A Hundred Student (R)Evolutions
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 24, 2019, 09:00 – 17:00
It is exactly 30 years since the Velvet Revolution. While the “big history” of 1989 has for the most part been examined by historians, the post-revolution lives of those who set the events of that time in train are generally unknown. Now, however, they are at the centre of an oral history project by the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences entitled 1989 University Students in the Long-Term Perspective: Biographical Stories 20 Years Later.
What are they doing today? How do they view the world around them? And has their personal experience of the Velvet Revolution helped shape this outlook? These questions and more will be answered by the authors of the forthcoming book Sto studentských (r)evolucí (A Hundred Student (R)Evolutions) (Academia, 2019), which follows on from the very successful Sto studentských revolucí (A Hundred Student Revolutions) (Nakladatelství Lidové noviny 1999 and Karolinum 2019).
The conference has been organised by the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Václav Havel Library, the Faculty of Humanitarian Studies at Charles University and the Oral History-Contemporary History centre at the university’s Faculty of Social Sciences.
Registration: https://1url.cz/@soudobedejiny