Sites of Everyday Life in Socialist Czechoslovakia

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Block course in Prague from 25.-28. May 2010, held by Michal Pullmann (Charles University Prague) and Natali Stegmann

(Universität Regensburg).

Throughout four days of intensive work we will study sites of everyday life in socialist Czechoslovakia with students from

Prague and Regensburg. The course will focus on the question, how people lived in socialism, than discussing problems of political systems. During the morning sessions we start with studying texts on different fields of everyday organisation and the functioning of socialist societies from a social and cultural historical perspective. In the afternoons we will tour the city and the neighbourhood, visiting certain points of interest, telling stories about the lives and faiths of the citizens of the former socialist Czechoslovak state. This will be workplaces, living areas, and places of recreation, monuments or meeting places.

Each student will be asked to give a short presentation about one of these places or about certain historical phenomena.

Access to the course is limited to 12 students from Regensburg and 12 from Prague (additionally 6 from

Deutsch-Tschechische Studien in their fourth semester studying in Prague). For students coming from Regensburg to participate in the course in Prague we have applied for funding of their travel expenses.

Students from Pragueand from Deutsch-Tschechische Studien should contact: [e-mail]

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Students from Regensburg should contact: [e-mail].

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