Anotace
Once the World War I was over, scientists faced a novel situation. Once deemed the forefront of internationalism, science became the symbol of nationalism and destruction. While 1914-1918 scholars fought the war of their own. Now it was time to lower their guns and bury the hatchet. In the seminar we will look at processes of internationalization of science and scholarship in Central Europe in the Interwar Period. We will discuss various form of scientific internationalism and transnationalism present in Central Europe in the 1920’s and 1930’s, from one on the state level, through objects traversing national borders, to transnationalism experienced in scholarly centers. The seminar will be hold in English and will be strongly text-based. Topics: (The final list will be decided on the first two meetings taking the interests and language competences of participants into account.)
1. Theorising internationality before the World War I
2. World War I: Professors at War
3. World War I: War of Declarations
4. Science After Versailles: Loosing Lingua Franca
5. Re-Connecting the World: The League of Nations
6. Travelling Objects
7. Prague I: Living Transationalism
8. Crossing borders: Ukrainian scholarship between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union
9. Prague II: Loosing Transationalism
10. Mobilising for the War