslovakia between the wars, in Malcolm GEE, Tim KIRK, Jill STEWARD eds.: The City in Central Europe., p. 27-45.

Peter CLARK, European cities, culture and innovation in regional perspective, in Marjaana NIEMI & Ville VUOLANTO eds.: Reclaiming the City. Innovation, Culture, Experience. Studia Fennica, Historica 6, Helsinki 2003, p. 121–134.

Luďa KLUSÁKOVÁ, Spread of cultural innovations. Towns in East-Central Europe 1750–1900, in Marjaana NIEMI & Ville VUOLANTO eds.: Reclaiming the City. Innovation, Culture, Experience. Studia Fennica, Historica 6, Helsinki 2003, p. 135-147.

Jana RATAJOVÁ, "Czech California". The creation of the image of Kladno in the end of 19th and in the earlier 20th century in Luďa KLUSÁKOVÁ ed.: "We" and "the Others": Modern European Societies in search of Identity, AUC Philosophica et historica 1-2000, Studia historica LIII, Praha 2004, p. 221-228.

Central and South-Eastern Europe

Ioana AGACHI, Roumiana PRESHLENOVA, Boriana STANEVA, Hana SOBOTKOVA and Luda KLUSAKOVA on Balkan cities in Luďa KLUSÁKOVÁ ed.: "We" and "the Others": Modern European Societies in search of Identity, AUC Philosophica et historica 1-2000, Studia historica LIII, Praha 2004.

Multinational states - citizenship

S.G. ELLIS, G. HÁLFDANARSON, A. K. ISAACS (edS.). Citizenship in Historical Perspective. Pisa: Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press 2006.

Social movements

Harold MAH (Queen's University): Phantasies of the Public Sphere: Rethinking the Habermas of Historians*, The Journal of Modern History 72 (March 2000): 153-182

Habermas Forum

You can use also electronic textbooks and research articles on CLIOHRES.net - open access, free of charge.

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