Program

Program at-a-glance

For a detailed program please refer to Congress panels and Main sessions.

Wednesday 13 September 2017

Morning plenary session: 10.00-12.00 NH Collection Olomouc Congress, Legionářská 21

  • Registration: 9.00-12.00
  • Opening speeches: 10.00-10.30
    • Organization committee, Dean of the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University Olomouc, Deputy Mayor of the city of Olomouc, Association of historians of the Czech Republic, Slovak Historical Association, Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne, Rector of Palacký University Olomouc
    • 10.30-11.30
    • Keynote lecture I – Lynn Hunt (University of California, Los Angeles): Writing History Today: from Postmodern Challenge to Global History

Morning plenary session will be simultaneously translated from Czech to English and from English to Czech.

Lunch break

Afternoon session: 14.00-18.00 The Art center of Palacký University, Univerzitní 3/Křížkovského 8/Křížkovského 12/Křížkovského 14

Registration: 13.00-18.00, Art center of Palacký University Olomouc “Konvikt”

  • Main session H01 and congress panels: 14.00-15.45
  • Coffee and tea break: 15.45-16.15
    Basic refreshments will be served during the breaks of the panels in the buildings Křížkovského 8 (in front of the „Freskový sál“, Křížkovského 12 and 14 (in the gardens), and in the ground, first and third floors of the Art Center of Palacký University Olomouc „Konvikt“.

  • Main session H01 and congress panels: 16.15-18.00

Evening ceremonystarts at 18.45 in NH Collection Olomouc Congress, Legionářská 21

  • Reception: 18.45-20.30
  • Johann Adolf Hasse: La Semele (1726) – Baroque opera performed by Ensemble Damian: 20.30-21.30

Thursday 14 September 2017

Morning session: 8.30-12.30 The Art center of Palacký University/Křížkovského 8/Křížkovského 12/Křížkovského 14

Registration: 13.00-18.00, Art center of Palacký University Olomouc “Konvikt”

Main session H02 and congress panels: 8.30-10.15
Coffee and tea break: 10.15-10.45

  • Main session H02 and congress panels: 10.45-12.30

Lunch break

Afternoon session: 14.00-18.00 The Art center of Palacký University/Křížkovského 8/Křížkovského 12/Křížkovského 14

  • Main session H02 and congress panels: 14.00-15.45
    Coffee and tea break: 15.45-16.15
  • Main session H02 and congress panels: 16.15-18.00

Keynote lecture II – Charles Ingrao (Purdue University, Indiana): The Changing Face of Habsburg History. Truth or Consequences? 19.30-20.30 Metropol Cinema, Sokolská 25

Lecture will be simultaneously translated (from English to Czech).


Friday 15 September 2017

Registration: 8.00-10.30, Art center of Palacký University Olomouc “Konvikt”

Morning session: 8.30-12.30 The Art center of Palacký University/Křížkovského 8/Křížkovského 12/Křížkovského 14

  • Main session H03 and congress panels: 8.30-10.15
    Coffee and tea break: 10.15-10.45
  • Main session H03 and congress panels: 10.45-12.30

Farewell reception13.15-14.30 The Regional center Olomouc, Jeremenkova 40b

Annoucements of the Awards: 14.30-14.45

  • Announcement of the Dean of the Philosophical Faculty’s Award
    The 11th Congress of Czech Historians has established the Dean of the Philosophical Faculty’s Award, a prize for the best paper at the Congress by a PhD student, written in Czech language. The deadline for submitting papers is 31 May 2017.
  • Announcement of the Josef Pekar Award
    The Josef Pekař Award was established in 1992 (2002) by the Association of Czech Historians together with the Pekař Society of Bohemian Paradise. It is a prize for young historians (up to 35 years old) for the best monograph in Czech history from the Early Middle Ages till the contemporary period. The deadline for submitting books is 31 May 2017.
  • Afternoon plenary speeches: 14.45-16.00
  • Petr Vorel, Jaroslav Pánek, Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková, Radmila Prchal Pavlíčková, Milena Lenderová