HIB048n Multicultural Heritage of the Czech Lands

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tomáš Dvořák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Tomáš Dvořák, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course focuses on the multicultural past of the Czech lands and its material and mental traces and the roles, which it plays in the collective historical memory. Besides the basic synopsis of the past and present of national minorities, component of the course is the preparation of the issue of national indifference and mapping of the less-known cases of “multicultural” reality in the context of the rise of nationalism and the post-war “national revolution”. Other than the ethnic context, attention is devoted also to the questions of the other sources of cultural diversity, particularly in connection with various types of regional or socio-professional identities. A component of the course is also excursions, which include also discussions with contemporary witnesses, or the authors of commemorative literature, collective instruction – discussions with another specialist, field observation, visits to memory institutions and other activities with a relevant thematic focus.
Learning outcomes
The graduate of the course acquires a basic orientation in the issue of ethnicity and interethnicity in the geographic space of the Czech lands. He/she will be able to express himself/herself eruditely on this issue and evaluate the historical context of the current situation and perception of the questions of multiculturality, or cultural plurality in Czech society.
Syllabus
  • I. Nationally defined communities in the Czech lands in the past and today. The basic features of the development of the national and minority problem and policy in the Czech lands in the 20th century
  • II. Types of “intercultural” coexistence in the urban milieu
  • III. Types of intercultural coexistence in the rural milieu
  • IV. The country and region as a source of cultural diversity. Mental maps
  • V. Images of the others in the transformations of the centuries in connection with political development
  • VI. Images of the others in Czech literature and film
  • VII. The issue of identity and national indifference. Nationally-undefined groups of the populaces on the territory of the Czech lands in the pincers of nationalism.
  • VIII. The borderlands of the Czech lands as a “multicultural” space before and after the mass exchange of the population.
  • IX. “Multicultural” life and institutions of Czech society.
Literature
    required literature
  • LOZOVIUK, Petr: Etnická indiference a její reflexe v etnologii. In: Hirt, Tomáš – Jakoubek, Marek (eds.): Soudobé spory o multikulturalismus a politiku identit. Plzeň 2005.
  • ČAPKOVÁ, Kateřina. Češi, Němci, Židé? : národní identita Židů v Čechách 1918-1938. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2005, 355 s. ISBN 8071856959. info
    recommended literature
  • NOSKOVÁ, Helena a kol.: K problémům menšin v Československu v letech 1945-1989. Sborník studií. Praha 2005.
  • JUDSON, Pieter M.: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperiál Austria. Cambridge 2006.
  • ŘEPA, Milan: Moravané nebo Češi? Vývoj českého národního vědomí na Moravě v 19. století. Brno 2001.
  • Sborník studií k národnostní politice Československa: 1945-1954. Uspoř. Helena Nosková. Praha 2001.
  • Tomaszewski, Jerzy – Poláčková, Zuzana – Bittnerová, Dana – Jurová, Anna: K problémům minorit. Sest. Helena Nosková. Praha 1999.
  • PETRÁŠ, René: Menšiny v meziválečném Československu: právní postavení národnostních menšin v první Československé republice a jejich mezinárodněprávní ochrana. Praha 2009.
  • ZILYNSKYJ, Bohdan: Ukrajinci v českých zemích v letech 1945-1948. Praha 2000.
  • HRADEČNÝ, Pavel: Řecká komunita v Československu: Její vznik a počáteční vývoj 1948-1954. Praha 2000.
  • Hlučínsko, Valticko, Vitorazsko: podobná minulost : historie, obce, atraktivity. Hlučín 2008.
  • KOVÁČ, Dušan: Vysídlenie Nemcov zo Slovenska: 1944-1953. Praha 2001.
  • PLAČEK, Vilém: Prajzáci aneb K osudům Hlučínska 1742-1960. Hlučín-Kravaře 2000.
  • PETRÁŠ, René: Menšiny v komunistickém Československu: právní a faktické postavení národnostních menšin v českých zemích v letech 1948 – 1970. Praha 2007.
  • CHROMÝ, P.: Formování regionální identity: nezbytná soucást geografických výzkumu. In: Jančák, V, Chromý, P., Marada, M. (eds.): Geografie na cestách poznání. Praha 2003, s. 163–178.
  • SIWEK, Tadeusz, Stanisław ZAHRADNIK and Józef SZYMECZEK. Polská národní menšina v Československu 1945-1954. Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, 2001, 115 s. ISBN 80-7285-009-1. info
  • NOSKOVÁ, Helena. Návrat Čechů z Volyně : naděje a skutečnost let 1945-1954. 1. vyd. Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, 1999, 165 s. info
  • BIMAN, Stanislav. Obraz Němců, Rakouska a Německa v české společnosti 19. a 20. století. Edited by Eva Broklová - Jan Křen. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1998, 314 s. ISBN 8071844640. info
  • KOŘALKA, Jiří. Češi v habsburské říši a v Evropě 1815-1914 : sociálněhistorické souvislosti vytváření novodobého národa a národnostní otázky v českých zemích. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 1996, 354 s. ISBN 8072030221. info
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Charváti ještě žijí mezi námi : (sborník studií a vzpomínek). Brno: Společnost přátel jižních Slovanů, 1996, 123 s. info
Teaching methods
Seminar. Independent treatment of an individua lor group project focused on searching for the traces of multiculturality in the milieu of the municipality or microregion. Alternatively also participation in specialized excursions or in the preparation of its programme.
Assessment methods
Evaluation of the ongoing preparation for the seminar and work on the group project, colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2022.
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