Events / Program: Jan Patočka Fellowship

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Patočka on the Death of Europe and Its Future: Some Questions	Mon, 23.09.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn		Patočka on the Death of Europe and Its Future: Some Questions Mon, 23.09.2024 Speakers: James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia James Dodd’s presentation focused on Jan Patočka’s thoughts on the philosophical idea of Europe. Dodd discussed Patočka’s reflections on Europe, its identification with philosophy, and the role of the complex of spiritual, political, and historical legacies of Europe in imagining a post-European future. Read more
Patočka on the Death of Europe and Its Future: Some Questions Mon, 23.09.2024 Speakers: James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia James Dodd’s presentation focused on Jan Patočka’s thoughts on the philosophical idea of Europe. Dodd discussed Patočka’s reflections on Europe, its identification with philosophy, and the role of the complex of spiritual, political, and historical legacies of Europe in imagining a post-European future. Read more
	Human Rights and Republicanism in Central European Dissent, 1968-1989	Tue, 20.02.2024	Lecture	Misha Glenny Michal Kopeček		Human Rights and Republicanism in Central European Dissent, 1968-1989 Tue, 20.02.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Michal Kopeček Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Michal Kopeček argued that the republican language of human rights (and the related concept of freedom) was not only one of the available human rights languages in Central and Eastern Europe 1968-1989, but a prominent one. Kopeček elaborated his arguments based on concrete examples of prominent dissident thinkers Jan Patočka, Václav Havel, Jacek Kuroń, and Ágnes Heller. Read more
Human Rights and Republicanism in Central European Dissent, 1968-1989 Tue, 20.02.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Michal Kopeček Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Michal Kopeček argued that the republican language of human rights (and the related concept of freedom) was not only one of the available human rights languages in Central and Eastern Europe 1968-1989, but a prominent one. Kopeček elaborated his arguments based on concrete examples of prominent dissident thinkers Jan Patočka, Václav Havel, Jacek Kuroń, and Ágnes Heller. Read more
	Das Leben Passiert Nicht Außerhalb der Geschichte	Mon, 15.05.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Radka Denemarková Ludger Hagedorn		Das Leben Passiert Nicht Außerhalb der Geschichte Mon, 15.05.2023 Speakers: Radka Denemarková Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Im Fellows Colloquium präsentierte Radka Denemarková ihre literarische Auseinandersetzung mit dem intellektuellen Vermächtnis Václav Havels und Jan Patočkas. Im Hintergrund spielen jedoch die mitteleuropäischen Erfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts und insbesondere die tschechoslowakische Dissidenz eine wichtige Rolle. Read more
Das Leben Passiert Nicht Außerhalb der Geschichte Mon, 15.05.2023 Speakers: Radka Denemarková Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Im Fellows Colloquium präsentierte Radka Denemarková ihre literarische Auseinandersetzung mit dem intellektuellen Vermächtnis Václav Havels und Jan Patočkas. Im Hintergrund spielen jedoch die mitteleuropäischen Erfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts und insbesondere die tschechoslowakische Dissidenz eine wichtige Rolle. Read more
	Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference Winter 2022	Wed, 07.12.2022	Conferences and Workshops			Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference Winter 2022 Wed, 07.12.2022 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is an annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that gives the Junior Fellows the opportunity to present their work and research in a day-long conference. A traditional semester-closing celebration of the talented young researchers that is as old as the Institute itself, it is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves and usually includes Senior Fellows, Staff members and Alumni among others as commentators and discussants. Read more
Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference Winter 2022 Wed, 07.12.2022 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is an annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that gives the Junior Fellows the opportunity to present their work and research in a day-long conference. A traditional semester-closing celebration of the talented young researchers that is as old as the Institute itself, it is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves and usually includes Senior Fellows, Staff members and Alumni among others as commentators and discussants. Read more
	Idealism and Capitalism: Two Sides of the Beginnings of Private Higher Education in the Czech Republic	Tue, 19.04.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Milada Polišenská		Idealism and Capitalism: Two Sides of the Beginnings of Private Higher Education in the Czech Republic Tue, 19.04.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Milada Polišenská Series: Seminars and Colloquia The lecture will focus on the origins and early years of private colleges in the Czech Republic. Polišenská’s earlier research on this topic will be supplemented by the findings in the framework of her Fellowship investigating the impact of underground universities on the post-communist transformation of tertiary education in Czechia. The private higher education in Czechia, preconditioned by the collapse of Communism, was part of the post-communist transformation and was impacted by the dynamic international changes in higher education in the late 1990s and by the accession of the Czech Republic to the EU in 2004. Read more
