The Urbanity project aims to understand key issues in the development of urban public space in the Czech context from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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On September 25-26, 2025, the international workshop „Understanding Urban Inequalities in Dictatorship and Democracy (Perspectives and Narratives)“ will take place in the library of the Institute for Contemporary History (Vlašská 9, Prague 1).
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The panel organizers (Michaela Antonín Malaníková, Anna Molnár) invite you to submit abstracts to a specialized section entitled „Inter-Urban Women’s Networks in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Gendered Connections, Legal Frameworks, and Institutional Influence“ (Specialist Session no. 11) at the EAUH conference in Barcelona on September 2–5, 2025. The deadline for submitting abstracts is October 22, 2025, via the website https://eauh2026.confnow.eu/.
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The panel organizers (Vítězslav Sommer, Andrea Pokludová, Martin Jemelka) invite abstract submissions for the panel “Post-Socialist Deindustrialization and Urban Transformation: Resilience, Adaptation, and Global Comparative Perspectives“(panel no. 79) at the EAUH conference in Barcelona on September 2-5, 2025. The deadline for submitting abstracts is October 22, 2025, via the website https://eauh2026.confnow.eu/.
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The panel organizers (Petr Roubal, Henrieta Moravčíková, Matěj Spurný) invite abstract submissions for the panel „Downtown Revisited: Neoliberal Urban Planning in Historical Perspective Across Europe and Beyond“ (panel no. 81) at the EAUH conference in Barcelona on September 2-5, 2025. The deadline for submitting abstracts is October 22, 2025, via the website https://eauh2026.confnow.eu/.
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The conference will take place on May 14–15, 2026 in Prague at the Academic Conference Centre Jilská-Husova, Husova 4a, Prague 1.
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This project is being implemented in cooperation of three institutions: the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. These institutions combine researchers from different research fields, which will guarantee an interdisciplinary approach and research of the highest quality.
The Urbanity project is structured around three main research work packages covering the complex issues of urban development, its historical roots and contemporary challenges. These research work packages were framed so as to complement one another and create synergies across interdisciplinary research work.
The aim of this research work package is to explore public space as a crucial indicator of social change, creativity and conflict. Its goal is to gain an understanding of the historical and current dynamics influencing public space, as well as to propose a possible democratic and inclusive transformation for this public space.
Within this research work package, the expert team will analyse social and spatial inequalities in cities in both the historical and the current context. The aim is to gain an understanding of the roots of these inequalities, as well as of their impact on the everyday lives of people and on urban planning.
The aim of this research work package is to explore the way cities adapted historically to threats and crises (e.g. climate, social and political crises) and identify tried and tested strategies which could be used to strengthen the resilience of contemporary cities.
ProProject Urbanity is implemented by an interdisciplinary team of experts from leading national and foreign research institutions. The key experts responsible for the overall management of the project and for the management of individual research work packages are as follows:
Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Dr Roubal is an expert on urban history and interdisciplinary research. His main task is to manage and coordinate the activities of the entire project. His area of specialization is research into the transformation of urban space in the period of socialism and post-socialism. Within the project, he oversees the implementation of research activities and project results, as well as communication with the International Scientific Advisory Board of the project.
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Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences
1. Urban public space – A place of creativity and conflict
pruchova.hruzova@usd.cas.cz
Palacký University in Olomouc
2. The city as a place of inequalities
karel.novacek@upol.cz
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
3. Urban threats and resilience
nodl@flu.cas.cz
This result was financially supported by the The Johannes Amos Comenius Programme and is part of the research project "Urbanity: inequality, adaptation and urban public space in historical perspective", registration number: CZ.02 .01.01/00/23_025/0008735.
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