Summer School/Letní škola

Information on preliminary agenda and faculty

Start: Sunday 28 August 2016, 9 am

End: Wednesday 31 August 2016, ca 4 pm

Venue: Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague

Program outline: The centerpiece of the summer school’s program will be the presentations of the participants’ projects and subsequent discussion. We will also have a number of other exciting events, including a keynote by the eminent historian of science Soňa Štrbáňová, an evening lecture (topic and speaker tba), a field trip, and a writing workshop led by Patrick Kupper, an environmental historian and the winner of the 2013 Turku Book Award.

Number of participants: 15 graduate students, 8 faculty members

 

Faculty members:

Heidi Hein-Kircher
https://www.herder-institut.de/institut-personal/personal/personen/person/hein-kircher.html

Dolly Jørgensen
http://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/about-me/

Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen
https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/geschichte/mitarbeiter/kreuder_sonnen/?lang=de

Patrick Kupper
https://www.uibk.ac.at/geschichte-ethnologie/mitarbeiterinnen/univ-prof/kupper-patrick/

Anna Mazanik
http://reh.spruz.com/member/?p=74ABC3CF-C059-4287-86A1-9CB13AB2FE4D

Liza Piper
http://www.historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/People/Faculty/PiperLiza.aspx

Soňa Štrbáňová
http://www.science.usd.cas.cz/cs/pracovnici/29-strbanova-sona.html

Paul Sutter
http://www.colorado.edu/history/paul-s-sutter

 

Cooperation partners:

Collegium Carolinum, Research Institute for the History of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, Munich
http://www.collegium-carolinum.de/en/home.html

European Society for Environmental History
http://www.eseh.org

Czech Geographical Society
http://geography.cz/

Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
https://www.natur.cuni.cz/eng

German-Czech Fund for the Future
http://www.fondbudoucnosti.cz/de/

Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Munich
http://www.gs-oses.de/home.html

Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – –Institute of the Leibniz Association, Marburg
http://www.herder-institut.de/en/home.html

Historical Geography Research Centre
http://www.historickageografie.cz/en

Sorbisches Institut, Bautzen
http://www.serbski-institut.de/

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich
http://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/index.html

 

Organising committee:
Jiří Janáč (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Jana Piňosová (Sorbian Institute, Bautzen)
Michal Semian (Charles University, Prague)
Pavla Šimková (Rachel Carson Center/Collegium Carolinum, Munich)
Arnošt Štanzel (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)