Idealism and Capitalism: Two Sides of the Beginnings of Private Higher Education in the Czech Republic Tue, 19.04.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Milada Polišenská Series: Seminars and Colloquia The lecture will focus on the origins and early years of private colleges in the Czech Republic. Polišenská’s earlier research on this topic will be supplemented by the findings in the framework of her Fellowship investigating the impact of underground universities on the post-communist transformation of tertiary education in Czechia. The private higher education in Czechia, preconditioned by the collapse of Communism, was part of the post-communist transformation and was impacted by the dynamic international changes in higher education in the late 1990s and by the accession of the Czech Republic to the EU in 2004. Read more
	Slavic Bazaar: Performances and Instrumentalizations of the Slavic discourse 1791 - 2017	Mon, 10.01.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Tomáš Glanc		Slavic Bazaar: Performances and Instrumentalizations of the Slavic discourse 1791 - 2017 Mon, 10.01.2022 Speakers: Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Tomáš Glanc Series: Seminars and Colloquia The ideology of Slavic unity and reciprocity has been a crucial pattern of European thought and culture since the beginning of the 19th century, and it is still relevant today. In his presentation, Tomáš Glanc will discuss the development, the teleology, and the typologies of this heterogeneous discourse. The talk will outline performative practices of “Slaventum” rich in contradictions, geopolitical phantasms and geopoetic fictions. Glanc will use examples from different disciplines such as literature, art, linguistics, but also referring to political essays, institutional history, and the history of gymnastics. Read more
Slavic Bazaar: Performances and Instrumentalizations of the Slavic discourse 1791 - 2017 Mon, 10.01.2022 Speakers: Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Tomáš Glanc Series: Seminars and Colloquia The ideology of Slavic unity and reciprocity has been a crucial pattern of European thought and culture since the beginning of the 19th century, and it is still relevant today. In his presentation, Tomáš Glanc will discuss the development, the teleology, and the typologies of this heterogeneous discourse. The talk will outline performative practices of “Slaventum” rich in contradictions, geopolitical phantasms and geopoetic fictions. Glanc will use examples from different disciplines such as literature, art, linguistics, but also referring to political essays, institutional history, and the history of gymnastics. Read more
	Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021	Mon, 21.06.2021	Conferences and Workshops	Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo Martynenko Gabriela Vicanova Krystof DolezalRosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou, Sina Farzin		Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021 Mon, 21.06.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo Martynenko Gabriela Vicanova Krystof DolezalRosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou, Sina Farzin Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is a bi-annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that gives the Junior Fellows to present their work and research in a day-long conference. A traditional, semester-closing, celebration of the talented young researchers that is as old as the Institute itself, is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves and usually includes Senior Fellows, Staff members and Alumni among others as commentators and discussants. Read more
Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021 Mon, 21.06.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo Martynenko Gabriela Vicanova Krystof DolezalRosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou, Sina Farzin Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is a bi-annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that gives the Junior Fellows to present their work and research in a day-long conference. A traditional, semester-closing, celebration of the talented young researchers that is as old as the Institute itself, is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves and usually includes Senior Fellows, Staff members and Alumni among others as commentators and discussants. Read more
	Vienna Meets Prague	Thu, 17.06.2021	Festivals		Festival Homepage	Vienna Meets Prague Thu, 17.06.2021 Speakers: Series: Festivals Das tschechisch-österreichische Kulturfestival "Vienna meets Prague" widmete sich im Jahr 2021 dem großen Prager Erzähler Bohumil Hrabal mit einem Schwerpunkt, der verschiedene Formate verbindete. Read more

	The Sociological Truth of Fiction	Mon, 01.03.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Jan Vana Kapka Kassabova Ludger Hagedorn		The Sociological Truth of Fiction Mon, 01.03.2021 Speakers: Jan Vana Kapka Kassabova Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Social scientists often refer to literary fiction as a source of inspiration, social understanding, and deep insights into the “Zeitgeist” or “episteme”. In passing, they often subsume literature into conceptual frameworks, approaching it as “fictional” data to be translated or converted into “factual” scholarly discourse. This presentation tried to develop an epistemological-theoretical model which treats novels as allies endowed with their own agency – not passive objects to be gutted by sociological theory. Read more
The Sociological Truth of Fiction Mon, 01.03.2021 Speakers: Jan Vana Kapka Kassabova Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Social scientists often refer to literary fiction as a source of inspiration, social understanding, and deep insights into the “Zeitgeist” or “episteme”. In passing, they often subsume literature into conceptual frameworks, approaching it as “fictional” data to be translated or converted into “factual” scholarly discourse. This presentation tried to develop an epistemological-theoretical model which treats novels as allies endowed with their own agency – not passive objects to be gutted by sociological theory. Read more
	Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference Winter 2020	Thu, 17.12.2020	Conferences and Workshops			Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference Winter 2020 Thu, 17.12.2020 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops Morning Session Moderator: Iryna Sklokina Read more