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).
Published 19. 9. 2025
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).
Experts from Czech republic and abroad are going to discuss concepts and key research issues, which concern spatial and social inequality in large cities in the Central European context in the course of the 20th century. The two-day program maps methodological approaches across the entire spectrum of scientific disciplines — from history, sociology and social geography to Romani studies or anthropology. Thursday’s program (September 25, 2–6 p.m.) will be held in English and will focus on deepening and overcoming socio-spatial inequality in the conditions of modern dictatorships (Nazi and Communist) and liberal democracy after 1989. Friday’s program (September 26, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.) will be held in Czech and Slovak and will focus on ethnically based forms of inequality and segregation, particularly in late socialist and post-socialist Czechoslovakia (or the Czech Republic and Slovakia), using the example of Roma housing in Prague and Košice.
Reservations: velkova@usd.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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